Amy Winehouse's Back to Black transforms personal catastrophe into timeless art, wedding Mark Ronson's Spector-sized arrangements and Salaam Remi's grittier soul textures to songs of devastating emotional precision. The Dap-Kings' vintage instrumentation frames confessions about addiction and toxic love with such unflinching honesty that Rehab became both radio smash and autobiographical warning.

Five Grammys and sixteen million sales later, the album's influence persists beyond its commercial triumph, proving that raw vulnerability could dominate an era obsessed with polished perfection.