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I purchased this Cd from Ebay because I couldnt find it the shops near by. The "Mark Ronson" CD is brilliant with many tracks containing other famous artists.Such as Amy Winehouse, Lilly Allan, and Robbie Williams. Iwould highly recommend this to any music lover. 10/10
Version is a swirling, brass-pumped melting pot of winning incongruity. Orchestrated by British deejay/producer Mark Ronson (the man behind most of the Spector-soaked pastiche cool of Amy Winehouse's Back to Black), it's a collection of (mostly) U.K. alt-rock covers, with each track broken down to the molecular level and reconstructed by Ronson as sweaty, late-'60s horn-laden soul vamps featuring vocal cameos by several (mostly) U.K. rock and pop stars. The Smiths, Radiohead, the Charlatans, the Jam -- they all get refracted through Ronson's prism of Northern Soul and programmed beats. Such aural vandalizing sounds as if it shouldn't work, but it does. Mostly. Led by Amy Winehouse, the brass-and-bass fueled "Valerie" transforms the Zutons' crunchy roots-alt-pop into a propellant girl-group groove; Ronson and Daniel Merriweather shape-shift the Smiths' "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before" from detached Moz irony to sensuous, slowburned and drum-looped modern soul. The album's standout for me is Phantom Planet's "Just," which roughs up the Radiohead classic into a menacing slice of punching horns, ominous vocals, and swinging choruses, all street grit and Stax funk. Track list 1 God Put a Smile Upon Your Face - The Daptone Horns, Mark Ronson 2 Oh My God - Lily Allen, Mark Ronson 3 Stop Me Medley: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before/You K - Daniel Merriweather, Mark 4 Toxic [Version Revisited] - Mark Ronson, Tiggers 5 Valerie [Version Revisited] - Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse 6 Apply Some Pressure [Version Revisited] - Mark Ronson, Paul Smith 7 Inversion - Mark Ronson 8 Pretty Green - Santo Gold, Mark Ronson 9 Just - Phantom Planet, Mark Ronson 10 Amy - Kenna, Mark Ronson 11 Only One I Know - Mark Ronson, Robbie Williams 12 Diversion - Mark Ronson 13 L.S.F. [Version Revisited] - Kasabian, Mark Ronson 14 Outversion - Mark RonsonRead full review
Mark Ronson's Version is indeed eagerly anticipated and what's clear is that for the most part that anticipation is not only lived up to, but surpassed. It's difficult to know where to start when recommending the best tracks. You should have already heard the Smiths cover (Stop Me) which is just genius, the version of Britney's Toxic, which is even more playful and funky than the original and the cover of Radiohead's Just which in some ways shows that if Thom Yorke put his mind to it his version of "experimental" wouldn't have to be so dull. There's plenty more to enjoy as well. Ronson brings out the best vocal performance we've had yet from Lily Allen on the cover of the Kaiser Cheifs Oh My God, whilst Ronson also proves that he had more than a little to do with Amy Winehouse's renaissance on Back To Black with a great Mowtown-esque version of the Zuton's Valerie. It also works well with the original vocalists as well as Maximo Park's Paul Smith contributes to a snazzy version of Apply Some Pressure. In fact the only one that doesn't really work at all is Kasabian joining Ronson on a version of L.S.F. But that just goes to prove that whilst Ronson might be a musical genius, not even he is quite up to the task of making Kasabian something worth listening to. It might seem a little bizarre to be trumpeting an album of cover versions as one of the best of the year so far, but believe me that's not over-stating matters in the slightest. This is a must-have album every step of the way.Read full review
To be honest, this wouldn't be the sort of thing I'd normally listen to. I chanced upon it by accident whilst out shopping, where I heard a funky, horn led version of the Radiohead song 'Just'. It hit the spot with it's upbeat qualities and just made the song really shine (normally Radiohead would do very little for me). Eventually, I bought the album and found I liked a lot more of it than expected. The version of The Zutons' 'Valerie' is another high point. Ronson's arrangement and Amy Winehouse's vocals genuinely make this sound like an old classic and not something originally recorded by a Northern band a couple of years back. Sure, I could do without Robbie Williams and the really nasty re-working of The Jam's 'Pretty Green', but very few albums are perfect. Overall, Mark Ronson's 'Version' has a proper feel-good factor. I think I'll be playing it a fair bit.Read full review
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