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Music CD - Mark Ronson: Version
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Music CD: Version
Artist: Mark Ronson
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $16.39
Your Save: $ 2.59 ( 14% )
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Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink
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Tracks:
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1. God Put a Smile Upon Your Face - Mark Ronson, Berryman
2. Oh My God - Mark Ronson, Hodgson
3. Stop Me Medley: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before/You K - Mark Ronson, Morrissey
4. Toxic - Mark Ronson, Dennis
5. Valerie - Mark Ronson, Payne
6. Apply Some Pressure - Mark Ronson, English
7. Inversion - Mark Ronson, Ronson
8. Pretty Green - Mark Ronson, Weller
9. Just - Mark Ronson, Yorke
10. Amy - Mark Ronson, Adams
11. The Only One I Know - Mark Ronson, Blunt
12. Diversion - Mark Ronson, Ronson
13. L.S.F. - Mark Ronson, Pizzorno
14. Outversion - Mark Ronson, Ronson
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Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0886971003116
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Red Int / Red Ink
Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Red Int / Red Ink
Release Date: 2007-07-10
Studio: Red Int / Red Ink
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great album
Comment: Surprise package. I had only heard the Radiohead 'Just' cover once before and bought the album on spec. A great eclectic mix with a mix of horns, groove, soul and funk.
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Summary: He delivers the goods in style.
Comment: Mark Ronson's a busy man. He's been producing for Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and Robbie Williams, yet has still found time to focus on his own studio album.
Comprised of new versions of old classics, it's a very entertaining listen from back to front, featuring the likes of Amy Winehouse, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Daniel Merriweather and Kasabian, all helping Ronson put his considerably fresh and funky twist on familiar tunes.
Highlights include the late ODB rapping to the Britney Spears refix of Toxic, Winehouse making vast improvements on the original with 'Valerie' and Phantom Planet singing an uber cool version of Radiohead's 'Just'.
Impressively suited for a party play through, this is definitely one to pick up for the nearing summer months.
With "Version", super-producer Mark Ronson has set out to prove that pop voyeurism and experimentalism don't have to be bad things using his own unique re-interpretive style.
Hence, he has assembled an album of spectacular cover versions that deliver very alternative versions of modern classics from Coldplay, The Charlatans, Radiohead and The Smiths.
Some listeners will undoubtedly write it off almost instantly as disastrous. Others may take some convincing.
But for many, "Version" is a brave, bold, blast of an album that almost always gets things right.
Ronson, for his part, emerges as a musical artist of the highest calibre -a music innovator whose funk-strewn re-interpretations effortlessly place themselves on the right side of cool.
On the whole, "Version" is a cut above most cover version compilations, as well as a darn fine party album for the approaching summer season. It probably won't impress the die-hard cynics - but for those willing to open their minds, or anyone in search of some expert funk, it delivers the goods in style.
My picks: "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face", "Oh My God", "Valerie", "Pretty Green", "Amy", "Just" and "Toxic".
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ronson
Comment: Nice Variety of vocal and musical; in several arrangements, Ronson skillfully blends "big band" and modern sounds in a catchy, distinctive style not common in USA
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Summary: This is my Version
Comment: I like this cd. The songs that are good are real good but over half of the cd is kind of "what the hell is this". But its a good cover album, its still a good buy.
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Summary: Enjoyable and fun from start to finish
Comment: Mark Ronson has been around for a while but really skyrocketed up the "it" list after producing Lily Allen's "Alright, Still" and Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" to stardom in 2006 (but released in the US in 07), so it didn't come as a surprise that he would put out another album (after 2003's Here Comes the Fuzz).
On "Versions" (14 tracks, 46 min.), Ronson continues the semi-throwback Motown/Stax sound he so aptly crafted for Allen and Whinehouse, only he applies it to covers of other artists, mostly with great result. The first half of the album is outstanding, After the instrumental opener, a cover of Coldplay's "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face", which features the fantastic Dapkins, Ronson calls on Lily Allen for a delightful version of the Kaiser Chiefs' "Oh My God". Even better is an almost unrecognizable version of Britney Spears' "Toxic", which is my book is miles better than the original. Amy Winehouse is called in on a terrific version of the Zutons' "Valerie" and Maximo Park's version of "Apply Some Pressure" ends a fabulous first half of the album, which I rate 4.5 Stars. After a short instrumental "Inversion", the second half starts, and it is intriguing but not as good. The Ryan Adams cover of "Amy" is a bit too close to the original, as is the Kasabian's cover of "L.S.F." I rate the second half of the album 3.5 stars.
In all, "Versions" is an enjoyable and fun album, no more, no less, with not much pretension other than to get people to move to the music, and of that, Mark Ronson does a great job.
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Editorial Reviews:
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2007 album from the hot DJ/producer, a culture-clashing album that finds 14 classic tracks turned on their head and recreated into visionary floor-fillers. Joined by the likes of Robbie Williams and Lily Allen, the eagerly awaited LP is a musical masterstroke and looks set to be the highlight of 2007. Featuring Dirt McGirt aka ODB spitting verse on Britney's 'Toxic' and Coldplay's 'God Put A Smile Upon Your Face' also getting the once over from Ronson, it's already on heavy rotation across the club circuit and marks the second coming of Britain's most successful ex-pat DJ/Producer. Another album highlight is the soulful, stellar Motown revival of The Smiths' classic 'Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before' that merges into 'You Just Keep Me Hanging On' and features the vocals of Australian talent Daniel Merriweather. Columbia.
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