Mark Ronson releases 'Version' April 16th 2007

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"Mark Ronson makes a blazing return on April 16th with ‘Version’ - his dazzling, culture-clashing new solo LP that finds 12 classic tracks turned on their head and recreated into visionary floor-fillers..."

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and so on goes the hype-o-rama, but this actually might be i dunno, a 'richard x presnts...' type thing? i'm very intrigued by
"..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’..." HUH???

http://www.markronson.co.uk/

his PopJustice recommended podcast is here (if u scroll down)
: http://blog.myspace.com/markronson

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Why is this man still making music?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

the only mark ronson stuff i've ever had time for is his production on the new amy winehouse (because it sounds nothing like he usually does). otherwise he just makes overbaked white-boy funk which is only one step up from jamiroquai.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

.co.uk

hmmm. lets emphasise the uk side to his jay-z loving party scene.
still, i wanna hear the album, sounds like it could be a fun soundtrack for when the sun shines.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

i'm very ~~intrigued~~ disgusted by "..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'

fixed

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh god and he did that horrid cover of that horrid radiohead song recently didn't he? yuck.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's a credit to Mark Ronson that he's somehow more annoying than both his sisters.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

can I tell you how long it took me to realize that the dude covering Radiohead's "Just" was in fact not the Spiders from Mars guy

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I actually kinda loved the Radiohead cover.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

who are his sisters?
the ghostface track he did was good

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

yeah who are his sisters?

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Charlotte and Samantha Ronson

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

You may remember Samantha Ronson from her previous career as Roc-A-Fella's number 1 singer-songwriter.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody else does.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Presumably Samantha Ronson, who he couldn't possibly be more annoying than, though I have only heard the Radiohead cover (which I liked a lot) and his Lily Allen remix, which I also think is pretty great.

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― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

the Ronson-produced cover of "Oh My God" by Lily Allen is really really really great too.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno whether he or ?love did the Nikka Costa song "Everybody Got Their Something" but it has a really cool guitar/bass line. Rilly cool.

― Jubalique (Jubalique), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

His Air remix with Rhymefest was decent.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

so he's produced oh my god + littlest things for lily allen and
lovelight for robbie? well he's alright by me.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mark+Ronson

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 18 January 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

This is absolutely horrible:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/collective/tracks/_NOIRSC_markronson_toxic_au.ram

"featuring" ODB.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

At first I thought this said MICK Ronson and I wasl all HELL YEAH ZOMBIE GLAM

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

between this and hadouken and jamie t, new music in 2007 is making me more nauseous than ever before, this is fucking vile stuff

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

I don't love the Toxic cover that much, but the album is quite solid. I think Toxic is probably the worst track, or Pretty Green. Everything else is terrific.

― musically, Thursday, 5 April 2007 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

lets talk abt this album

― check yr poptimism (imago), Thursday, 10 October 2013 20:27 (twelve years ago)

lol

― Austrian Economics (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 October 2013 20:33 (twelve years ago)

aw you cd have given 'em more than 6 minutes

anyway, lets talk abt this album :)

― check yr poptimism (imago), Thursday, 10 October 2013 20:34 (twelve years ago)

didnt you liveblog an lp pf his or something

― Austrian Economics (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 October 2013 20:36 (twelve years ago)

vague sense of prios between you and ronse

― Austrian Economics (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 October 2013 20:36 (twelve years ago)

/priors/

― Austrian Economics (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 October 2013 20:37 (twelve years ago)

i probably liveblogged a track in shrill, superlative-speckled fatuity

should have picked a subtler target really, ilm ain't biting

― check yr poptimism (imago), Thursday, 10 October 2013 20:38 (twelve years ago)

five years pass...

Don't Leave Me Lonely is a banger for sure.

― piscesx, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 01:28 (six years ago)

Heh, not surprised Mark Ronson is despised around here. My two cents on this album:

- the songs that were bad to begin with (charlatans, kasabian, maximo park) still sound awful, just more like a polished turd.

- songs by Kaiser Chiefs, Zutons and Coldplay are actually an improvement on the originals imho. But I’m not into the original artists so maybe I’m a minority on this one. (Well, every version I’ve overheard of Valerie is the Amy Winehouse one from this album, so I might be otm with that one.)

- Radiohead and The Jam are obviously miles away from the originals but at least they are risky, interesting choices to do in this style. No need to listen to them ever again but at least they are not stripped down, acoustic bullshit covers.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 12:30 (six years ago)

Not knowing much about this dude and being mostly hostile to what I have heard (though the Ghostface track he did is great), I was very surprised that he would be the one contemporary artist they chose as a talking head on the BBC Yacht Rock thing.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 12:37 (six years ago)

He's funnier than I expected in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_BEwbnmRZ4

― nashwan, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 13:54 (six years ago)

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