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16 May 2007, 11:36 AM
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Mark Ronson
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A cover can be a bit like a joke: clever and amusing the first time you hear it, dead and cold by the fourth. It can sound literally like a joke if the original song was a bleak indie ballad, which the act reworking it has festooned with mercilessly jaunty trumpets.
That's the method used on this album by Mark Ronson, the trendy young producer of Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, as he tries to funkify the resolutely ungroovy likes of Radiohead, Coldplay and Maxïmo Park. Curiously, he often succeeds.
Stop Me gives the Smiths' soul-baring an elegant soul backing. Valerie, ravished here by Winehouse, makes the Zutons' grand original sound like a tatty knock-off.
Not everything works: Robbie Williams drones listlessly through the Charlatans' Only One I Know (was it recorded in rehab?). And the relentless brassiness means it's hard to swallow the lot in one go; after half an hour, it starts to feel like the Jools Holland hoedown from hell.
On the whole, pop fans should enjoy, but indie puritans may find it a gag they don't get. Michael Deacon
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Allido, £12.99
A cover can be a bit like a joke: clever and amusing the first time you hear it, dead and cold by the fourth. It can sound literally like a joke if the original song was a bleak indie ballad, which the act reworking it has festooned with mercilessly jaunty trumpets.
That's the method used on this album by Mark Ronson, the trendy young producer of Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, as he tries to funkify the resolutely ungroovy likes of Radiohead, Coldplay and Maxïmo Park. Curiously, he often succeeds.
Stop Me gives the Smiths' soul-baring an elegant soul backing. Valerie, ravished here by Winehouse, makes the Zutons' grand original sound like a tatty knock-off.
Not everything works: Robbie Williams drones listlessly through the Charlatans' Only One I Know (was it recorded in rehab?). And the relentless brassiness means it's hard to swallow the lot in one go; after half an hour, it starts to feel like the Jools Holland hoedown from hell.
On the whole, pop fans should enjoy, but indie puritans may find it a gag they don't get. Michael Deacon
16 May 2007, 09:18 PM
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How cowardly, and typical of a spineless 'shoegazer'.
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16 May 2007, 11:49 PM
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Art and Music.... Music and, Art.....
What are they anyway?
This might help to sort it out.....
YouTube - KLF - Waiting (Part 1 of 5)
YouTube - KLF - Waiting (Part 2 of 5)
No carving, no instruments..... no craft....
Just art...
What are they anyway?
This might help to sort it out.....
YouTube - KLF - Waiting (Part 1 of 5)
YouTube - KLF - Waiting (Part 2 of 5)
No carving, no instruments..... no craft....
Just art...
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20 May 2007, 05:51 PM
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On BBC3 now and I have to say that he couldnt be less impressive. Jaded cover versions of songs that have nothing about them and add nothing. All sizzle and no sausage.
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