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| Artist: Mark Ronson
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 620
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 886970800327
EAN: 0886970800327
ASIN: B000O77KSY
Release Date: April 16, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 How do you get on in music when you have no musical talent? March 10, 2008
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
Answer: Use people who've got some! If there's a better example of how to achieve fame and fortune on the backs of other peoples efforts then I'd be very surprised! This guy plays very average guitar (if it's even plugged in)and lets the 'guest vocalist' with the talent (Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen excepted) and the other (real) musicians carry someone elses song and he gets to put his name to the album and take the credit! My god, how gullible are people to buy this stuff and financially reward this talentless parasite. And yes I am aware that Mr Ronson is involved with the production (before anyone comments) but my main gripe is that he trys to pass himself off as a musician by being on stage rather than shut away in a mixing booth (or better still shut away completely).
Bargain bin material at Woolworths in a few months time (let's hope).
 Dazzling reinventions of modern classics. March 8, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Achingly cool collection of inspired, witty re-interpretations of some old favourites...
I am pretty certain that the inspiration for this album came from one of two sources:
1: Scooby Doo: close your eyes, and in almost any track, you can easily imagine Daphne, Fred, Velma, Shaggy and Scoob doing their funky cartoon dancing ....
2: The soundtrack to a cooler, edgier version of Austin Powers.
It's all a matter of personal taste, but I'd say it is quite an achievement. He even makes Lily Allen sound good.
The man's done good March 6, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
With his smug smirk, his quirky accent (not quite British, not quite east coast American) and his irritating habit of dropping celebrity names into every interview I've certainly seen of him, Mark Ronson is a man I've found difficult to like.
But the producer & DJ to the stars (he played at Tom Cruise's wedding, apparently) makes darn good music, there's no running away from that. He was responsible for half of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black", produced a track on Lily Allen's "Alright, Still" and a track on Adele's "19", which I'm really getting into at the moment.
On this album - a selection of cover versions - he displays an incredible talent for musical reinterpretation. I've been resisting this album ever since it came out but eventually caved in. I'm so glad I did. I feel like I already own it anyway, as I know all the singles he's released from it so far (from the radio) and really love the innovative and thought provoking videos he put out to promote them.
The man is certainly eclectic, going over tunes by the likes of The Zutons, Coldplay, Radiohead, The Jam, Britney Spears, Kaiser Chiefs and Kasabian, just to name a few, and reinterpreting their music in ways that I personally find very difficult to categorise. It's good stuff though; modern with a hint of retro with some banging beats. My favourites include "Stop Me" featuring Daniel Merriweather, "Valerie" featuring Amy Winehouse and "Oh My God" featuring Lily Allen. They all sound much better on my system at home than they did on the radio or on MTV Base. His version of Coldplay's "God Put A Smile On Your Face" featuring The Daptone Horns (Ronson definitely loves his horns) is also really cool and currently being used on practically every reality/factual TV programme here, or so it seems, and I also enjoy "Amy" featuring Kenna and "LSF" featuring Kasabian. I thought I'd like "The Only One I Know" featuring Robbie Williams (Ronson is reported to be working on Williams' forthcoming album) but I didn't, no matter how hard I tried to. His version of Britney Spears' "Toxic" featuring Tiggers (and O.D.B.) is certainly hysterical if nothing else and I'm just starting to like his new single "Just", the old Radiohead song, which on here, features Phantom Planet.
The man's done good and has had a very good run. "Stop Me" made it to #2 on the UK Top 40, he won a producer of the year 2008 Grammy the other day for producing his portion of "Back To Black" and won best male 2008 Brit Award - the first time the award has been given to someone who didn't actually sing on the winning album - and "Valerie", which also made it to #2, is currently the longest reigning single in the UK Top 40. It's been there for 32 weeks and currently stands at #13. I think we'll be seeing and hearing more of Ronson in the years to come. I'm sure he'll grow on me eventually ;)
 3 or 4 stars January 24, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is one album where the promise of it is a lot more satisfying then the actual content.
From what made onto our radios and into our charts it led one to believe that it was way more exciting than it actually is.
The songs are not bad per se, and I can understand why so many artists apparently want to work with Mark. He looks to be a good catalyst. Like a good producer, he should work on other peoples material and get them to do better.
His album suffers from 'Musicians CD syndrom': Top musician makes album, that bores you to death with its brilliance of musicianship.
Top notch! January 12, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
There is only one track that i skip past, truely great listening! Winehouse, Robbie and Lily Allen all first rate.
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