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Track List
01) God Put a Smile Upon Your Face
02) Oh My God
03) Stop Me
04) Toxic
05) Valerie
06) Apply Some Pressure
07) Inversion
08) Pretty Green
09) Just
10) Amy
11) The Only One I Know
12) Diversion
13) L.S.F.
14) Outversion
01) God Put a Smile Upon Your Face
02) Oh My God
03) Stop Me
04) Toxic
05) Valerie
06) Apply Some Pressure
07) Inversion
08) Pretty Green
09) Just
10) Amy
11) The Only One I Know
12) Diversion
13) L.S.F.
14) Outversion
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3:54
4:05
3:39
3:36
1:47
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3:32
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First Released
2007
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Version est le deuxième album du DJ anglais basé à New York, Mark Ronson. Disque de reprise de musique pop, on y retrouve des artistes tels que Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse ou encore Daniel Merriweather. Sorti le 14 avril 2007 dans l'iTunes Store, il est entré à la deuxième place des charts anglais le 22 avril 2007.
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OK, let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way. Mark Ronson, for all his geezerish charm, is the child of a privileged background, this much we know. Let’s start off by stating categorically that this should not in any way affect our opinion of him. He’s a talented DJ. He knows how to produce. These are also facts and they are the pertinent ones when trying to get to grips with his latest offering. Unfortunately they’re not quite enough to stop Version being a disappointment.
There’s something faintly depressing about someone who has this much talent producing an album of cover versions. Such things always come with a degree of novelty that means that they don’t wear well over time. After the initial thrill of hearing your favourite/least favourite song transformed from a chart-friendly sing-along to a brooding dancefloor killer, or an indie stomp made over as a disco romp where else can you go? With Morrissey’s ''Stop Me'' already riding high in the charts it seems there is a market for this kind of thing. But then again maybe that’s because the original song was a killer in the first place.
Ronson does do inventive stuff to these songs. Big bold brass stabs perk up songs like the Ol' Dirty Bastard-starring ''Toxic'' which turns Britney into a ska-ed up hip hop extravaganza, or Radiohead’s ''Just'' into a sweaty, funky Maceo Parker-style workout. But for every hit there’s a miss here. No amount of groovy names can turn coal into diamonds. And sometimes the originals were great not because of the songs themselves, but the performances. Not even Amy Winehouse can save the sacrilege of murdering the Zutons’ ''Valerie'', and Paul Weller’s ''Pretty Green'' was a stonker by the Jam because of its spitting sarcasm, not for its woefully dirge-like tune that gets horribly over-exposed in Santo Gold’s attempt.
If anything this record strives too hard with its credentials. All the right names are in all the right places. But essentially, at the heart is another big beat superstar DJ, showing us he knows all the moves but forgetting to pack much originality. Having said that, it’ll sound great blasting out of cars in the summer heat. However by autumn you’ll have returned to the originals and be wondering what happened to Ronson’s glittering career. Let’s hope he doesn’t give up, just give us something more substantial next time.
External Album Reviews
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10299-version/
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Version est le deuxième album du DJ anglais basé à New York, Mark Ronson. Disque de reprise de musique pop, on y retrouve des artistes tels que Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse ou encore Daniel Merriweather. Sorti le 14 avril 2007 dans l'iTunes Store, il est entré à la deuxième place des charts anglais le 22 avril 2007.
User Album Review
OK, let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way. Mark Ronson, for all his geezerish charm, is the child of a privileged background, this much we know. Let’s start off by stating categorically that this should not in any way affect our opinion of him. He’s a talented DJ. He knows how to produce. These are also facts and they are the pertinent ones when trying to get to grips with his latest offering. Unfortunately they’re not quite enough to stop Version being a disappointment.
There’s something faintly depressing about someone who has this much talent producing an album of cover versions. Such things always come with a degree of novelty that means that they don’t wear well over time. After the initial thrill of hearing your favourite/least favourite song transformed from a chart-friendly sing-along to a brooding dancefloor killer, or an indie stomp made over as a disco romp where else can you go? With Morrissey’s ''Stop Me'' already riding high in the charts it seems there is a market for this kind of thing. But then again maybe that’s because the original song was a killer in the first place.
Ronson does do inventive stuff to these songs. Big bold brass stabs perk up songs like the Ol' Dirty Bastard-starring ''Toxic'' which turns Britney into a ska-ed up hip hop extravaganza, or Radiohead’s ''Just'' into a sweaty, funky Maceo Parker-style workout. But for every hit there’s a miss here. No amount of groovy names can turn coal into diamonds. And sometimes the originals were great not because of the songs themselves, but the performances. Not even Amy Winehouse can save the sacrilege of murdering the Zutons’ ''Valerie'', and Paul Weller’s ''Pretty Green'' was a stonker by the Jam because of its spitting sarcasm, not for its woefully dirge-like tune that gets horribly over-exposed in Santo Gold’s attempt.
If anything this record strives too hard with its credentials. All the right names are in all the right places. But essentially, at the heart is another big beat superstar DJ, showing us he knows all the moves but forgetting to pack much originality. Having said that, it’ll sound great blasting out of cars in the summer heat. However by autumn you’ll have returned to the originals and be wondering what happened to Ronson’s glittering career. Let’s hope he doesn’t give up, just give us something more substantial next time.
External Album Reviews
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10299-version/
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