Monday 9 April 2007

Versions. (Maulings).


This month, Mark Ronson 'drops' his latest 'bomb', Versions. Fourteen cover versions done in Mark Ronson's inimitable style, featuring guest vocalists aplenty. You may have heard the single, a fatboy slim style mauling of 'Stop me if you think you've heard this one before', by The Smiths. Add a soulful vocal, and a breakbeat, and voila a remix! And if you like you're music lazy, boy this bomb will be playing for weeks in your household. So, here we have, a lazy review for a lazy album:



God put a smile upon your face (featuring the Daptone Horns)


Breakbeats and horns. Lazy and tired.


Oh My God (featuring Lilly Allen)


Breakbeats and Lilly Allen. Lazy. Plus the god-awful Lilly Allen.


Stop Me (featuring Daniel Merriweather)


Lazy Mauling of The Smiths Classic, featuring breakbeats, horns, soulful vocals, and strings. Unfinished Sympathy it aint'.


Toxic (featuring ODB and Tiggers)


Breakbeats, Horns, and the sound of ODB rolling in his grave. Lazy.


Valerie (featuring Amy Winehouse)


Breakbeats and horns. Makes Amy Winehouse sound bad, which is no mean feat. Lazy.


Apply Some Pressure (featuring Paul Smith)


Breakbeats and horns. This time with strings, we all know strings = honest musicianship


Inversion


Filler. Features horns. Lazy!


Pretty Green (featuring Santo Gold)


BAD, Lazy, Jam cover. Schoolgirlesque vocals. I don't like the Jam, but I wouldn't inflict this on them. No Breakbeat!!! Horns? Check!


Just (featuring Phantom Planet)


Radiohead classic, featuring, guess.................... Breakbeats and Horns!! Lazy.


Amy (featuring Kenna)


Lazy. Breakbeats. Horns. This album is so bad.


The only one I know (featuring Robbie Williams)


Overrated Charlatans track, featuring Robbie Williams (and additionial breakbeats and horns). Robbie Williams. Jesus christ Robbie Williams, how like, cutting edge to take a mainstream artist and tag him onto such a subversive record as this. Did I say subversive? I mean LAZY!


Diversion


Filler again. Mainly breakbeat free, until the last third when they appear, along with the welcome appearance of horns, that bleeds into...


L.S.F (featuring Kasabian)


The horns and breakbeats are joined by self-styled 'Northerners' (from Leicester). The overrated Kasabian are joined by some breakbeats, and horns for a lazy rendition of their own piece of 'hot shit on a platter'.


Outversion


Lazy end of album filler, featuring horns, yet no breakbeat.



Sigh a relief, as the only place you'll hear this album is on a student disco dancefloor. I see the future of this album lining charity shop shelves in five years time, the way 'you've come a long way baby' by fatboy slim does now!


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