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MARK RONSON - Version
| MusicOMH.com | | Mark Ronson is one of those names which you'll only probably recognise up till now if you scan the credits booklet of a CD. Yet as the man who's helped propel both Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse to global success, his stock is rising and rising. Even his involvement with Robbie Williams' career suicide note of Rudebox couldn't damage his reputation....full text |
| | Sputnikmusic.com | | London-born DJ Mark Ronson’s take on ‘Just,’ the classic cut from 1995’s The Bends, recasts the sludgy, introverted original as an abrasive party track, enlisting the vocal talents of Phantom Planet frontman Alex Greenwald, one of a dozen or so guest singers on his new album Version. Beneath a bed of break beats, hand claps and a rigid Stax-like horn section, Greenwald does his best Matt Bellamy impression in what has got to be (unintentionally?) one of the best musical in-jokes I’ve heard in years....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | These days, the phrase “cultural appropriation” has become a music-critic boogeyman comparable to the phrase “sexual harassment,” and I’m starting to wonder if we might not all be the poorer for it. It’s a tricky issue to argue since, at the end of the day, no decent person wants to see musicians’ artistic principles violated in the name of someone else’s quick buck, and more often than we’d like to admit, that’s exactly what starts happening the instant we figure it’s safe to stop looking for it. ...full text |
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