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| Artist: Mark Ronson
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
Buy New: £5.38
You Save: £6.61 (55%)
New (47) Used (6) from £4.70
Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 173
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
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New - Factory Sealed - Shipped from Florida via USPS First class mail. We ONLY sell what we have in stock. NO back orders here.Import Edition
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| Customer Reviews:
 The man's done good March 6, 2008
1 out of 2 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
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
There is only one track that i skip past, truely great listening! Winehouse, Robbie and Lily Allen all first rate.
Amazing January 11, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
amazing, dont listern to the pathetic amazon.co.uk review, which is frankly miss-guided, the tracks are all performed to very high standards....lily allen sings that way, thats why it sounds like that! sure the robbie track lets the side down, however the original is pretty rubbish any way. the toxic remix, is a good 10 fold better than the original.
The best song- god put a smile on my face
Worst-the robbie one
Most over hyped song- amy winehouse on the zutons, original was much better!
 Rip Off December 23, 2007
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you want to hear the real source for this rip off, Buy and listen to Ike Turner's 1969 album 'A Black mans soul',Track 1 Thinking Black (especially), Ike's album is a classic and Ike was a musical genius, Mark Ronson is'nt and never will be.
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