My loneliness is killing me

[venta]

It's Friday, it's about 3 o'clock. It's time to go underneath the covers (with the lights out).

I always recommend listening to a cover version without knowing what or who it is, so click on the link before reading ahead...

Today's cover version [link to mp3 expired]

Mark Ronson (featuring Tiggers) covering the Toxic, originally scored by Britney Spears

My love of Toxic is an embarassment I've already faced up to, by the way, so no mocking :)

Anyway, yes. Mark Ronson. His covers album, Version was the big news of 2007. Some of the tracks - like the cover of the Zutons' Valerie, featuring Amy Winehouse, went on to eclipe their originals. Many of the tracks didn't see much radioplay - I can't actually remember whether or not this one did.

It's a really interesting selection of covers, by the way. The Smiths, Radiohead, the Jam, the Kaiser Chiefs... quite a mixed bag. And the slightly inspired cover of Maximö Park's song Apply Some Pressure, featuring the singer from Maximö Park. The standard's pretty high, and I definitely recommend purchasing yourself a copy.

Comments

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Not bad!
Based on the title I was half expecting this.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Had to kill this one after about ten seconds.

Not that it's bad you understand, but downtempo covers/remixes of fast tunes drive me absolutely fingernails-down-a-blackboard nuts.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I think I prefer Hard-Fi, but I do love Version so this isn't bad either. :)

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Nope....Not a fan of either. Though it would not be unknown of me to end up dancing to something like britany or gaga at Wendyhouse near the end of the night !

[lnr]

Ah, I have the Mark Ronson album, so I recognised this (though embarrassingly I failed to realise that's what it was!) - by the end I'd definitely worked out it was probably originally the Britney Spears song of the same name though :)

I rather like it.