I've lost my trumpet

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I can't work out whether this is a) the worst kind of smug anti-rockist sneering* b) actually quite amusing. The song definitely hasn't got any better though.

*What do I even MEAN here?

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Who was the sort of baggy band that did a terrible cover of this that LOADS of people suddenly did a bit SQUEEEE at and ran to the dancefloor at that Poptimism one time and me and the Lex nearly drowned in a vale of our own agonised tears? Well, this is exactly the same and the fact that it's being done for the SECOND time...! Not amusing, possibly smug in the "we dare to take on such an epic song but in a more light hearted manner" (?), sneering - nah he's just got a mingy face...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That's Mark Ronson, and either this IS that version (which Carsmile loves) and the idea of the video is that they've faked a band to do it, or it's a band carefully replicating that version! The beat is exactly the same.

Like a lot of the Ronson stuff this has grown on me - I don't think it's sneering, cos the epicness and angst is surely still intact, and the 80s soulboy funkin' approach to the instrumental bits kind of works (gives the whole thing an even-a-hipster-can-cry vibe). Ronson is very close to becoming yer actual guilty pleasure for me I think.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I think the idea is nicked from Hey Ya, IE all the people in the video are different facets of Mr Ronson?

I would need to hear the original played out a few times in Poptimism before I'd be particuarly happy with hearing this there.