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.
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.
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Date: 2008-02-10 06:05 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-02-10 07:20 pm (UTC)I would need to hear the original played out a few times in Poptimism before I'd be particuarly happy with hearing this there.