Good Music: Mark Ronson

Lily Allen & Mark Ronson - Oh My God

You know, there’s few times where I really get excited when I come across new music, but I really couldn’t contain myself when I heard the Lily Allen/Mark Ronson cover of the Kaiser Chiefs’ Oh My God on last.fm yesterday.

Mark Ronson’s album, Version, released back in April, does some big band covers of pop songs, among them, Coldplay’s God Put a Smile On Your Face, The Smiths’ Stop Me (feat. Daniel Merriweather), Radiohead’s Just (feat. Phantom Planet) and even Britney Spears’ Toxic (feat. Tiggers).

Amazingly (or not so much, in the case of Toxic), Ronson’s covers are for the large part improvements on the original tracks. There’s a little something for everyone on this album. The sax, trumpet, and in-your-face percussion from each mix is sure to satisfy band geeks, while the electronic beats will keep you moving, too. The last.fm artist page for artist says it all, laced with tags like hip-hop, funk, pop, alternative, and dance that one user succintly describes as a “tag minefield”.

Best of all? The music video; An animated Lily Allen does her best Jessica Rabbit for a group of mouth-gaping guys: