According to the current ‘Music Week’, the cover version of ‘Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before’ (shortened to ‘Stop Me’) is number 4 in the UK Radio Airplay Chart. This is almost certainly the highest ever position for a Morrissey/Marr song. For comparison, only one recent Morrissey single has reached the top 20 in the airplay chart (‘First of the Gang’ which just scraped into the top 20 in 2004).
This is almost certainly the highest ever position for a Morrissey/Marr song. For comparison, only one recent Morrissey single has reached the top 20 in the airplay chart (‘First of the Gang’ which just scraped into the top 20 in 2004).
Most of ‘Stop Me’s success is down to the support of Radio 1 and Radio 2 as it has been A listed on both stations.
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Stop Me Please (Score:1)
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Oh shit (Score:0)
Let's all grab our copies of Kill Uncle and hide under our beds until this fad passes!
I heard the song (Score:1)
Who is this Mark Ronson guy anyway? I know he produced Lily Allen right? What else has he done?
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Am I missing something here??? (Score:0)
Surely the little add on at the end is about 1000 times more significant. Namely The song is Number 2 in the UK Top 40...The highest EVER chart position for any Smiths or Morrissey song!!!
Christ almighty top four airplay, like anyone even knew they did a chart about it.
It's a bit like breaking the news of the world trade centre thing by headlining it with Local Paper shop owner breaks wrist in Airoplane attack and mentioning in the bottom line that thousand of people were killed and the twin towers were knocked down.
20 years later- still a hit song! (Score:0)
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What a difference 20 years makes. (Score:2, Interesting)
Stop Me I You Think You've Heard This One Before is pulled from release because of the line about committing a mass murder.
20 years on 32 people are shot dead at Virginia Tech.
Stop Me I You Think You've Heard This One Before by Mark Ronson gets massive radio play.
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I heard it yesterday... (Score:1)
That just hits the nail on the head for me. Everything that made the original so good - the wit, the wickedly ironic sense of humour, the brilliantly self-deprecating title - has been stripped away to make a souless plastic crowd-pleasing dance song.
I'm not against Smiths/Morrissey covers on principle, I just think that this one is a bit rubbish...
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Irony of the title (Score:1)
Where does the law stand regarding permission for covers? Would Moz and Marr have had to give permission, or would it have been Joyce because of royalty issues, or the record label under which the song was originally copyrighted?
I could only bring myself to listen to the first 30 seconds before I got lock-jaw; if Morrissey genuinely does like this vocal then I'm guessing he's spent one too many 'fomo' nights down Gatecrasher in his tight pink shirt with a vacuous blonde on his arm
How can people stand there and accuse Moz of having a whiny voice when that guy sounds like he's sobbing his way through the song? Whereas Moz puts passion and energy and depth into those lyrics, Daniel Whatisface sounds like someone needs to crack open the Pepto Bismol
There have been some genuinely good covers of Smiths tracks; the other day I heard a cover of 'Please Please Please' by The Dream Academy; I'm sure almost everybody knows of it, but having not seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off (in which it appears) I only got to hear it via an 80's movie soundtrack album, and I liked it. It was nowhere near as good as the original (due to the lack of mandolin) but it had it's merits. Anyways, the point being that Ronson has produced a wet version with a paint by numbers beat and is probably too close to the song (having said it's his favourite) to render any cover decent.
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I HATE this song (Score:1)
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