Mark Ronson is back again, with another release from his album of covers, Version. This time its the Radiohead classic Just, and the question again is: Which version is better?
We’ve already looked at both versions of Valerie, with me, in my ultimate wisdom (huhum) deciding that the Zutons original is better than the Amy Winehouse […]
It’s time for a list post again, and actually it’s the first one I’ve ever done here on Killed By The Video Star. If you’re not a regular reader of the b5 Music Channel, then you may have missed our regular top lists, which up to now I have posted on Brit Music Scene.
This time […]
Yesterday, I reviewed the cover of this song by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse. So I though it fitting to take a look back at the original version of Valerie by The Zutons.
The Zutons are a band from Liverpool who I have been in to right from the start. They’ve now lost guitarist Boyan Chowdhury, […]
This song has been out for a while now, but is still hanging around the British charts, and getting as much airplay as the radio stations are allowed to give it.
It’s also fresh in my mind again after Mark Ronson finally managed to persuade Amy Winehouse to perform it live with him, as part of […]
Oops, I’ve heard this song on the radio many times over the past few weeks, and every time been convinced it’s Avril Lavigne. Now I learn that it’s by a band called Paramore. Wow.
The song has actually already been released here in the UK, where it failed miserably, so like all good record companies that […]
It must be hell being in Destiny’s Child, otherwise why would so many former members have left over alleged “personality clashes”?
On top of that, you have to put up with playing second fiddle to Beyonce Knowles, who, let’s face it, is the best looking, and probably most talented singer in the band.
But then you have […]
How do you follow up a massive hit when this time you don’t have Timbaland’s seemingly magic hands at the mixing desk? Just put out more of the same… the work is already done.
That’s a bit unfair, but this song does feel a bit slow and plodding after One Republic’s hit Apologize. There’s just less […]
Those of you outside of the UK may not have heard of Duffy yet, but along with Adele, she is being touted as the new Amy Winehouse, even though the last time I checked, the old one is still with us.
Basically, the British music industry works like this: A really successful artist makes a name […]
I only know these guys from Blurry, and She Hates Me, both singles which did very well over here in the UK in 2002. But then since? I’ve heard absolutely nothing from them, until now.
The song starts off slightly subdued, and a bit weird with the lead singer Wes Scantlin’s whiny voice giving it a […]
This is such a striking video, I knew as soon as I saw it on British television the other day that I had to review it here on Killed By The Video Star.
The question is: Does the weird and wonderful make-up sported in the first half of the video improve the Sugababes look or not?
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