Like A Version Presents: Mark Ronson, Kevin Parker & The Uptown Special - "Sat By The Ocean" (Queens of The Stone Age)
London
-based music producer
Mark Ronson
simply has NO BOUNDS; we're talking about the fearless genre-blending visionary who single-handedly spearheaded
Amy Winehouse & The Dap-Kings'
21st century
Doo-Wop
revival, or revamped
"New-Wop"
sound, produced
Lily Allen
's early
Reggae/Dancehall
-indebted hits, and has since worked with everyone from
Duran Duran
to
Billy Joel
-sampling
Rap
-singer
Action Bronson
. Ronson's own
New-Wop
-indebted
is quite easily one of the year's greatest mainstream success stories and arguably, an "underground sleeper," due in part to the assistance of
Tame Impala
frontman
Kevin Parker
and
Miike Snow
multi-instrumentalist
Andrew Wyatt
.
Mark Ronson
recently decided to re-team with buddies Parker and Wyatt for the first time since recording
Uptown Special
, along with guitarist
Kirin J. Callinan
and
Jay Bratten
on Moog synthesizer, to record a live in-studio cover of
Queens of The Stone Age
's rockin' and rollin' live stand-out and second proper
...Like Clockwork
single,
Mark Ronson & The Uptown Special
recorded their spirited
Psych-Rock
leaning
QOTSA
cover for
Australian
radio station
Triple J
's rather inventive
Like a Version
segment, wherein "every Friday morning, a musician or band comes into the studio to play one of their own songs and a cover of a song they love." Ronson alluded to his first encounter with Bronson's ripping
guitarist during a brief mid-session interview: "
[Kirin]
had the 19 pedals, and I was like, 'something tells me this guy's not gonna play
"Crazy In Love."'
Then, following a few disjointed spoken-word allusions to
Eminem
's rap-along
8 Mile
anthem
"Lose Yourself,"
"the sextet begin in jazzier territory than the studio version – think
"Riders of The Storm"
-era
Doors
– before transitioning into the track's cosmic-funk riffs,"
scribed, a fitting description of Ronson's
Kevin Parker
-assisted non-
"Uptown Funk"
single,
"Daffodils."
Mark Ronson
's latest studio album, the aforementioned
Uptown Special
, should rightfully, already be in heavy rotation in your car stereo and if not, I suggest you come out from under your rock!!! (ha)