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Post by borneoman on Jan 21, 2012 15:27:19 GMT 1
Collins's version of 'Seven Nation Army' will be released on March 4, followed by his debut album on March 12. "The music is really coming together. I've found my niche now, I've found exactly what it is that I want to do and it's looking good," he recently said of the upcoming record. X Factor mentor Gary Barlow is executive producer of the album and Collins has written "six or seven" songs for the project. www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/s103/the-x-factor/news/a361363/marcus-collins-to-release-seven-nation-army-as-debut-single.htmlI think that I'm speechless... course I haven't heard it but I already think it's a bad bad bad bad bad idea  didn't they learn anything from Joe  |
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Jan 21, 2012 15:38:30 GMT 1
beat me to it
Some are suggesting it may well up being very similar (or identical) to the Ben L'Oncle Soul version
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jan 21, 2012 15:41:27 GMT 1
I'm speechless, a wanna be karaoke singer releasing a cover of an already popular song  |
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Post by o on Jan 21, 2012 16:04:20 GMT 1
It sounds like it should be awful, but that version sounds ok, still needs guitars though!
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Post by evansabove on Jan 21, 2012 16:07:43 GMT 1
It was a brief hit 9 years ago so i would hardly call it a popular song. It is bound to be a r&b interpretation like Manic is suggesting as that was the style they were pushing on XF. Interesting that they are not leaving things too long now with a March release
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Post by borneoman on Jan 21, 2012 16:14:45 GMT 1
^not popular? it's a classic of classics!!!!! chart positions are misleading...
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Post by evansabove on Jan 21, 2012 16:20:35 GMT 1
^not popular? it's a classic of classics!!!!! chart positions are misleading... Only to people who follow indie/rock not the general public. It's not a song i like at all |
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Post by o on Jan 21, 2012 16:21:13 GMT 1
Just because you dont like it, doesn't mean it isn't a classic...
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Post by Maximo Mark on Jan 21, 2012 16:27:48 GMT 1
Seven Nation Army is probably in the top 5, certainly top 10, 'rock' songs to have crossed over to mainstream popularity from the 2000s easily. The Ben version is pretty decent to be honest, I'm fairly sure it will be a carbon copy.
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Post by evansabove on Jan 21, 2012 16:32:46 GMT 1
Just because you dont like it, doesn't mean it isn't a classic... Indeed not and just because people on here like it doesnt make it a classic either It spent just 2 weeks in the top 30 so commercially i would not describe that as 'crossing over to mainstream popularity' |
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Post by Maximo Mark on Jan 21, 2012 16:42:04 GMT 1
That doesn't mean much. Mr Brightside had a chart run of 10-26-38-60. It didn't stop it from joining 'Sex on Fire' as one of the two most popular songs of the decade of its type.
It's never out of the iTunes chart, according to Vidcapper's spreadsheet it spent 180 days in the top 500 between last January and October, never went lower than #883. Constant trickle seller, sign of a modern classic.
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Post by borneoman on Jan 21, 2012 16:52:35 GMT 1
it's probably the most popular rock song from the last 10 years together with Sex on Fire!!! that guitar riff made The White Stripes one of the biggest bands in the planet...
definitively one of the anthems of the 00s and not only for rock fans but just for everybody!!
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Post by Jordan on Jan 21, 2012 17:07:08 GMT 1
What an absolute waste  |
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Post by Mart!n on Jan 21, 2012 17:08:27 GMT 1
Actually Marcus's version might turn out alright if its similar to the soul version.
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Post by madmurray on Jan 21, 2012 17:54:45 GMT 1
Doesnt sound like a good mix.
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 21, 2012 19:28:38 GMT 1
Just because you dont like it, doesn't mean it isn't a classic... Indeed not and just because people on here like it doesnt make it a classic either It spent just 2 weeks in the top 30 so commercially i would not describe that as 'crossing over to mainstream popularity' oh yeh and the album it was lead single from was a number one and sold over 600,000 copies.yeh totally obscure  |
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 21, 2012 19:33:47 GMT 1
I would say 7 Nation Army is actually the White Stripes most "definitive" song, the one people will remember them for most, even though "Icky Thump" got a higher chart position.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jan 21, 2012 20:39:28 GMT 1
It also won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song and was 286 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The guitar riff is sung at football grounds up and down the country which are televised to millions.
Believe me it is up their with Chelsea Dagger, Sex On Fire and Mr Brightside, The White Stripes headlined 100k capacity festivals on the back, of that song.
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Post by thehitparade on Jan 22, 2012 0:50:02 GMT 1
Led Zep's original of 'Stairway To Heaven' (which I'm not especially fond of) has spent a total of 0 weeks in the Top 30, but I wouldn't claim that was a song that lacked mainstream popularity either.
In this case, I should think the very fact that an X-Factor non-winner is covering it pretty much proves that it's a song known to the mainstream.
That said, I can't really side with the people who get het up about it being covered. I don't expect the track to be any good but I wouldn't have whatever song it was so I'm not too fussed. Besides, if Gary Barlow's credited as an executive producer, it'll probably go the way of Gary Go and Camilla Kerslake so there's no need to worry.
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Post by Jordan on Jan 22, 2012 1:21:49 GMT 1
I honestly assumed it was one of the most popular 'rock' songs of the century.
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didn't they learn anything from Joe 
