Record Collection is the third studio album by British producer Mark Ronson. The album was released under the moniker Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. and was released on 27 September 2010 in the UK and on 28 September 2010 in the US.
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Released | 24 September 2010 | |||
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Length | 47:23 | |||
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Producer | Mark Ronson | |||
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The cover, credited to art directors Gerard Saint and Mat Maitland, made reference to several famous record covers, notably Rio by Duran Duran (whose members, Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes, appeared on the album).
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 70/100[2] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The A.V. Club | A−[4] |
Clash | 6/10[5] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[6] |
NME | 7/10[7] |
Pitchfork | 5.4/10[8] |
PopMatters | [9] |
Rolling Stone | [10] |
Slant Magazine | [11] |
Spin | 7/10[12] |
Record Collection was generally well-received by critics. It holds a score of 70 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The AV Club's Marc Hawthorne assigned the album a grade of A−, saying: "Ronson raised the bar pretty high by making the synth fantasy "Bang Bang Bang" the lead single and placing it first on the album... but there's enough big-bang boom throughout to make Record Collection feel complete." Other positive reviews came from Entertainment Weekly, who described the album as "impressively varied" and added that "Ronson's got the production chops to hold it all together;" and AllMusic, who praised the album as "one of the best albums of [Ronson's] career." A review from Pitchfork writer Stephen M. Deusner was mixed – "It's a bit too clipped and choppy to be especially funky," he wrote, "but it does keep things fleet and agile as Ronson introduces and develops new ideas, revealing a musical curiosity that Version seemed to preclude." Other reviews, while praising guests such as Boy George and Rose Elinor Dougall, were unimpressed by Ronson's stylistic approach. Dot Music described the album as "disappointingly weak", while Uncut noted that the album's guests were the only thing that "save[s] the venture from total ignominy."
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Bang Bang Bang" (featuring Q-Tip and MNDR) | 3:53 | |
2. | "Lose It (In the End)" (featuring Ghostface Killah and Alex Greenwald) |
| 2:25 |
3. | "The Bike Song" (featuring Kyle Falconer and Spank Rock) |
| 4:25 |
4. | "Somebody to Love Me" (featuring Boy George and Andrew Wyatt) |
| 4:58 |
5. | "You Gave Me Nothing" (featuring Rose Elinor Dougall and Andrew Wyatt) |
| 4:00 |
6. | "The Colour of Crumar" | Ronson | 1:28 |
7. | "Glass Mountain Trust" (featuring D'Angelo) |
| 3:46 |
8. | "Circuit Breaker" |
| 4:24 |
9. | "Introducing the Business" (featuring Pill and London Gay Men's Chorus) |
| 3:42 |
10. | "Record Collection" (featuring Simon Le Bon and Wiley) |
| 3:49 |
11. | "Selector" |
| 1:06 |
12. | "Hey Boy" (featuring Rose Elinor Dougall and Theophilus London) |
| 3:34 |
13. | "Missing Words" |
| 1:29 |
14. | "The Night Last Night" (featuring Rose Elinor Dougall and Alex Greenwald) |
| 4:24 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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15. | "Sound of Plastic" (featuring Nick Rhodes, Rose Elinor Dougall, Spank Rock, Jamie Reynolds, and Anthony Rossomando) |
| 5:06 |
16. | "Bang Bang Bang" (The Count & Sinden remix) |
| 5:22 |
17. | "The Bike Song" (Major Lazer remix) |
| 3:33 |
18. | "Teeko Takes The Crate" (Record Collection Mastermix) | 28:21 |
No. | Title | Length |
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19. | "Bang Bang Bang" (Music video) | 5:19 |
20. | "The Bike Song" (Music video) | 4:57 |
21. | "Circuit Breaker" (Music video) | 2:34 |
22. | "Record Collection" (Making of the album) | 5:48 |
23. | "Bang Bang Bang" (Making of the video) | 2:17 |
24. | "The Bike Song" (Making of the video) | 3:54 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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15. | "Record Collection 2012" (featuring Simon Le Bon, Simon Luque, Wiley, MDNR, Pharrell and Wretch 32) |
| 4:02 |
Weekly charts edit
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Year-end charts edit
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Country | Date | Format | Label | Catalogue |
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Ireland[29] | 24 September 2010 | CD, digital download | Columbia | |
United Kingdom[30] | 27 September 2010 | 88697736332 | ||
Poland[31] | 27 September 2010 | 65011089 | ||
United States[32] | 28 September 2010 | |||
Canada |