This may be the case but it is a very tedious rendition and I doubt it will make anyone listen to the original. The girl in my office had no idea it was a Smiths song and to be frank the day we get her sort apreciating The Smiths is the day I will glady jump from thre top of a ferris wheel . That is not an invitation.

...A really good cover of a really good Smiths song is, like, really popular. And nobody's gonna care that I've been a fan since 1984! Oh no!!!!

Let's all grab our copies of Kill Uncle and hide under our beds until this fad passes!

on BBC Radio 1 on Sirius radio here in the U.S....I have to say...I don't like it at all..it's awful. Especially the part where he throws in that Supreme's song in there...it was a good fit when Marc Almond did it with Tainted Love...but not this..

Who is this Mark Ronson guy anyway? I know he produced Lily Allen right? What else has he done?

WHY is this article about Stop Me being number 4 on the radio airplay chart???(Whatever that is)
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.

It's great that 20 years after "Stop Me' was recorded it's still a huge song. The Smiths should have issued it as a single in the UK- the first off of 'Strangeways'. Oh well, it's still nice to look back.
thetexasbloke

20 years ago 16 people were shot dead in Hungerford.
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.

‘Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before’ (shortened to ‘Stop Me’)

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...

Yes we have heard it before Ronson, and it was much better the last time.

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 ... please Moz, tell me you were having him on for a quiet life.
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 ... somebody please stop the poor lad before he vomits on the microphone.
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.

Indie 103.1, what are you doing playing this? It is AWFUL.