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Music CD - Easy Star All Stars: Dub Side of the Moon
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Music CD: Dub Side of the Moon
Artist: Easy Star All Stars
List Price: $15.98
Our Price: $7.53
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Manufacturer: Easy Star
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Tracks:
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1. Speak To Me/Breathe (In The Air)
2. On The Run
3. Time
4. The Great Gig In The Sky
5. Money
6. Us & Them
7. Any Colour You Like
8. Brain Damage
9. Eclipse
10. Time (Alternate version)
11. Great Dub In The Sky
12. Step It Pon The Rastaman Scene
13. Any Dub You Like
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0657481101223
Label: Easy Star
Manufacturer: Easy Star
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Easy Star
Release Date: 2003-02-18
Studio: Easy Star
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Oh, Yah Mon...
Comment: Heard about this from an old issue of Entertainment Weekly I was thumbing through a couple of days ago - what an awesome find!!! I'm a HUGE Floyd fan, and this is spot-on perfect. Funny, yet deft in the approach and incredibly enjoyable all the way through, especially on headphones. "Money" had me cracking up on the bus on the way to work tonight, lol.
Not since Dread Zeppelin have I dug cover versions of classic tunes from a Supergroup(s).
Get yer mitts on this immediately.
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Summary: The perfect 420 album
Comment: Multiple bong hits produce perfectly psychedelic rasta. Great DVD, too Easy Star All-Stars: Dub Side of the Moon Live. Also see A Reggae Tribute to the Beatles, Vol. 1, Paint It Black: A Reggae Tribute to the Rolling Stones, Fire on the Mountain: Reggae Celebrates the Grateful Dead and Is it Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan. Visit my geocities site for a complete library of stonedsongs.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Feelin Irie
Comment: I'm not a big Pink Floyd fan, but I love reggae, and this is one of my all-time favorites. Different artists do different songs - my favorite being Dr. Israel doing Brain Damage. I have lost track of the number of copies of this CD I've bought for all my friends.
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Summary: Like a big red London Bus
Comment: It's impossible to review this without reference to the original. What does this version offer? Well, it's a well played and enjoyable album which offers some good interpretations of brilliant rock music. For sure it's reggae approach is suited to DSOM, but therein lies a problem - the tracks come at you like London buses. The first one is a bit of a novelty, but by the time the third or fourth one comes along you've got the picture and the 'sameness' starts to descend. Listened to in proximity to the original then I have to say that this album misses the edge of the original. 'Exhilirating'is how I would describe the original, this one - well it's fun, it lumbers along (sometimes at quite a pace) and it's a good ride at times.
Having appeared to rain on the party, I would offer that it is a good album, and enjoyable too. 3*'s is a fair assessment in my view, and perhaps this will offer a bit of balance to the hyped reviews which dominate this release.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice job!
Comment: Seriously, I can actually listen to Pink Floyd (ala All Stars) now without falling to sleep or flipping through the cd case looking for something else. Serious props!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Talk about high concept: this project features the house band of noted New York reggae label Easy Star covering Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in the same sequence and in recognizable but reggae fashion. Here, the All Stars turn Floyd's strangely surreal world even stranger and more surreal, adorning the English band's dark psychedelic music with slow reggae beats and head-spinning dub-style production that is both inspired and effective. "Money" opens with the sound of bong hits and coughing instead of the cash register, then grooves to a reggae beat as guitar and organ churn out the classic riff--there's even the signatory sax break in the middle. The group hits it just right on "Great Gig In The Sky," retaining the soaring gospel voice, while the remake of the chiming bells on "Time" reveals a bit of irreverent humor. Tearing away at the alienation of the original, this infusion of new personality makes it all work, elevating the album's concept from the half-baked to visionary. --Tad Hendrickson
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