Easy Star All Stars: Dub Side of Moon C or D?

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Apparently, this is a re-interpretation of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Has anyone heard it?

Jan

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw this in my station's playbox last Saturday. I didn't play it, but the reviewer didn't care for it very much.

― cprek (cprek), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Squirrels' The Not-So-Bright Side of the Moon did it better.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

New one - Radiodread, the whole of OK Computer on a Reggae Tip! It's surprisingly good, what with Toots and the Maytals and Horace Andy turning up for guest spots. Never enjoyed Let Down up until now.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dub Side of the Moon is so far neither classic nor dud. It's resolutely OK. I've played it about a dozen times, no need to hear it again, which relegates it to the same status as the original source material.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

the good thing about the Radiodread one at least is that it's so inline with the original that it's like hearing that album again with new ears. If I were to play OK Computer now, I'd probably not even notice it passing.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

Okay, a couple of listens in and this is actually rather genius. Paranoid Android with its muted horn section and Roberta Flackesque vocal is a highlight. Toots and the Maytals singing a much chirpier version of Let Down as if it's been one of their own songs for 30 years. Horace Andy in typical excellence over Airbag. This is much much more than a novelty record.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

I found the "dub side" on a laptop.

I like it a lot, more than the source original, but then I don't really know it that well.

And apart from the intro to "Money", it's not exactly played for laffs.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 11:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

Been playing "Radiodread" a lot over the past couple of days, and I'm really enjoying it. There are some great interpretations of some really good songs. "Airbag", "Let Down" and "No Surprises" immediately come to mind. Even better are the versions of songs that I never really cared for which are suddenly much more listenable; "Paranoid Android" for example. This album had "novelty" written all over it, and I was preparing myself to be disappointed. Luckily, I was been proven wrong in spectacular fashion.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I've recently procured radiodread and am quite addicted to it. 'Electioneering' is my favourite, and 'Subterreanean...' is the weakest track, partly because its rhythms don't lend themselves to the genre, and partly because the bloke singing it has a really cheesy voice. I wished they'd retooled "Fitter Happier' into a full-on ragga stomp, though.

― chap, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

I also enjoy radiodread. No Surprises does it for me.

― Drooone, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 23:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Dub Stars Band is fantastic! I'm always impressed by these records, despite them sounding like a recipe for disaster each time.

― the next grozart, Monday, 20 April 2009 11:08 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

dubber side of the moon coming out soon, and it's pretty much amazing.

― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 17 September 2010 12:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

Dubber? Blimey.

― Mark G, Friday, 17 September 2010 12:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

yep - remix album with people like adrian sherwood and groove corporation. it's actually very cool - a bit of dubstep here and there. very chongy.

― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 17 September 2010 12:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

I like them to do Bowie - Hunky Dubby maybe.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

Or Ziggy Stardub and the Iries From Mars.

I'll stop now.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

diamond dubs?
iration to iration?

― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

The Man Who Skanked the World

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

low would be the best album to interpret in this style though,

― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

Young Jamaicans, Irie Monsters, Let's Skank, Hashish to Ashes etc etc

― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 17 September 2010 14:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

A Bwoy 'im Sane

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

^^^
Doesn't really work.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

The Dubbing Gnome

― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

This kind of has to happen. I wonder if we can lobby Easy Stars into doing ChangesDubBowie or something?

― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

I would sign that petition.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

There's a ska-man waiting in the sky...

― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 17 September 2010 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

"Jah the Lion"

― Donovan Dagnabbit (WmC), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 9 September 2012 01:49 (9 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

What stops this band from edging into cheesiness or parody is the reverence they accord to the source material. Thrillah takes them into new territory (because maybe the whole "let's play famous songs to a one drop beat and add some comedy bong noises" thing was getting a bit tired). This has a lot more going on - an afrobeat version of Don't Stop Till You Get Enough, plus a big early dancehall thing going on throughout the album as a whole. PYT is handled really well as a modern female-sung r'n'b track, and there are some neat dub versions at the end. Thumbs up from me!

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Saturday, 29 September 2012 10:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

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