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 (twenty-three years ago)

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 (twenty-three years ago)

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

three 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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

four 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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

one 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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

two 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 (seventeen years ago)

one 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 (fifteen years ago)

Dubber? Blimey.

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

I like them to do Bowie - Hunky Dubby maybe.

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

Or Ziggy Stardub and the Iries From Mars.

I'll stop now.

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

diamond dubs?
iration to iration?

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

The Man Who Skanked the World

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

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

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

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

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

A Bwoy 'im Sane

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

^^^
Doesn't really work.

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

The Dubbing Gnome

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

I would sign that petition.

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

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

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

"Jah the Lion"

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

one year passes...

http://lucdn.okayplayer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/LargeUp_Easy-Star-All-Stars-Thrillah.jpg

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

two 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 (thirteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/easy-star-records-album-guide

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 March 2025 23:48 (one year ago)

one month passes...

I reckon I'd like to hear about Easy Star take on R.E.M.'s Out Of Time. Or maybe just a dub version of Endgame... that would be sweeeet

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 April 2025 23:02 (one year ago)

They should definitely do more takes...the Radiohead one was excellent and prompted me to actually make time for Radiohead.

― Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Sunday, 27 April 2025 12:36 (one year ago)

Thrillah felt less crucial, sadly, despite maybe one or two pleasant cuts. The formula works best when they're injecting these big, pompous white guy rock albums with funkiness and flavour. Thriller didn't really need that. Although, as is typical with these records it's the covers of the songs I like least which I think work most successfully - their take on 'The Lady In My Life' is treated with a lot of care and affection

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Sunday, 27 April 2025 13:27 (one year ago)

for anyone that's interested in hearing bowie etc done in a dub style as per the thread ..
this fella has been doing exactly that kind of thing for a while now.

https://blackmarketdub.bandcamp.com/

― mark e, Sunday, 27 April 2025 18:23 (one year ago)

i absolutely love the Easy Stars' "Moonage Daydream" with Naomi Cowan on vox and Alex Lifeson(!) taking it out with a solo

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 28 April 2025 18:47 (one year ago)

The Radiodread one was inspired - but nothing since has achieved similar heights unfortunately.

― Bob Six, Tuesday, 29 April 2025 20:52 (one year ago)

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