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| Posted By: BB Posted On: Feb 22, 2005 Views: 464 | Pink Floyd Fan I have been a Pink Floyd fan for quite sometime, and when I heard Dub Side, I loved it. Amazing. That is all I can say. |
| Posted By: Tpeti Posted On: Jun 19, 2005 Views: 442 | RE: Pink Floyd Fan excellent covers! it is a must for all. |
| Posted By: Chris Posted On: Oct 6, 2005 Views: 421 | RE: Pink Floyd Fan You guys have got to be kidding me. This entire album is really a crime. Granted, any Pink Floyd album is very difficult to recreate, and kudos for trying... but the fact that these guys bastardized it with pop-ska-fake-rasta music makes it even worse. And to the guy that wrote the review, Floyd has nothing to do with "drug filled haze"; they created some of the most intricately arranged music of the 20th century (although it is great to get blazed or trip balls and listen to...). And replacing the guitars with a trumpet on Any Colour You Like?!?! That was horrible, not to mention that they missed all of the organ effects and screwed up the tempo. Let's hope these guys don't get a hold of Mettle or Animals. I cannot believe that any Pink Floyd fan could listen to this album and have anything good to say about it...for that matter, I can't believe a Pink Floyd fan could be into lameass fake-ska-rasta-pop-music crap. But hey, there's no accounting for taste. This album STANKS. |
| Posted By: dman Posted On: Nov 3, 2005 Views: 408 | RE: Pink Floyd Fan A friend told me about Dub Side, and just the thought of it sounded great, even though I hadn't heard it yet. A true masterpiece the first time, but I would never listen to it. Now, I have a new reason to enjoy it all over again. As for Chris, get over it, a cover of a song is not supposed to sound the same, and never will. Respect to Easy Star All-Stars. |
| Posted By: A different Chris Posted On: Nov 12, 2005 Views: 404 | RE: Pink Floyd Fan I've been a Pink floyd fanatic for 18 years, with Dark Side being my all time favourite album of any genre. In the past I have been a prudish purist when it comes to covers, but this album blew me away. The band did everything as perfectly as one could hope for with such a project. It has been in the disk changer for months now, and I have no plans on removing it. I've introduced it to other Pink floyd devotees, and they all agree that it is a masterpiece. To the other Chris, I say you should either listen to it again with an open mind, or realize that you might be the lunatic ranting away at the end of the original. |
| Posted By: A different Chris Posted On: Nov 12, 2005 Views: 403 | RE: Pink Floyd Fan Oh and for the record, Saying that Pink Floyd had nothing to do with drugs is like trying to convince your mother that Ozzy is a baptist preacher |
| Posted By: ryan Posted On: Jan 3, 2006 Views: 391 | RE: Pink Floyd Fan that guy who badmouthed this album must be retarted. Not only did he spell meddle wrong but what are you expecting them to do an exact cover of every song on the album. I thought the cd was great and i think doing another album would be cool but i really cldnt see anyone covering any other pink floyd cds (les claypools cover of animals serving as an example). Id like to see them cover maybe led zeppelin 4 or houses of the holy idk its an idea but i think it could be really cool |
| Posted By: ryan Posted On: Jan 3, 2006 Views: 390 | RE: Pink Floyd Fan are they playing any shows in the US? |
| Posted By: Belén Posted On: Feb 19, 2006 Views: 376 | De Argentina IMPRESIONANTE!...NO PUEDO DEJAR DE ESCUCHARLO...MUY BUENO... |
| Posted By: Tom Tom the pipers son Posted On: Apr 8, 2006 Views: 363 | RE: Pink Floyd Fan I've just listened to 'Dub Side' and i think it's a really well thought out and respectful homage to a truely great album. I get the impresssion from this album that the musicians really took the time to get to know 'Dark Side' intimately and not just to bang out a (quote) "lameass fake-ska-rasta-pop-music crap"...rip off. I am a huge Floyd fan AND a long time lover of reggae and Dub (surely shome mishtake!) and I really pity the inability or unwillingness of people to try something new (you know who you are). I can understand a listener who doesn't appreciate the JA sound not liking this album, but then to write a critique ON a reggae review site seems stupid and a waste of time. Good work fellas. Very nice job all round, so roll another fatty-boom-batty, recline and grin.............. |
| Posted By: Mike Posted On: Oct 11, 2006 Views: 331 | RE: RE: Pink Floyd Fan Wow! I have spent the past 30 years trying to convince people that it is possible to love music as diverse as Floyd and - for example - Dub Reggae! 99% of the feedback I have seen convinces me I am not alone!! To happen across this amazing album and be blown away by its total loyalty to the ambience of the original psychadelic rock whilst wrapping it in some proper dub rhythms a la Sly n Robbie was an absolute pleasure.(ska? I don't think so!) Pink Floyd peaked twice - 'Dark side' was one and 'The Wall' was the other. This homage to Dark side shows that the Easy Allstars understood the essence of the whole album, and then did their own take on it. This is not a cover - it's sheer brilliance. |
| Posted By: Council Anderson Posted On: May 6, 2007 Views: 293 | RE: Pink Floyd Fan "Oh and for the record, Saying that Pink Floyd had nothing to do with drugs is like trying to convince your mother that Ozzy is a baptist preacher" For what it's worth - Floyd themselves weren't HEAVY drug users. Barrett used LOTS of bad acid, and God knows what else, and paid for it. Gilmour has 'fessed up repeatedly in interviews that in the seventies he and Wright smoked a little, but booze was their main drug - and they were NEVER boozers like, say Keith Moon or John Bonham - more the "two or three glasses of wine" type. But to say the SEVENTIES had nothing to do with drugs is like trying to convince your mother that Sabbath's "War Pigs" is about farming. These days, Ozzy COULD pass for a baptist preacher, though that says more about baptist preachers than about Ozzy. |