El lado dub de la luna
Breve explicación para que sepan de lo que se trata antes de entrarle, los artistas firmados con la disquera Easy Star hicieron un disco tributo (Easy Star, 2003) al un album conceptual de los más famosos de la historia, el Dark side of the moon de Pink Floyd. La mezcla es perfecta y el resultado es sorprendente, te puede gustar tanto el original como el inspirado pero atención a rockeros puritas, pueden sentirse ofendidos. Como dato curioso, en el librito del Dub side of the moon dice que también esta sincronizado con el Mago de Oz, sólo tienes que iniciar el disco en el tercer rugido del león... Dub side of the rainbow?

Oh, Yah Mon...
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.

The perfect 420 album
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.

Feelin Irie
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.

Like a big red London Bus
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.