Dub Side of the Moon

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Dub Side of the Moon

Tribute album by Easy Star All-Stars
Released	February 18, 2003
Genre	Reggae
Label	Easy Star Records
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Easy Star All-Stars chronology
	Dub Side of the Moon (2003)	Radiodread (2006)

Dub Side of the Moon is a dub reggae version of the Pink Floyd classic, The Dark Side of the Moon, by the Easy Star All-Stars. Included with the liner notes are instructions on how to synchronize the album with the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The album has sold over 85,000 copies thus far and Easy Star All-Stars have been regularly touring in support of the album.

A DVD of a live performance of Dub Side of the Moon is planned to be released by the Easy Star label in late winter 2006.
The band has also done of a cover of the Radiohead album, OK Computer, released in September 2006.[1]

1 Notable changes
2 Track listing
- 2.1 Bonus tracks:
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Notable changes

Outside the standard reggae beat and instruments used on the album there are several interesting changes made:

The climax of "Speak to Me" now features the coughing from "Money", reggae wailing and someone making the sound of the grinding machine from the original version of the song with their lips.
The final track of the original album, "Eclipse," has been changed to a standard 4/4 beat to avoid the need to introduce triplets, a rhythm not native to reggae.
The cash register opening and closing on "Money" is changed to a lighter lighting a bong, the bong being ripped, and then a man coughing.
A cuckoo clock is added to the clocks at the beginning of "Time", as is a digital clock and "Reveille" being played on a trumpet.
Several of the songs feature extensive (and humorous) improvisation over the instrumentals.

Also, while not a change to the album itself, the tracklisting was given four more tracks. All of these are dubs, or remixes, of tracks on the album, with "Step It Pon The Rastaman Scene" being the most far removed.