{"id":119,"date":"2003-06-26T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2003-06-26T08:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-11-20T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T13:19:39","slug":"dub-side-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/dub-side-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"dub side of the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know we’re all supposed to be uber cool in the blogging community, name checking obscure 80s electropop b-sides and holding forth about what’s on the pirates. But…<\/p>\n

I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that I do not hate the reggae version of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I mean, yes, obviously I hate the very idea<\/em> of post-Syd Floyd, with all their coke-addled indulgence and middle-class-guilt and muso-ness and all that. (innit).<\/p>\n

Which is probably why I have studiously ignored them, apart from listening to “The Wall” about twice (love the cartoony bits in the film by Gerald Scarfe as well) and “Moon” I think I have heard about once in my life.<\/p>\n

So when a mate at work bunged me a copy of the reggae CD, I put off listening to it for ages. But it’s… alright,<\/em> actually. Frankie Paul’s on it, nice production (on the clean side, but not sterile), some nice sound effects (not dubby enough, but OK).<\/p>\n

It’s interesting that reggae-heads who seem to like it are the ones who have little conception of the original LP. Possibly because die-hard Floyd fans aren’t<\/em> usually die-hard dub fans, which means some people are trying to escape from their hippy pasts…<\/p>\n

What’s confounding is that it’s a godawful idea, that shouldn’t work, that it should be easy to slag off… but y’know, it’s worth checking. Definitely make a good present for someone’s stoner mate who is into Pink Floyd and likes the idea of dub…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know we’re all supposed to be uber cool in the blogging community, name checking obscure 80s electropop b-sides and holding forth about what’s on the pirates. But… I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that I do not hate the reggae version of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”. I mean, yes, obviously I hate …<\/p>\n

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