Easy Star All-Stars - Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band
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Artist: Easy Star All-StarsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-14
Music Label: Easy Star
Soundtracks:
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Featuring Junior Jazz)
- With A Little Help From My Friends (Featuring Luciano)
- Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Featuring Frankie Paul)
- Getting Better (Featuring The Mighty Diamonds)
- Fixing A Hole (Extended Dub Mix) (Featuring Max Romeo)
- She's Leaving Home (Featuring Kirsty Rock)
- Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (Featuring Ranking Roger)
- Within You Without You (Featuring Matisyahu)
- When I'm Sixty-Four (Extended Dub Mix) (Featuring Sugar Minott)
- Lovely Rita (Featuring Bunny Rugs & U Roy)
- Good Morning Good Morning (Featuring Steel Pulse)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
- A Day In The Life (Featuring Michael Rose & Menny More)
Music reviews of Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band
Music Review: Brilliant!!
Rating: 5 Stars
I don't particularly like reggae and I didn't think I'd like this at all. In fact, I didn't want to like it because my iPod is already overflowing. But I absolutely loved every track. No kidding, every single track. Some tracks were, (dare I say it?), an improvement over the Beatles originals; quite a statement from someone who has all of the Beatles on vinyl, CD and the remastered mono box set. Every song from Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band through A Day In The Life adds fresh ideas, spot on vocals, and great electronic sound effects to this timeless Beatles classic. This is a very hard thing to do and no one has ever done it better. Cheap Trick made an uninspired attempt to basically copy the album in August 2009 (just a few months after this was released) and their effort was a cheap trick. There was also the Sgt. Pepper's movie of 1978 in which the Sgt. Pepper's songs were interleaved with other Beatles songs, but they passed on Within You Without You. Both the movie and the soundtrack were drivel. I love the Bee Gees, but they should stick to singing their own songs. I never liked the Beatles' own versions of their songs She's Leaving Home, Within You Without You, Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!, and When I'm Sixty-Four, but the fresh new renditions by the Easy Star All-Stars turned me around on those songs. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! is a vast improvement over the original and the song will finally be welcome on my iPod. The extended psychedelic endings for Fixing A Hole and When I'm Sixty-Four are very cool and tasteful. The female vocals and heavy reggae beat for She's Leaving Home are just what this song needed to give it what it was missing--soul. Within You Without you is made much more interesting by combining sitar and tabla with a rock/reggae beat.
I don't give many 5-star ratings and this one is well-deserved.
Description of Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band
Following the widespread critical and commercial success of 2003 s Dub Side of the Moon and 2006 s Radiodread, Easy Star Records announces the Easy Star All-Stars complete reggae re-imagining of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The album, titled Easy Star s Lonely Hearts Dub Band, is set for release April 14 on Easy Star Records and features guest vocals from an impressive list of reggae, dancehall and dub greats including Steel Pulse, Matisyahu, Michael Rose (Black Uhuru), Luciano, U Roy, Bunny Rugs (Third World), Ranking Roger (English Beat), Sugar Minott, Frankie Paul, Max Romeo and The Mighty Diamonds. The first single, With A Little Help From My Friends, featuring Luciano, will be released as an iTunes exclusive February 10. It will be paired with a b-side dub version featuring the legendary U Roy.Dub Side of the Moon, (Easy Star s reggae tribute to Pink Floyd s Dark Side of the Moon) is one of the most successful reggae albums of the 21st century and spent over five years on Billboard s Top Reggae Chart. Mojo selected the record as the second greatest cover album of all time. Radiodread, which tackled Radiohead s OK Computer, spent over 18 months on Billboard s Top Reggae Chart and earned praise from Radiohead themselves.
Of the decision to infuse reggae into the Beatles classic, producer Michael Goldwasser says We ve focused on re-envisioning concept albums as reggae and it s really important that the source material works as a whole and is not just a collection of songs. So, what better to take on next than the mother of all concept albums?
Goldwasser is once more the musical mastermind behind this album, having arranged and produced the music, assembled the musicians and guest artists and played guitar throughout. Goldwasser is joined by Victor Rice (bass), Victor Ticklah Axelrod (keyboards) and Patrick Dougher & Eddie Ocampo (drums, percussion). Members of the touring version of the Easy Star All-Stars also contribute, including Ras I Ray, Jenny Hill, Buford O Sullivan, Ivan Katz, Kirsty Rock, Tamar-kali, Junior Jazz and Menny More. In addition to producing six albums for Easy Star, Goldwasser has produced albums for Corey Harris, Hatikva 6 and others, and has had compositions featured in the motion pictures Failure To Launch and Woody Allen s Cassandra s Dream.
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