THE MOON REVISITED (PINK FLOYD TRIBUTE)

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Easy Livin
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Meet the new moon, same as the old moon (with apologies to Keith Moon!)

Having just reviewed "A special tribute to Pink Floyd", I thought I would carry on and take in this earlier tribute specifically dedicated to "Dark side of the moon". I will not reiterate my general comments on tribute albums, but any assessment of the music must be nonetheless be tempered by the fact that there is nothing original here, this is simply a facsimile of the original.

Indeed, this album is "Dark side of the moon" track by track in the same order, each song being covered by a different band or artist. Right from the start, Cairo's "Speak to me/breathe" and Rob Lavague's "On the run" are little more than direct imitations of the originals. Indeed, it is difficult to spot any difference at all between LaVague's version and the original, even down to the sound effects and synthesiser tone.

Shadow gallery's "Time" is no better the vocals sounding weak and ineffective, while instrumentally it might as well be the original album. WHAT IS THE POINT!? Even Magellan and Enchant have much of their originality sucked out of them as they take on "Money" and "Us and them" respectively.

Despite the obvious quality of the original material, there really is little of a positive nature to be said about this pointless exercise. There is no question that the artists who perform on this album are consummate professionals, who carry out their allotted tasks of recreating the songs of "Dark side of the moon" note for note. The obvious question though is, WHY?

Easy Livin | 2/5 | 2006-9-11

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