Add Date: May 18
Artist: The Flaming Lips & Stardeath & White Dwarfs
Album: The Dark Side of the Moon
Label: Warner Bros.
Genre: Psych-Experimental-Rock
Comments: A track-for-track remake of Pink Floyd's seminal Dark Side of the Moon by psych-pop legends The Flaming Lips, this time collaborating with experimental rock band Stardeath & the White Dwarfs, also featuring Peaches and Henry Rollins. Despite a lackluster review from Pitchfork, I personally find the record to be a fitting tribute--it's not a cut and paste copy, nor is it so manipuated as to lose its ties to the original. And obviously, nothing is ever going to be the original, but it doesn't seem like the Flaming Lips are trying--it's exactly the kind of cover record you'd expect from them, an homage rather than a joke. Industrial, psyched out, manipuated and honed to weird almost-perfection, the Flaming Lip's take on the classic is a welcome, refreshing perspective. Ridiculously awesome, and as always, listen all the way through.
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