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Track Listing
1. Airbag - (with Horace Andy)
2. Paranoid Android - (with Kirsty Rock)
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien - (with Junior Jazz)
4. Exit Music - (with Sugar Minott)
5. Let Down - (with Toots & The Maytals)
6. Karma Police - (with Citizen Cope)
7. Fitter Happier - (with Menny More)
8. Electioneering - (with Morgan Heritage)
9. Climbing up the Walls - (with Tamar Kali)
10. No Surprises - (with The Meditations)
11. Lucky - (with Frankie Paul)
12. Tourist, The - (with Israel Vibration/Skelly Vibe)
13. Exit Music - (Bonus Track)
14. An Airbag Saved My Dub - (Bonus Track)
Album Notes
Easy Star All-Stars: Daddy Lion Chandell (vocals); Michael Goldwasser (various instruments); Victor Rice (melodica, bass guitar, percussion); Jeremy Mage (piano, keyboards, glockenspiel); Ivan Katz (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel include: Citizen Cope, Frankie Paul, Horace Andy, Israel Vibration, Morgan Heritage, Sugar Minott, Toots & The Maytals.
It stands to reason that rock revisionists Easy Star All-Stars would follow DUB SIDE OF THE MOON, their dub-inflected take on Pink Floyd's all-time classic DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, with a similarly styled version of Radiohead's OK COMPUTER. Both OK COMPUTER and DARK SIDE OF THE MOON were the landmark statements of sophisticated art-rock in their times, and the All-Stars bring the same respect, care, and creative imagination to RADIODREAD as they did to the Floyd project. Even better, All-Star masterminds Michael G. and Ticklah rope in some top-shelf reggae acts--Israel Vibration, Toots & the Maytals, and Horace Andy, among them--to interpret the songs from OK COMPUTER. The resulting reggae-rock creations are clever, evocative, and highly enjoyable.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 -- [O]n hearing Airbag's ominous riff scaling a heavy Two Tone skank before Horace Andy's aching staccato enters, you have to admit it, this works.
'Airbag' is the standout track, with its guitar-meets-cello riff and extended disco mix with a dubwise reprise at the album's close.
The most radical, and best, track is 'Let Down.' Fueled by Toots Hibbert's grainy gospel fervor, it turns Yorke and company's anguished ballad into an uplifting rocksteady tune. -- Grade: B+
3 stars out of 5 -- Robust horns replace the driving guitars on 'Paranoid Android', while patois-inflected Rasta sits in for the android on 'Fitter Happier'....Thoughtfully considered...
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