Easy Star Allstars: Dub Side of the Moon

I can't really think of an album that goes this far into stoned out. I feel like I lose my bones every time I put this on. This is the soundtrack to taking a long slow ride through the solar system riding shotgun with Willie Nelson and a seven foot long purple iguana navigating. There's a lingering smell of that vile green reefer you picked up off a chick near Venus and the stars in the viewport are wavering back and forth to the beats flowing past your face in waves of color.

That's just when the slinking snare of "Us and Them" sidles up with the sax line and smoothes your ride out into a nice seven minute weed nap. It's not so much of a tribute or cover of Dark Side of the Moon as it is a re-imagining of the concept filtered through some damn fine production and performance by NYCs Easy Star artists and friends.

Most tributes are bland redubs and new performances of old material, it takes balls to lay an album like this down. I'll definitely be checking out "Radiodread", a re-interpretation of Radiohead's seminal work, OK Computer by the same group of solid dudes. This platter chills with Spacemonkeys vs. Gorillaz, Niney the Observer, Pink Floyd, Thievery Corporation and the biggest joint you've ever seen in your life in the back of your van.

Good for: Watching the sun go down over the Earth from your personal space station.