ROGER WATERS

Unnecessary? Maybe. But this stark reimagining of the biggest prog album ever possibly works better than it should.

Mike Barnes, Dave Everley

prog.reviews@futurenet.com ‘Why don’t we re-record Dark Side?’ asks Roger Waters rhetorically at the start of his new version of Brain Damage before laughing and adding, ‘He’s gone mad!’ Maybe he’s not actually been, to quote the opening line of the original 1973 album, ‘mad for fucking years’, but to record a new version of one of the best-known and best-selling albums of all time is one strange undertaking. But The Flaming Lips covered the album and Easy Star All-Stars recorded a reggae version, Dub Side Of The Moon, so just looking at it as a bunch of songs, why shouldn’t Waters, the lyricist and writer of most of them, have a go as well? The Dark Side Of The Moon was a watershed album for Pink Floyd. After Syd Barrett’s…

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