Edited by Dave Everley prog.reviews@futurenet.com
Illustration: Mark Leary
‘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?