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=== Covers, tributes and samples === ''[[Return to the Dark Side of the Moon]]: A Tribute to Pink Floyd'', released in 2006, is a cover album of ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' featuring artists such as [[Adrian Belew]], [[Tommy Shaw]], [[Dweezil Zappa]], and [[Rick Wakeman]].<ref name="cover1">{{cite web |last=Prato |first=Greg |title=Return to the Dark Side of the Moon: A Tribute to Pink Floyd |url={{AllMusic |class=album |id=r828488|pure_url=yes}} | publisher = allmusic.com | access-date =22 August 2009}}</ref> In 2000, [[The Squirrels]] released ''The Not So Bright Side of the Moon'', which features a cover of the entire album.<ref name="cover2">{{Harvnb|Reising|2005|pp=198β199}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Not So Bright Side of the Moon |url=http://www.thesquirrels.com/poplust/newcd.htm |publisher=thesquirrels.com | access-date = 27 March 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080703165119/http://www.thesquirrels.com/poplust/newcd.htm | archive-date = 3 July 2008 | url-status = dead}}</ref> The New York dub collective [[Easy Star All-Stars]] released ''[[Dub Side of the Moon]]'' in 2003<ref name="cover3">{{cite web |title=Dub Side of the Moon |url=http://www.easystar.com/releases/show/2 |publisher=easystar.com | access-date = 27 March 2009 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090206214846/http://www.easystar.com/releases/show/2 | archive-date = 6 February 2009}}</ref> and ''[[Dubber Side of the Moon]]'' in 2010.<ref name="cover4">{{cite web |last=Jeffries |first=David |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/dubber-side-of-the-moon-mw0002045125 |title=''Dubber Side of the Moon'' β Easy Star All-Stars |publisher=AllMusic |date=25 October 2010 |access-date=11 December 2012 |archive-date=4 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104123722/http://www.allmusic.com/album/dubber-side-of-the-moon-mw0002045125 |url-status=live }}</ref> The group Voices on the Dark Side released the album ''Dark Side of the Moon a Cappella'', a complete [[a cappella]] version of the album.<ref name="cover5">{{cite web |title=The Dark Side of the Moon β A Cappella |url=http://www.darksidevoices.com/thealbum.phtml |publisher=darksidevoices.com |access-date=27 March 2009 |archive-date=1 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201015846/http://www.darksidevoices.com/thealbum.phtml |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] band Poor Man's Whiskey frequently play the album in bluegrass style, calling the suite ''Dark Side of the Moonshine''.<ref name="cover6">{{cite web |title=Dark Side of the Moonshine |url=http://www.poormanswhiskey.com/whiskeychronicles/7393826.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080705031000/http://www.poormanswhiskey.com/whiskeychronicles/7393826.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 5 July 2008 |date=8 May 2007 |publisher=poormanswhiskey.com | access-date =28 March 2009}}</ref> A [[string quartet]] version of the album was released in 2003.<ref name="cover7">{{Citation |title=The String Quartet Tribute to Pink Floyd's the Dark Side of the Moon |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts#/album/classic-rock-string-quartet/the-pink-floyd-chamber-suite-a-classic-rock/644537 |year=2004 |publisher=billboard.com |access-date=2 August 2009 |archive-date=27 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627083500/https://www.billboard.com/artist/279618/smashing-pumpkins#/album/classic-rock-string-quartet/the-pink-floyd-chamber-suite-a-classic-rock/644537 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2009, [[the Flaming Lips]] released a [[The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon|track-by-track remake of the album]] in collaboration with [[Stardeath and White Dwarfs]], and featuring [[Henry Rollins]] and [[Peaches (musician)|Peaches]] as guest musicians.<ref name="cover8">{{cite web |url=http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/12/31/flaming-lips-dark-side-of-the-moon/ |title=Flaming Lips cover Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' album; results are surprisingly awful |last=Lynch |first=Joseph Brannigan |date=31 December 2009 |publisher=music-mix.ew.com |access-date=14 January 2010 |archive-date=12 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012115237/http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/12/31/flaming-lips-dark-side-of-the-moon/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Several notable acts have covered the album live in its entirety, and a range of performers have used [[sampling (music)|samples]] from ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' in their own material. Jam-rock band [[Phish]] performed a semi-improvised version of the entire album as part of their show on 2 November 1998 in [[West Valley City, Utah]].<ref name="cover9L">{{cite web |title='Phish Phans' jam to tunes by Pink 'Phloyd' |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/660855/Phish-Phans-jam-to-tunes-by-Pink-Phloyd.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104212127/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/660855/Phish-Phans-jam-to-tunes-by-Pink-Phloyd.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 November 2013 |last=Iwasaki |first=Scott |publisher=[[Deseret News]] |date=3 November 1998 | access-date =20 March 2012}}</ref> Progressive metal band [[Dream Theater]] have twice covered the album in their live shows,<ref name="cover10L">{{cite web |title=Dark Side of the Moon CD |url=http://www.ytsejamrecords.com/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=24 |publisher=ytsejamrecords.com | access-date = 28 March 2009 | archive-date = 27 January 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110127110712/http://www.ytsejamrecords.com/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=24 | url-status = dead}}</ref> and in May 2011 [[Mary Fahl]] released ''[[From the Dark Side of the Moon]]'', a song-by-song "re-imagining" of the album.<ref name="nippertown">{{Citation |url=http://www.nippertown.com/2010/10/01/interview-mary-fahl |title=Interview: Mary Fahl |date=22 September 2010 |publisher=nippertown.com |access-date=11 May 2011}}</ref> [[Milli Vanilli]] used the tape loops from Pink Floyd's "Money" to open their track "[[All or Nothing (Milli Vanilli album)|Money]]", followed by [[Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch]] on ''[[Music for the People (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch album)|Music for the People]]''.<ref>{{Harvnb|Reising|2005|pp=189β190}}</ref>
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