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Grateful Dead
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.3129
Grateful Dead Album Rankings
1
For once a truly beautiful album cover is more than matched by the record inside. The dead just refuse to keep within any normal limits, and I hope that it stays that way for a long time.
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2
The Grateful Dead were already established as paragons of the free-form, improvisational San Francisco psychedelic sound when they abruptly shifted gears for the acousticWorkingman's Dead, a lovely ex
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3
No matter how many times I've listened to an album, when it comes time for me to feature it here on "The Daily Vault," I'll always grab it out of the Pierce Archives (break out the cranberry sauce) an
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4
The Grateful Dead's fourth title was likewise their first extended concert recording.
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5
Double CD vault release featuring music from August 24, 1968. Nine songs, only four of which had been presented on either of the first two Dead albums proper.
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6
Since the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, fans of the Grateful Dead like myself have been lost.
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7
The Grateful Dead went into a state of latent activity in the fall of 1974 that lasted until the spring of the following year when the band reconvened at guitarist/vocalistBob Weir's Ace Studios to re
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8
As the second long-player by the Grateful Dead,Anthem of the Sun(1968) pushed the limits of both the music as well as the medium.
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9
By the late '90s, box sets increasingly addressed the desires of ardent fans; since the uninitiated were satisfied with smaller compilations, a box set consisting mostly or entirely of unissued materi
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10
After the sonic weirdness of their second albumAnthem Of The Sun, who would have expected Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead to make a more approachable album?Aoxomoxoaapproachable? Admittedly, this w
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11
Murky yet emotionally winning, brainy but boyishly enthusiastic, R.E.M.'s debut album,Murmur, burst onto the pop scene last year with minimal fanfare.
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12
The Grateful Dead's second live release was an eponymously titled double LP whose cover bears the striking skull-and-roses visual motif that would become instantly recognizable and an indelibly linked
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13
There are absolutely no Grateful Dead studio albums (with the possible exception of "American Beauty") that will stop you in your tracks after your first listen and let you see why the Dead are so ren
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14
When Jerry Garcia emerged from a life-threatening coma in 1986, his health wasn't all that he regained.
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15
"Infrared Roses" is a compilation live album that is supposed to represent the "magic" section of Dead shows where Hippies reach Nirvana or something like that. Uh.
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16
I remember well when I first started to get into the Grateful Dead in 1990. The more I listened to them, the more of their albums I had to own.
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17
Another album, another change of pace. “Terrapin Station” carries the experimentations of “Blues For Allah” to a new level.
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18
This is the studio album that starts to define the Dead sound, which is strange because it comes after what are generally considered their two best albums.
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19
Track listing: 1) Cumberland Blues ; 2) He's Gone; 3) One More Saturday Night; 4) Jack Straw; 5) You Win Again; 6) China Cat Sunflower; 7) I Know You Rider; 8) Brown-Eyed Woman ; 9) Hurts Me Too; 10)
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20
Track listing: CD I: 1) Feel Like A Stranger; 2) Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo; 3) Walkin' Blues; 4) Althea ; 5) Cassidy; 6) Bird Song; 7) Let It Grow; CD II: 1) China Cat Sunflower/I Know You
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21
With the massive number of Grateful Dead concert CDs on the market, why should anyone care about Fillmore West 1969 ? Because it's really, really awesome.
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22
This is a very uneven album, with four good to great songs and six average to pointless songs.
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23
Call this “Shakedown Street Part II.
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24
Track listing: 1) Samson And Delilah; 2) Friend Of The Devil ; 3) New Minglewood Blues; 4) Deal; 5) Candyman; 6) Little Red Rooster ; 7) Loser; 8) Passenger; 9) Feel Like A Stranger; 10) Franklin's To
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25
Thirty years ago the Grateful Dead set up shop at the foot of the Great Pyramid, took in a lunar eclipse, and blew some Middle Eastern minds.
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26
Track listing: 1) Foolish Heart; 2) Just A Little Light ; 3) Built To Last; 4) Blow Away ; 5) Victim Or The Crime; 6) We Can Run; 7) Standing On The Moon ; 8) Picasso Moon; 9) I Will Take You Home.
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27
There's a fundamental truth to Grateful Dead live concerts. When the band was on, they were unstoppable. When they had an off-night, they were terrible.
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28
There is no doubt that the European tour the Grateful Dead undertook in 1972 was a magical one.
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29
The most obsessively documented band in rock history uncorks yet another piece of live testimony from its 1972 European tour, already the subject of the definitive Europe '72 and the tightly editedHun
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30
Some Deadheads and enthusiasts have dismissed this two-disc live set as being foul-sounding and wholly unrepresentative of a typical Grateful Dead show circa 1974.
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32
In contrast to recent Grateful Dead archival releases, this two-disc, two-hour-plus live album does not present a particular show or group of shows, but rather is a compilation, courtesy of bassist P
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47
"Dark Star" is a sort of loose, free-form jam that plays a pivotal role at Grateful Dead shows, and it's been anywhere between five and 55 minutes in length.
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54
What a Long Strange Trip It's Been is a two-disc compilation of the Grateful Dead's tenure at Warner Bros., 1967-1972.
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