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- Michael Gallucci
- 'Live / Dead' (1969) Because the Dead were best known as a live act, and because they indeed often did their best work onstage, their breakthrough 1969 concert record remains their greatest and most representative album.
- 'American Beauty' (1970) Sparked by the creative and commercial successes of 'Workingman's Dead,' the Grateful Dead wasted no time returning to the studio to record 'American Beauty,' an even deeper and richer exploration of Americana music.
- 'Workingman's Dead' (1970) The Dead, and their record company, were so fed up by the money and time spent on 'Aoxomoxoa' that they went in and recorded the stripped-down 'Workingman's Dead' in nine days.
- 'Aoxomoxoa' (1969) The group followed up 'Anthem of the Sun' with another experimental work, this time sticking strictly to studio recordings that reflected its growth during this heady period.
Nov 8, 2023 · 1. 202 VOTES. American Beauty. 1. Box of Rain. 2. Friend of the Devil. 3. Sugar Magnolia. 4. Operator. 5. Candyman. 6. Ripple. 7. Brokedown Palace. 8. Till the Morning Comes.
Aug 9, 2023 · Features. Classic Rock. The Grateful Dead albums you should definitely own. By Max Bell. ( Classic Rock ) published 9 August 2023. The Grateful Dead's best albums are a kaleidoscopic, loose-limbed, ever-adventurous alchemy of psychedelia, country, folk and blues. (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
- Jon Dolan
- ‘Live/Dead’ (1969) The definitive document of the Dead onstage in the Sixties, designed to communicate the essence of the band in their most comfortable setting.
- ‘Grateful Dead’ (1971) Often overshadowed by the empyrean heights of Europe ’72, this live double-LP is still one of the most concisely enjoyable documents of the Dead in the early Seventies.
- ‘Europe ’72’ The band’s third live album documented their tour of Western Europe, ambitiously released as a triple LP in hopes that Warner would recoup the money spent overseas (more than 40 people came along for the ride).
- ‘Jerry Garcia’ (1972) With only Bill Kreutzmann accompanying him, Garcia conjures both the singing-gambler and mad-musical-scientist sides of the Dead on what is arguably the best outside-mothership project.
- Built to Last
- Go to Heaven
- Shakedown Street
- Aoxomoxoa
- The Grateful Dead
- Terrapin Station
- From The Mars Hotel
- Blues For Allah
- Wake of The Flood
- In The Dark
After the surprise success of In the Dark, the Dead were able to taste mainstream success for the first time. The world’s biggest cult band suddenly had a significant public audience who had heard ‘Touch of Grey’ and were no longer scared of the dirty hippie image or rowdy drug-fueled ethos of the band’s past. The band decided to respond with gloss...
If you need a prime example of just how dichotomous the Dead’s live performances were from their studio performances, Go to Heaven is the album to look at. Despite featuring some absolutely classic tunes like ‘Althea’, ‘Feel Like a Stranger’, ‘Alabama Getaway’, ‘Lost Sailor’, and ‘Saint of Circumstance’, the band are put in a vacuum that sucks up a...
Trend chasing was the biggest impediment for the Dead in the studio. At a time when soft rock and disco were huge movements in pop music, the band decided that they could bring an edge and musical refinement to these genres by taking them on head first. That, to put it mildly, was a bad decision. Shakedown Street is the lightest and least threateni...
On the other end of the spectrum, what happens when the Dead indulge too much in their own experimental tendencies? You get Aoxomoxoa, the wildest and least focused album that the band ever made. A quick look at the tracklisting reveals two of the band’s greatest songs, ‘St. Stephen’ and ‘China Cat Sunflower’. The only problem is that these version...
The band’s first album is the Dead at their most unrefined and garage rocky. That’s fantastic on tracks like ‘Cream Puff War’ and ‘The Golden Road’, but it doesn’t really sound like The Grateful Dead that we all know and love. It sounds like The Kingsmen or Question Mark and the Mysterians doing a Grateful Dead cover album. ‘Cold Rain and Snow’ is ...
The Dead’s ’70s albums represent a band willing to play ball with the popular sounds and trends of the time. Their own gambit to be their own record company had gone down in flames, and the band’s new label Arista insisted they adapt themselves to more mainstream production. That’s how Fleetwood Mac producer Keith Olsen wound up producing Terrapin ...
Once again stifled by the studio atmosphere, From the Mars Hotelrepresents the band gritting their teeth and just getting through another album. The Dead were deeply in debt due to their funding of Grateful Dead Records, the exhaustion of which resulted in the band taking an indefinite tour hiatus just a few months after the album’s release. All of...
Rather than once again trudge into a studio, the Dead decided to create a less formal atmosphere for the recording of Blues for Allah. Weir’s home studio was now the recording spot, and the genial atmosphere allowed the band to try long-form compositions in ways that hadn’t been attempted before. The crown jewel of this concept was ‘Help on the Way...
The Dead were getting highly ambitious by 1973. Despite the loss of keyboardist and vocalist Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan, the Dead had found their voice and signature sonic sound and were looking to capitalise through their own record label. The venture would eventually break the band, but their confidence in themselves can be heard all over Wake of the ...
No one expected the Dead to have a hit. No one expected the Dead to have a hit album, or single, or MTV video, or any mainstream success at all. By 1987, the band were mainly seen as a rolling tribute to the ’60s in a watered-down Reagan-era culture. Garcia had come out of a diabetic coma feeling fragile and uncertain of himself, and all of the ban...
Aug 9, 2023 · Best Grateful Dead Albums: 10 Essentials, Ranked And Reviewed. Full of sublime solos, epic jams and gorgeous ballads, the best Grateful Dead albums redrew the boundaries of American music.
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Sep 21, 2019 · The ultimate live document of Grateful Dead v1.0, and candidate for the best live rock album ever, is this double LP made during the distended Aoxomoxoa sessions. It has the definitive reading of ...
