I've just watched the Amazon documentary about this band, so, where do I start when it comes to buying their albums? At the beginning or shall I jump around their discography?
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>buying
Earliest albums are more like hippie jams. Workingman's dead and American beauty are their most popular albums with catchy songs. Depends what you like best.
Europe 72…
Start there for sure, maybe the best year in the bands history.
Stay away from studio albums, only the live stuff matters
>maybe the best year in the bands history.
That would be '73, hands down.
Retarded hippy alert
In all fairness retarded hippies would be considered experts in this particular subject matter.
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Look up the Skull and Roses album
That one has two good songs and a lot of shitty cowboy songs. It's massively overrated.
Still it's not a bad start. Much better than American Beauty
>MFW when is that biopic with that israelite homosexual Jonah Hill coming out?
head reporting, the dead is a little bit different in their discography from typical bands in that their studio albums are their worst music. Don't get me wrong, Terrapin Station and Go to Heaven are bangers, but what makes the dead unique are the live recordings and bootlegs. They improvised on such a level that no two concerts are the same, plus their live rig was legendary for its sound.
Basically what I'm saying is that you can pick anyone of the literal thousands of live recordings of theirs and have a completely unique listening experience each time.
i haven't listened to much of their stuff but i know about how you gotta listen to the live stuff. it's kinda interesting how you could draw parallels to classical music and how each performance is different
Think like that, but on steroids. Whereas a classical composer might put a few bars for improvisation here and there, the dead would regularly turn a 3 minute song into a 17 minute plus jam.
There's a lot of jazz influence in their earlier work, especially in the drumming.
Well I guess the fun part is that they also made the songs in the first place instead of just interpreting a pre-existing work so it's their own, to do with it as they please, an interesting concept
They did plenty of that too.
I’m a prog fan. Should I start with Terrapin Station?
yeah. it's less messy than the live shit.
I was blasting a 3 hour version of Dark Star the other day with Thomas Pynchon in the Range Rover
dont buy anything just listen to all the free live recordings on the Internet Archive. Theres a free app called the Deadhead archive that streams them all too
https://relisten.net/grateful-dead
Cornell 77 is probably their more accessible album.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzptvlG1JiNBhiWTS4PZF8u4Uf35nMOno