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Nathanson 
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 Topic: Top 10 Grateful Dead albums
Posted: July 05 2007 at 02:08 |
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What is your top ten favorite Grateful Dead albums, here's mine
1. American Beauty
2. The Grateful Dead
3. Anthem of the Sun
4. Europe '72
5. Workingman's Dead
6. Wake of the Flood
7. Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel
8. Go to Nassau
9. Truckin' Up to Buffalo
10. Rockin' the Rhein with the Dead
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Atavachron
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Posted: July 05 2007 at 03:09 |
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Blues for Allah
Terrapin Station
Wake of the Flood
Steal Your Face
Reckoning
Workingman's Dead
American Beauty
Mars Hotel
Europe '72
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StarBreaker
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Posted: July 05 2007 at 12:40 |
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Haha, American Beauty is the only one I 'own'. Seems I made the right choice in which album to start with.
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Finnforest
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Posted: July 05 2007 at 12:59 |
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The essential Dead albums are American Beauty, Wake of the Flood, Mars Hotel, and any Dicks Picks/live material from 72, 74, 77. And Bobby's "Ace." All the rest of the pre-Terrapin material is about 3 stars, and everything after Terrapin pretty much blows (as Jerry had entered his ice cream and heroin phase.
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StyLaZyn
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Posted: July 05 2007 at 13:00 |
This is my list.
1.
Pretty short.
An essential Grateful Dead album is an oxymoron to me. 
Edited by StyLaZyn - July 05 2007 at 13:01
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Finnforest
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Posted: July 05 2007 at 13:14 |
I understand, I'm well past my Dead phase too. Although in all fairness, regardless of your personal tastes, it's pretty hard to claim that American Beauty is not a near perfect album of folk-rock/roots/americana. That's a great album. 
Edited by Finnforest - July 05 2007 at 13:15
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SolomonsMarbles
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Posted: July 13 2007 at 06:02 |
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I don't listen to their studio albums that much, they're very good but don't quite take me to the heights their live music does. Aoxomoxoa, Anthem of the Sun, American Beauty, Workingmans Dead and Terrapin Station are all the studio work I can think of that I've listened to.. Live/Dead, Rockin the Rhein, Dicks Picks 7, 24 and One From the Vault are some of my favorite live ones, but usually use archive.org to get concerts.
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Intruder
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Posted: September 16 2007 at 07:46 |
I've been a fan for yonks and used to follow the boys when they'd hit the east coast of the US on summer tours, but I don't think I've put on a Dead studio album in a decade. I don't put them on that much any more at all, in fact, but when I do it's one of the hundreds of live CDs I've collected over the years. A better idea would be "Top 10 DeadShows".
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Seyo
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Posted: September 16 2007 at 17:25 |
Studio albums:
- Workingmen's Dead
- American Beauty
- Wake of the Flood
- Blues for Allah
- Go to Heaven
- In the Dark
Live:
- Anthem of the Sun (although actually "made" and mixed in studio)
- Live Dead
- History of Grateful Dead Vol. 1, Bear's Choice
- Without a Net
These are all official releases, I have not heard much bootlegs or archival Dick's Picks series... :(
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anael
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Posted: September 18 2007 at 16:34 |
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1. American Beauty
2. Live/Dead
3. Workingman's Dead
4. Europe '72
(with bonus tracks of course)
5. Hundred Year Hall
6. Aoxomoxoa
7. Anthem of the Sun
8. Rockin' the Rhein
9. Dick's Picks Vol. 36
10. any other Dick's Picks maybe that one from Tampa of 1974
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 19 2007 at 06:21 |
Blues for Allah Terrapin Station Wake of the Flood American Beauty Europe '72
Live/Dead
Aoxomoxoa
Anthem of the Sun
in no particular order
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Rivertree
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Posted: September 19 2007 at 07:16 |
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jimmy_row
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Posted: September 19 2007 at 09:30 |
big Dead fan right here, still working on their discography though....tons of live stuff I don't have as well as the later era (heroine and ice cream phase)
American Beauty - one of my all-time favorite albums, easy 5 stars
Workingman's Dead
Wake of the Flood
Skullf*ck
Europe '72
Aoxomoxoa
Terrapin Station
s/t
Blues for Allah
Live New Years Eve '76
The Mars Hotel
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Zargus
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Posted: September 24 2007 at 19:27 |
So far i only got 3..
1. Workingman's Dead
2. American Beauty
3. Live / Dead
to be continued..  |
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jimmy_row
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Posted: September 24 2007 at 21:18 |
 Zargus wrote:
So far i only got 3..
1. Workingman's Dead
2. American Beauty
3. Live / Dead
to be continued.. |
If you like Workingman and AB then you'll probably enjoy the live album from the following year ( skull and roses aka skullf**k), it has that good ole americana/folk/blues feel, some of my favorite covers are on there (special mention to Me & Bobby McGee). And if you like the Live/Dead album you'll want to go for the earlier albums even though they aren't as jam-based...and then of course the Dicks Picks series of re-released bootlegs - many fans like these more than the original live albums.
The great thing about the Dead is the abundance of quality live recording in addition to the different era's of studio albums....they remind me of King Crimson in a way.
Edited by jimmy_row - September 24 2007 at 21:19
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