Favorite Grateful Dead Albums
This is a short list of my favorite grateful dead albums, including live albums. |
| 1 |  | The Grateful Dead
Blues For Allah
This album is nearly perfect. Many people don't like the blues for allah suite, but I think it's amazing. Help on the way/slipknot rocks hard, and music never stopped and crazyfingers are fantastic, impossible not to sing along to. |
| 2 | | The Grateful Dead
Europe '72
The first disc is full of great versions of their bluegrass/country songs that they started doing a lot in 72. The second disc is a jaw dropping truckin' jam. |
| 3 |  | The Grateful Dead
American Beauty
Box of rain, truckin', friend of the devil, sugar magnolia, ripple, brokedown palace... every song on this album is an instand classic. |
| 4 |  | The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead
Also known as skull & roses, this live album captures some of the dead's best work. Great new songs like Bertha, Wharf Rat, Playing in the band and loads of great country covers. A cool drums > The Other One also. |
| 5 | | The Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead
Cumberland Blues, New Speedway Boogie, Dire Wolf, Casey Jones, Uncle John's Band... need I say more? |
| 6 | | The Grateful Dead
Dick's Picks 19
A live show from 1973, this album falls into a comfortable groove, it's perfect for mellowing. A masterful Dark Star > Mind left body jam > Morning Dew > Sugar Magnlia will blow your mind. A huge encore of Eyes of the world > Stella Blue. Then right when you're more relaxed than ever before in your life, they tear your face off with a closing performance of Johnny B. Goode |
| 7 | | The Grateful Dead
Live - Dead
The quintessential grateful dead live album. From 1969 during a wonderful run at the fillmore west. The dark star is unbelievable. |
| 8 | | The Grateful Dead
One from the Vault
An awesome 1975 show featuring every song from blues for allah, which was released that year. the songs aren't in complete sequence, but its as close as they ever got. slipknot especially rocks hard, with a much longer playing than the album. |
| 9 |  | The Grateful Dead
Wake of the Flood
This studio album from 1973 is great for mellowing out to. Eyes of the world, sing your blues away, MHUT, Row Jimmy. then it finishes with the cool weather report suite. |
| 10 | | The Grateful Dead
History of the Grateful Dead Volume 1 (Bear's Choice)
An album dedicated to pigpen, the dead's first keyboardist. The acoustic tracks are awesome, and the smokestack lightnin' is really slick. Then the dead tear through a version of hard to handle that puts the black crowes to shame. |
| 11 |  | The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
The best performances from a 5 night 1974 stand at Winterland, the last set of performances before the hiatus. The Dead are in top condition, and these 5 discs chronicle it all. I especially love disc 2, with a ripping He's Gone > Jam > Weirdness > The Other One > Spanish Jam > Mind Left Body Jam > The Other One > Stella Blue |
| 12 | | The Grateful Dead
Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead
More of the dead in europe in 1972, this is a full show. The dark star > me and my uncle > dark star is just sick. |
| 13 | | The Grateful Dead
Dick's Picks Volume 16
this pick has a 2 hour and 45 minute continuous suite. Unbelievable. |
| 14 |  | The Grateful Dead
Aoxomoxoa
Dupree, China Cat, St. Stephen. Lots of early classics |
| 15 |  | The Grateful Dead
Anthem of the Sun
The other one, alligator, Caution. more early classics |
| 16 | | The Grateful Dead
Live at the Cow Palace
A cool live show from 1976, the band is clicking. |
| 17 |  | The Grateful Dead
From the Mars Hotel
Scarlet Begonias, U.S. Blues, China Doll. Good stuff. |
| 18 | | The Grateful Dead
Ladies and Gentlemen... Presenting the Grateful Dead April 1971
a 4 disc set from a fillmore east run in 1971. It has a particularly good china cat > I know you rider |
| 19 | | The Grateful Dead
Dick's Picks 8
acoustic dead from 1970 in the first set, cosmic jamming dead in the second set. |
| 20 |  | The Grateful Dead
Reckoning
all acoustic 80's dead. I haven't gotten into much dead in the late 70's, and almost none from the 80's, but this album is great for relaxing to. too bad friend of the devil is soooo slow. |
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