Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
Right now, I've got a list:
Casey Jones from the early 70s
Viola Lee Blues
Dire Wolf - acoustic
Friend of the Devil - acoustic
China Cat Sunflower
Scarlet Begonias/Fire on the Mountain
St. Stephen - from the early 70s
Dark Star
Eyes of the World
I prefer their early 70s stuff, it's a lot rougher, bluesier. Their acoustic renditions are also great. Their music in the late 70s became so much more polished and funkier which is fantastic, but less gritty and bluesy. So I prefer their earlier work by a slim margin...
They had like a 12 year period where they made the most perfect sythesis of American music ever, and then after that I get bored.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
Jack Straw
Me and My Uncle
Playin'
Bertha
Know You Rider
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Ahh, many many great tunes to choose from. And I don't think I've ever come across a band that will constantly surprise you and turn you on to different songs in their catalog the longer you listen quite like The Dead. They are very much one of those bands that you can hear a song of theirs 50 times and think nothing of it, and then the 51st time the lightbulb goes off and you understand its greatness.
Some of my stand-bys
Stagger Lee
Peggy-O
Estimated Prophet
Fire/Scarlet
New Minglewood Blues
Morning Dew
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I don't know much grateful dead but the only song I ever liked that i've heard is touch of gray
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Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:51 am Posts: 17078 Location: TX
I fucking love the Dead!!
Favorite songs, at least #1 is in order:
Lady With a Fan/Terrapin Station (easily one of the most beautiful songs ever)
China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider
Uncle John's Band
Brokedown Palace
Ship of Fools
Brown-Eyed Woman
Scarlet Begonias/Fire on the Mountain
Box of Rain
And I could go on for so long....
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
China Cat Sunflower ---> Know Your Rider and Scarlet Begonias ---> Fire on the Mountain are both just lovely
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
I wanna blast St. Stephen right now but my roomate is sleeping
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:51 am Posts: 17078 Location: TX
I am kind of a little surprised noone else mentioned Terrapin Station. Maybe not that surprised... but hey everyone should go back and listen to it right now and you might change your mind! Make sure it's a version with Lady With a Fan.
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Buffalohed wrote:
I am kind of a little surprised noone else mentioned Terrapin Station. Maybe not that surprised... but hey everyone should go back and listen to it right now and you might change your mind! Make sure it's a version with Lady With a Fan.
While the firelight's aglow
strange shadows in the flames will grow
till things we've never seen
will seem familiar
one of my favorite lyrics of all time - reminds me so much of many camping trips under the influence of psychotropics.
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