Saturday, 18 April 2015

The Grateful Dead - The Best of The Grateful Dead (2015) [2CD] {Rhino}


The Grateful Dead - The Best of The Grateful Dead (2015) [2CD] {Rhino}
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Rock / Psychedelic / Folk Rock / Jam Band


Only the second major career-spanning retrospective of the Dead, The Best of the Grateful Dead -- released in the spring of 2015, just before a series of farewell shows in the summer -- takes advantage of the extra disc 2003's The Very Best of Grateful Dead lacked. Weighing in at 32 tracks -- a full 16 cuts longer than Very Best -- The Best of the Grateful Dead also follows a strict chronological sequence, so it takes a little while for the psychedelic haze to lift and the Dead to settle into the rangy, rootsy groove that characterized so much of their existence -- right around "St. Stephen" and "China Cat Sunflower," both from 1969's Aoxomoxoa. From there, many -- but by no means all -- of the group's warhorses are marched out, all in their studio incarnations.

This structure perhaps invites some griping about their sometimes ill-advised attempts to ride commercial waves -- there's no disguising the disco diversion of "Shakedown Street" -- but by celebrating the warts and providing space for that unexpected late-'80s commercial comeback, The Best of the Grateful Dead is a good capsule history of a band that usually defies such straightforward narratives.


tracklist:
Disc 1:

01. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) [2015 Remastered Version] 2:11
02. Cream Puff War (2015 Remastered Version) 2:29
03. Born Cross-Eyed (2015 Remastered Version) 2:24
04. Dark Star (2015 Remastered Version) [Single Version] 2:42
05. St. Stephen (2015 Remastered Version) 4:26
06. China Cat Sunflower (2015 Remastered Version) 3:41
07. Uncle John's Band (2015 Remastered Version) 4:44
08. Easy Wind (2015 Remastered Version) 4:58
09. Casey Jones (2015 Remastered Version) 4:25
10. Truckin' (2015 Remastered Version) 5:06
11. Box Of Rain (2015 Remastered Version) 5:18
12. Sugar Magnolia (2015 Remastered Version) 3:17
13. Friend Of The Devil (2015 Remastered Version) 3:24
14. Ripple (2015 Remastered Version) 4:11
15. Eyes Of The World (2015 Remastered Version) 5:17
16. Unbroken Chain (2015 Remastered Version) 6:45
17. Scarlet Begonias (2015 Remastered Version) 4:19
18. The Music Never Stopped (2015 Remastered Version) 4:34
19. Estimated Prophet (2015 Remastered Version) 5:37

Disc 2:
01. Terrapin Station (2015 Remastered Version) 16:22
02. Shakedown Street (2015 Remastered Version) 5:00
03. I Need A Miracle (2015 Remastered Version) 3:35
04. Fire On The Mountain (2015 Remastered Version) 3:49
05. Feel Like A Stranger (2015 Remastered Version) 5:08
06. Far From Me (2015 Remastered Version) 3:40
07. Touch Of Grey (2015 Remastered Version) 5:50
08. Hell In A Bucket (2015 Remastered Version) 5:37
09. Throwing Stones (2015 Remastered Version) 7:21
10. Black Muddy River (2015 Remastered Version) 5:59
11. Blow Away (2015 Remastered Version) 6:11
12. Foolish Heart (2015 Remastered Version) 5:11
13. Standing On The Moon (2015 Remastered Version) 5:20

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