Although this may be the Dead's best studio album since American Beauty, it runs a distant second, just nosing out the likes of Wake of the Flood, and will convert no one. In fact, it's a good thing Weir-Barlow's "Estimated Prophet" and Lesh-Monk's "Passenger" are the band's best originals in years, because Donna Godchaux's singer-songwriting debut is a disgrace; similarly, it takes a terse, jumping arrangement of "Samson and Delilah" to cancel out (and then some) a questionable "Dancing in the Streets." A confusion of quality also pervades the Garcia-Hunter title suite on side two. It works pretty well musically; for a while, I was ready to turn in the kazoo on "Alligator" for Paul Buckmaster. Then I listened to the lyric, a fable so polite it sent me hustling back to the verbal, vocal, and musical crudities of Anthem of the Sun, which "Terrapin Station" recalls formally. Amazing how all the hard-won professionalism of a decade disintegrates in the face of the sporadic, irresistible inspiration of their lysergic youth. B
>>129655190yay, disco Dead
>>129655190no reason to listen to the albums just get fucked up at the shows. If you like a song ask some nerd to tell you what it is
>>129655190>because Donna Godchaux's singer-songwriting debut is a disgraceToo much like that other Alabama singer-songwriting chick for your taste, huh, Bob?
CIA funded drug trafficking operations are not music.
>>129655190Meh just go find your favorite live versions of the material on here and call it a day. At least it won't have all that dated disco production on it.
>>129655293For some reason he really hates when a singer noodles from their poetry book. Probably because he tried to write poetry at some point and sucked at it so he's resentful of other people with more skill than him.
>>129655190yeah yeah they can't be 25 forever. what about it?
I must be the only one who thinks Sunrise is one of their best studio songs
>>129655190Title track is the best song they every wrote, but the rest is mostly filler.
>>129655350the next album was definitely inspired by the band seeing Saturday Night Fever and deciding "hey, we can do that." they talked about this in interviews.
start a Grateful Dead thread on Steve Hoffman Forum. guaranteed 100 page shitstorm.
>>129655302>CIA funded drug trafficking operationsI pushed this angle on 4chan heavily on 4chan from 2011 to 2015 while going to grateful dead and phish shows. Reminder that phish's first three festivals as the only performing band for 4 days took place on two different airforce bases. I still listen to phish and the grateful dead.
the BO at Dead shows was known to carry over into the next county. you could smell it from miles away.
>>129655585Thanks, SHF poster.
>>129655190>Although this may be the Dead's best studio album since American BeautyLol fucking pleb
>>129655455This. Terrapin Station, as a song, specifically on the album, is 100% Peak Dead. Doesn’t get much better than that.
