Audio CD review:
Grateful Dead - What A Long Strange Trip It's Been: The Best Of The Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead - What A Long Strange Trip It's Been: The Best Of The Grateful Dead

Band: Grateful Dead Title: What A Long Strange Trip It's Been: The Best Of The Grateful Dead Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: New, New Minglewood Blues - The Grateful Dead 2: Cosmic Charlie - The Grateful Dead 3: Truckin' - The Grateful Dead 4: Black Peter - The Grateful Dead 5: Born Crossed-Eyed - The Grateful Dead 6: Ripple - The Grateful Dead 7: Doin' That Rag - The Grateful Dead 8: Dark Star - The Grateful Dead 9: High Time - The Grateful Dead 10: New Speedway Boogie - The Grateful Dead 11: St. Stephen - The Best OF The Grateful Dead 12: Jack Straw - The Best OF The Grateful Dead 13: Me & My Uncle - The Best OF The Grateful Dead 14: Tennessee Jed - The Best OF The Grateful Dead 15: Cumberland Blues - The Best OF The Grateful Dead 16: Playing In The Band - The Best OF The Grateful Dead 17: Brown-Eyed Woman - The Best OF The Grateful Dead 18: Ramble On Rose - The Best OF The Grateful Dead

Customer Reviews Not a rap album! But it could be Had the Dead teamed up with Bone Thugs N Harmony? Anyways, This cd is really good. I saw this cd at a friends house and was kind of confused. I like disk 2 better, It is almost exactly "Skull & Roses," but with different versions of the songs. St. Stephen is really good, as are pretty much every other song. I like Disk 1 for New, New Minglewood blues, and the studio version of Dark Star is pretty neat. I would recommend this more for those who are new to the Dead, maybe as a follow up to Skeletons from the closet or American Beauty. Excellent CD suprisingly, and I highly recommend it. The second best of album We all owned the original albums at home, but whenever a road trip was involved both this and Skeletons were always in the car/van/ect. Back in the old days(the 1970's)when we used to go to shows this was one of those tapes that everybody had. (along with our concert tapes). This collection seems short by todays cd standards, but this was back in the old days. The thing that was nice about this collection was that it drew heavily on the official live lps as well as including the single versions of Dark Star/Born Cross Eyed. By the way the pictures of the band on the inside of the lp version are nice. It's still a good listen but my only two wish at the time was that they would've used Playing from Bob's Ace and I also wished that they could've used something from Garcia. Some of the best. No "Best Of" is gonna please us all, but what's here is good stuff. I myself think this is a great set of Dead songs. We get 18 tracks, half of which any casual fan should know. I've heard "Truckin'" enough times in my life, but I still love "Ripple", "High Time", "Jack Straw", "Tennessee Jed", and most of the others. My only complaint besides a few essential omissions, would be the disc length. However since this was originaly a vinyl-era release, I guess I can deal with a 40 minute second disc. Other options for a collection would be the old "Skeletons From The Closet", the recent career-spanning "Very Best Of" from Rhino, or the box. Nothing wrong with a few albums either. I'd go with "Workingmans Dead", "American Beauty", or "Mars Hotel" if you can find it. "Dead Set" is a decent live disc. . You can see a complete list of all Grateful Dead discography, or go back to the Grateful Dead tabs