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Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead: Beyond Description (1973-1989)

Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead: Beyond Description (1973-1989)

Band: Grateful Dead Title: Grateful Dead: Beyond Description (1973-1989) Rating: Release Date: 26 October, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo 2: Let Me Sing Your Blues Away 3: Row Jimmy 4: Stella Blue 5: Here Comes the Sunshine 6: Eyes of the World 7: Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part 1/Part 2 8: Eyes of the World [Live][*] 9: Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part 1/Part 2/ [Studio Acoustic Demo][*] 10: China Doll [Studio Outtake][*] 11: U.S. Blues 12: China Doll 13: Unbroken Chain 14: Loose Lucy 15: Scarlet Begonias 16: Pride of Cucamonga 17: Money Money 18: Ship of Fools 19: Loose Lucy [Studio Outtake][*] 20: Scarlet Begonias [Live][*] 21: Money Money [Live][*] 22: Wave That Flag [Live][*] 23: Let It Rock [Live][*] 24: Pride of Cucamonga [Studio Acoustic Demo][*] 25: Unbroken Chain [Studio Acoustic Demo][*] 26: Help on the Way/Slipknot! 27: Franklin's Twoer 28: King Solomon's Marbles, Pt. 1: Stronger Than Dirt/King Solomon's ... 29: Music Never Stopped 30: Crazy Fingers 31: Sage & Spirit 32: Blue for Allah/Sand Castles & Glass Camels/Unusal Occurences in ... 33: Groove #1 [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] 34: Groove #2 [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] 35: Distorto [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] 36: to E Flat Jam [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] 37: Proto 18 Proper [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] 38: Hollywood Cantata [Studio Outtake][*] 39: Estimated Prophet 40: Dancing in the Streets 41: Passenger 42: Samson & Delilah 43: Sunrise 44: Terrapin Station, Pt. 1: Lady With a Fan/Terrapin Station/Terrapin 45: Peggy-O [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] 46: Ascent [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] 47: Catfish John [Studio Outtake][*] 48: Equinox [Studio Outtake][*] 49: Fire on the Mountain [Studio Outtake][*] 50: Dancing in the Streets [Live][*] 51: Good Lovin' 52: France 53: Shakedown Street 54: Serengetti 55: Fire on the Mountain 56: I Need a Miracle 57: From the Heart of Me 58: Stagger Lee 59: All New Minglewood Blues 60: If I Had the World to Give 61: Good Lovin' [Studio Outtake][*] - Lowell George, Grateful Dead 62: Ollin Arageed [Live][*] 63: Fire on the Mountain [Live][*] 64: Stagger Lee [Live][*] 65: All New Minglewood Blues [Live][*] 66: Alabama Getaway 67: Far from Me 68: Althea 69: Feel Like a Stranger 70: Lost Sailor 71: Saint of Circumstance 72: Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber) 73: Easy to Love You 74: Don't Ease Me In 75: Peggy-O [Studio Outtake][*] 76: What'll You Raise [Studio Outtake][*] 77: Jack-A-Roe [Studio Outtake][*] 78: Althea [Live] 79: Lost Sailor [Live] 80: Saint of Circumstance [Live] 81: Dire Wolf 82: Race Is On 83: Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie 84: It Must Have Been the Roses 85: Dark Hollow 86: China Doll 87: Been All Around This World 88: Monkey and the Engineer 89: Jack-A-Roe 90: Deep Elem Blues 91: Cassidy 92: To Lay Me Down 93: Rosalie McFall 94: On the Road Again 95: Bird Song 96: Ripple 97: To Lay Me Down [Studio Rehearsal][*] 98: Iko Iko [Live][*] 99: Heaven Help the Fool [Live][*] 100: Paso [Live][*] 101: Sage & Spirit [Live][*] 102: Little Sadie [Live][*] 103: It Must Have Been the Roses [Alternate Live Version][*] 104: Dark Hollow [Alternate Live Version][*] 105: Jack-A-Roe [Alternate Live Version][*] 106: Cassidy [Alternate Live Version][*] 107: China Doll [Alternate Live Version][*] 108: Monkey and the Engineer [Alternate Live Version][*] 109: Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie [Alternate Live Version][*] 110: Ripple [Alternate Live Version 111: Tom Dooley [Live][*] 112: Deep Elem Blues [Alternate Live Version][*] 113: Samson and Delilah [Live] 114: Friend of the Devil [Live] 115: New Minglewood Blues [Live] 116: Deal [Live] 117: Candyman [Live] 118: Little Red Rooster [Live] 119: Loser [Live] 120: Passenger [Live] 121: Feel Like a Stranger [Live] 122: Franklin's Tower [Live] 123: Rhythm Devils [Live] 124: Space [Live] 125: Fire on the Mountain [Live] 126: Greatest Story Ever Told [Live] 127: Brokedown Palace [Live] 128: Let It Grow [Live][*] 129: Sugaree [Live [Live] 130: C.C. Rider [Live][*] 131: Row Jimmy [Live][*] 132: Lazy Lightnin' [Live][*] 133: Supplication [Live][*] 134: High Time [Live][*] 135: Jack Straw [Live][*] 136: Shakedown Street [Live][*] 137: Not Fade Away [Live][*] 138: Touch of Grey 139: Hell in a Bucket 140: When Push Comes to Shove 141: West L.A. Fadeaway 142: Tons of Steel 143: Throwing Stones 144: Black Muddy River 145: My Brother Esau (Single B-Side) [*] 146: West L.A. Fadeaway [Alternate Version, 1984][*] 147: Black Muddy River [Studio Rehearsal][*] 148: When Push Comes to Shove [Studio Rehearsal][*] 149: Touch of Grey [Studio Rehearsal][*] 150: Throwing Stones [Live] 151: Foolish Heart 152: Just a Little Light 153: Built to Last 154: Blow Away 155: Victim or the Crime 156: We Can Run 157: Standing on the Moon 158: Picasso Moon 159: I Will Take You Home 160: Foolish Heart [Live][*] 161: Blow Away [Live][*] 162: California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On) [Live][*]

Editoral Review The post-'60s Dead floundered nearly as often as they soared--at times haphazardly trying to play the game as defined by more disciplined bands of the '70s and '80s, at other times succeeding almost in spite of themselves. As the Grateful Dead story continues with this 12-disc sequel to the equally outsized The Golden Road (1965-1973), the band leaves the relative comfort of the '60s (hey, it suited them just fine) and heads into a period that will provide them with greater rewards as a performing outfit, and greater challenges as a studio entity. This was a time when they allied themselves with such unlikely coconspirators as hit-minded mogul Clive Davis (after their own label fell by the way) and Fleetwood Mac producer Keith Olsen. They consciously reached for commercial gold and fell short, then found it on their own terms--by recording the 1987 studio album In the Dark in a vacant auditorium. As with the first Rhino box, Beyond Description (1973-1989) gets the kind of state-of-the-art remastering one would expect from the sonically ambitious bunch. Again, each disc is fleshed out with smartly selected outtakes, demos, and live recordings. Two thoroughly annotated and strikingly illustrated booklets pull the package together. This is where the long, strange trip leads, and if there were some wrong turns along the way, so be it. That's what happens when you don't follow the map. --Steven Stolder .. You can see a complete list of all Grateful Dead discography, or go back to the Grateful Dead tabs