This is the one to purchaase if you want nothing but the hits. There is no filler. You get 17 of their best songs. Great price and an awesome collection. Great remaster job. The sound is pristine. Buy it. You will play it over and over Long live the Grateful Dead! Note: rating says 1 star, I gave it 4.5 stars,
If you are a "completist", there's nothing new hor you here. In fact my limited Dead collection (4 live albums, 4 studio, 1 label-specific compilation) yields all but two of these specific tracks. But if I had to compile a "best of" album, I couldn't have done better. There are a couple of my favorite Dead tracks not represented here, but this is a representative selection of their best output, spanning multiple recording contracts, with both studio and live recordings, without a single clunker.
If you are already on the bus, you have all of this stuff in multiple versions. For those of us that never really saw what the big deal was, but liked a few of the tunes, this is an excellent, if a bit too long selection. The singing is kinda slight, the hippiedippie feeling a bit too much, but there is enough here to warrant a listen every couple of months. For those on the bus, I say you dig what you dig, and more power to you all with my apologies.
The Dead are just that 'The Dead'. From the first note 'till' the last chord echos off the back wall, the listener is treated Dead history and culture. Each song digs deep into the band's past and the music's future. If you are a Dead novice or an old head; this collection is just what the Dr. ordered.
The perfect storm creates an awe-inspiring rainbow. In the Summer of Love, that star-crossed solstice of the psychotropic year of 1967, all third eyes pointed toward San Francisco at the nexus of Haight and Ashbury, a sound-and-vision track of mind-genre expansion. Set and setting, like the happenstance of tripping itself, enhanced the soupcon of musical expression that shot the Bay Area to the forefront of popular consciousness. The counter-cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s had… more »
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