Saturday, December 16, 2023

Grateful Dead Official Live Albums: Worst to Best

 Dead Set - terrible sound... fire without scarlet, frank without help slip??? Cmon man...

Steal Your Face - weird clunky song selection. Eyes and Playin from that run were so great ... the songs that made it on to this album don't bring anything new to the table

Without A Net - not my favorite era but I like the Branford song

Dead Reckoning - great side of the dead ... wooden and fragile

Grateful Dead - notable for being the only live album with the core 5 lineup... plus bertha, wharf rat, big railroad... 

Europe 72 - a way of life. Amazingly the individual shows with the big dark stars and playins are even better

Live / Dead - life changing. The first 2 minutes of dark star changed the way i listened to music on the spot in real time... shall we go...

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

The best albums of 1977

The Best My Favorite Albums from 1977

  1. Bob Marley - Exodus
  2. Led Zeppelin - Presence
  3. Pink Floyd - Animals
  4. Steely Dan - Aja
  5. Yes - Going for the One
  6. The Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
  7. Keith Jarrett - My Song
  8. Sea Level - Sea Level
  9. Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer 
  10. Camel - Rain Dances
Honorable mention - best of compilation:
Neil Young - Decade

Honorable mentions - 
CSN - CSN
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood

Monday, January 23, 2017

DESERT ISLAND DISCS 2017

  1. Down - Nola
  2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
  3. Keith Jarrett - Belonging
  4. Wishbone Ash - Argus
  5. Steely Dan - Gaucho
  6. Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
  7. Camel - Nude
  8. Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington
  9. Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
  10. Stomu Yamashta - Go