I just tried listening to this and had to turn it off like 20 minutes in. It just sounded like pure shit

I just tried listening to this and had to turn it off like 20 minutes in. It just sounded like pure shit.

What the HELL is the appeal of the Grateful Dead? Is it some American thing I'm just not getting as a Brit?

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bro the grateful dead are hella cringe
they're not even real psychedelic, the music is all soft rock/country bullshit
idk why you wanted to listen to them in the first place

Fuck the grateful dead

I hate stinky hippies

The Grateful Dead was much better as a live band.
That album is as close to the live stuff as any of their studio albums get, but it's mostly a failed but well meaning experiment to approximate their live atmosphere in the studio which they could never really pull off. The appeal was mostly going to their shows and getting fucked up and hearing them jam. At their best, they were really creative improvisers and knew each other well enough that they were able to pull off some incredible interplay and improvised song structures. They were inconsistent as fuck though. Some Grateful Dead fans swear by listening to concert recordings, which are available in abundance but most of them sound like ass in terms of the recording and playing quality.
Live albums like Live/Dead and Europe '72 are the best way to experience them if you're not already a culty Deadhead.
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If that doesn't sell you, and neither does the more country/rock stuff like:
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Then there's not much by them you're gonna like.

Go OD you stupid burnout

nice projection

Don't tell me what to do, illiterate cunt.

Because the Grateful Dead ARE pure shit and nothing more.
We all figured this out decades ago...

Only drug addicts listen to this band.
Nobody who's actually into music likes them.

Overrated as fuck band

So many zoomers, so little time.

>Is it some American thing I'm just not getting as a Brit?
Believe me. We don't get it either. On behalf of my country, I'd like to apologize for inflicting this garbage music and their braindead fans on the world.

you're weak

Listen to good psych instead. Not this poser crap.

You couldn't pay me enough to listen to this crap

The Grateful Dead are literally a musical abomination. Can't sing, can't play, can't write a half decent song. You gotta be legit retarded to find a remote amount of worth in any of that stuff.

I don't do drugs, I'm doing a masters in applied mathematics and I mostly listen to jazz/classical music.
Read my post, I'm not some nostalgic Deadhead sycophant. The Grateful Dead were a deeply flawed band but at their best they were actually pretty great collective improvisers who got to know each other well enough that they could lead and direct jams in a surprisingly fluid and intuitive way.
They had a legitimately novel approach to rock improvisation where compositions had several (often originally improvised and refined) compositional poles they could organically move around. This was done collectively and without any prior planning and when it worked, it produces some really organic and exploratory sounding but ultimately structured playing.
Problem is of course, it often didn't work and things could sound aimless, but when it did, it's legit some of the most interesting rock music ever made.

I'm not gonna read that whole paragraph. Throwing a bunch of bullshit gobbedlygook around to defend obvious talentless hacks lmao. Cope more bitch.

Yeah, I know. I'm not really talking to you. You didn't read my first post either but you've given me an excuse to explain why I think they did some legitimately interesting stuff.

I hate this fucking board and all the vermin who infest it.

Based retard

That might be it.
Did you try getting high or taking psychedelics before listening to the album?

Which version did you listen to, the original 1968 version or the 1971 remix? (original is slightly better)

But, yeah, The Grateful Dead are an American band, although I know a few Brits that dig 'em.

Of course I know quite a few Americans that hate The Grateful Dead as well.

They're not for everybody.

You gotta remember a lot of Anthem was culled from live recordings. They even give the dates of the concerts that these recordings came from on the back cover. (I have both versions on vinyl, but I don't know if it got packaged the same way on C.D.) One of these shows was the show where Jerry pushed Phil down a flight of stairs

And if you're going to recommend any albums to a newbie, especially a LIVE album, I would start with Skull and Roses first, and ease them into the other stuff. (But that's just me)

See I don't want to have to delete what I posted and type it all over again.

Boomer trash

You know nothing about The Grateful Dead, their fans, or music in general.

Post shit about The Grateful Dead when you can actually play a song on any instrument in 11/4 time without missing a beat, or playing the wrong chord. (And do it for at least 15 minutes! AND have a piece of said music used in a cartoon on Sesame Street!)

Even their bad nights had a few shining moments.

>In B4 Phish Head invasion...

This is a music board. The Grateful Dead isn't music. It's just hippie noise.

How does this band have fans? Genuinely...

Yeah, and that live/studio hybridization is why it's the best Dead studio album. It was also a pretty interesting experiment and as close as the Dead got to doing something really cool with studio time. I just don't think it works as well as a well curated live album which is why I'd sooner rec Live/Dead or yeah, Skull and Roses which I'd also argue is a better studio doctored live record than Anthems was.
I (thankfully) have only heard some of their more acclaimed shows. Even if this was true, the amount of fat in their good concerts is enough that I can't imagine looking for those diamonds in the rough is worthwhile unless you're a ride or die.

Junkie fucks couldn't even play their instruments

The Eagles for nitrous addicts

DUDE WEED LMAO

Why bother?

The fact that you actually made it twenty minutes without cutting your own ears off is impressive op