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Originally posted by paigowprincess
I have no issues bc music is totally subjective and the fact that you cannot go two seconds without seeing yet another list of the greatest whatevers in a magazine or tv channel doesnt really enhance my faith in such things.
That said, I think the Dead are underated for studio albums. American Beauty is a great album (Candyman haunts me), and Working Man's Dead is killer. The Here Comes Sunshine on Wake of the Flood is one of the greatest tunes ever recorded and so is Alabama Getaway from Go to Heaven (an album widely derided as schlock on a new label as I recall). Very few records put out in recent years could hold a candle to any of this. Jerry Garcia was an absolute musical prodigy, as shown in the wide range of musical styles that the Dead covered, wrote and innovated. I don't think I would know anything about jug music (and I dont mean the Bob Seger tunes that the strippers rub themselves to at tittie bars) were it not for the Dead. And I dont think a RS defintitive list is gonna change my mind. Just remember when you were growing up and they had these countdowns of the Greatest Rock N Roll Song Ever and the number one tune was always Stairway to Heaven? Exactly.
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I hate you for going down this road Paigs...
Anthem of the Sun is THE Dead masterpiece. Sure, Beauty and Workingman's are classics, but Anthem is true Dead as they sounded at Kesey's acid tests. Did you buy Dicks Picks 22 yet? Its fucking amazing.
The Dead were not undderepresented in regard to albums on that 500 best list, except that Anthem should have been there. Where they were underrepresented was in rank - American Beauty and Workingman's should have been top 75. Anthem and Live Dead should have been top 50.
And Please buy Two From the Vault. Next to DP 22, its the finest slice of real primal Dead as they should be heard available.
As to the remainder of the 500 list, I say fuck any list where Neil Young's higest rank is in the 70s.
Oh, and one more thing... 5 years ago never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols was #2. In the 500 list is was 53. It fell forty eight slots in 5 years? WTF? Pretty fucking arbitrary.
