Jerry Garcia’s 50 Greatest Songs
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Not a bad list, but Touch of
Not a bad list, but Touch of Grey and Black Muddy River should be demoted to 49 & 50. And Days Between ahead of Terrapin and Shakedown St?
I know, vanilla vs chocolate ice cream, and all that...
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No Day Job? WTF?
No Day Job? WTF?
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A good read either way. I'd
A good read either way. I'd certainly put Terrapin in the top 10, or even top 5, and Hunter and Jerry would too I think. The story goes they thought of the music and lyrics the same day and the song came together flawlessly the next time they met.
I got about halfway through the list and realized it was just Jerry songs. Throw Weir and Barlow's output in there and you have a couple dozen more epic tunes. Goddamn what a catalog they had.
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Bertha and Tennessee Jed too
Bertha and Tennessee Jed too high IMHO. Crazy Fingers snubbed.
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And no Comes a Time. I also
And no Comes a Time. I also thought it was kind of weird they listed "That's it for the Other One", instead of singling out Cryptical.
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Mike, I was just writing to
Mike, I was just writing to call this list a total joke without Comes A Time in the first five.
No Crazy Fingers and Terrapin is 40-something?
Pretty sure both Hunter and Garcia would have a good chuckle over this.
Good old RS, bless their misguided hearts.
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Well, they got the first
Well, they got the first three right, but FOTD at #4? Come on.
Captions for each tune were terrible.
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I did like this pic of JG.
I did like this pic of JG. Hadn't seen that one before.
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Lol these "lists"
Lol these "lists"
No crazy fingers?
Standing on the moon immediately above brokedown palace?
Gomorrah top five or fuck off
Good photos in there, though
Do these people even listen to the dead?
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Why is there a noose in #37
Why is there a noose in #37 video? Was it just part of the "Pirates Ball" theme?
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Correct China.
Correct China.
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Of course there's massive
Of course there's massive subjectiveness involved, but that top 15 is pretty warm.
Enjoyed the commentary and inside Hunter/Garcia scoops AND vid's. A treasure trove- listening to #41 right now- killer "Here Comes Sunshine"! Thanks, Mike!
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Is Fire missing? hmmm.
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Glad to see Run for the Roses
Glad to see Run for the Roses on the list -- #34
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....and this list is going to
....and this list is going to be my work-from-home entertainment and sing-a-long for the next 2 weeks!
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> Glad to see Run for the
> Glad to see Run for the Roses on the list -- #34
I would've preferred Gomorrah or Cats Under the Stars.
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Agree about Gomorrah.
Agree about Gomorrah.
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Brokedown at #46 and Touch at
Brokedown at #46 and Touch at #14. I must have been listening to the wrong versions of Touch (#14).
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Painful to read although
Painful to read although they do those lists just to piss you off.
I'd move Brokedown, SOTM , Terrapin, Comes a Time, Mississippi 1/2 Step , So Many Roads , Ramble On Rose up.
Ripple and Stella have to be top 10 . Touch , U.S Blues, Mountains of the Moon, Mission in the Rain down. They Love Each Other off the list . Why they got rid of the fun, fast 73 version who knows.
Was FOTM on the list ?
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No To Lay Me Down also. This
No To Lay Me Down also. This list just keeps getting worse and worse.
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Mike, I'd like to think we're
Mike, I'd like to think we're just getting better.
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It feels like that, Ned, but
It feels like that, Ned, but sometimes it's hard to tell.
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You can't move something up
You can't move something up that isn't there in the first place. (Comes A Time---again, how is this possible)?
And yes glaring omissions of Fire and To Lay Me Down.
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Agree Agree on Comes A Time!
Agree Agree on Comes A Time!
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Omitted Attics of My Life.
Omitted Attics of My Life. Musta' Been the Roses & Box??
New Speedway should move up about 25 spots
Liking the Shakedown Street photo, Phil sitting in w/JGB in '81.
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Jerry didn't write Fire On
Jerry didn't write Fire On The Mountain.
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Quite right Lance, good call.
Quite right Lance, good call.
One of those I can't believe Garcia Didn't write.
Thanks Mickey!
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Box Of Rain is a Phil/Hunter
Box Of Rain is a Phil/Hunter song.
What about Cumberland Blues? It's a Garcia/Lesh/Hunter composition.
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Took a closer look at the
Took a closer look at the list now that I had time to read it all. It's all subjective, but a solid list. To Lay Me Down and Comes a Time definitely should've been on. Hell I'd put Foolish Heart over several of those songs too.
It's been a long time since I read Phil's book and I forgot about him saying Jerry was using again during the Built to Last sessions. Curious of the timeline on that since he looked and sounded great for most of 1989. They wrapped that album up in the fall. Those Warlocks shows in early October are legendary but fast forward a couple weeks to Miami and Jerry's voice sounds like shit (although it's still a phenomenal show). Maybe his voice was just shot at that point of the tour. Or perhaps he was never fully clean even in his supposed clean years.
Am I the only person that likes Go to Heaven? Every time I've read something about that album someone's shitting on it. Other than lazily throwing on Don't Ease Me In it's filled with good songs. Never understood the hate it gets.
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The densely orchestrated,
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The densely orchestrated, seven-part, 16-minute suite captures the symbiotic working relationship between Garcia and Hunter. In 1976, Hunter began typing lyrics; the same day, Garcia was, in Hunter’s words, “struck by a singular inspiration” for a melody — which perfectly matched his words. Inspired by the English ballad “Lady of Carlisle” and Garcia’s love for child folk ballads, this prog epic includes one of Garcia’s prettiest melodies (during the “Lady With a Fan” section) and a baroque climax of massed choral vocals and strings. As Garcia boasted: “People won’t believe it’s us.”
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This is a good example of how Rolling Stone Magazine has gone to shit.
What they are referring to here are "Child Ballads":
from Wikipedia
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The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. The tunes of most of the ballads were collected and published by Bertrand Harris Bronson in and around the 1960s.[1]
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The way Rolling Stone writes this, you'd think Jerry was inspired by Children's songs. Whether the author of this piece wrote it this way or the copy editor missed it, this is amateurishly sloppy journalism. How can you take a magazine seriously that spreads misinformation?
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It's been hard to take RS
It's been hard to take RS seriously since the 70s.
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It used to be important work.
It used to be important work....
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Just enjoying the shit out of
Just enjoying the shit out of having the sweet video's condensed in one spot, pandemically speaking.
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The Garcia catalog is so huge
The Garcia catalog is so huge that if we all listed our top 20 songs we would probably end up with 40 or 50 different songs