 20thmaine  | 16 Apr 2015 5:54 a.m. PST |
Well? Push comes to shove I'd go for American Beauty. Very close behind Workingman's Dead, then maybe From the Mars Hotel, Blues for Allah is rather good as well. |
 Endless Grubs | 16 Apr 2015 6:24 a.m. PST |
Terrapin Station isn't too bad! Blues for Allah could have been better…. |
| Texas Jack | 16 Apr 2015 7:05 a.m. PST |
I would go with Workingman´s Dead and then American Beauty. Although I love Ripple on American Beauty, as well as Box of Rain, and Sugar Magnolia, and…hmmmm, maybe my favorite is American Beauty! Speaking of American Beauty, I always wondered if Sugar Magnolia and The Band´s Up on Cripple Creek were about the same girl. |
| Night Owl III | 16 Apr 2015 7:56 a.m. PST |
Although Aoxomoxoa really shined in it's rawness and Workingman's Dead spoke even louder to me I always felt like Wake of the Flood was a little more polished and encompassed the vision a little more. Hard to say, geez. Being such an evolution of sound it's hard to pin down one era. Ask again tomorrow for a different answer followed by more scattered logic! |
| Brian Bronson | 16 Apr 2015 9:37 a.m. PST |
In the Dark. It may not be their best, but it's the album that made me a fan. |
| 20thmaine | 16 Apr 2015 11:31 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 16 Apr 2015 11:32 a.m. PST |
as well as Box of Rain Hearing that song made me realise I'd wasted years of my life not being a Dead fan. |
 lewis cannon | 16 Apr 2015 11:35 a.m. PST |
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| Texas Jack | 16 Apr 2015 11:51 a.m. PST |
@20thmaine- Very well said! Back in the days when we actually had to get up and turn the LP over, I always thought the two lead tracks on American Beauty were the best one-two punch ever. How can you beat Box of Rain and Ripple??? |
| 20thmaine | 16 Apr 2015 11:59 a.m. PST |
Ripple is very beautiful. Today though I've really been grooving (sorry, literally) to Franklin's Tower. So funky and great guitar – of course – and those Robert Hunter lyrics. 'Tis magic. |
| Texas Jack | 16 Apr 2015 12:20 p.m. PST |
Well thanks to you I´ve got American Beauty playing right now!  |
| Endless Grubs | 16 Apr 2015 12:24 p.m. PST |
If Jerry Garcia ain't gonna be at Soldier Field, neither am I. |
| Texas Jack | 16 Apr 2015 1:38 p.m. PST |
Let Phil sing!  |
| Mute Bystander | 17 Apr 2015 3:33 p.m. PST |
+1 Nazrat on the other GD thread And I never could remember which were studio albums and which were not… |
| Samuel McAdorey | 17 Apr 2015 5:57 p.m. PST |
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| Mute Bystander | 17 Apr 2015 6:28 p.m. PST |
Battle of the Bands? 
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| 20thmaine | 18 Apr 2015 9:48 a.m. PST |
Wargame related? Not so very much. |
| Militia Pete | 18 Apr 2015 5:44 p.m. PST |
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| Texas Jack | 19 Apr 2015 1:07 p.m. PST |
But variety is the spice of life. |
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