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List Price: $149.98 | | Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Salesrank: 2825
Released: October 26, 2004 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Grateful Dead: Beyond Description (1973-1989) Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
2. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away
3. Row Jimmy
4. Stella Blue
5. Here Comes the Sunshine
6. Eyes of the World
7. Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part 1/Part 2
8. Eyes of the World [Live][*]
9. Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part 1/Part 2/ [Studio Acoustic Demo][*]
10. China Doll [Studio Outtake][*]
Disc 2:
1. U.S. Blues
2. China Doll
3. Unbroken Chain
4. Loose Lucy
5. Scarlet Begonias
6. Pride of Cucamonga
7. Money Money
8. Ship of Fools
9. Loose Lucy [Studio Outtake][*]
10. Scarlet Begonias [Live][*]
11. Money Money [Live][*]
12. Wave That Flag [Live][*]
13. Let It Rock [Live][*]
14. Pride of Cucamonga [Studio Acoustic Demo][*]
15. Unbroken Chain [Studio Acoustic Demo][*]
Disc 3:
1. Help on the Way/Slipknot!
2. Franklin's Twoer
3. King Solomon's Marbles, Pt. 1: Stronger Than Dirt/King Solomon's ...
4. Music Never Stopped
5. Crazy Fingers
6. Sage & Spirit
7. Blue for Allah/Sand Castles & Glass Camels/Unusal Occurences in ...
8. Groove #1 [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental]
9. Groove #2 [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental]
10. Distorto [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental]
11. to E Flat Jam [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental]
12. Proto 18 Proper [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental]
13. Hollywood Cantata [Studio Outtake][*]
Disc 4:
1. Estimated Prophet
2. Dancing in the Streets
3. Passenger
4. Samson & Delilah
5. Sunrise
6. Terrapin Station, Pt. 1: Lady With a Fan/Terrapin Station/Terrapin
7. Peggy-O [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental]
8. Ascent [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental]
9. Catfish John [Studio Outtake][*]
10. Equinox [Studio Outtake][*]
11. Fire on the Mountain [Studio Outtake][*]
12. Dancing in the Streets [Live][*]
Disc 5:
1. Good Lovin'
2. France
3. Shakedown Street
4. Serengetti
5. Fire on the Mountain
6. I Need a Miracle
7. From the Heart of Me
8. Stagger Lee
9. All New Minglewood Blues
10. If I Had the World to Give
11. Good Lovin' [Studio Outtake][*] - Lowell George, Grateful Dead
12. Ollin Arageed [Live][*]
13. Fire on the Mountain [Live][*]
14. Stagger Lee [Live][*]
15. All New Minglewood Blues [Live][*]
Disc 6:
1. Alabama Getaway
2. Far from Me
3. Althea
4. Feel Like a Stranger
5. Lost Sailor
6. Saint of Circumstance
7. Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber)
8. Easy to Love You
9. Don't Ease Me In
10. Peggy-O [Studio Outtake][*]
11. What'll You Raise [Studio Outtake][*]
12. Jack-A-Roe [Studio Outtake][*]
13. Althea [Live]
14. Lost Sailor [Live]
15. Saint of Circumstance [Live]
Disc 7:
1. Dire Wolf
2. Race Is On
3. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
4. It Must Have Been the Roses
5. Dark Hollow
6. China Doll
7. Been All Around This World
8. Monkey and the Engineer
9. Jack-A-Roe
10. Deep Elem Blues
11. Cassidy
12. To Lay Me Down
13. Rosalie McFall
14. On the Road Again
15. Bird Song
16. Ripple
Disc 8:
1. To Lay Me Down [Studio Rehearsal][*]
2. Iko Iko [Live][*]
3. Heaven Help the Fool [Live][*]
4. Paso [Live][*]
5. Sage & Spirit [Live][*]
6. Little Sadie [Live][*]
7. It Must Have Been the Roses [Alternate Live Version][*]
8. Dark Hollow [Alternate Live Version][*]
9. Jack-A-Roe [Alternate Live Version][*]
10. Cassidy [Alternate Live Version][*]
11. China Doll [Alternate Live Version][*]
12. Monkey and the Engineer [Alternate Live Version][*]
13. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie [Alternate Live Version][*]
14. Ripple [Alternate Live Version
15. Tom Dooley [Live][*]
16. Deep Elem Blues [Alternate Live Version][*]
Disc 9:
1. Samson and Delilah [Live]
2. Friend of the Devil [Live]
3. New Minglewood Blues [Live]
4. Deal [Live]
5. Candyman [Live]
6. Little Red Rooster [Live]
7. Loser [Live]
8. Passenger [Live]
9. Feel Like a Stranger [Live]
10. Franklin's Tower [Live]
11. Rhythm Devils [Live]
12. Space [Live]
13. Fire on the Mountain [Live]
14. Greatest Story Ever Told [Live]
15. Brokedown Palace [Live]
Disc 10:
1. Let It Grow [Live][*]
2. Sugaree [Live [Live]
3. C.C. Rider [Live][*]
4. Row Jimmy [Live][*]
5. Lazy Lightnin' [Live][*]
6. Supplication [Live][*]
7. High Time [Live][*]
8. Jack Straw [Live][*]
9. Shakedown Street [Live][*]
10. Not Fade Away [Live][*]
Disc 11:
1. Touch of Grey
2. Hell in a Bucket
3. When Push Comes to Shove
4. West L.A. Fadeaway
5. Tons of Steel
6. Throwing Stones
7. Black Muddy River
8. My Brother Esau (Single B-Side) [*]
9. West L.A. Fadeaway [Alternate Version, 1984][*]
10. Black Muddy River [Studio Rehearsal][*]
11. When Push Comes to Shove [Studio Rehearsal][*]
12. Touch of Grey [Studio Rehearsal][*]
13. Throwing Stones [Live]
Editorial Review:
This monumental 12-disc assemblage presents the band's amazing, long strange trip from 1973 to 1989, encompassing the albums released on their own Grateful Dead Records label and later Arista. It's an essential companion piece on Rhino's first 12-CD Dead box, The Golden Road (1965-1973), which spotlighted the entirety of their early Warner Brothers output and concurrent evolution from a scruffy hippie outfit in the Haight to one of the biggest bands on the planet. Including studio masterpieces and live landmarks alike, Beyond Description enhances this repertoire with the sonic brilliance of 2004 mastering technology and a wealth of newly discovered supplemental material. It's an extraordinary portrait of a legendary band.
Description of Grateful Dead: Beyond Description (1973-1989):
As the Grateful Dead story continues with this 12-disc sequel to the equally outsized The Golden Road (1965-1973), the band leaves the relative comfort of the '60s (hey, it suited them just fine) and heads into a period that will provide them with greater rewards as a performing outfit, and greater challenges as a studio entity. The post-'60s Dead floundered nearly as often as they soared--at times haphazardly trying to play the game as defined by more disciplined bands of the '70s and '80s, at other times succeeding almost in spite of themselves. This was a time when they allied themselves with such unlikely coconspirators as hit-minded mogul Clive Davis (after their own label fell by the way) and Fleetwood Mac producer Keith Olsen. They consciously reached for commercial gold and fell short, then found it on their own terms--by recording the 1987 studio album In the Dark in a vacant auditorium.
As with the first Rhino box, Beyond Description (1973-1989) gets the kind of state-of-the-art remastering one would expect from the sonically ambitious bunch. Again, each disc is fleshed out with smartly selected outtakes, demos, and live recordings. Two thoroughly annotated and strikingly illustrated booklets pull the package together. This is where the long, strange trip leads, and if there were some wrong turns along the way, so be it. That's what happens when you don't follow the map. --Steven Stolder
Grateful Dead: Beyond Description (1973-1989) Reviews:
Exceptional Box 
2008-05-11 - This is a must have for Deadheads and anyone who appreciates American roots music. The Dead have always been able to blend rock, blues, jazz, country, and folk... the American songbook... into a product that is uniquely theirs but accessible to everyone. It is great to hear the progression of the band through their greatest recordings (American Reality and Workingman's Dead)and see the evolving vision. All of the CD's include new tracks. The box is lovingly and beautifully packaged. Well worth the price even if you have the original recordings.
Great Music, Skittery Discs 
2008-04-14 - This boxed set is a great collection, but I had trouble with skitter on a number of tracks. iTunes error correction corrected most of the issues except for the Shakedown Street disc. Maybe I just got a bad copy.
For completists and rarity collectors
2008-01-10 - Early in most Dead collectors history, they would forego the band's studio albums and seek out bootleg live material. This collection has two benefits. As a completist collector, it gives one the satisfaction of having ALL the Arista "albums". "Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" has been returned to the Reckoning CD that was left off of earlier pressings. "My Brother Esau" is included on "In The Dark" which wasn't on all releases at the time either.
I personally bought this set for the bonus tracks added to each disc. There are some tasty cuts on here. One of my most treasured fillers on a live tape was Phil's demos of "Pride of Cucamonga" and "Unbroken Chain" acoustic. And here they are with no generation loss. "Distorto" is a thrashing instrumental version of "Crazy Fingers". "Hollywood Cantata" is "Music Never Stops" but with the Robert Hunter lyrics. There are many grooves and jams and check out unreleased songs like "Ascent" and "Equinox". Bobby's acoustic demo of "Weather Report Suite" makes me rethink my earlier Bobby bashing and recognize not many rhythm guitarists can stand next to Jerry for all those years. And the bonus material for both Reckoning and Dead Set are two entirely separate discs from the era.
So listen to the bonus material and treat your ears to a refreshing session of "new" Grateful Dead music.
Grateful Dead: Beyond Description (1973-1989)
slightly weaker--still five stars
2007-10-12 - Okay , the Dead's studio material declined a bit between 1973-1989. So what.There's still a veritable treasure trove of previously unreleased material here. Hours upon hours. And who could own "The Golden Road" without owning the follow-up ?
The title says it all
2007-08-28 - If you look back in time, who is the greatest American band. Doors? CCR? Nope, its the Grateful Dead. Not taking away anything from the Doors or CCR but The Dead could do everything those bands did but better. Although the albums are not on par with there earlier works, its still a must own set. The box set cover is pretty sweet. The music is amazing and for the price, its worth every penny. I cant stop listening to the music.
