The Very Best Of Grateful Dead (2003) +
Nightfall Of Diamonds (2001)
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Nightfall Of Diamonds (2001)
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This double-disc release highlights the Grateful Dead's final performance of a five show run at the Meadowlands Arena. Deadheads unanimously herald October 16, 1989 -- guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir's 42nd birthday -- as one of the best shows not only of the band's fall tour, or even of the year, but of the decade. Nightfall of Diamonds presents this landmark concert replete with one of the most accurate soundstages of any Grateful Dead vintage release. If you couldn't get a floor seat then, you can now.
Tracklist:
CD1
01.Picasso Moon
02.Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
03.Feel Like A Stranger
04.Never Trust A Woman
05.Built To Last
06.Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
07.Let It Grow
08.Deal
CD2
01.Dark Star
02.Playing In The Band
03.Uncle John's Band
04.Jam
05.Drums
06.Space
07.I Will Take You Home
08.I Need A Miracle
09.Dark Star
10.Attics Of My Life
11.Playing In The Band
12.We Bid You Goodnight
The Very Best Of Grateful Dead (2003)
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It only seems like there has been an endless stream of Grateful Dead compilations. In reality, there has only been a handful, and the most notable of those were released while the band was still an active recording and touring unit in the '70s -- and before they had belated chart success in the late '80s, 20 years after their debut album. So, Warner/Rhino's 2003 collection The Very Best of Grateful Dead marks the first attempt to do a thorough single-disc overview of the group's career, encompassing not just their classic Warner albums but also the records they cut for their own Grateful Dead/UA and Arista. As always with the Dead, it's hard to condense the band's free-ranging, freewheeling output onto one disc, and there are some big songs and concert staples missing here, including the perennial "Dark Star," "Jack Straw," "Black Peter," "Stella Blue," "Brokedown Palace," "Playing in the Band," "Wharf Rat," and "Terrapin Station." They are missed, some more than others, but the 17 tracks here do present nearly all sides of the Dead while hitting their biggest songs: "Truckin'," "Touch of Grey," "Sugar Magnolia," "Casey Jones," "Friend of the Devil," "Uncle John's Band," "Box of Rain," and "Ripple." As that list proves, this is a set that leans heavily on the twin peaks of Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, but there's a reason why those two are beloved of Deadheads and casual fans alike: the classic songs are there. Also present here are staples like "The Golden Road," "One More Saturday Night," "Estimated Prophet," "Eyes of the World," and "U.S. Blues," which may not be as well-known to the general populace but help fill in the picture and provide a good portrait of the band. The collection would have been better if sequenced a little more chronologically, but nevertheless it provides a first-class introduction to a band whose catalog can often seem a little unwieldy.
Tracklist:
01.Truckin'
02.Touch Of Grey
03.Sugar Magnolia
04.Casey Jones
05.Uncle John's Band
06.Friend Of The Devil
07.Franklin's Tower
08.Estimated Prophet
09.Eyes Of The World
10.Box Of Rain
11.U.S. Blues
12.The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
13.One More Saturday Night (Live, 1972)
14.Fire On The Mountain
15.The Music Never Stopped
16.Hell In A Bucket
17.Ripple
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