The Grateful Dead (studio album) by Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead by Grateful Dead
Year: 1967
Overall rank: 4,859th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 143 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1967 (59th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (392nd)
Award Best albums of all time (4,859th)
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The Grateful Dead is ranked 9th best out of 161 albums by Grateful Dead on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Grateful Dead is American Beauty which is ranked number 364 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,820.

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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 73.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.

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From 12/30/2023 22:42
Excellent debut album. The band are clearly on the psychedelic treadmill which engulfed the San Francisco Bay area. Not knocking them for it! Side 2 (vinyl) houses some excellent guitar acrobatics!
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From 06/30/2020 16:30
Such a fun record. Great jams throughout and compelling reworkings of old standards. Fantastic guitar playing. This is my first exposure to the Grateful Dead and I could see myself having been a "deadhead".
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From 04/01/2020 11:07
"Good morning little schoolgirl, can I come home with you?"
"...sir"
"Tell your mama and your papa I'm a little schoolboy too"
"sir, please step away from the girl"

That's it for a Gen Z-ers interpretation of '60s blues rock.
Other than that, I quite enjoy the simplistic blues rock songs with a hint of early hard rock.
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From 03/14/2016 11:40
Classic San Francisco psychedelic rock.
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From 01/22/2016 23:31
I think this is a highly underrated album that stands the test of time. I'm not a Deadhead by any means, which may be why I love their debut. Not a bad track on either side.
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