The Grateful Dead (studio album)
by Grateful Dead
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The Grateful Dead is ranked 10th best out of 162 albums by Grateful Dead on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Grateful Dead is American Beauty which is ranked number 381 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,438.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/23/2025 03:21 |  AAL2014 | 3,476 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/08/2025 20:41 | joewooley24 | 2,911 | 80/100 |
| ! | 07/11/2025 01:23 |  Repo | 2,115 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/23/2025 15:38 | MrOlan | 950 | 76/100 |
| ! | 02/02/2025 19:24 | brent13 | 1,610 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 13% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.
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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!
mdbaxter 06/30/2020 16:30 | #254819
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".
Boltzmann 04/01/2020 11:07 | #249395
"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.
Classic San Francisco psychedelic rock.
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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