I know im in the minority, but I never liked Brentās songs. So damn cheesy. And the way he sings makes me cringe. He plays the shit out of the keys though.
Taking it to the streets doesn't suck either. His cover of lonely teardrops, all his work with steely and Donald is great the Dukes of September with Donald & Boz.
This whole album kills
https://youtu.be/NgU4Rw-bT1w?si=UlOI4blhZ_WeZpM6
I would rather watch "Beautician and the Beast". I would rather listen to Fran Drescher for eight hours than have to listen to Michael McDonald. Nothing against him, but if I hear "Yah Mo B There" one more time, I'm going to "Yah Mo" burn this place to the ground.
truly. France gets hate but i think its kinda groovy. Money Money tho.. absolute trash. i cant believe its on the same album as Unbroken Chain, Scarlet, AND Ship of Fools.
Sunrise is a deep song that may fly over someone's head if they're built too short. Still trying to figure that one out but it is a personal favorite of mine always has been. Jerry's solo is nuts
They magically keep you warm in bed on cold winter nights. Just be sure to get some breaths of clean air if youāre getting high on them though, no need to kill off brain cells.
This one sounds really good when the Wolf Bros do it. The horns lend themselves well to it. Heard it in Charleston and was like āoh that actually sounds awesome.ā
What the fuck that was the song that made me love dead, I randomly got shakedown street recommended to me on Spotify and I adored France when I heard it. It made me really excited to dig deeper, and I credit it specifically as a big reason I am on the bus now. Damn that makes me sad bobby didn't like it.
Lol not even so much that he didn't like it, but referred to it as a spectacular failure in judgement lol. It is evidently a Hunter/Hart tune that was specifically written to attempt to "sell out" to get air time on the radio, and it failed miserably bc radio stations wouldn't play it
Hey, love what you love, no shame there, but there is a reason that it was never played live
That's crazy talk. Bobby was wrong , that's a great song . Phil rocks it in the pocket and goes out of his mind on that track . Listen again and follow Phil if you don't believe me
I'm probably gonna catch shade for this..... One More Saturday Night. I may have liked it at one time, but after them playing it again and again and again... every time it would start, I could hear half the people in ear shot yell: No more Saturday Night.
We walked out of our last ever show (3/18/95 Philly) after they went from a wonderful Visions of Johanna into Saturday Night. Couldnāt take one moreā¦
My last show was a few months later. July 2nd (I believe) when they ripped the fence down at Deer Creek. I had tickets. My first and last shows were at Deer Creek. Seemed appropriate.
Totally fair opinion! As someone who is really into all 60ās psychedelia and found the dead through their first three albums, that song is special to me even though I canāt listen to it all time. Trippy and psychedelic.
āWaves of violet go crashing and laughing, songbirds sing fly round the sun. Whaaaatās become of the baaaaaby this cold December morn?ā (first verse, from memory)
Spent a weekend freshman year, ā80, figuring that song out. Got my headphones and put it on my turntable and played it a lyric at a time (multiple times) and wrote down the lyrics. Took a while.
Never was about the songs... its about the show. And sometimes you get shown the light during a song you least expected, even on a Sat Nite.
And how many songs got even better with Ratdog, or Phil and Friends? Its an amazing universe of music.
If you canāt think of at least a dozen shitty Dead songs, then heās really got a point. I can make it there from just a few of the studio albums alone.
Thank you for this as this is what I came to say. I always heard this song as a complete throw-away, a "get off the stage quick" song. I love the Grateful Dead, I saw them over 120 times from 1976 until 1995, and Day Job was the only song I walked out of an arena while they were playing. We were at Meriwether in the mid-80's, they launched into it as the encore, and our entire group got up and left.
Scrolled way too far to find this. Got serious We Are The World vibes and so literal it never felt right. I just laugh when they get to the āone child cryingā part
It's a blues-cannon classic, performed by the likes of Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Lightnin' Hopkins, originally recorded in 1937. It gets a pass from me
I used to hate tons of steel but it has slowly grown on me over the years. Still not one of my favorites but every once in awhile I feel the need to belt out 900 THOUSAND TONS OF STEEL!!!!!!
Lol they have plenty of bad songs and even more bad versions of good songs. What makes them different though, is thereās almost always something interesting in the bad stuff.
Iām no noob. Been on the bus for over 30 years. Itās also funny to get downvoted giving my opinion of a bad Dead song in a thread about bad Dead songs. Haha, really?
Samba, Victim or the Crime, (even though itās a cover) Little Red Rooster drives me insane. Thereās definitely more. They had some crap for sure lol
lmao because its the go to closer? days between is great
edit: I hate dead and coās renditionā¦. jerr singing it is heavenly but i suppose it couldve died with him.
I'm surprised this is so downvoted. I personally don't have anything against it. I like the energy but pretty shit song, awful lyrics.. if you take a step back.
Mexicali Blues is horrendous. Itās like Bobby wrote up a very vague outline of El Pasoās story, handed it to Barlow and said āwrite something shittierā
Can't listen to "El Paso" without hearing "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
"Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl" ---- "And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap"
I noticed the cadence of [Long Story Short](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Yfjg930G6BJDWXob8674l?si=bNfHJklXTYyARAyfyu7c4Q) by the Avett Brothers matches too well and I can't not combine them anymore
Beautiful tune btw, give a listen
I know that itās a cover, but this seems as good a chance as Iāll get to sound off about my distaste for āDancing in the Street.ā
I donāt like any GD version Iāve heard. I donāt like Martha and the Vandellasā original. I donāt like Van Halenās cover. Nor Bowie and Jaggerās. It must be a āme thingā, given so many great artists chose to play and record the song, but I just donāt get it.
I Know You Dick Rider?
OP's name should be CC Dickrider. They've got a few stinkers.
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Jrad looking at Brent like š āāļøš āāļø
I know im in the minority, but I never liked Brentās songs. So damn cheesy. And the way he sings makes me cringe. He plays the shit out of the keys though.
I agree. Love him on keys but he sounds like Michael Mcdonald
I Keep Forgettin' is a righteous groove
Taking it to the streets doesn't suck either. His cover of lonely teardrops, all his work with steely and Donald is great the Dukes of September with Donald & Boz. This whole album kills https://youtu.be/NgU4Rw-bT1w?si=UlOI4blhZ_WeZpM6
The Doobies on Jimmy Kimmel a few years back killed it.
Michael McDonald is dope, whatās the problem?
I would rather watch "Beautician and the Beast". I would rather listen to Fran Drescher for eight hours than have to listen to Michael McDonald. Nothing against him, but if I hear "Yah Mo B There" one more time, I'm going to "Yah Mo" burn this place to the ground.
Michael Mcdonald is a legendary singer
Absolutely loved Brent....but tons of steel...
haha itās only good when you sing along in the Brent voice at full volume
The dude could sing me the phone book, and I'd be all ears.
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Thatās like the perfect example of what Im talkin about.
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Let Me Sing Your Blues Away was a Keith tune.
Fair enough.
Agreed. I think a lot of people feel this way about Brentās vocals. Damn fine player though
Money Money is terrible
truly. France gets hate but i think its kinda groovy. Money Money tho.. absolute trash. i cant believe its on the same album as Unbroken Chain, Scarlet, AND Ship of Fools.
Also Loose Lucy, US Blues and China Doll. Mars Hotel is a banger!
I really enjoy France.
many people are saying this lol
To me, France is a decent song, just not a great Dead song.
People talk about samba in the rain or Donnaās wailingā¦ no. Money Money is the worst thing the Dead ever did. Awful.
āā¦next thing you know you got womenās liiiiiiibā¦.ā (groan)
Winner winner
I like that one
It is, but I think Sunrise is worser. "He plants the tree of life on our forehead" lol wut?
It makes sense until you think about it
That one reminds me of a 007 theme song.
Omg thatās it! The second you said that it just clicked. It really does seem like one.
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Sunrise is a deep song that may fly over someone's head if they're built too short. Still trying to figure that one out but it is a personal favorite of mine always has been. Jerry's solo is nuts
Real question. The lyric "I remember **breezes from winds inside your body** keep me high" is that about magical farts?
They magically keep you warm in bed on cold winter nights. Just be sure to get some breaths of clean air if youāre getting high on them though, no need to kill off brain cells.
"Wave to the Wind" "If The Shoe Fits" "Childhoods End"
childhoods end- like the floyd song?? i gotta check this out edit: hahha yall are just phil haters- let him do his thang chiowlens
Add Broken Arrow to that list.
Samba is pretty gnarly
Just listened for the first timeā¦ā¦WTF!
Hard disagree. Love Samba in the Rain, chorus gets stuck in my head for days sometimes and now it is again.
Chorus is fun. The actual instrumentals especially the jam portion are god awful. Sounds like midi vomit.
Came to say this
I can think of 1
I know dickrider gonna miss me when Iām gone
Has everyone just forgotten about What's Become of the Baby? Aoxomoxoa would be my favorite album if it weren't for that track.
I actually like that one, but I'm totally fine with people not liking it. It's a bit weird.
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This one sounds really good when the Wolf Bros do it. The horns lend themselves well to it. Heard it in Charleston and was like āoh that actually sounds awesome.ā
Somehow, I feel like I've seen that song a dozen and a half times. I hate it. I'm so over it. Dear God ANYTHING but TMNS > Easy Answers.
I was pleasantly surprised by the Wolf Bros arrangement of it, made me appreciate the song a lot more
France? Even Bobby thought it was one of the worst songs they ever wrote
What the fuck that was the song that made me love dead, I randomly got shakedown street recommended to me on Spotify and I adored France when I heard it. It made me really excited to dig deeper, and I credit it specifically as a big reason I am on the bus now. Damn that makes me sad bobby didn't like it.
Lol not even so much that he didn't like it, but referred to it as a spectacular failure in judgement lol. It is evidently a Hunter/Hart tune that was specifically written to attempt to "sell out" to get air time on the radio, and it failed miserably bc radio stations wouldn't play it Hey, love what you love, no shame there, but there is a reason that it was never played live
That's crazy talk. Bobby was wrong , that's a great song . Phil rocks it in the pocket and goes out of his mind on that track . Listen again and follow Phil if you don't believe me
I will thank you
The lyrics are by Hunter and I like it
I'm probably gonna catch shade for this..... One More Saturday Night. I may have liked it at one time, but after them playing it again and again and again... every time it would start, I could hear half the people in ear shot yell: No more Saturday Night.
I listened to a burnt out Head cover/scream OMSN for about 15 minutes at an open mic one night. I can never listen to it again. The PTSD is real.
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OMSN is always a a skip for me.
We walked out of our last ever show (3/18/95 Philly) after they went from a wonderful Visions of Johanna into Saturday Night. Couldnāt take one moreā¦
Man...you caught an all-time performance with that version of Visions of Johanna
Yes it was way above the rest of that show. Thereās a real nice video of it on YouTube
We were in the lot for that show. Never found tickets.
My last show was a few months later. July 2nd (I believe) when they ripped the fence down at Deer Creek. I had tickets. My first and last shows were at Deer Creek. Seemed appropriate.
Need a āNo More Saturday Nightā sticker.
Whats become of the baby
Lolā¦I think I can still feel my teenage brain getting mindfucked by thisā¦
...is an awesome song.
Totally fair opinion! As someone who is really into all 60ās psychedelia and found the dead through their first three albums, that song is special to me even though I canāt listen to it all time. Trippy and psychedelic.
āWaves of violet go crashing and laughing, songbirds sing fly round the sun. Whaaaatās become of the baaaaaby this cold December morn?ā (first verse, from memory)
Spent a weekend freshman year, ā80, figuring that song out. Got my headphones and put it on my turntable and played it a lyric at a time (multiple times) and wrote down the lyrics. Took a while.
Thank you. That song is nightmare fuel.
Never was about the songs... its about the show. And sometimes you get shown the light during a song you least expected, even on a Sat Nite. And how many songs got even better with Ratdog, or Phil and Friends? Its an amazing universe of music.
If you canāt think of at least a dozen shitty Dead songs, then heās really got a point. I can make it there from just a few of the studio albums alone.
Day Job just plain bites, and not only for the insipid lyrics.
Thank you for this as this is what I came to say. I always heard this song as a complete throw-away, a "get off the stage quick" song. I love the Grateful Dead, I saw them over 120 times from 1976 until 1995, and Day Job was the only song I walked out of an arena while they were playing. We were at Meriwether in the mid-80's, they launched into it as the encore, and our entire group got up and left.
I love day job, I think itās freakin hilarious and I would listen to the song twice before I listened to victim or the crime
classic Garcia boogie woogie
We can fucking run
Scrolled way too far to find this. Got serious We Are The World vibes and so literal it never felt right. I just laugh when they get to the āone child cryingā part
Lmao you āfansā just listing Bobby and Brent tunes in this threadā¦ Just admit it.
Big fan o am but they have the most bad songs.
Allow me to introduce you to the song stylings of Vince Welnick.
Psych BOZO
Corrina. Wave to the Wind. Way to go home (I don't care how long a way it is, just shut up and start now, ffs.)
Good morning little school girl
Great song and bluesy dope pigpen grime. Just the contents not awesome. It's also a Chicago blues standard...
Totally understand. Just not a fan of it. Easy Wind is by far my favorite song that pigpen does
Yea the lyrics are really sus. The name of the song is sus as well
It's a blues-cannon classic, performed by the likes of Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Lightnin' Hopkins, originally recorded in 1937. It gets a pass from me
Lyrics are still sus no matter who sings it
The singer is just a schoolboy too..
I like damn near every song mentioned here lmao
Money,money š¬
Picasso Moon
BITE YOUR TONGUE
Wrong
BIGGER THAN A DRIVE IN MOVIE OOOWWEEEEEEEEEE
oof this is the wrong answer
And the fact that Samba followed that So Many Roads in Jerryās last show is just a travesty ļæ¼
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I love the chorus but that's about the only redeeming quality of the song lol
NGL, there's some 80s Dead that just sorta sucks. Sorry lol
I love the Dead. But they do have a couple of crap tunes. Every band does.
Keep Your Day Job is awful.
Wave to the wind is pretty awful
La Bamba
Para bailar La Bamba Para bailar La Bamba Se necesita una poca de gracia Una poca de gracia Pa' mĆ, pa' ti, ay arriba, ay arriba Y arriba, y arriba Por ti serĆ©, por ti serĆ©, por ti serĆ© Yo no soy marinero Yo no soy marinero, soy capitĆ”n Soy capitĆ”n, soy capitĆ”n Bamba, bamba Bamba, bamba Bamba, bamba, bam Para bailar La Bamba Para bailar La Bamba Se necesita una poca de gracia Una poca de gracia Pa' mĆ, pa' ti, ay arriba, ay arriba Para bailar La Bamba Para bailar La Bamba Se necesita una poca de gracia Una poca de gracia Pa' mĆ, pa' ti, ay arriba, ay arriba Y arriba, y arriba Por ti serĆ©, por ti serĆ©, por ti serĆ© Bamba, bamba Bamba, bamba Bamba, bamba
Walking in the Sunshine.
Little red rooster
Tons of Steel
I used to hate tons of steel but it has slowly grown on me over the years. Still not one of my favorites but every once in awhile I feel the need to belt out 900 THOUSAND TONS OF STEEL!!!!!!
outta control!
If you go and hack this out of In the Dark you've got a very solid studio album!
Came here to say this!
There are plenty in my opinion. Mostly songs that were written in the 80s and beyond.
Money Money
never been a fan of Iko Iko
I like the Grateful Dead version of iko iko, but I really didnāt like it when dead and co played it.
Agree. I can't stand that song.
It's absolute boomer cringe. Their version of "Man smart, woman smarter" almost as bad.
Oof
It's the same song lol
Antwerps placebo ( the plumber) . Not the best
Victim or the Crime.
Victim or the Crime
Victim or the Crime The song is the crime, and we're all the victims.
Roughy take š¬
Victim or the crime
Samba in the rain, money money. Any Vince song really.
A lot of the 70s-80s Bobby tunes fucking suck and Iām not afraid to say it Money Money is a garbage song
Hell in a Bucket is pretty awful.
Itās their We Didnāt Start the Fire.
Gentlemen Start Your Engines was pretty laughable
Day Job
Keep your day job Corrina Samba in the rain
Lol they have plenty of bad songs and even more bad versions of good songs. What makes them different though, is thereās almost always something interesting in the bad stuff.
One More Saturday Night is a skip every time for me.
Any Phil Lesh song, such as Pride of Cucamonga, Unbroken Chain and Box of Rain. I love Phil as a bass player but I can't stand his voice.
Sunrise
Thatās a good song
Obviously the highlight of 6-9-77
Victim or the Crime
āLet Me Song Your Blues Awayā absolutely fucking ruins an otherwise perfect album in āWake of the Flood.ā
No it makes wake of the flood better you noob!
Iām no noob. Been on the bus for over 30 years. Itās also funny to get downvoted giving my opinion of a bad Dead song in a thread about bad Dead songs. Haha, really?
i have never been a fan of till the morning comes. it isnāt the worst but listening to american beauty it just ruins the flow of the album.
Really struggle with China Doll and I will always skip Looks Like Rain
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Willing to try China Doll, what are your fav versions? And yeah that's fair about LLR, I just can't get over the suck to be honest lol
Samba, Victim or the Crime, (even though itās a cover) Little Red Rooster drives me insane. Thereās definitely more. They had some crap for sure lol
Days between
lmao because its the go to closer? days between is great edit: I hate dead and coās renditionā¦. jerr singing it is heavenly but i suppose it couldve died with him.
Days Between is not danceable. But itās a freaking masterpiece.
Sunrise
France š«š·
Lazy Lightening
I'm surprised this is so downvoted. I personally don't have anything against it. I like the energy but pretty shit song, awful lyrics.. if you take a step back.
The worst. Slow Lazy Light. Brent fans lol.
Lazy lightning.
I donāt get it. How is āserious dickridingā a bad thing? Oh, and the answer is Casey Jones.
Casey Jones.
Mexicali Blues is horrendous. Itās like Bobby wrote up a very vague outline of El Pasoās story, handed it to Barlow and said āwrite something shittierā
Can't listen to "El Paso" without hearing "Twas the Night Before Christmas" "Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl" ---- "And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled down for a long winter's nap"
Can't wait to tell the kids the story El Paso by the fire at Christmas š¤£
Glad I could help start a new tradition for you and your family! (Thanks for the downvote)
I noticed the cadence of [Long Story Short](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Yfjg930G6BJDWXob8674l?si=bNfHJklXTYyARAyfyu7c4Q) by the Avett Brothers matches too well and I can't not combine them anymore Beautiful tune btw, give a listen
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Yeah as someone whoās never seen Jerry, the idea of not enjoying one of his and hunters greatest songs live is insane.
I know that itās a cover, but this seems as good a chance as Iāll get to sound off about my distaste for āDancing in the Street.ā I donāt like any GD version Iāve heard. I donāt like Martha and the Vandellasā original. I donāt like Van Halenās cover. Nor Bowie and Jaggerās. It must be a āme thingā, given so many great artists chose to play and record the song, but I just donāt get it.
I will take you home
Seastones? Does that count?
Let me song your blues away Tons of steel France
Pride of Cucamonga
Try listening to Mars Hotel on vinyl and report back
One of my favorite GD songs.
Congratulations on blessing yourself with an inescapable dream of Phil's donor rap tonight with that blasphemy.
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Wild
Promontory Rider
But have you heard Hunter perform that song? He does a great job!
Row Jimmy Peggy O Operator Unbroken Chain
That's a hot take right there
Might as Well or Day Job
Victim, Money Money, Sunrise, I Will Take You Home, Day Job, most of Shakedown, others - but not too many.
I donāt like Viola Lee Blues. There, I said it.
Sacrilege