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Son of JayJamJah · 07-01-2008, 05:17 PM

19. The Grateful Dead

Most Overrated Album: All their Live albums
Most Overrated song: Casey Jones

The Grateful Dead are another band I really enjoy but whose fans are guilty are overrating them to the utmost degree. Unlike Radiohead it never spread to the mainstream, mostly because their fans were too stoned to start any sort of advertising movement. Still the droves of dedicated delinquent and degenerate tie-die clad warriors have followed the Bands every move for decades. No fans are more intolerable when it comes to there ability to listen to this music and revel in it as others keel over in pain.

The Dead released some very good albums in the early 1970's American Beauty and Workingman's Dead are outstanding examples of the type of music that they made at their best. However following the release of American Beauty they released 8 of 11 Live albums the next 20 years where they essentially played the same 20-30 songs at extended lengths without any sense of energy or timing. It was essentially 60 minutes of Stoned guys playing songs you like very poorly for twice as long as the studio albums lasted.

Sometimes they'd sing other times they'd not bother, always they'd suck. In fact their best numbers were covers over the last twenty years and that's all well and good except no cover band should be a top 50 band of all-time like the Dead are often considered by American Media. Their fame is as much a result of the atmosphere of their shows and the counter culture feel it lended itself to as it is the music. All of this makes them the 19th most overrated band ever.

07-01-2008, 05:17 PM	#31 (permalink)
Son of JayJamJah Occams Razor Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: End of the Earth Posts: 2,472	19. The Grateful Dead Most Overrated Album: All their Live albums Most Overrated song: Casey Jones The Grateful Dead are another band I really enjoy but whose fans are guilty are overrating them to the utmost degree. Unlike Radiohead it never spread to the mainstream, mostly because their fans were too stoned to start any sort of advertising movement. Still the droves of dedicated delinquent and degenerate tie-die clad warriors have followed the Bands every move for decades. No fans are more intolerable when it comes to there ability to listen to this music and revel in it as others keel over in pain. The Dead released some very good albums in the early 1970's American Beauty and Workingman's Dead are outstanding examples of the type of music that they made at their best. However following the release of American Beauty they released 8 of 11 Live albums the next 20 years where they essentially played the same 20-30 songs at extended lengths without any sense of energy or timing. It was essentially 60 minutes of Stoned guys playing songs you like very poorly for twice as long as the studio albums lasted. Sometimes they'd sing other times they'd not bother, always they'd suck. In fact their best numbers were covers over the last twenty years and that's all well and good except no cover band should be a top 50 band of all-time like the Dead are often considered by American Media. Their fame is as much a result of the atmosphere of their shows and the counter culture feel it lended itself to as it is the music. All of this makes them the 19th most overrated band ever. Last edited by Son of JayJamJah; 07-04-2008 at 01:11 PM.