Both of those albums are brilliant.

The rest of us aren't alcoholics or stoners.

When I get high/drunk, I don't go home and sit with my dong in my hand staring at a tiny screen waiting for my balls to drop. I like having fun. =D

Someone obviously hasn't heard a lot of Dead if they think they're just a country band. Anywho.

You know what I hate?

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Prog rock esque surrealism/fantasy album covers by everyone from low key folk singers to bland pop rock bands or anything that sounds absolutely nothing like the cover implies.

When I'm at a record store and I buy an album from some band I've never heard just because it has Roger Dean cover art and it ends up sounding like Journey, I'm gonna be really pissed off.

To be honest i'd rather look silly for saying that than listen to them to find out.

Nice try, but I've actually listened to a ton of the Dead. :p: Not only have I had a large number of friends and roommates over the years who were fans, but just last year I got into a similar conversation to this one with a deadhead on another forum who wound up giving me five or six hours of their best live performances to listen to. I took my time and gave all of it an honest, open-minded listen and found 99% of it to sound like long, boring country-ish music. The only song I have ever heard by them that sounds even remotely spacey or psychedelic is "Darkstar", and even that is kind of meh.

Take my word for it, you aren't missing out.

To each his own, but I think Live Dead is fantastic and certainly psychedelic. Though to be honest I actually prefer their country stuff, American Beauty is a flawless album, great record. Just country songs, and none of the jamming that they're known for.

My advice for those wanting to check out The Dead would be to ignore any albums they've done after Pigpen died.

I don't know why people read these , i'm full of shit.

I've noticed half the stuff I say on this forum I contradict myself with just a couple of months later. I guess it depends on who's annoying me. If someone comes into a thread and starts hero worshipping a band in an annoying way , even if it's a band I like I can't help but start bringing up all their bad points just to annoy that person. I do the opposite too , if someone is putting down a band in an annoying way i'll just say I like them to argue with them. Even if i've not listened to that band in over 10 years. Just recently i've praised Whitesnake , Motley Crue and Kiss. I don't think i've even listened to those first 2 bands since about 1993.
The other week I found myself listening to the Libertines first album and quite enjoying it. don't get me wrong , I still think Pete Docherty is an annoying moon faced cunt but I don't hate that album anywhere near as much as I did a year ago. Mind you in my defence if I did say I hated it then it was probably to annoy some Docherty fanboy as I seem to remember my opinion of that album being that it has it's moments but it gets old real quick. Maybe not hearing it since 2003 or 4 has refreshed it for me without having to hear all the hype. It wouldn't be the first time thats happened I said the same of REM & Franz Ferdinand and I like both those bands now after slagging them off for years.

In summery : Ignore me.

P.S. Now i've put myself in this NOTHING is off limits :D

Greatest Post ever ^

I mean...did someone say say something?

PS: Killer Wheels

Out of curiosity, what is it about their music that sounds psychedelic to you? To me, music I would describe as "psychedelic" takes me on some kind of spacey mental trip and feels unfettered by standard pop constraints. Examples of this from the 60s would be something like "Interstellar Overdrive" by Pink Floyd, "Facelift" by Soft Machine, or "The Visitations" by White Noise.

I can relate to this. Sometimes if I knock a band long enough I start to get curious about them and then suddenly find myself buying their albums and getting into them. This has happened to me in the past four years or so with both The Smiths and Sunn0))).

Two questions:

1. Why do you feel prog bands are the only ones who can legitimately use fantasy/surreal cover art?

2. Why would you buy an album purely due to the cover art? How does that indicate the quality of the music?