Depends on the day. Today, It's American Beauty by the Grateful Dead.
ETA: forgot to say why. At different times, I've heard genres like bluegrass and blues as "feeling good about feeling bad," and I guess that's how I feel about this album. It always makes me feel good and relaxed.
Yeah that seems to be the consensus, but I really enjoy a lot of the studio albums from the 70s. To me they're just so compact and fun to listen to. It feels so daunting to listen to a live set, and I don't enjoy the sound as much. I agree that you probably had to be there live to get the full experience.
The Dead made two near-perfect studio albums: Working Man's Dead and American Beauty. Deadheads hold those two in high esteem but the real fandom is in obsessively arguing about which show from March 1977 is the most sublime.
I think so? I'm not really much of a deadhead, actually. For me, it's all about this one specific album. I've heard some live recordings and they didn't hit me the same. You had to be there? idk
Did you ever watch Freaks and Geeks? That scene where she's listening to "Box of Rain" and just vibing is probably the most I've ever related to a scene in a TV show.
Depends on the day. Today, It's American Beauty by the Grateful Dead.
ETA: forgot to say why. At different times, I've heard genres like bluegrass and blues as "feeling good about feeling bad," and I guess that's how I feel about this album. It always makes me feel good and relaxed.
Aren't the studio albums of grateful dead not huge in the fandom vs. obsessing over specific live recordings - being a jam band and all.
Yeah that seems to be the consensus, but I really enjoy a lot of the studio albums from the 70s. To me they're just so compact and fun to listen to. It feels so daunting to listen to a live set, and I don't enjoy the sound as much. I agree that you probably had to be there live to get the full experience.
The Dead made two near-perfect studio albums: Working Man's Dead and American Beauty. Deadheads hold those two in high esteem but the real fandom is in obsessively arguing about which show from March 1977 is the most sublime.
I think so? I'm not really much of a deadhead, actually. For me, it's all about this one specific album. I've heard some live recordings and they didn't hit me the same. You had to be there? idk
That's fair, I was mostly basing this off the dead episode of And Introducing, Chris Wade's podcast.
I've never listened to that podcast. Been meaning to check it out for a while now, I'll have to do that one of these days.
It's worth a listen. Song vs Song, Switched on Pop, Blink-155 (now 155 pod) are some other music podcasts I enjoy.
I love American Beauty. I just find it so comforting to listen to, and in fact I listened to it today. Always a good choice.
Did you ever watch Freaks and Geeks? That scene where she's listening to "Box of Rain" and just vibing is probably the most I've ever related to a scene in a TV show.
That scene reminds me of being 14 so hard
Oh definitely, instant transportation back to my teenage self.
No I haven't seen it, I'll have to check it out.
It's been a while since I watched the show and I'm not sure how well it holds up, but I really loved it at the time.
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