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Grateful Dead: Beyond Description (1973-1989) | 
| Artist: Grateful Dead
Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $149.98
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 30216
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 12
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 6.5 x 2.6
MPN: 76491
UPC: 081227649128
EAN: 0081227649128
ASIN: B0002NUTS8
Release Date: October 26, 2004
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Disc 1
| • | Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo | | • | Let Me Sing Your Blues Away | | • | Row Jimmy | | • | Stella Blue | | • | Here Comes the Sunshine | | • | Eyes of the World | | • | Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part 1/Part 2 | | • | Eyes of the World [Live][*] | | • | Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part 1/Part 2/ [Studio Acoustic Demo][*] | | • | China Doll [Studio Outtake][*] |
Disc 2
| • | U.S. Blues | | • | China Doll | | • | Unbroken Chain | | • | Loose Lucy | | • | Scarlet Begonias | | • | Pride of Cucamonga | | • | Money Money | | • | Ship of Fools | | • | Loose Lucy [Studio Outtake][*] | | • | Scarlet Begonias [Live][*] | | • | Money Money [Live][*] | | • | Wave That Flag [Live][*] | | • | Let It Rock [Live][*] | | • | Pride of Cucamonga [Studio Acoustic Demo][*] | | • | Unbroken Chain [Studio Acoustic Demo][*] |
Disc 3
| • | Help on the Way/Slipknot! | | • | Franklin's Twoer | | • | King Solomon's Marbles, Pt. 1: Stronger Than Dirt/King Solomon's ... | | • | Music Never Stopped | | • | Crazy Fingers | | • | Sage & Spirit | | • | Blue for Allah/Sand Castles & Glass Camels/Unusal Occurences in ... | | • | Groove #1 [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] | | • | Groove #2 [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] | | • | Distorto [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] | | • | to E Flat Jam [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] | | • | Proto 18 Proper [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] | | • | Hollywood Cantata [Studio Outtake][*] |
Disc 4
| • | Estimated Prophet | | • | Dancing in the Streets | | • | Passenger | | • | Samson & Delilah | | • | Sunrise | | • | Terrapin Station, Pt. 1: Lady With a Fan/Terrapin Station/Terrapin | | • | Peggy-O [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] | | • | Ascent [Studio Outtake][*][Instrumental] | | • | Catfish John [Studio Outtake][*] | | • | Equinox [Studio Outtake][*] | | • | Fire on the Mountain [Studio Outtake][*] | | • | Dancing in the Streets [Live][*] |
Disc 5
| • | Good Lovin' | | • | France | | • | Shakedown Street | | • | Serengetti | | • | Fire on the Mountain | | • | I Need a Miracle | | • | From the Heart of Me | | • | Stagger Lee | | • | All New Minglewood Blues | | • | If I Had the World to Give | | • | Good Lovin' [Studio Outtake][*] - Lowell George, Grateful Dead | | • | Ollin Arageed [Live][*] | | • | Fire on the Mountain [Live][*] | | • | Stagger Lee [Live][*] | | • | All New Minglewood Blues [Live][*] |
Disc 6
| • | Alabama Getaway | | • | Far from Me | | • | Althea | | • | Feel Like a Stranger | | • | Lost Sailor | | • | Saint of Circumstance | | • | Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber) | | • | Easy to Love You | | • | Don't Ease Me In | | • | Peggy-O [Studio Outtake][*] | | • | What'll You Raise [Studio Outtake][*] | | • | Jack-A-Roe [Studio Outtake][*] | | • | Althea [Live] | | • | Lost Sailor [Live] | | • | Saint of Circumstance [Live] |
Disc 7
| • | Dire Wolf | | • | Race Is On | | • | Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie | | • | It Must Have Been the Roses | | • | Dark Hollow | | • | China Doll | | • | Been All Around This World | | • | Monkey and the Engineer | | • | Jack-A-Roe | | • | Deep Elem Blues | | • | Cassidy | | • | To Lay Me Down | | • | Rosalie McFall | | • | On the Road Again | | • | Bird Song | | • | Ripple |
Disc 8
| • | To Lay Me Down [Studio Rehearsal][*] | | • | Iko Iko [Live][*] | | • | Heaven Help the Fool [Live][*] | | • | Paso [Live][*] | | • | Sage & Spirit [Live][*] | | • | Little Sadie [Live][*] | | • | It Must Have Been the Roses [Alternate Live Version][*] | | • | Dark Hollow [Alternate Live Version][*] | | • | Jack-A-Roe [Alternate Live Version][*] | | • | Cassidy [Alternate Live Version][*] | | • | China Doll [Alternate Live Version][*] | | • | Monkey and the Engineer [Alternate Live Version][*] | | • | Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie [Alternate Live Version][*] | | • | Ripple [Alternate Live Version | | • | Tom Dooley [Live][*] | | • | Deep Elem Blues [Alternate Live Version][*] |
Disc 9
| • | Samson and Delilah [Live] | | • | Friend of the Devil [Live] | | • | New Minglewood Blues [Live] | | • | Deal [Live] | | • | Candyman [Live] | | • | Little Red Rooster [Live] | | • | Loser [Live] | | • | Passenger [Live] | | • | Feel Like a Stranger [Live] | | • | Franklin's Tower [Live] | | • | Rhythm Devils [Live] | | • | Space [Live] | | • | Fire on the Mountain [Live] | | • | Greatest Story Ever Told [Live] | | • | Brokedown Palace [Live] |
Disc 10
| • | Let It Grow [Live][*] | | • | Sugaree [Live [Live] | | • | C.C. Rider [Live][*] | | • | Row Jimmy [Live][*] | | • | Lazy Lightnin' [Live][*] | | • | Supplication [Live][*] | | • | High Time [Live][*] | | • | Jack Straw [Live][*] | | • | Shakedown Street [Live][*] | | • | Not Fade Away [Live][*] |
Disc 11
| • | Touch of Grey | | • | Hell in a Bucket | | • | When Push Comes to Shove | | • | West L.A. Fadeaway | | • | Tons of Steel | | • | Throwing Stones | | • | Black Muddy River | | • | My Brother Esau (Single B-Side) [*] | | • | West L.A. Fadeaway [Alternate Version, 1984][*] | | • | Black Muddy River [Studio Rehearsal][*] | | • | When Push Comes to Shove [Studio Rehearsal][*] | | • | Touch of Grey [Studio Rehearsal][*] | | • | Throwing Stones [Live] |
Disc 12
| • | Foolish Heart | | • | Just a Little Light | | • | Built to Last | | • | Blow Away | | • | Victim or the Crime | | • | We Can Run | | • | Standing on the Moon | | • | Picasso Moon | | • | I Will Take You Home | | • | Foolish Heart [Live][*] | | • | Blow Away [Live][*] | | • | California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On) [Live][*] |
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Amazon.com
As the Grateful Dead story continues with this 12-disc sequel to the equally outsized The Golden Road (1965-1973), the band leaves the relative comfort of the '60s (hey, it suited them just fine) and heads into a period that will provide them with greater rewards as a performing outfit, and greater challenges as a studio entity. The post-'60s Dead floundered nearly as often as they soared--at times haphazardly trying to play the game as defined by more disciplined bands of the '70s and '80s, at other times succeeding almost in spite of themselves. This was a time when they allied themselves with such unlikely coconspirators as hit-minded mogul Clive Davis (after their own label fell by the way) and Fleetwood Mac producer Keith Olsen. They consciously reached for commercial gold and fell short, then found it on their own terms--by recording the 1987 studio album In the Dark in a vacant auditorium. As with the first Rhino box, Beyond Description (1973-1989) gets the kind of state-of-the-art remastering one would expect from the sonically ambitious bunch. Again, each disc is fleshed out with smartly selected outtakes, demos, and live recordings. Two thoroughly annotated and strikingly illustrated booklets pull the package together. This is where the long, strange trip leads, and if there were some wrong turns along the way, so be it. That's what happens when you don't follow the map. --Steven Stolder
Album Description
This monumental 12-disc assemblage presents the band's amazing, long strange trip from 1973 to 1989, encompassing the albums released on their own Grateful Dead Records label and later Arista. It's an essential companion piece on Rhino's first 12-CD Dead box, The Golden Road (1965-1973), which spotlighted the entirety of their early Warner Brothers output and concurrent evolution from a scruffy hippie outfit in the Haight to one of the biggest bands on the planet. Including studio masterpieces and live landmarks alike, Beyond Description enhances this repertoire with the sonic brilliance of 2004 mastering technology and a wealth of newly discovered supplemental material. It's an extraordinary portrait of a legendary band.
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WOW!! - Beyond Description - another RHINO masterpiece! October 29, 2004
Willie Boy
25 out of 29 found this review helpful
The sound quality on these "new" transfers done by RHINO are absolutely incredible.
I recommend this set as a worthy purchase even if you already have the earlier cd releases. After hearing the first box done by Rhino I was anticipating this one for a long time.
Remasters have become very popular, but not always are they done with the highest respect for the music. This package eliminates that factor and you come away with a satisfying new experience.
Rhino is currently the king of remasters!
Other remasters don't come close to the perfection brought by a Rhino HDCD transfer. I am so pleased to hear more than ever before the music behind the distortion of analog hiss.
thank God for Rhino
and
the Grateful Dead
Second Half Dead December 30, 2004
Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA)
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
This twelve-disk box set of the second half of the Grateful Dead's recording career is a glorious triumph of the spirit of the band. As with most of the Dead's studio efforts, the albums themselves are an uneven affair. But the shear scope and meticulous detail of the set override any musical inequities. 1975's Blues For Allah is the best of this set and rivals American Beauty as the best Dead album. Combining with 1973's Wake Of The Flood & 1974's Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel, it was their best run of albums in their career. "Franklin's Tower", "King Solomon's Marbles" & the title suite standout from Allah, "Here Comes The Sunshine" & "Eyes Of The World from Flood & "US Blues", "Scarlet Begonias" & "Ship Of Fools" from Mars. The subsequent three studio albums, 1977's Terrapin Station, 1978's Shakedown Street & 1980's Go To Heaven have some good cuts, but the overall quality pales next to the other disks. The band took a seven-year recording hiatus, but returned with 1987's superb In The Dark. People often mistakenly dismiss this album as the Dead going commercial, but that is unfair. The album is strong from top to bottom and includes one their best songs, "Throwing Stones" and their only top ten single, "Touch Of Grey". It was also their lone top ten album. The band couldn't sustain the commercial and creative success and unfortunately their recording career ended with the poor 1989's release Built To Last. There are two excellent live collections, both from 1981, the acoustic Reckoning and the amazing Dead Set. Beyond Description is a must for all Dead fans as the albums are all remastered for the first time and the sound quality is amazing.
Incredible remastering August 11, 2005
One Review (New Jersey)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Absolutely incredible remastering of these tracks. I am
listening to Shakedown street as I write on a Conrad Johnson
tube amp with an HDCD player and really good loud speakers.
This is an amazing job by Rhino. Rhino is always pretty cool
but on this one you can tell the engineers wanted to do a really
good job on the mix. It is clean as hell
5 stars and that is before the 10 star bonus tracks which are
too many to mention. Terrapin Station with Catfish John. Dang it
buy this thing
On Terrapin they added some reverb. I keep coming back to this disc. I really thought the analog mix was great but this HDCD rendering is amazing. Why can you only give 5 stars this is better than that. Respect was paid to the Dead by Rhino. I want some Rhino stock. Rhino rules
Lives up to its name! Bravo Rhino! Thank you for doing this music right! August 28, 2005
Just Bill (Grand Rapids, MI United States)
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
As I wrote in my review of The Golden Road, I am new to the Grateful Dead. Prior to this year, I only heard "Truckin'" and a few songs like that on the radio and I thought, "Ugh. Spacey music for Sixties drop-outs and wannabes."
But the more I got into "jam bands" like Phish, Umphrey's McGee, Particle, moe., and others, the more the roads led back to the Grateful Dead.
So two months ago I bought The Golden Road and started to listen with an open mind. I wanted to know what I'd been missing, if anything.
Holy crap! I missed a lot!
I was immediately hooked by The Golden Road -- especially by the live CDs in that set. Like all jam bands, the Grateful Dead excelled on stage. The studio albums are okay, but bands like the Grateful Dead were able to demonstrate their chops on stage.
I was so blown away by The Golden Road that, two weeks later, I bought Beyond Description.
As with The Golden Road, Rhino did a fantastic job with these CDs! Phil's bass lines are now right there where they belong. And the vocals are crisp and clean.
Also, as with The Golden Road, it's obvious Rhino approached this material with reverence, for the sound is just one of the outstanding elements of this package. Everything here is first rate. The box is first rate. The two booklets that comes with Beyond Description are first rate, loaded with pictures and information. (As with the booklet that came with The Golden Road, I poured over these for hours and hours, enjoying every word and photo.) Even the price for all of this was reasonable.
Beyond Description is a different sounding Grateful Dead. A different era. In many cases, their CDs sound more polished. In some cases, even a bit disco-ish (considering the era in which they were recorded that's undestandable). But I like what I hear. Maybe more than many -- more critical -- Dead Heads do.
For example, I like Blues For Allah, Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street and other albums that some critics have panned. They're not American Beauty or Live/Dead, but they're still part of the Grateful Dead canon and, as such, are worthy of my time and attention.
I know seasoned Dead-heads will see my review as being shallow, lacking in critical thinking or knowledge of the finer points of this or that performance. But all I can say is that I approached this box set as a music lover first and foremost. I approached it with an open mind. And now my mind is made up: the Grateful Dead were an extraordinary band that (I think) too often suffered under its own fame. They became caricatures of themselves. And that's why people like me misunderstood who and what the band really was. I didn't take them seriously.
As with The Golden Road, Beyond Description strips away the larger-than-life persona they assumed and allows those of us who are late to the game hear what they had to offer the world.
I wholeheartedly recommend Beyond Description to anyone who loves good music. Forget what you think you know about Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead and just sit back to listen to these CDs. They'll tell you everything you need to know.
Nice boxset if you don't already own the individual albums May 23, 2005
kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS THE FIRST BOXSET, THE GOLDEN ROAD.
This boxset consists of the 10 Grateful Dead albums from 1973 to 1989, plus two bonus CD's. Covered are:
Wake of the Flood
Mars Hotel
Blues For Allah
Terrapin Station
Shakedown Street
Reckoning (with bonus CD)
Dead Set (with bonus CD)
Go To Heaven
Built to Last
In The Dark
Interesting to note that Steal Your Face was not include in either of the two Grateful Dead boxsets (this one or Golden Road). Apparently the band did not think much of that album.
Each each album has bonus material added to it, to get the total time as close to 80 minutes as possible. The bonus material is hit and miss. On some albums, it is new and refreshing music. On Dead Set, the bonus CD is better than the original. On other CD's, it is just alternative takes, or live versions of the same songs as the original album.
Each album comes in a very nice cardboard sleeve. However, they don't have the extensive liner notes like the CD's in the Golden Road had. But there are two booklets included, one that talks about each album.
The CD's have been remastered with HDCD. The sound quality is excellent. Some of the original CD's, like Dead Set were poorly done. But others, like Built To Last had great sound from the beginning. To fully enjoy HDCD, you need a player that designed for the enhancements. But, supposedly, HDCD will sound better even on a standard CD player.
Currently, these remastered versions are only available in this boxset. If you want to get one of these albums individually, you would either have to buy the original CD used, or a very expensive Japanese import. In either case, you wouldn't get the bonus material.
The first 3 albums, Wake of The Flood, Mars Hotel and Blues for Allah are fantastic and rate up there with any Grateful Dead studio album. Wake of the Flood is my favorite Dead album, with a breakout performance from Bob Wier.
I have always enjoyed Terrapin Station and Shakedown Street. They may not be classics, but they contain some very good songs. The song Terrapin Station is an oddity for the Dead. It is actually much better and longer on the studio album, then any version they have done in concert.
Reckoning and Dead Set are live albums taken from 1980 shows. Back then, the Dead were doing an acoustic set at their shows. Reckoning is the Dead unplugged. It has some very nice versions of rarely played songs. Although it does drag at times. Dead Set is the electric album. It has some nice tight but energetic performances. But only about half of the songs are anything special. Each of those albums contain a bonus disc, that includes music in the same vain as the original album. In the case of Dead Set, the bonus disc is much better than the original.
The last three discs come after the Grateful Dead became famous for their concert tours. This was the time that Dead became the top grossing live act in the world. Previously, the Deadheads knew who the band was, but now everybody knew. These CD's are hit and miss. They also have some of the worst bonus material in the boxset.
If you already have most of these albums, you might not want to shell out the bucks for this. I don't know if the bonus material and improved sound quality are worth it. If you don't have these albums, and you are any type of Grateful Dead fan, this is a great boxset to get.
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