| Grateful Dead: Beyond Description (1973-1989) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Grateful Dead
Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 39425
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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Condition: All Items ship within 24 Hours - This is the US Version (Region 1) - Not a copy or an import - Brand New - Factory Sealed
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Disc 1
| • | Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Let Me Sing Your Blues Away - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Row Jimmy - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Stella Blue - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Here Comes the Sunshine - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Eyes of the World - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part 1/Part 2 - Grateful Dead, Anderson, Eric | | • | Eyes of the World - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part 1/Part 2/ - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | China Doll - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert |
Disc 2
| • | U.S. Blues - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | China Doll - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Unbroken Chain - Grateful Dead, Lesh, Phil | | • | Loose Lucy - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Pride of Cucamonga - Grateful Dead, Lesh, Phil | | • | Money Money - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Ship of Fools - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Loose Lucy - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Money Money - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Wave That Flag - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Let It Rock - Grateful Dead, Berry, Chuck | | • | Pride of Cucamonga - Grateful Dead, Lesh, Phil | | • | Unbroken Chain - Grateful Dead, Lesh, Phil |
Disc 3
| • | Help on the Way/Slipknot! - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Franklin's Twoer - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | King Solomon's Marbles, Pt. 1: Stronger Than Dirt/King Solomon's ... - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | The Music Never Stopped - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Crazy Fingers - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Sage & Spirit - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Blue for Allah/Sand Castles & Glass Camels/Unusal Occurences in ... - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Groove #1 - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Groove #2 - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Distorto - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | A to E Flat Jam - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Proto 18 Proper - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Hollywood Cantata - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert |
Disc 4
| • | Estimated Prophet - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Dancing in the Streets - Grateful Dead, Stevenson, William | | • | Passenger - Grateful Dead, Lesh, Phil | | • | Samson & Delilah - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Sunrise - Grateful Dead, Godchaux, Donna | | • | Terrapin Station, Pt. 1: Lady With a Fan/Terrapin Station/Terrapin - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Peggy-O - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | The Ascent - Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead | | • | Catfish John - Grateful Dead, McDill, Bob | | • | Equinox - Grateful Dead, Lesh, Phil | | • | Fire on the Mountain - Grateful Dead, Hart, Mickey | | • | Dancing in the Streets - Grateful Dead, Stevenson, William |
Disc 5
| • | Good Lovin' - Grateful Dead, Resnick, Arthur | | • | France - Grateful Dead, Hart, Mickey | | • | Shakedown Street - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Serengetti - Grateful Dead, Hart, Mickey | | • | Fire on the Mountain - Grateful Dead, Hart, Mickey | | • | I Need a Miracle - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | From the Heart of Me - Grateful Dead, Godchaux, Donna | | • | Stagger Lee - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | All New Minglewood Blues - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | If I Had the World to Give - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Good Lovin' - Grateful Dead, Resnick, Arthur | | • | Ollin Arageed - Grateful Dead, ElDin, Hamza | | • | Fire on the Mountain - Grateful Dead, Hart, Mickey | | • | Stagger Lee - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | All New Minglewood Blues - Grateful Dead, Traditional |
Disc 6
| • | Alabama Getaway - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Far from Me - Grateful Dead, Mydland, Brent | | • | Althea - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Feel Like a Stranger - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Lost Sailor - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber) - Grateful Dead, Hart, Mickey | | • | Easy to Love You - Grateful Dead, Mydland, Brent | | • | Don't Ease Me In - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Peggy-O - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | What'll You Raise - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Jack-A-Roe - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Althea - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Lost Sailor - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob |
Disc 7
| • | Dire Wolf - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | The Race Is On - Grateful Dead, Rollins, Don | | • | Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie - Grateful Dead, Cotten, Elizabeth | | • | It Must Have Been the Roses - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Dark Hollow - Grateful Dead, Browning, Bill | | • | China Doll - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Been All Around This World - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Monkey and the Engineer - Grateful Dead, Fuller, Jesse | | • | Jack-A-Roe - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Deep Elem Blues - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Cassidy - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | To Lay Me Down - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Rosalie McFall - Grateful Dead, Monroe, Charlie | | • | On the Road Again - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Bird Song - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Ripple - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry |
Disc 8
| • | To Lay Me Down - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Iko Iko - Grateful Dead, Crawford, James "Su | | • | Heaven Help the Fool - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | El Paso - Grateful Dead, Robbins, Marty | | • | Sage & Spirit - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Little Sadie - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | It Must Have Been the Roses - Grateful Dead, Hunter, Robert | | • | Dark Hollow - Grateful Dead, Browning, Bill | | • | Jack-A-Roe - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Cassidy - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | China Doll - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Monkey and the Engineer - Grateful Dead, Fuller, Jesse | | • | Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie - Grateful Dead, Cotten, Elizabeth | | • | Ripple [Alternate Live Version - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Tom Dooley - Grateful Dead, Lomax, Alan | | • | Deep Elem Blues - Grateful Dead, Traditional |
Disc 9
| • | Samson and Delilah - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead, Dawson, John | | • | New Minglewood Blues - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Deal - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Candyman - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Little Red Rooster - Grateful Dead, Burnett, Chester Ar | | • | Loser - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Passenger - Grateful Dead, Lesh, Phil | | • | Feel Like a Stranger - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Franklin's Tower - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Rhythm Devils - Grateful Dead, Hart, Mickey | | • | Space - Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead | | • | Fire on the Mountain - Grateful Dead, Hart, Mickey | | • | Greatest Story Ever Told - Grateful Dead, Hart, Mickey | | • | Brokedown Palace - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry |
Disc 10
| • | Let It Grow - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Sugaree [Live - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | C.C. Rider - Grateful Dead, Traditional | | • | Row Jimmy - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Lazy Lightnin' - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Supplication - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | High Time - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Jack Straw - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Shakedown Street - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead, Petty, Norman |
Disc 11
| • | Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Hell in a Bucket - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | When Push Comes to Shove - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | West L.A. Fadeaway - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Tons of Steel - Grateful Dead, Mydland, Brent | | • | Throwing Stones - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | Black Muddy River - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | My Brother Esau (Single B-Side) - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | West L.A. Fadeaway - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Black Muddy River - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | When Push Comes to Shove - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Throwing Stones - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob |
Disc 12
| • | Foolish Heart - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Just a Little Light - Grateful Dead, Mydland, Brent | | • | Built to Last - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Blow Away - Grateful Dead, Mydland, Brent | | • | Victim or the Crime - Grateful Dead, Graham, Gerrit | | • | We Can Run - Grateful Dead, Mydland, Brent | | • | Standing on the Moon - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Picasso Moon - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob | | • | I Will Take You Home - Grateful Dead, Mydland, Brent | | • | Foolish Heart - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry | | • | Blow Away - Grateful Dead, Mydland, Brent | | • | California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On) - Grateful Dead, Crowell, Rodney |
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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
23 out of 27 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
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.
Lives up to its name! Bravo Rhino! Thank you for doing this music right! August 28, 2005
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.
 Beyond Description: Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts December 27, 2004
17 out of 21 found this review helpful
Consisting of the second half of the majority of the Dead's officially released recorded output (not counting the slew of post-Jerry barrel-scrapings), Beyond Description is a worthy successor to Rhino's 2001 'The Golden Road' boxed set, even if the albums inside it are no match for the ones contained on 'Golden Road'.
It doesn't take a tie-dyed, patchouli-smelling Deadhead to realize that the 10 albums represented in this box detail the decline of the band. In fact, any casual listener can hear that though the quality remains (maybe even increases), the ingenuity of the Dead suffered greatly in the 1970's as they morphed from a band into an industry. So as you might expect, the earliest records in the box are the strongest, and they get worse by degrees from there.
Wake of the Flood, Mars Hotel and Blues For Allah are the real treasures here. All three are classic Grateful Dead albums that no Deadhead could live without and no peruser of the back-catalog should miss. Each one provides a solid listen and even some of the Dead's highest highlights. Blues is certainly one of the strongest LP's the group ever released, and 'Stella Blue' from Wake is maybe the greatest song they ever laid down in the studio.
Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street and Go To Heaven are The Grateful Dead's attempts to incorporate 70's arena rock and disco sensibilities into their sound, and the results are about what you'd expect from a distillation of The Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, the Doobies and the Bee-Gees... Mostly crap. There are a few great moments, but what you have to wade through to get there is at times unlistenable. It's hard to believe that the band who put out American Beauty is the same one that covered 'Dancin' In The Streets' on Terrapin...
They get you back, however, with Reckoning and Dead Set, the Dead's pair of fine 1981 Double live LPs (each squeezing onto a single CD); one acoustic (Reckoning) the other electric (Dead Set). Definitely the band's last five-star albums, both are indispensable, and the producers of Beyond Description really did the fans a service by expanding both albums to double CD sets with a full extra disc each of extras from the same period. One of the high-water points of this box. You may find yourself lost in these recordings for some time.
The Grateful Dead's pair of final studio albums are a mixed bag. In The Dark benefits from the band having taken seven years to put out any new material, and Built to Last suffers because the band didn't take enough time perfecting it. It comes off as the hurried sequel to In The Dark that it was, and it became the last studio album the group ever dropped. Both have their moments, but each one pales in comparison to the Primal Dead of the band's past.
Despite being comprised of lesser elements than the first box, Beyond Description shapes up as a fine follow-up. The only major problem being the exclusion of the Steal Your Face double live album from 1976. It may not have been the greatest live album the Dead ever put out, but it was an official release (with a great cover) and its deletion from the box is inexcusable. Revisionism seems to be the flavor-of-the-month in the USA lately, and the Grateful Dead ride the trendy wave by erasing one of their lesser albums from the catalog. If the goal was to scrap the worst LPs they ever made, it's a wonder Shakedown Street and Go To Heaven made the cut.
historical to say the least! October 28, 2004
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I would imagine that the task of summerizing a carreer as vast as the Dead's as being quite the job... buy what a job they've done. The sound quality is fantastic, the packaging is every bit as crisp and brilliant as the original lps, and the bonus tracks are the icing on the psychadellic cake. The bonus tracks (an extra disc worth) on Dead Set are particularly satisfying, capturing the band in peak form and in a different light than the 72 era dead... Also included are several studio outtakes including some fantastic acoustic demos as well as finished songs. If you have the older issue GD catalog, sell them and buy this set... its worth every penny, and babe, that aint no lie!
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