The Drive: Historically Most Listened to First Album

[deadheadskier]

I second your opinion. Half-Step from that Boston Garden show ranks as one of the best songs ever performed by the Dead.

tough to give one night the nod over the other. Buffalo on 5/9 was also great.

I'm a huge Morning Dew fan and find the Cornell version to be just about as intense and soul stretching a performance I've ever heard any band play ever

Eyes is the song in my head heading downhill, but usually something more intense is what I like to hear the last few miles before the mountain. The Other One from Cape Cod Coliseum in 79 would be an example

 

[jaywbigred]

Grateful Dead, 5/8/77

Yeah Barton Hall/my alma mater in the house! As ski stoke, I dunno though.

MGMT-Oracular Spectacular

+1. Good album. Have you given Passion Pit a listen yet?

For those of you without Sirius, Siamese Dreams is a great album. James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin are fantastic.

Was listening to it when I read this...shuffle works in mysterious ways.

I pray to (deity) I never have to ride in a car with you goddamn hippies.

Lol. I used to feel this way, but the current gf has definately broadened my horizons. Like any other genre of music, there is a lot of crap jam band stuff, but there is def. some good sh!t in there too, lots of great blues and jazz-influenced stuff. I often seem to favor it for apres though, not so much driving to the mountain.

As for me, most played all time would prob be Nirvana - In Utero. Last year we played a lot of Vampire Weekend (self titled), Band of Horses - Cease to Begin, Avett Brothers - Emotionalism, and the New Pornographers - Challengers. This year its been the Cool Kids and the new Ben Folds album Way to Normal.

Of course we do most of our "to the mountain" ski driving at night on Fridays, so it tends to be up-beat without being true "get you amped" music.

 

[skiadikt]

tough to give one night the nod over the other. Buffalo on 5/9 was also great.

I'm a huge Morning Dew fan and find the Cornell version to be just about as intense and soul stretching a performance I've ever heard any band play ever

Eyes is the song in my head heading downhill, but usually something more intense is what I like to hear the last few miles before the mountain. The Other One from Cape Cod Coliseum in 79 would be an example

you're right. a great trio of shows. but i'm more of an 'eyes' than 'fire' fan.

to me a real dark horse from that era is the show dick dug up - 5/22/77. estimated>eyes>wharf rat> terrapin>dew is one of the more unique sequences they pulled off.

and i'll throw in one more underrated show. orpheum 7/17/76 - comes a time>drums>other one>eyes>other one>gdtrfb>sat nite.

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