American Beauty

Wow that was boring, what a snoozefest

Much the same way Matt just DOESN’T like Radiohead, I just DONT like Grateful Dead

What do you want me to do? To do for you? To see you through? I'll write this honest review. It's perfectly fine hippie folk music. Ripple is a nice tune. The Dead were better live from what all the boomers have said but it's interesting to hear the framework and song forms that they'd use to launch into long ago, drifting jams for their followers. With that in mind I appreciate that these passable tracks are passing by faster. Sounds like two stars to me.

Once I got over the hump of thinking, "Oh my god, this is gonna be another hippie VW bus album, isn't it?" I was able to hear elements of things that I enjoyed. Not lyrically, but instrumentally. If these come on shuffle I won't skip. Especially "Attics of MyLife."

Sorry Deadheads. It’s just not for me. I’ve heard too much country folk rock in my life. Just don’t like the style. I can see value in their musicianship.

No thanks, basically a worse version of sweetheart of the rodeo by the byrds, slow ahh songs as well

Nope, not a Grateful Dead fan. This album was mid, but still not my cup of tea

Aika american joo. Olin valmis irvistelemään, mutta ei onneksi tarvinnut. Jäi kyllä minusta tasapaksuksi ja keskikastin tuotokseksi, ei herättänyt mitään tunteita, vaikka tosiaan oletin, että edes vähän olisin inhonnut - tai toisaalta huvittunut liioittelusta. Olisivat menneet siihen suuntaan.

Ei kuulosta hirveältä (onhan vuosiluku oikea, ja folk rockilla on potentiaalinsa), mutta odotan jatkuvasti.. jotain: melodiaa, riffiä, koukkua, ihan mitä vain. Ja jotain tulee, mutta harvoin: Friend of the Devil on kova biisi, ja se saa minut antamaan toisen mahdollisuuden muillekin. Matala 2.

It's kind of rock n' roll country, which really isn't my jam. It's just a bit boring. I don't want to go too hard in on it though, as it's not too offensive. It's nice enough in places. I like the track with the mandolin, that's nice. But the rest.. mostly forgettable. 2.5 rounded down.

Friend of the Devil is great.

Kinda baffled by this album. Like it truly feels like any folksy twangy band could have made this. But maybe made it better. Like…if you were into this stuff at the time did you just have your fists clenched listening to Creedence doing the same thing way better and way more interesting.

Miekkie woodstockowe granie, pitu pitu

Nothing special, just some okayish soft country. It's really listenable, wish I could rate it 50 stars

This was fine, I guess if I was high, and not doing anything it would be great. But neither of those things are the case right now. Bummer.

Fedt navn, kedelig musik.

Det var meget mindre syret end jeg havde regnet med. The Greatfull Dead er et af de bands jeg altid har kendt af navn og rygte men aldrig har fået hørt. Jeg havde forventet noget mere udflippet hippie trip. Det her var ret tamt og pænt med vokalharmonier og klimptende guitarer. Ikke decideret dårligt. Bare ret kedeligt og lidt for country-agtig.

Not for me

I appreciate the dead just not big into folk jam band.

Take away the confluence of drugs and the zeitgeist of the times during which this band came up and they'd probably be a pretty minor footnote in rock history. I like country tinged rock but the off-key singing and harmonies, not so much. Their legendary appeal and following are lost on me but I could get on board with 1 or 2 songs on this album.

Pretty dull album.

Brave muziek uit de '70s. Prima te luisteren, maar klinkt op den duur ook een beetje eentonig.

I have grown into liking and respecting the Grateful Dead more as time goes on. But it doesn’t mean I can dig a whole album from them, turns out.

I'm sure seeing them live is an incredible experience, but as a studio album this was just average 70's folk rock. Sugar Magnolia was the stand out for me and I wish it was more songs like that.

Dull

many reviews on here are bombing this record because it didn't live up to a preconceived notion the listener entered with. like maybe they were hoping, by listening, they would understand what devotees have come to love, and so they're lashing out. i don't really have that issue. i just think this album is boring in a boring way. "friend of the devil" is pretty solid though.

i was bored by this unfortunately

No necessarily a bad album, but it left no lasting impression at all

I like "Truckin'," and "Ripple" is okay, but I'm pretty indifferent about the rest. 2.5 stars.

This is #day105 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... here's to some country, folk, and blues with a tiny dash of psychedelic rock. I'm kind of fine with it as long as it doesn't drag as much as on this record. I'd rather go check out some of Grateful Dead's '60s works, which should be more acid and, I believe, is still lying ahead in this list. For now, it's the third consecutive 2 out of 5 this week. Looking forward to #day106.

Well I thought Grateful Dead were a heavy metal band, not a mediocre folksy troupe.

**An ok album. Nothing exciting and not too boring

Kjedelig

Boring

Hmm yeah, the production is weird, there's a lot of intricate musicality going on here which you can barely hear, which leads me to wonder if that's because it was shitty, or simply they had no idea what they were doing. Was enjoying the first track a fair bit and then some of the vocal harmony choices were just...strange. not in a good way. It's just all very odd. Like there's a clear Americana sound here but it's sort of like a mirror image reflected back off another mirror. It's just a bit wrong. Like how an AI might do it now. Production gets less terrible as well progress but the music is very much meh. Checking in on my rating for Live/Dead it seems I thought it was fine. This album has very much disappeared into the background. Attic of My Life is alright to be fair, but it's too little too late I am afraid.

Didn't feel a connection, forgettable songs that felt shallow.

Is an okay album.

Dull and sloppy. There's better 60-70s Americana in the Byrds, CCR & the first Eagles album and Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris and The Band. Better psychedelic Americana in The Flying Burrito Bros and CSN(Y). A good set of their better songs, but still not a compelling as that mentioned above.

Some maybe feel nostalgic or something. Well, I don't. It's some cheesy ballads. Normally I like ballads, but here everything is very repetitive. 2.5/5.

I really don't get the hype. How did this cause so many people to live in vans and do drugs?

eh

Not for me

Just a bit bland. Would never choose to put it on.

Americana dirge

Always known of The Grateful Dead just had no idea why, Truckin is a classic but I don’t think I’d go out of my way to listen to this for anything else

Nice, easy listening country blues, rock album. Nothing spectacular here. 5/10

2,5

its not bad, but im always confused as to how people really get into this. Seems pretty run of the mill oldies music to me.

Eh, some songs are fine, some are a little long… not my favorite.

Not a huge fan of The GD (or Jammy type bands in general). This was fine -- I liked it more than I thought I would. It certainly helped that this wasn't a live show recording and during a part of their "back to the land" phase.

Meh. If this is the dead then I’d rather be…

Ok

I’d been meaning to get into Grateful Dead for ages, felt like it was a real gap in my music knowledge. So I really enjoyed listening to this album because it showed me that I was never really missing out.

Boring old man music for boring old men to listen to (NOT me)

I'm always surprised that outside of Dead Heads, the widespread (heh) recognition of this band's music is almost non-existent. Then I hear their albums and it makes total sense. I heard a friend say once something along the lines of, "Phish fans don't really care for music...they just like Phish." I think broad strokes, the same can be said about Mr. Garcia and his boys.

All I’m saying is that the bands I like to listen to ON drugs still sound good OFF drugs…

Huh... I can appreciate how great this band was live when Jerry was kicking, but this album is dull. Ripple, Operator, and Friend of the Devil are all great tracks but this whole thing is lacking. I think they just don't translate. Wanted to love this but I barely liked it.

I don't understand the cult obsession of this band. Nothing too interesting here that hasn't been done better by their contemporaries

Ugh.

I have to confess that this is the first time I've ever listened to a whole Grateful Dead studio album. They aren't exactly known for their studio work. Now I can see why. This album is boring. I've always found their live recordings to just be so-so anyway but this is almost unbearable. It's like a shitty country album where most of the songs are played too slowly and there are never any changes. Terrible vocals. Sloppy instrumentation. Poor production. It must be a lot easier to like after you've dropped acid continually for years. The one saving grace is Truckin' which is decent, or is it just the only mediocre track on an album otherwise full of absolute trash? 2/5 for Truckin' and the use of real instruments, albeit poorly played.

Pretty chill, nothing bad to say, but nothing stood out.

inoffensive but terribly boring

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Never really understood the hype around this band. Pretty standard "not that good" americana to me. Oh well...

It took a lot of coffee to finish this one. And when I say a lot, it means A LOT OF COFFEE.

Ich bin kein amerikanischer trucker

Sounded like something I would imagine playing in a bar in America. Fine but unlikely to revisit in many circumstances.

Mmm. Author’s favourite genre

Cozy but mostly forgettable.

music that some may use their ears to hear.

It's an ok album, kinda one note/bland overall, certainly not indicative of their jam band reputation. Feel like this is another questionable addition on this list, but I'm sure this isn't intended for everyone to love everything (see: Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells..).

2.5/5

Tried to go into this with an open mind. I've hated the Dead most of my life, based mostly on how much I despised the deadheads in high school and college I had to endure, and honestly NOT based much on the very limited amount of their music I had heard. Box of Rain was actually a really solid track! Maybe this will be OK... Well, that was short lived. This just takes a huge nosedive after the opener. I hate the harmonies and I hate the easy-country feel. Nothing about this rocks and I feel justified in my 40 years of dismissing this band and everyone who worships them.

WHERE HAS THE WEIRD GONE? Least Graeful Dead sounding album I've heard.

Kinda boring

a pretty chill, though a bit too much maybe... not really my cup of tea, though I appreciate the overall early-70's folky vibe

Saai, niet mijn ding. Nummers niet echt boeiend, alleen Truckin' is nog wel aardig.

I liked this, but I just wasn't in love with this. Maybe I had super high expectations. It's the kind of album I wouldn't skip on shuffle but wouldn't seek out voluntarily. If a 2.5 rating existed, that's what it would get. I don't feel like it's a 3 (because I gave Dusty Springfield that when I genuinely enjoyed most of the album) but I don't feel like it's a 2 (because I gave Eminem a 2 solely for the nice beats). Welp. Favorites: Operator, Till the Morning Comes

tja, 70er, folk, country - tönt ein wenig wie bee gees und beach boys auf valium.

I suddenly understand why a lot of people turn 30 and start listening to the Grateful Dead as background music to help them focus on their spreadsheets at their white collar 9-to-5 jobs. I was pleasantly surprised by how pleasant this is on vibes alone. And if you want some vibes ✌🏻☮️, this is full of them. But then I started to put on my ✨active listening✨ ears, and all that positivity crumbled to the ground, because Jesus fucking Christ is this unstructured. Everyone is playing a radically different part that doesn’t even sound like the same song. The lyrics are meandering, and there’s barely a semblance of pop song structure here, only a paper bag wisp of a chorus-like melody. This metaphorically sobered me up quick, and I realized I was listening to an ugly band all night!! And realizing this aspect made it hard to fall back into the vibes I felt earlier, and when I did, it instead gave me a whole different vibe 😴 I’m almost impressed by this. How can a band be so sloppy, yet, if you’re only kind of paying attention/are intoxicated, they sound not only tolerable but enjoyable? And I think this is just the nature of jamming, where everything is “correct” but never overpowering enough to be distracting. So a part of me sees the value of this record, but another part of me knows I’ll never revisit it, so maybe praising it for being “good background music to listen to passively” is actually a slight, even if I mean it more positively.

Few good songs but not my cup of tea.

It’s ok. Friend of the Devil is great but I like Tom Petty’s and the Counting Crows’ version much more. Very little diversity in the sound.

I'm confused. I always thought that the Dead were a rock band - one of the loudest bands around at the time - but this is at best folk rock, similar to what CSNY were doing. Quite pleasant, but nothing to write home about. My favourite tracks were "Attics of My Life" and "Truckin'".

Bland folky rock. Not terrible but not memorable in any way. 2 stars

I'm GRATEFUL that this type of music is DEAD Ara en sèrio, vaya pal tu. És un estil que normalment m'encantaria i m'ha semblat avorridíssim avui. Del pitjor que he escoltat en aquesta llista d'àlbums. Era com que l'escoltava i pensava "M'hauria d'estar agradant molt però no puc esperar a que acabi". Li poso 2 perquè sé que en un altre dia ho hagués gaudit més, però n'hi posaria 1 si no. Expected Lorenzo Rating: 3

Puh - this sounds so old. Is it country or western? 😇🤣

I know it's now in vogue to dismiss the Grateful Dead and I might just be piling on, but man this was so middling and forgettable. It feels like the least interesting version of Americana, a genre I do in fact like.

Truckin is the best song on the album. Much faster tempo and enjoyable. The rest of it is just a slow crawl through the doldrums.

not my thing

never got the hype, still don't box of rain ripple truckin'

Не понимаю за что их хуесосят, но и не понимаю за что возводят в ранг святых. Обычный фолк от объëбанных кислотой хиппарей для таких же хиппарей.

Don't know if it was my expectations of a such famous band, this album was decidedly mediocre. Maybe even a bit less than mediocre. It's a whiff of folk, mixed with white people blues, with a sprinkle of country and some psychedelics. And it excels in none. This is so incredibly bland that I now have to read up on how this became such a household name in counter-culture. Because it can't have been the music.

Никогда не слышал эту группу, но она была в жоже, а значит Араки большой фан. Ноооо честно скажу, я ожидал чего-то... потяжелее? А это какой-то оч лайтовенький рок-н-ролл. Ну совсем не то, а где мертвецы благодарные? Если они и есть, то они какие-то диснеевские, чёт там выплясывают на заднем плане, шмувят, трясут костями. Не зачёт!

I’ve enjoyed the occasional Grateful Dead song. But they feel so much like background music. Nothing urges me to relisten to them. And I certainly won’t be coming back to this. But also it isn’t really bad. It just kinda exists. 2.5/5

"American Beauty" by the Grateful Dead is a country/folk rock album. While this album is regarded as one of the group's best studio albums, it leaves a lot to be desired. Some people are fanatical about Grateful Dead but the magic does not come across in this record.

It’s rock somehow (but it isn’t)

Bore off mate

Nothing really interests me here. Folk rock us not my style. Truckin is the best song here, and that's not saying much. At least it is a mellow album.

Hätte ich gerne mal live gesehen. Aber so, ne...

HIPPY BALONEY!!!

Never heard a Grateful Dead album before. Probably not going back.

Mysigt! men kommer inte lyssna igen

inget för mig

Njae

Was expecting more.

I'll be honest, I expected more from this album. Very average - blues-influenced dad rock. Some soft vocals which are nice but again nothing too special. Quite boring musically. I know Grateful Dead is much more known for their live stuff so I need to give it a go.

A few great songs but mostly unremarkable

Not as bad as the live album but I'm still Grateful it's over.

Meh never really got the appeal of the grateful dead. This album hasn’t helped that.

Meh. A mish-mash of under-produced melodies.

Amerikansk folk rock, lidt country

Favorite Song(s): Friend of the Devil, Sugar Magnolia Least Favorite(s): Till the Morning Comes, Operator Overall Rating (1-10): 3.5/10

You either love this stuff or you don’t. I don’t. Jerry Garcia’s voice is lame and clownish. The music is nothing special. I don’t care how much their fans say it’s so different live—a tune I’m not into it is a tune I’m not into.

The grateful deaf.

Kind of a stale album for me. I only recognized one song, Friend of the Devil. I already liked that song. The other songs didn't seem to land for me. The vocals harmonize reminded me of the Beach Boys but i didn't like them as much. Truckin sounds like a the Barenaked Ladies ripped this off from the Dead. The bass tone was FANTASTIC throughout. 2.5*s

I was bored throughout.

The Grateful Dead is not a band that is meant for album formats. The only way to hear this band is in a live or recorded-live setting where they are allowed to let their instruments breath, speak, and jam. That said this isn't a bad album, it's just not true to the Dead Experience. There are some hits on this, but it's still pretty meh. Review of Reviews: Seems about right. Best Track: Truckin'

Wow, that was underwhelming. How'd they get their strange cult following? I kept waiting for something to happen and it never did. What a drag.

Boring and uninspired

A much better band live when they are grooving with the audience. Not horrible but nothing special

This record sounds much more dated than other records of the era, particularly The Band, who clearly inspired their musical shift with this record. A good record with one classic track.

not for me

Few highs with a lot of boring lows

I guess I wasn't high enough to enjoy this (poorly mixed) album.

It was ok. There's a couple of great songs on it, but overall it fell pretty flat for me. First time I've listened to an album of theirs, and it's not my thing, although I don't think they're really an album band.

Naw this ain't it chief.

Meh

Fairly forgettable "harmless" tracks

Dull dull dull

Listenable, but really nothing special.

Pretty good album. Forgettable but I’m not a huge Dead Head. Felt like a country album but nothing about it stood out to me. I even skipped a few. I’m down to listen to more but give us the good stuff!

As long as I live, I think the Grateful Dead will remain an enigma to me. The fandom is so outsized that becoming a new fan feels impossible. And then when you listen to an album like this, it just doesn't make sense. What's so special? Maybe this isn't the best place to start, but I don't know what is. I think a large part of their legend has to do with live performances and bootleg recordings and whatnot, but I don't want a live album. I'm just gonna smile and wave. A couple decent tracks, but nothign distinct to me that would even tell me this was the Grateful Dead if I heard it. "Operator" made me think of Jim Croce's vastly superior song, they couldn't touch it if they tried. None of this is bad, but almost all of it is forgettable. Favorite tracks: Box of Rain, Truckin. Album art: Really cool design, can barely read the text at all which is a good thing! The vote sticker looks cool, not sure if that's supposed to mean anything. 2.5/5

Weak

It’s just so chill and folky. I don’t get the hype. Obviously I’ve heard a ton about the Dead, but couldn’t tell you one song I know. I was really hoping to like this, as they have a huge catalog and following, but I don’t see myself ever choosing to listen to it again.

Country, Hippie-Gedöns aus den 70s. Nicht meine Musik 2/5

Oh it's just fine. Country inspired rock music with some slidey strings and some harmonies. I can imagine driving one of those large modern American trucks to a gas station near an Arby's to it and pretending to myself that I am a free American man rather than mere detritus on capitalisms factory floor. I am, as it happens, neither American nor detritus so the fantasy does not last long. This is such a normal album with some extremely normal songs that it can't exceed 2.5 stars and I'm in a rounding down kinda mood

Never listened to this legendary band, but even being in a huge Crosby, Stills and Nash phase, this just sounds dull and second rate. What a boring set of songs with less than stellar harmonies

Yeah, fine. It's so hard for me to wrap my head around this album as something that's part of a genuine phenomenon. How do they get from what's pretty basic rootsy rock to being a band that inspires an entire lifestyle? I guess you had to be there. There are some good tunes here and there, but I'd much rather listen to Neil Young or The Band.

Forgettable, generic soft rock. There were some nice harmonies but legitimately, each and every song is a non-event. Another album where I can see lots of people being mad for it, but not me. Maybe there will be more Grateful Dead to come and I hope there is at least SOMETHING to praise. This however, was as generic as they come. It’s not offensively shit or anything, but certainly isn’t an album that I feel I would have missed out by not hearing ever in my life.

Wow, until now I only knew the band by name, but I assumed they were good but this is quite underwhelming.

Me gustó para escuchar de fondo, se parece a álbumes de otros artistas, no algo que se destaque

Not hugely interesting

Feel like am being generous with 2. The music was ok but the harmonious singing did my head in. Didn't finish the album in the end got fed up with it.

Great a bunch of hippie dippy bullshit. the stereo guitar is fun on Friend Of The Devil. I hate all the gang vocals. So I am surprised that i am not actively pained by this music like some other 1 star albums which is a major positive. This is still a bunch of dumb bullshit songs that i would rather not be forced to listen to, but its more an annoyance if anything.

eh

Just not my thing, really.

Ik heb dit album 's ochtend in de auto geluisterd en volgens mij is dat precies de manier hoe je dit moet luisteren. Luistert lekker weg, maar niet iets wat ik heel veel vaker zal luisteren. Typisch Amerikaanse country/smartlap, rock muziek.

Prima album om in de ochtend te luisteren op weg naar de appie. Maar het voelt voor mij als niet echt meer dan prima achtergrond muziek. De radio ná het album was een stuk leuker: hier dacht ik pas voor het eerst heeeee hoe heet dit nummer, maar toen besefte ik me dat het album van Grateful Dead al klaar was oeps

These guys are crazy overrated. There is nothing special about these songs or their delivery. Dullness hiding behind groovyism, it's just okay at best

Top 3 Songs: 1 - Ripple (6) 2 - Truckin' (10) 3 - Till the Morning Comes (8)

Reading the other reviews it sounds like you needed to see the 'Dead live whilst on Acid, because their studio albums are pretty shit. I'd agree

Ik had ooit een plaatje van Grateful Dead, nooit gedraaid, maar ik kwam er nu achter waarom. BOOOOOOORING!

Anders dan de bandnaam doet vermoeden was dit enorm saaaaaai!

LeJerry Garcia was a system Jam Bander carried by his team!

아이고 너무 잔잔쓰

Dead head hippie soft rock. Not bad but not my jam

Forgettable album.... Classic rock with very few spike of interest along the listening.... No bad vocals or melodies but simply not something I love. You could put this during a road trip and make an hour disappear.... Simply simple. small 2/5

I was shitting the bed ahead of playing this. I came close to a Did Not Listen. Never trust a hippie. It wasn't that painful. Some of the harmonising is half decent. I like the electric country feel on what is a strong set of songs. It would probably make more sense if I was wrapped up in US culture. It got a little happy clappy camp fire towards the end. I bailed and played some drum 'n' bass instead. ON YER TOES!

For so many years have I heard about this band and the "deadheads". I have met few of them, but I never felt like this would be a band I would like. Until today, when I listened to "American Beauty" for the first time, and boy, I proved myself right. This is definitely a band I don't enjoy, even though on the album Grateful Dead has mixed plenty of styles, some that I enjoy and then some I approach less enthusiastically. Well, the overall result wasn't that inspiring. The record was perfect for the time it was recorded in, which is late 60, early 70s. Hippie culture, love, not war, this album encapsulated this sub-culture. Unfortunately, it is not as interesting nowadays, and the folk/country vibe, with occasional psychedelic and rock intrusions are pretty outdated. Not even one song stayed in my mind afterwards, but at least I was able to listen to the whole album, unlike the Ramones. Not my favourite band and probably this will be the last album of this band I will listen.

Not my thing.

Heard it was shit

Well.. outdated to some extent. Does not catch me

This is not a very exciting album. Just some Americana, trundling by, not making much of an impact. I'd hoped to be surprised and excited by finally getting round to the Grateful Dead, but I find myself sitting here thinking, I don't get it?!

This sucks - most songs just aren't great while others are OK at best. These guys should always sing in harmony so to obscure the poor singing quality... totally laughable singing. How on Earth was this band able to amass such a huge following? 3/10.

pretty dull

•Truckin’ and Till the Morning Comes are the only real standout songs from the album, and even then. Favourite song: Truckin’

Too soft/countryish for me

kjedelig

Kjedelig af

Didnt really grab me at any point, a couple of alright tunes.

Mon premier Grateful Dead. Écouté en travaillant, rien ne s'est vraiment démarqué. Faudra peut-être que j'y revienne.

kjedelig

Overall a pretty bland listening experience. The songs just kind of chug along with nothing really happening, and many of them feel indistinguishable from one another. Nothing offensively bad, just feels very unengaging to listen to.

I'm apathetic. I like classic rock but this is just hippie spiel.

Tää kantri ei vaan puhuttele. Ihan jees toki

p206. 1970. 2 stars. Bland late 60's/70's CSN&Y wannabees with no redeeming features. Sounds like the less talented younger brothers of the Band. Well done of its kind, but utterly forgettable. Not essential listening.

Grateful Dead was another of those that I didn't have a strong opinion either way on. Not terrible, not great, unlikely to listen to it again.

It's a bit hard to believe that so many people, Americans, jumped on this hippy/country/folk sound in 1970. There's a strong CSNY influence. I prefer the songs that feature a single lead vocalist.

This wasn't bad, but it's really not my jam so I couldn’t get thru it. But what I heard was a solid 2

snoozefest

Best Song: Truckin'. The layered vocals are nice here, and the rhythm is real rhythmic. Despite the name, doesn't actually feel like driving music. Driving montage music, maybe. Worst Song: Candyman. So slow. So staccato. So wispy in the vocals. Overall: I'd never listened to the Grateful Dead before. All I knew was that they had a cult following unlike any other band. If this album is indicative of what their stuff is like, then I really don't understand. It isn't bad, but it certainly isn't interesting enough to warrant a cult. Sleepy dad rock.

just dull, sounds like a bar band playing CSNY but forgetting how the melodies work

Thought I liked Grateful Dead but found dis a bit boring.

boring af

A couple of known songs, but sounds very samesy and boring (duplicate album in my review history).

Ganzo. Però anche troppo country e mi smaga un pochetto.

Not for me.

Comienza bien pero va desacelerando hasta llegar a un paso tranquilo que a mi gusto se estanca y no varia sino hasta el final. De la canción 5 a la 9 pareciera el mismo track y me terminó aburriendo. Tienen un sonido agradable pero nada que me interese volver a escuchar. 2.5 que baja a 2 porque pese a haber escuchado el nombre muchas veces y pensar que era una banda que tenía "pendiente" no me quedaron nada de ganas de conocer más de ellos o volver a escuchar este disco.

Miten bändi, jolla on näin hc nimi, voi olla näin kantria? Ihan söpöö mellow-musaa, mut eipä tää tunteita juuri herätä.

I know the Grateful Dead were famous for being a live band so I guess it's hard to evaluate their albums because this is just bland. Also the mixing sucks.

Has some good songs has some weaker ones.

Pleasant enough, but no more, with one or two exceptions

One of those influential bands I keep reading about but I've not heard much of their work. Whenever I do, I'm always surprised it's not some heavy gothic rock music... I don't think it's really for me. Some nice foot-tapping bits but 'nice' is about as far as it goes - I found it fairly bland. Supposedly they meld lots of disparate genres but maybe the whole is less than the sum of its parts?

For how much time I spent around hippies living in Boone, NC for 5 years, I really don't know the Dead. This album was totally unrecognizable. None of the songs were familiar. The sound, on the other hand, was familiar. It sounded like pretty typical southern rock. There was some other Cali band we listened to that also did the southern rock sound... ah, it was CCR! Anyway, the CCR album stood out in that genre more than "American Beauty" did. I didn't get any sense of what made the Grateful Dead special from this album. I then checked out some of the Dead's most popular songs, and I recognized most of them (though not the ones from this album). But I didn't really recognize them as Grateful Dead songs usually. It was more of an "I know this one... this is the Grateful Dead!?" kind of thing. So I'm surprised how little I really knew the Grateful Dead. And also surprised how little I cared for this album, though the other popular songs were a bit better.

Folk country with a bit of psychedelic stuffs. Where did this album took me? Along the generic landscapes of the countryside of America? With Fields so green one can smell it? With a forest that is thick enough to cool the place but not thick enough to conjure funny images at night? Wooden house with beer barrels? I could go on, but this whole thing feels like coloring a greyscale photo. The place where this album took me felt colorless, and it only gains those greens and browns when I let my imagination paint the scene. Perhaps I'm too colorblind as of now to see the "American Beauty". I'm not sure if this is a good representation of Americana music, and I don't even know why is this so popular both among the critics and the listeners. I'm definitely colorblind at these stuffs.

Not bad, but not really my bag. Sorry, fellas.

Meh

wasnt what i expected at all i heard the name a few times in the past and i expected it to be angrier? it reminds me of when i worked in that toy store and the boss would only play this one bruce springsteen cd on repeat and at some point it started sounding uncanny. theres nothing really wrong with it, just not for me

White people tacos night

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Ripple Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: I have a couple deadhead friends and I won't say they're wrong I'll just say that I don't get it myself. Guess you had to be there.

Not what I was expecting, never listened to them before. You would think dead heads would rock a little harder

It was fine, nothing really stood out. I thought it was going to be more catchy or groovy, but it was very flat.

Never really listened to Grateful Dead before always imagined them to be somewhat rebellious. This was just spineless.

To my ears it seemed very generic and not really something I enjoyed all too much. It's like something some random garage band out in the midwest could have come up with. Nothing really stood out. 4/10

I tried. I really tried. It's just way too folksy. No angst, no fire, too cute and self-absorbed. Not a fan!

'Friend Of The Devil', 'Sugar Magnolia' and 'Till The Morning Comes' are the pick here, the rest of this album was a slog. Also people who say that the harmonies on this record are great obviously haven't heard a Beach Boys or Crosby, Stills & Nash record.

This album was a slog. Too country. But I like Sugar Magnolia and Brokedown Palace was decent.

It's no wonder they all got fucked off their tits on this at Woodstock. Unadulterated hippy.

Eh. Never understood the Dead or the love for them. Not wired to, I guess.

Not vibing with it unfortunately :/

Weirdly combines lots of elements I like, country, banjo picking, stoner rock, but it didn’t really click. Maybe needs a few more listens, or just not for me.

Not my vibe unfortunately… just beige country rock; by Americans for Americans!

2/5 nope.

Boring

I feel this must have been a seminal album at the time, but it just sounds dated. For stuff that was coming out at the time, like the Beatles, or Rolling Stones, this one just feels sort of lacking. Nothing really all that interesting which would be fine but lyrically it didn't seem inspirational either.

Never got on the Grateful Dead wavelength. Suspect that requires green stuff.

snore

Guess I'd prefer their more psychedelic side.

This music is all reds and greens and I’m sitting here colorblind.

Not a fan

Тот случай, когда понимаешь, что, вероятно, просто музыка не для тебя, но ты её понимаешь, и при этом слушать вообще не хочешь. Ну не, к такому снисходительно решил перестать относиться. Нормальное музло всё же не должно наталкивать на мысль вырубить. А тут просто уныль пустая. Эстетика которой, вероятно, так плотно вошла в культурный код, что воспринимается как generic, не вызывает эмоций, не интересна, скучна. Значит, проверка временем не пройдена. Значит - не одобряем.

Meh. reminded me of a cell phone ring tone

Never picks up from the slow pace. Dull to my ears

Inoffensive and a bit bland

Bland plodding folk rock, most of it sounds like it should be montage music for 70’s American TV shows.

Bit of a slog, two stars

Dull

American Beauty just seemed too happy for me The songs weren’t necessarily indistinguishable, but nothing stood out, and before I knew it, the album was over. It’s completely inoffensive music that I could listen to while in line at a coffee shop that wouldn’t get me riled up or wind me down.

Nice, relaxing sound - not blown away but would definitely have it on in the background

5

You will never find me consuming the devils lettuce with other dead-heads

Didn’t enjoy it as much as I’d hoped. Too upbeat or something. Like they deluged a fart of music and called it an album.

Meh

Entirely too much country for me

A couple of known songs, but sounds very samesy and boring.

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I did not care for this. The music is so simple and they can’t sing.

not my vibe liked one of the songs

Somewhere between country and rock I guess. Has its place but I won't seek it out.

Meh, was expecting more from such a hype band

Listened through to Candy-man, not bad. Makes me think of Nate Miller. Old times on Lake Wallenpaupack. 5/10

Mehhhhh

Meandering

Well, if you insist... then I vote no.

I really don’t get Grateful Dead. Maybe I had to be there, maybe I need to be high as a kite at a music festival. Is just not going to happen for me.

Mid not really into country rock but kinda good

Grateful Dead came good briefly in 1977 when they went all Prog with Terrapin Station. But that was 7 years off when this album was released. Great band name shame about the music. 1/5 1/8/26

This is offensively, painfully dull. I would truly rather listen to white noise

there's some nice bass playing. maybe it's just cus i'm in a foul mood but i'm finding this pretty annoying. also realizing that lindsey in freaks and geeks starts the album on the b side. funny!

Why is this in hear? Cheap southern music.

nothingburger album

Хипарский американский рок. При всей культовости группы, не смог дослушать

Not sure how this made it into the top 1000. Completely forgettable.

the car is going through feet

Not as bad as others also why is there feet still not food

not for me

Oh how I've dreaded this day. If this is the quintessential Dead album that you must listen to in order to determine how much you like (or dislike) them, so be it. Then it has every right to be on this list. But that is not what I'm rating here. I'm rating how good I think the album is. And I think it's trash. Side note: I listened part of it in my car. I drove for 3 minutes... my kid fell asleep, and my car told me that maybe I should consider taking a break from driving

On this record the Grateful Dead glues together the corniest and most cliché aspects of American folk and rock music and plays the resulting mess in the most pedestrian way possible. They try to pull off some CS&N-style harmonies at times but no one has a decent enough voice to make it work. The dry, lifeless production doesn't help either, but even if it were top drawer it still wouldn't be able to sell this thin, unimaginative material. Only album closer "Truckin'" has any semblance of spark to it, but hearing the few first chords of it makes me want reach for the Pop-O-Pies' kickass version instead.

Absolutely boring

dead is so over rated

Dull, dull, dull, dull, dull

Yes, I am grateful that most of them are Dead. This was shit. A bunch of countrified ramblings that ultimately bored me shitless. I hadn't heard anything by the Dead prior to now, and I know now that I haven't been missing much.

Want to make 42 minutes feel like 3 hours? Listen to this record. Peak grandpa-rock.

The Dead suck.

Started bad, got worse. The last song was the best of a bad bunch, but by that point I'd checked out I'd actively avoid this album

Absolute stinking pile of shit, would rather listen to fingernails on a chalkboard for the rest of my life.

boring af….

Big disappointment. These are the famed psych rock legends right? Their live album came up earlier on the list and it was good. This one... was not. Country, slow, shit.

fav songs: sugar magnolia truckin’ road music, dull, predictable 20/100

Don’t ever do this to me again

Laid-back, rootsy grooves built from gently strummed acoustic guitars, relaxed harmonies, meandering bass lines, and easygoing vocals move this folk-rock album like walking an endless country road where every bend looks familiar—pleasant in tone, but so repetitive and unhurried that it starts to feel like it might never actually end.

Boring ahh country rock folk idfc!!!!!!

Trying to remember the album a day later to review and can’t think of any memorable song.

Psychedelic gelme artık pls

First time I listened to a Grateful Dead's album and, fuck no, you should have let me die without doing that. I can't imagine a single reason why anyone would produce or listen to such boring shit (back then and now). It's just 42 minutes but it felt like 3 hours, I had a hard time getting through it. I was shocked seeing that "Ripple" (one of the blandest and most unimaginative stuff I recently heard) has got almost 100 millions listening on spotify. People, get a life.

yawn

I’ve heard that Grateful Desd are one of the all time greats. I feel lied to because this album was the most middle of the road country album I’ve ever heard. It was boring tbh. The reviews say that the Dead are a better live band and maybe that’s true, I’ll never experience them high off my mind in the 60s so maybe I’ve just missed out.

If I never hear another Grateful Dead album before I die I will be tremendously grateful

Pretty easy-listening, sparse instrumentation, tight harmonies, and yet I still hated it - something about it reminds me of grating nails on a chalkboard. Super simple blues chords with a bunch of boring aimless guitar noodling in the background

I'll be honest, I skipped most of these songs after 30 seconds as I couldn't stand any more. I hate country sounds and whatever else genres this classifies as I guess.

Conservative

I'm not listening to this. I detest this band. Couldn't tell you how much of their music I've been forced to listen to. I do not like it, I never will like it. I'll go so far as to say I believe the music world would have been better off had they never existed.

Yeah nah, what a disappointment from their 60s reputation and cool band name. Such sweet country rock.<.blah>. Just not something I would listen to. Beauty in the eye of the beholder. I averted my gaze

Listened while hanging out in my bedroom, not my cup of tea surprisingly

Second album proposé par le générateur après un 'Live / Dead' qui m'avais laissé perplexe (original par son côté improvisé, mais difficile d'accès pour la même raison ...). Aucune ambiguïté pour ce second album qui ne présente absolument aucun intérêt. Country / folk générique, qui distille un ennui profond ... =>1/5

Not a fan

1. rain - 1.5 2. devil - 1.5 3. zugar - 1 4. operator - 0 5. candy - 1 6. ripple - 1 7. palace - 0 8. morning - 1.5 9. life - 1.5 10. truking - 2.5

Bleh, boring and not something I enjoyed listening to at all. 1/5 stars.

Many years ago I had a teammate who sheepishly told a private story about going to a Dead concert in New Orleans. He dropped acid and got arrested going into the concert. I dislike the dear enough to think he got the better end of the deal in the end.

1 stern

This folk rock Americana stuff is really hard for me to get into. It always has its moments, but this album didn’t have many of those. I don’t really get what’s so special about the Grateful Dead—at least for me, there’s just nothing there.

Yawn.

This should have been right up my street, and I am familiar with the name and odd song, but good grief this was boring. Plodding along, everything sounded the same.

I listened to this album one time and my room now stinks. Thank god I didn't listen to the deluxe version, is all I'll say.

Outside of "Touch of Grey," "Truckin'," and that Roseanne episode where Jerry Garcia's ghost appears, I don't really know much about the Grateful Dead. I'm not really big on psychedelic rock from this era, so I don't have really high hopes for this album (the negative reviews are hilarious). Here's hoping my expectations will be defied! Well, the Grateful Dead isn't really for me, or at least this album isn't. This album was pretty boring in my opinion, and I didn't think the Grateful Dead did anything particularly well on this album. The music was bland and completely devoid of anything unique, and the songwriting felt generic and uninspired. I don't understand how these guys developed such a devoted following; their live shows must be completely out of this world, because this effort was a chore to make it through.

Thought this was going to be a blues band this sucks even more than I thought it would

Album hoes is lekker relevant, alhoewel net iets te laat. Maar deze muziek, mijn god zeg, ik heb zelden zo'n saai en slap album gehoord. Dit is een van de meest zaaddodende albums die ik ooit in mn leven heb geluisterd. Het voelt als folk/kerk muziek, maar dan zonder de bonus dat je na het luisteren tenminste naar de hemel gaat. Ik begrijp dan ook echt helemaal niet waarom dit zo'n geliefd en sterk beoordeeld album is? Misschien dat reviewers tijdens het luisteren in slaap zijn gevallen en daardoor wakker werden met andere, ongetwijfeld betere, muziek weer aan. FAVO:

Otroligt mediokert album, och om detta ska vara ett av det bästa bandet gjort behöver jag inte bemöda mig att lyssna på resten

Maybe the best example of something that I don't get the appeal of. This bores me so much