American Beauty

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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

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

IT’S THE VOCALS!!! The vocals are out of tune! It’s cringe-inducing bad country music, falling far short of the profundity to which it aspires. The upbeat stuff is just goofy sounding and the slow stuff is banal and hits like old gum on the bottom of my shoe and I’m just too tired to do anything about it. You really need two drummers for this? As a drummer I can tell you, you might not even need one. Not even going to write about the lyrics. God help us. Sugar Magnolia is alright. This is what you think of when you think Grateful Dead. A rare tight performance, and I think it’s Bob Weir singing actually hitting the notes pleasantly enough. Still awful. Now that that’s over I’m gonna sit down and “patch my bones” WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK

not for me 😃

Not for me. 1/5

boring

Never been a Dead fan. Listening to this does not change that fact.

Hippie music, enough said

Am I too young? Do I not do enough drugs. What am I missing here?

Flat, boring, everything that is wrong with middle America.

I don't get how these guys are so popular. This is fucking dreadful. I loathe The Grateful Dead with a passion.

Terrible, annoying, whining Knowing now again why i am not eager to keep up

Didn't like this album

Yeah, this is entirely too country for me. Straight up Did Not Enjoy.

1 good song. Yikes.

I I were forced to listen to this again, I would be grateful if I were dead.

Crusty grandad music

So overwhelmingly boring

"You're my woman now Make yourself easy" What the FUCK I've never been so happy to hear "Truckin" start as this listen-through because I knew it meant the album was almost over.

Mediocre country rock Americana. Really struggling to understand why these were so popular. Very forgettable.

What is this garbage? This is what a bunch of pot heads idolize? LOL, guess I won't be trying weed anytime soon. JFC this is BAAAAAAAAAAD

I wanted to like this...but it just sounds like a bad day in the Eagles recording studio to me.

First listen Saved 0/10

This is very much not my thing. The singing is fucking awful. Wikipedia says Jerry Garcia is known for his "distinctive guitar style" and it just sounds like rudimentary bullshit to me. I dont understand the allure of this band if this album is representative of their sound. I cannot find a single redeeming quality other than it's not country. Right after I wrote the above, the next two songs have decidedly country-ish twangs to them. This album is just bad, man.

Didn’t actually listen to that. Just assumed it was as crap as the other one 😝

Nice. Enthusiastic. Not great. I can see where they joy of the Dead come from. It's not really my joy. As an album. its distinctly average. Can't give it more than 1 star.

Boring 1/5

Ok so apparently their sound engneer was "america's foremost LSD manufacturer" and they toured with this guy and people fallowed them around and did drugs on their show and that's why they were so huge in the 60' / 70'. I mean it sounds like stoners were having a great time and i'm happy for them But listening to this album did not make me expriance LSD so I'm very disappointed. I fuckin hate all of the gitures. Idk the name of the style. I mean.. as far as i'm concerned there is two types of acoustic giture. The sad one and the happy one. They both suck but i spacially hate The cheery country boy one. Like I was promised a fucking rock band what the hell is this???? I think the vibes can be perfectly understood With lines like "pretty lady ain't got no friends till the cadyman is around" and "Tell you wat i'll do I'll watch out for you You're my woman now Make yourself easy" I'll give them one star for this one tho " good morning mr.benson, I see you're doing well If I had me a shotgun I'd blow you straight to hell"

I’ve not had any experience with The Dead before, is it bad that I expected something… more? The way they’ve been built up in Boomer Folklore, I was expecting… at least something a bit weird, obviously not Captain Beefheart, but something more substantial than this. For what it’s worth I did listen to some live recordings after, just to see if there was a recognisable difference, and they were better live… but not by much. It’s the same bland boring Country Rock bullshit. It’s not unpleasant to listen to. It just feels like there should be more for such a supposedly great band. Also, the sexism is really off-putting. The woman in Sugar Magnolia for example, what does she get out of the relationship, other than driving his drunk ass home and paying his fucking speeding tickets? I was teetering towards a two, because as I said, it isn’t unpleasant to listen to. But, fuck this Boomer nonsense. Damn the dead

Forgettable music. It was not interesting. Sounded awful. Wanted it to end. No need to listen or ever consider again.

A music supervisor is asked to find some “vaguely old-hippie music” to play in the background.

With a name like grateful dead I expected something other than soft country rock

I just can't

I know the Grateful Dead had a big influence on the counter culture/hippie movement of the late 60s and that they had a huge cult following. Given that knowledge going in I was really hoping for something a lot more interesting. To the naked ear this is just another brand of boring country music. Maybe I needed to get super high to enjoy this one because it was a real snoozer for me.

Just as terrible as I thought it would be.

the Sixties' bin-juice

Didn’t like this at all, one of those where I was wondering why it’s on this list and when it would be done

not my cup of tea. Suffered through it but wont be going back ever again

Never liked the Grateful Dead and this album hasn't changed my opinion in the slightest. It was a slog of forgettable, country-tinged nastiness from start to finish. If I had to pick out a track as being slightly better than the rest, then it would be Friend of the Devil. I can think of so many other bands that did this genre better; the Eagles, CSN, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lynyrd Skynyrd. This is the epitome of bland music that should never have been made. It's radio friendly mush with poor musicianship, bad production, boring songs that don't go anywhere, horrible guitar picking with little licks added for no reason here and there. The only thing I liked was the cover.

I'd never listened to the Grateful Dead before this album, and fingers crossed I never have to again. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure they're better live, but I'm not planning on finding out.

Pretty boring. Sorry about it.

I was never into the music of the Grateful Dead and now that I've listened to a full album by them I know why I dislike them so much. 'American Beauty' is a bland, boring country/folkish album with weak singing, weak songwriting when none of the songs stand out. It is not a completely unlistenable abum but it is just really bad album. I really don't understand how the Grateful Dead got so famous in the US. There are many bands at that time who played roots rock, Americana or country-rock but they were much better than this band. It's a massive disappointment, and I seriously don't get why so many people love them in the US. Perhaps it really has to do with the fact that people who were at the first acid tests got into them, then the guru of LSD supported them so people have this nostalgia for them. They were in the right place at the right time. I don't often give a 1 or 1.5 on any album but since I love the 1960s-early 1970s and there were so many fantastic albums from that period, this album and the whole band is so overrated that I can't help but give them one of the lowest rating I gave out.

disenchant

I have never been a grateful dead fan. So it's a meh from me

Ganz und gar überflüssiges Album einer heillos überschätzten Band.

I imagine there is a truck stop bar somewhere in rural Ohio with a house band in the corner noodling through a bunch of songs they have been perfecting on weekends when they aren't too tired from their day jobs repairing fencing on the ranch. This would be those songs. And no-one apart from the truckers passing through rural Ohio would hear them. How this band has such a following is a mystery. It's home brand diet vanilla icecream put to music.

Ughhhhhhh

Saaaai

Wat een zaadmuziek!

Another one of the albums of all time

Monotone. Off key. Devoid of emotional content other than glassy eyed contentment. They are like a hillbilly 70s cover band that never seems to actually capture the spirit of the songs they are covering.

Not what I expected. Imagined this to be much more psychedelic, and thus more interesting. I played it on Friday and cab’t really remember much about it. Sofer and more folk tinged than I was hoping for is what I remember.

I've really tried with this album, on many different occasions. I like the first two songs, but after that it just does nothing for me. I find the singing, particularly the harmonies, to be really grating in places. Musically, it's really uninteresting throughout. Overall, I just don't get the hype. Admittedly, I've never seen them live, so that's probably what I'm missing (that and a healthy dose of LSD). I understand that they have a big cultural impact, etc. But I don't think I'll bother with this one again.

Ég verð seint Deadhead. Þetta er eins óáhugavert og það er amerískt. Algjört bleh..

Boring

One of the few groups I try and prevent playing on Spotify, so I don't risk the chance of them randomly playing their music. Well, I listened and I'm sorry I wasn't shrooming, otherwise at least I would have enjoyed the time I wasted listening. I will skip any other Dead albums that may pop up. Most annoying group ever.....

1 Ugh. Never understood the Grateful Dead. What is this? Country music for hippies? I'm convinced the reason they're so tied with LSD usage is because you have to be on it to enjoy the music, and imo if your music requires the listener to be on a controlled substance to find anything of value... you're probably not a very good band. Maybe I'm missing out on some kind of third eye by not listening to the Dead under the influence, but this album isn't inspiring me much to go out and try.

Pas intéressant. Souvent ennuyant. Et truckin' est clairement copiée de The Ballad of John and Yoko.

Meh, je pense qu'il a sa place dans cette liste, mais personnellement ça ne me parle pas vraiment. Le nom du band a quand même traversé l'épreuve du temps, mais je ne considère pas avoir manqué grand chose, du moins pas avec cet album.

Nothing special, I done think I will willingly go back to it

Terrible

A load of reckless white boys roaming the American suburbs at the end of the 60s. What's to like?

strong aversion

Esto fue bastante aburrido

Yeah, not gonna listen this time. Good long run late to tacos, angst and emotions so we’re going to bratt. Some conversations are worth letting the ice cream melt

Just a snooze fest. Can’t do it.

Didn't realise this was country, awful

I just cannot get into this band. They bore me to death. Is it terrible? No. Will I ever like it? Probably not.

Too country for me

A pretty boring album by the Greatful Dead. Felt like any other country rock from the 70s. Best: Truckin' Worst: Candyman

I will never willingly listen to this.

not my thing

Meh, never could get into the dead. Was hoping now I would but still can't. Only song I like is the last song "Truckin". Have to go take a shower now.

Nope, can't do this... nope. nope. nope...

I did not enjoy listening to this album. My instinct has always steered me away from the Grateful Dead and I guess there's something to that. I feel like this album belongs to a certain time and place. Outside of that, it feels like a museum exhibit.

This was shit

Meh.

Too sleepy for me

I don’t get it

Didn’t enjoy at all

Boring

Nope. That was dull.

Wie Homer Simpson sagen würde: Laaaangweilig.

Bland, plodding, some noodly guitar that adds nothing to the mid-tempo dullness

Hated it. Total drivel.

Utter drivel.

Just awful.

Hmm

An album I didn't remember from Grateful Dead, the remaster in Spotify has good quality. I liked Bow of Rain and Candyman but the whole album could be signed by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Not really in the mood for that music so I will listen to it at another time

un poquito country