American Beauty

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