Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead
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| Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead |
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| Compilation album by Grateful Dead | ||
| Released | February 1974 | |
| Genre | Country rock Folk-rock Rock |
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| Length | 44:53 | |
| Label | Warner Bros. (1974) Rhino Records (2004) |
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| Professional reviews | ||
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| Grateful Dead chronology | ||
| Wake of the Flood (1974) |
Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead (1974) |
Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel (1974) |
Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead was the first compilation album from Grateful Dead. It was first released on LP in February 1974. The release was a ploy for Warner Bros. Records to cash in on the escalating popularity of the band (based on the sales of Workingman's Dead and American Beauty).[1]
Three of the tracks were not original Dead album studio recordings. This "Turn On Your Lovelight" first appeared on the album The Big Ball, which was a loss leader sampler distributed by Warner Bros.; it had also appeared in longer form on Live/Dead. "One More Saturday Night" was taken from the band's live release Europe '72. And "Mexicali Blues" was actually a track off of guitarist Bob Weir's solo release (but essentially Dead album) Ace.
Warner Bros. released the album on CD and cassette in 1988 before re-releasing the LP in 1990. The album would be later re-released on by Rhino Records on May 24, 2004 as part of a greatest hits series by various bands. It contains no new material from the 1988 release.
Skeletons from the Closet is the Dead's best-selling album, going triple platinum in the United States.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- "Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Garcia) – 2:07
- Originally released on the album The Grateful Dead.
- "Truckin'" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh, Weir) – 5:09
- Originally released on the album American Beauty.
- "Rosemary" (Garcia, Hunter) – 1:58
- Originally released on the album Aoxomoxoa.
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 3:15
- Originally released on the album American Beauty.
- "St. Stephen" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 4:26
- Originally released on the album Aoxomoxoa.
[edit] Side two
- "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:42
- "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:24
- Tracks 1-2 originally released on the album Workingman's Dead.
- "Mexicali Blues" (Barlow, Weir) – 3:24
- Originally released on the album Ace.
- "Turn on Your Love Light" (Malone, Scott) – 6:30
- Orinally released on the compilation album The Big Ball.
- "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:45
- Originally released on the album Europe '72.
- "Friend of the Devil" (Dawson, Garcia, Hunter) – 3:20
- Originally released on the album American Beauty.
[edit] Personnel
- Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
- Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - organ, harmonica, vocals
- Phil Lesh - bass
- Bill Kreutzmann - drums
- Mickey Hart - drums
- Keith Godchaux - keyboards, vocals
- Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals
- Tom Constanten - keyboards
Additional performers:
- Dave Torbert - bass
Production:
- Stephen Barncard, David Hassinger - producers
- Dick Bogert - engineer
- Betty Cantor-Jackson, Bob Matthews - producers, engineers
- Dave Collins - digital remastering assistant
- Joe Gastwirt - remixing, producer
- Bob Seidemann - art direction
- John Van Hamersveld - artwork
- Bill Wolf - editing
[edit] Charts
| Chart | Position |
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| Pop Albums | 75 |
| Certification | Date |
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| Gold | March 14, 1980 |
| Platinum | December 12, 1986 |
| Multi-Platinum | June 27, 1994 |
| Triple-Platinum | January 1, 1995 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip . Jake Woodward, et al. Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2003, pg. 165.
