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Grateful Dead – Gratest Hits (2025)
Review:
Rhino assembles a single-CD, nine-song ‘Gratest Hits’ from Grateful Dead, marking the band’s 60th anniversary with the original studio versions of such classics as “Truckin’,” “Sugar Magnolia,” and “Touch of Grey.” The last attempt at a single-disc best-of for the Dead arrived in 2003 with The Very Best of Grateful Dead, a 17-song, single-CD anthology. Gratest Hits is considerably shorter at just nine songs; eight of those (all except “Scarlet Begonias” as originally heard on From the Mars Hotel) appeared on The Very Best of. Nearly half of Gratest Hits (“Friend of the Devil,” “Box of Rain,” “Sugar Magnolia,” and “Truckin'”) has been culled from 1970’s seminal American Beauty, one of two landmark LPs in an Americana vein released by the band that year. The other, Workingman’s Dead, is represented by “Casey Jones” but, inexplicably, “Uncle John’s Band” (the Dead’s first chart hit and a classic rock radio staple which appeared on the group’s very first compilation, 1974’s Skeletons from the Closet) has been left off this set. Only four tracks from post-1970 are included here: 1974’s “Scarlet Begonias,” 1978’s reggae-flecked “Fire on the Mountain” (often paired as a live jam with “Scarlet Begonias”), 1977’s Bob Weir-penned “Estimated Prophet,” and, finally, the band’s 1987 surprise hit “Touch of Grey,” the Dead’s one and only top ten Pop hit (and a Mainstream Rock chart-topper). — SecondDisc
Track List:
01 - Casey Jones (2015 Remaster)
02 - Friend of the Devil (2015 Remaster)
03 - Box of Rain (2015 Remaster)
04 - Sugar Magnolia (2015 Remaster)
05 - Truckin' (2015 Remaster)
06 - Scarlet Begonias (2015 Remaster)
07 - Fire on the Mountain (2015 Remaster)
08 - Estimated Prophet (2015 Remaster)
09 - Touch of Grey (2015 Remaster)
Media Report:
Genre: rock
Origin: Palo Alto, California, USA 
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)
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