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or we could never speak of it again.

D.o.S. wrote:If they had actually broken up in 1981 or whatever and just ended their output there I think I would like them a lot more. And that's mostly just for Sweet Emotion and Toys in the Attic (the song), which would be like a million times better if BOC had done it.

Werd.

You can't actually dislike the intro to Sweet Emotion dude.

D.o.S. wrote:You can't actually dislike the intro to Sweet Emotion dude.

Confirmed.

BOC = Boards of Canada?

If we're talking classic rock Blue Oyster Cult seems a better guess.

Here's a weird thing: I've always wanted to hear The Cure cover The Grateful Dead's Touch of Grey. Although I'd settle for Dinosaur Jr in the style of their Just Like Heaven cover.

Yeah I was thinking of the almighty Öyster but I wish I'd been talking about Boards of Canada.

Touch of Grey is a great song. The Dead rule. Fuck all of you.

D.o.S. wrote:Touch of Grey is a great song. The Dead rule.

Oh I'm on board.

snipelfritz wrote:If we're talking classic rock Blue Oyster Cult seems a better guess.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o0Vv8lr41w[/youtube]

D.o.S. wrote:Yeah I was thinking of the almighty Öyster but I wish I'd been talking about Boards of Canada.

Touch of Grey is a great song. The Dead rule. Fuck all of you.

It's a great song. Jam band bassists are just incapable of laying into a good, simple groove.

I feel like for many, many people, The Dead were ruined by their fans. Growing up in the 90s, it was a huge thing in my town to be a shithead frat boy and have a Steal Your Face sticker on the Yakima wind foil atop your 4Runner, whether or not you actually even knew anything about the band. With assholes like these around, a garden variety trustafarian would've been a glorious breath of patchouli-scented air.

That aside, I always had a soft spot for the band, and my love for them has grown over the past decade or so. They're just so damn good, so singular. It's funny to see that they're enjoying a resurgence these days among people who'd previously been too bummed by the jam band crowd mentality to get into em... now it's oddly cool to like them (see the recent Dessner brothers-curated comp, et al). Regardless of how one could feel about that, I like seeing them get their due.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOUWMdQhmIg[/youtube]

D.o.S. wrote: The Dead rule. Fuck all of you.

but then why are all Jerry's side projects so much better then anything the dead ever did do?

Blackened Soul wrote:

D.o.S. wrote: The Dead rule. Fuck all of you.

but then why are all Jerry's side projects so much better then anything the dead ever did do?

They're indeed great, but no.