Doing a 180: The Grateful Dead, The Best of The Grateful Dead: 1967-1977

Say, kids, have you heard about the new $700, 80-disc Grateful Dead box set? Sure, it’s great, and we wouldn’t dare to suggest that it isn’t worth every penny, but it’s not exactly in the average consumer’s price range. So…can we interest you in a 180-gram vinyl release of The Best of The Grateful Dead: 1967-1977 instead?

If the track listing – which you can find below – looks at all familiar, that’s because it’s the first disc of The Best of The Grateful Dead, which came out on March 31, spread out over the course of four sides. Of course, all of the songs have been remastered, too, which means that these classic tracks all sound better than ever.

Oh, and – spoiler alert! – don’t be too shocked if The Best of The Grateful Dead: 1978-1989 suddenly turns up in your record store sometime in the near future. We’re not Nostradamus or anything, but…well, we just have kind of a sixth sense about these things when it comes to the Dead.

LP 1:

1. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
2. Cream Puff War
3. Born Cross-Eyed
4. Dark Star [Single Version]
5. St. Stephen
6. China Cat Sunflower
7. Uncle John’s Band
8. Easy Wind
9. Casey Jones
10. Truckin’

LP 2:

11. Box of Rain
12. Sugar Magnolia
13. Friend of the Devil
14. Ripple
15. Eyes of the World
16. Unbroken Chain
17. Scarlet Begonias
18. The Music Never Stopped
19. Estimated Prophet