I thought more people would be happy about these songs, but I guess not. Anyway, this week we get six tracks from the same artist, The Grateful Dead. If you don't know, American Beauty is looked upon as one of the greatest albums of all time - so to me, it being in Rock Band is kind of a big deal. I'm not a Dead Head or what have you, but I do like their music and "I wish I had never listened to American Beauty just so I could hear it again for the first time." Mad points for guessing THAT reference.


Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia




Analysis: Unfortunately, when you have songs that were written in the 60's and 70's they don't tend to be very "YouTube friendly." Case in point, I couldn't find a decent version of this song to save my life. So I've had to settle with just the song alone. Sorry gang. This is a great song though. Smooth vocals and the guitar parts are gonna go great when playing at the same time.


Grateful Dead - Casey Jones



Analysis: Fortunately, when you have songs that were written in the 60's and 70's they occasionally have a totally whoop ass recording. This video is an example of that. It's from the film "Fillmore: The Last Days." This is one of those songs that you may not know by name but when you hear the first couple seconds of it you definitely recognize it. Again, I can't wait to sing and play the guitar parts on this one.

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Grateful Dead - Truckin'



Analysis: Yet another song that you probably know, but may not realize it until the chorus. Good song. Pretty much same as the first two as far as playability goes.

Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower



Analysis: Ok, if you want to write-off this song completely because of the song name then I will support that. The song is good though but again, it follows the same type patterns that the rest of the songs do. This video is far out.

Grateful Dead - Franklin's Tower



Analysis: Now, I'm not positive what the run time for any of these songs are, but, I'm at least hoping one hits the eight minute mark. This would be a good one to do that with if you are a fan of playing trippy jam sessions. Seriously, I feel high just listening to this.

Grateful Dead - I Need A Miracle



Analysis: Why am I still writing? This is way too many songs for me to listen to especially since they are all around eight minutes. Ok, I couldn't even find a version of this on YouTube so we have to settle for balding, fat men in shitty cover bands. I don't know how faithful of a cover this is but if it is faithful - this song blows. It sounds nothing like any of the Dead I know and I think I can understand why I can't find any versions of it on YouTube. Let's stay away from this one folks.

This week's DLC gets a:

B

Two great songs, three decent songs, and one just...bad song.

I'll get 4 of these songs but I am really confused as to how they did the releasing of these songs seeing as to how there were like 12 songs confirmed. Where's Uncle John's Band, Friend of the Devil, and BOX OF RAIN!? If those three songs had replaced the latter three songs - then you would have seen our first ever A+ pack.