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Released
  
October 26, 2004

Release date
  
26 October 2004

Label
  
Rhino Entertainment

Artist
  
Grateful Dead

Producer
  
David Lemieux

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Recorded
  
August 7, 1973 – October 20, 1989

Beyond Description (1973–1989) (2004)
  
Dick's Picks Volume 33 (2004)

Genres
  
Rock music, Folk rock, Country rock

Similar
  
Grateful Dead albums, Rock music albums

Beyond Description (1973–1989) is the second twelve-CD box set retrospective of the Grateful Dead's studio and live albums. A companion to The Golden Road (1965–1973) box set, it covers their time on the Grateful Dead Records and Arista Records labels, from 1973 to 1989.

Contents

The set contains expanded and remastered versions of all the albums during the brief period with their own label (except Steal Your Face), and during their time on Arista (except Without a Net and later box set So Many Roads). Included are numerous previously unreleased studio outtakes and live tracks. The ten albums in the set are Wake of the Flood, From the Mars Hotel, Blues for Allah, Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street, Go to Heaven, In the Dark, Built to Last, and the two live albums Reckoning and Dead Set (both expanded to two-CD sets).

Pre-ordered copies included a bonus disc with five live tracks and a studio rehearsal. The albums, with the bonus tracks, were given individual release in 2006. Previous box set Dead Zone, released in 1987, contains six of the same albums.

Track listing

See individual album pages for more information

Disc One

  • Wake of the Flood
    1. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 5:43
    2. "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away" (Hunter, Keith Godchaux) – 3:19
    3. "Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:15
    4. "Stella Blue" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:27
    5. "Here Comes Sunshine" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:40
    6. "Eyes of the World" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:21
    7. "Weather Report Suite"
    8. "Prelude" (Bob Weir) – 1:22
    9. "Part I" (Eric Andersen, Weir) – 4:14
    10. "Part II: Let it Grow" (John Barlow, Weir) – 7:08

    Bonus tracks:

    1. "Eyes of the World" (live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY; September 7, 1973) (Hunter, Garcia) – 17:02
    2. "Weather Report Suite" (studio acoustic demo; August 4, 1973)
    3. "Prelude" (Weir) – 2:16
    4. "Part I" (Andersen, Weir) – 3:18
    5. "Part II: Let it Grow" (Barlow, Weir) – 7:02
    6. "China Doll" (studio outtake; August 8, 1973) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:02

    Disc Two

  • From the Mars Hotel
    1. "U.S. Blues" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:42
    2. "China Doll" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:11
    3. "Unbroken Chain" (Bobby Petersen, Phil Lesh) – 6:47
    4. "Loose Lucy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:22
    5. "Scarlet Begonias" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:19
    6. "Pride of Cucamonga" (Petersen, Lesh) – 4:18
    7. "Money Money" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:23
    8. "Ship of Fools" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:28

    Bonus tracks:

    1. "Loose Lucy" (studio outtake; August 7, 1973) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:41
    2. "Scarlet Begonias" (live at Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA; October 16, 1974) (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:09
    3. "Money Money" (live at PNE Colisium, Vancouver, BC; May 17, 1974) (Barlow, Weir) – 4:20
    4. "Wave That Flag" (live at Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA; March 28, 1973) (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:34
    5. "Let It Rock" (live at Jai-Alai Fronton, Miami, FL; June 23, 1974) (Chuck Berry) – 3:19
    6. "Pride of Cucamonga" (studio acoustic demo; August 4, 1973) (Petersen, Lesh) – 4:24
    7. "Unbroken Chain" (studio acoustic demo; August 11, 1973) (Petersen, Lesh) – 6:21

    Disc Three

  • Blues for Allah
    1. "Help on the Way" / "Slipknot!" (Hunter, Grateful Dead) – 7:20
    2. "Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann) – 4:37
    3. "King Solomon's Marbles: Pt. I) Stronger Than Dirt / Pt. II) Milkin' The Turkey" (Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh) – 5:13
    4. "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:35
    5. "Crazy Fingers" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:41
    6. "Sage & Spirit" (Weir) – 3:07
    7. "Blues for Allah" / "Sand Castles & Glass Camels" / "Unusual Occurrences in the Desert" (Hunter, Grateful Dead) – 12:33

    Bonus tracks:

    1. "Groove #1" (instrumental studio outtake; February 27, 1975) (Grateful Dead) – 5:42
    2. "Groove #2" (instrumental studio outtake; February 27, 1975) (Grateful Dead) – 7:32
    3. "Distorto" (instrumental studio outtake; February 28, 1975) (Garcia) – 8:10
    4. "A to E Flat Jam" (instrumental studio outtake; February 27, 1975) (Grateful Dead) – 4:35
    5. "Proto 18 Proper" (instrumental studio outtake; February 27, 1975) (Grateful Dead) – 4:16
    6. "Hollywood Cantata" (studio outtake; May 7, 1975) (Hunter, Weir) – 4:14

    Disc Four

  • Terrapin Station
    1. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:37
    2. "Dancin' in the Streets" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Joe Hunter, William Stevenson) – 3:17
    3. "Passenger" (Peter Monk, Lesh) – 2:48
    4. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arr. Weir) – 3:39
    5. "Sunrise" (Donna Godchaux) – 4:04
    6. "Terrapin Station Part I"
    7. "Lady with a Fan" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:38
    8. "Terrapin Station" (Hunter, Garcia) – 1:55
    9. "Terrapin" (Garcia) – 2:14
    10. "Terrapin Transit" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 1:17
    11. "At a Siding" (Hunter, Hart) – 1:01
    12. "Terrapin Flyer" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 2:55
    13. "Refrain" (Garcia) – 2:19

    Bonus tracks:

    1. "Peggy-O" (instrumental studio outtake; November 2, 1976) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:42
    2. "The Ascent" (instrumental studio outtake; November 2, 1976) (Grateful Dead) – 1:58
    3. "Catfish John" (studio outtake; Fall 1976) (Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds) – 4:40
    4. "Equinox" (studio outtake; February 17, 1977) (Lesh) – 5:14
    5. "Fire on the Mountain" (studio outtake; February, 1977) (Hunter, Hart) – 6:25
    6. "Dancin' in the Streets" (live at Barton Hall, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; May 8, 1977) (Gaye, I. Hunter, Stevenson) – 16:17

    Disc Five

  • Shakedown Street
    1. "Good Lovin'" (Artie Resnick, Rudy Clark) – 4:51
    2. "France" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 4:03
    3. "Shakedown Street" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:59
    4. "Serengetti" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 1:59
    5. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hunter, Hart) – 3:46
    6. "I Need a Miracle" (Barlow, Weir) – 3:36
    7. "From the Heart of Me" (D. Godchaux) – 3:23
    8. "Stagger Lee" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:25
    9. "New Minglewood Blues" (trad., arr. Weir) – 4:14
    10. "If I Had the World to Give" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:50

    Bonus tracks:

    1. "Good Lovin'" (studio outtake; July 28, 1978) (Resnick, Clark) – 4:54
    2. "Ollin Arageed" (live, Giza, Egypt; September 16, 1978) (Hamza El Din) – 6:30
    3. "Fire on the Mountain" (live, Giza, Egypt; September 16, 1978) (Hunter, Hart) – 13:41
    4. "Stagger Lee" (live, Giza, Egypt; September 15, 1978) (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:36
    5. "All New Minglewood Blues" (live at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ; November 24, 1978) (trad., arr. Weir) – 4:34

    Disc Six

  • Go to Heaven
    1. "Alabama Getaway" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:36
    2. "Far From Me" (Brent Mydland) – 3:41
    3. "Althea" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:54
    4. "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:10
    5. "Lost Sailor" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:54
    6. "Saint of Circumstance" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:39
    7. "Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber)" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 0:40
    8. "Easy to Love You" (Barlow, Mydland) – 3:41
    9. "Don't Ease Me In" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:16

    Bonus tracks:

    1. "Peggy-O" (studio outtake; July 16, 1979) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:49
    2. "What'll You Raise" (studio outtake; July 16, 1979) (Hunter) – 4:08
    3. "Jack-A-Roe" (studio outtake; July 14, 1979) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:51
    4. "Althea" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 23, 1980) (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:17
    5. "Lost Sailor" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City; October 25, 1980) (Barlow, Weir) – 6:42
    6. "Saint of Circumstance" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 25, 1980) (Barlow, Weir) – 6:35

    Disc Seven

  • Reckoning Disc 1
    1. "Dire Wolf" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:20
    2. "The Race is On" (Don Rollins) – 2:58
    3. "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie" (Elizabeth Cotten) – 6:28
    4. "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter) – 6:56
    5. "Dark Hollow" (Bill Browning) – 3:49
    6. "China Doll" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:22
    7. "I've Been All Around This World" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:31
    8. "Monkey and the Engineer" (Jesse Fuller) – 2:37
    9. "Jack-A-Roe" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:05
    10. "Deep Elem Blues" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:51
    11. "Cassidy" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:38
    12. "To Lay Me Down" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:59
    13. "Rosalie McFall" (Charlie Monroe) – 2:54
    14. "On the Road Again" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:15
    15. "Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:34
    16. "Ripple" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:38
  • All tracks live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA (September 25, 1980 – October 14, 1980) & Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY (October 22, 1980 – October 31, 1980)

    • Disc Eight

  • Reckoning Disc 2
    1. "To Lay Me Down" (studio rehearsal; September 14, 1980) (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:12
    2. "Iko Iko" (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA; October 7, 1980) (trad., Sugarboy Crawford) – 4:23
    3. "Heaven Help the Fool" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 25, 1980) (Weir) – 6:18
    4. "El Paso" (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA; October 13, 1980) (Marty Robbins) – 4:41
    5. "Sage & Spirit" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 31, 1980) (Weir) – 3:14
    6. "Little Sadie" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 31, 1980) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 2:45
    7. "It Must Have Been the Roses" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 23, 1980) (Hunter) – 7:01
    8. "Dark Hollow" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 23, 1980) (Browning) – 4:30
    9. "Jack-A-Roe" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 23, 1980) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:08
    10. "Cassidy" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 23, 1980) (Barlow, Weir) – 5:06
    11. "China Doll" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 23, 1980) (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:52
    12. "Monkey and the Engineer" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 23, 1980) (Fuller) – 2:37
    13. "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 23, 1980) (Cotton) – 7:13
    14. "Ripple" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 23, 1980) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:37
    15. "Tom Dooley" (live at Rambler Room, Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL; November 17, 1978) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:33
    16. "Deep Elem Blues" (live at Rambler Room, Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL; November 17, 1978) (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:42

    Disc Nine

  • Dead Set Disc 1
    1. "Samson and Delilah" (trad., arr. Weir) – 5:02
    2. "Friend of the Devil" (John Dawson, Hunter, Garcia) – 7:28
    3. "New Minglewood Blues" (trad., arr. Weir) – 4:41
    4. "Deal" (trad., arr. Hunter, Garcia) – 4:36
    5. "Candyman" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:15
    6. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 4:31
    7. "Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:45
    8. "Passenger" (Monk, Lesh) – 3:21
    9. "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:41
    10. "Franklin's Tower" (Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 5:22
    11. "Rhythm Devils" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 4:02
    12. "Space" (Grateful Dead) – 2:29
    13. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hunter, Hart) – 6:30
    14. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 4:04
    15. "Brokedown Palace" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:42
  • All tracks live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA (September 25, 1980 – October 14, 1980) & Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY (October 22, 1980 – October 31, 1980)

    • Disc Ten

  • Dead Set Disc 2
    1. "Let it Grow" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 26, 1980) (Barlow, Weir) – 9:38
    2. "Sugaree" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 26, 1980) (Hunter, Garcia) – 9:51
    3. "C.C. Rider" (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA; October 13, 1980) (trad., arr. Weir) – 7:17
    4. "Row Jimmy" (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA; October 10, 1980) (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:14
    5. "Lazy Lightnin'" (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco; October 13, 1980) (Barlow, Weir) – 2:53
    6. "Supplication" (live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA; October 13, 1980) (Barlow, Weir) – 5:50
    7. "High Time" (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY; October 25, 1980) (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:40
    8. "Jack Straw" (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA; October 10, 1980) (Hunter, Weir) – 6:17
    9. "Shakedown Street" (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco; October 7, 1980) (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:42
    10. "Not Fade Away" (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA; October 4, 1980) (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 4:50

    Disc Eleven

  • In the Dark
    1. "Touch of Grey" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:47
    2. "Hell in a Bucket" (Barlow, Mydland, Weir) – 5:35
    3. "When Push Comes to Shove" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:05
    4. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:39
    5. "Tons of Steel" (Mydland) – 5:15
    6. "Throwing Stones" (Barlow, Weir) – 7:18
    7. "Black Muddy River" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:58

    Bonus tracks:

    1. "My Brother Esau" (single B-side) (Barlow, Weir) – 4:17
    2. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (alternate studio version; March, 1984) (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:08
    3. "Black Muddy River" (studio rehearsal; December 5, 1986) (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:38
    4. "When Push Comes to Shove" (studio rehearsal; December 5, 1986) (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:21
    5. "Touch of Grey" (studio rehearsal; August, 1982) (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:44
    6. "Throwing Stones" (live at Sullivan Stadium, Foxboro, MA; July 4, 1987) (Barlow, Weir) – 9:36

    Disc Twelve

  • Built to Last
    1. "Foolish Heart" (Hunter, Garcia) –
    2. "Just a Little Light" (Barlow, Mydland) – 4:43
    3. "Built to Last" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:04
    4. "Blow Away" (Barlow, Mydland) – 6:11
    5. "Victim or the Crime" (Gerrit Graham, Weir) – 7:35
    6. "We Can Run" (Barlow, Mydland) – 5:32
    7. "Standing on the Moon" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:20
    8. "Picasso Moon" (Barlow, Bob Bralove, Weir) – 6:42
    9. "I Will Take You Home" (Barlow, Mydland) – 3:45

    Bonus tracks:

    1. "Foolish Heart" (live at Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, WI; July 19, 1989) (Hunter, Garcia) – 11:31
    2. "Blow Away" (live at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA; July 7, 1989) (Barlow, Mydland) – 12:02
    3. "California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On)" (live at Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA; October 20, 1989) (Rodney Crowell) – 5:59

    Bonus Disc

    1. "Weather Report Suite" (live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA; October 17, 1974)(Weir, Andersen, Barlow) - 16:57
    2. "Blues for Allah>Stronger than Dirt or Milkin' the Turkey>Drums>Stronger than Dirt or Milkin' the Turkey>Blues for Allah" (live at Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA; March 23, 1975)(Hunter, Grateful Dead) - 31:45
    3. "Showboat" (band rehearsal; August 12, 1975)(K. Godchaux, D. Godchaux, Brian Godchaux) - 2:41
    4. "Shakedown Street" (live at McNichols Arena, Denver, CO; August 13, 1979)(Hunter, Garcia) - 11:35
    5. "Far From Me" (live at Capital Centre, Landover, MD; August 31, 1980)(Mydland) - 3:57
    6. "Estimated Prophet" (live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA; October 10, 1980)(Weir, Barlow) - 10:46

    Notes

    Grateful Dead

  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
  • Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
  • Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
  • Donna Godchaux – vocals on discs 1-5
  • Keith Godchaux – keyboards, piano, vocals on discs 1-5
  • Brent Mydland – keyboards, Hammond organ, vocals on discs 6-12
  • Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
  • Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion

    • Additional performers

  • for a comprehensive listing, see individual album pages

    • Production

  • James Austin, David Lemieux – producers
  • Cameron Sears – executive producer
  • Jimmy Edwards – associate producer
  • Robin Hurley – associate producer
  • Hale Milgrim – associate producer
  • Scott Pascucci – associate producer
  • Eileen Law – archival research
  • Joe Gastwirt – mastering
  • Tom Flye – additional mixing
  • Robert Gatley – mixing assistant
  • Reggie Collines – discography annotation
  • Hugh Brown – reissue art direction
  • Steve Vance – design, reissue art direction

    • Songs

    1Mississippi Half‐Step Uptown Toodleloo5:43
    2Let Me Sing Your Blues Away3:19
    3Row Jimmy7:15

    References

    Beyond Description (1973–1989) Wikipedia
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