Go to Heaven

Grateful Dead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000002VCI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,001 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alabama Getaway

2. Far From Me

3. Althea

4. Feel Like a Stranger

5. Lost Sailor

6. Saint of Circumstance

7. Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber)

8. Easy to Love You

9. Don't Ease Me In

Editorial Reviews

Japanese reissue of the 1980 release from the San Franciscolegends, this limited edition features a miniature paper LPsleeve reproduction of the original artwork. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Alabama Getaway, November 5, 2002

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Bilbo Baggins (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Go to Heaven (Audio CD)

I remeber this album as one of the first Dead albums that the production started sounding full and worthy of the dead rythym section in the studio. Alabama Getaway is a perfect blend of commercially slick radio friendly sound while still retaining Jerry and Bob's superior technique and road earned mastery of subtle riffing and rythmic augmentation. Althea is so Deadly it defines the power of artistic hippy musical apptitude. I love this album because it is presentable to the mainstream but retains its freak flag flying high buried deep in the highest production fidelity money can buy. If you don't have a fully developed dead ear for psychadelic sound you can start your journey on track number one of Go to Heaven and work your way back to the first Dead Album. Enjoy the research. My the force be with you.

28 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars C'mon folks, lighten up!, June 1, 2006

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Richard D. Hodgson (Madera, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go to Heaven (Dig) (Audio CD)

Ok, granted, nobody's gonna mistake this album for "Workingman's Dead" or "American Beauty". But it isn't a genuinely bad album, either. It appears that I'm the first to review the Rhino re-issue, but judging by some of the reviews of the earlier Arista release you'd think that the Dead had commited some kind of crime against humanity in releasing this album. 'Tain't so! The fact is, if you listen to it for what it is (and what it isn't) and with an open mind, you'll soon realize that there's some pretty good stuff here. Althea, for example, is a great song and would have fit in very nicely on, say, "Mars Hotel". "Lost Sailor" and "Saint Of Circumstance" are both decent cuts as well-- despite some other people's negative views-- and would not be out of place on Weir's "Heaven Help The Fool". And the updated "Don't Ease Me In" is a fun and well-played alternate version. In fact, in my opinion, there's not a truly bad song on this album. A lot of people knock Brent's contributions. Alright, no one will ever confuse him with Robert Hunter. But his songs aren't really bad, either. It seems that some people who smugly consider themselves "experts" on the Dead (the same, presumably, who continually bash "Steal Your Face") have tried to make beating up on this release some kinda national passtime, and it was actually out of print for awhile as a result. That's really too bad. If you TRULY love 'em, you know that ANY Dead is good Dead-- some is perhaps just a little bit "less" good. This album is, in general, "less good" compared to some. But it ain't at all bad, either. And by the way, about the cover art. Doesn't anybody get the joke?

In addition to the remastered album (which sounds very good), there are also several bonus cuts, including alternate, studio versions of "Peggy-O" and "Jack-A-Roe". Overall, a nice package. But you'll never know if you don't climb off'a yer high-horse and give it a chance! It's not their best, to be sure. But it's certainly worth owning!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Long Career..., April 1, 2000

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Music Fan (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Go to Heaven (Audio CD)

Everyone has their favourite period of The Dead and I tend to like Mars Hotel and Wake of the Flood best. Go to Heaven does not fall into this era, however, this is a good album and I reccomend it. Musically, it is right up there, perhapse close to the masterpieces of American Beauty, Workingman's Dead and Europe '72. This album has beautiful songs with pleasing chord progressions, well, Lost Sailor and Saint of Circumstance at least. Some of the other tracks are more traditional Garcia Dead sounding. You will like this one if you are a fan of Bob Weir's voice, as I am, and like keyboards as well as guitars.