Go to Heaven

Grateful Dead

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: April 28, 1980
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000002VCI
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,198 in Music (See Bestsellers 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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Bilbo Baggins (USA) - See all my reviews

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Music Fan (Canada) - See all my reviews

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Go to heaven" uneven, December 8, 1998

By A Customer

Well, there's been much criticism for the title and indeed the sleeve photograph, but actually this Dead record can be judged more favourably on the contents. Side two is a little dark, with the exception of "Saint of Circumstance", but side one contains some jewels. "Feel like a stranger" is very strong, "Alabama Getaway" surprising and "Lost sailor" and "Far from me" quite nice. But prince among ordinary citizens is "Althea", which has become one of my favourite Dead songs.

"Go to Heaven" may not be an excellent studio album, but we all know that the Dead were at their best when playing live. You won't go to heaven with this one, but you won't go unrewarded.

Hans Wigman.