Shakedown Street

Grateful Dead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000002VCV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,799 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Good Lovin'

2. France

3. Shakedown Street

4. Serengetti

5. Fire on the Mountain

6. I Need a Miracle

7. From the Heart of Me

8. Stagger Lee

9. New Minglewood Blues

10. If I Had the World to Give

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Damn Good, March 12, 1999

By 

G. J Wiener (Westchester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Shakedown Street (Audio CD)

Boy, some Dead Heads are a picky bunch. This CD is very solid from start to finish. Perfect no, but solid yes. I really like their version of Good Lovin' and each of the other songs explore some interesting rhythms and textures that have made the Dead great. Don't let the nay sayers steer you wrong. This recording is A OK with me.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stop arguing and get the cd, December 17, 2001

By 

Mark D. Smith "mskarmar" (ocean view, de United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Shakedown Street (Audio CD)

Stop arguing that it's not the greatest GD cd, or that this or that song is better live (no duh),and just get the cd. I was an impressionable teen when this came out is 78 and it made a nice impression on me. I can remeber playing bball with my friends to this (tape) and it propelled the game along. What a start to an album with 'Good Lovin', poppy dead at their best covering a great song,yet making it their own, 'France' is a nice song for Donna G's vocals, 'Shakedown Street' a groovy,smooth song, 'Serengetti' is just an ok instrumental (filler really),'Fire on the Mountain' is a great dead song, 'I need a miracle' everyday (don't we all!), great Weir vocals and crisp guitar work, 'From the Heart of me' again a nice song by Donna G.,'Stagger Lee'is only an ok Jerry song and vocal, 'All new minglewood blues'-play it loud, play it often,and 'If I had the world to give' is a nice mellowending with beautiful vocals by Jerry, just melodically beautiful. Obviously this is not the place for a newbie to the Dead to start with (try Workingmans,Blues for Allah,American Beauty, One From the Vault,etc), but if you did start here, you would be drawn in none the less and continue your exploration of the wonderful music of the Great Grateful Dead...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Despite bad reviews-My fave GD studio album, April 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Shakedown Street (Audio CD)

An album with many different sound but it all sounds great to me. The piano/guitar solo(duo)on Good Lovin', remains one of my favorite streches of music anywhere. The Syncopated beat of "France" is intoxicating. "Fire" speaks for itself. Side two also has many bright spots, my fave... Stagger Lee. Lowell George of Little Feat produced this album, and in my opinion did a great job, the guitars are not as prominant in the mix (perhaps many folks find this disappointing); and Bobby's rhythm is more on the beat (George's influence?).