Shakedown Street

Grateful Dead

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: November 15, 1978
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000002VCV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,816 in Music (See Bestsellers 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 (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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	"mskarmar" (ocean view, de United States) - See all my reviews

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...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Essential record, May 28, 2003

By	Cruising through the ether (Arica / Chile) - See all my reviews

Let me try and give this record some justice. It s not the favorite Dead in the studio by consensus in the GD community. It is although the fruit of many tunes that came to be monsters and legendary songs in shows. 2nd sets to be exact.

How can you not enjoy the one of 3 (?) versions of World to give the boys did at Winterland in Oct. 78. Well, the original is here, and sometimes the album version has the dedication and care that you don t get live. At least that s in the eyes of European record collectors. The Dead s laboratory was onstage, but these tunes still sound great here. Very disco, but like I said, they became unforgetable numbers to hear live (Fire, MIracle, Stagger lee to name a few).

Plus the whole concept of Shakedown St. was just SO part of our culture, the Deadhead's that made it to as many shows as we could. When we arrived at a show, the Shakedown was in progress, and we could purchase anything from killer t shirts to beers you wouldn t find in Indiana to give an example = )

So aside from the great tunes, I think the art is pretty funky for the album too = ) Get it ! = )