Grateful Dead – From the Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1974/2024) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

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Eight months after the release of Wake Of The Flood, the Grateful Dead followed up that masterpiece with the second album on their Grateful Dead Records label, From The Mars Hotel. To this day, most of the songs on From The Mars Hotel are played frequently by the band members as they continue to bring the music to the people, and during the Grateful Dead’s touring career, more than half of the songs were important parts of their live repertoire. “Scarlet Begonias,” “Ship Of Fools,” and “U.S Blues” arrived on the scene in 1974, with “China Doll” and “Loose Lucy” coming a year earlier, and they all quickly became staples of Grateful Dead live sets for decades, although “Loose Lucy” had a 15 year hiatus 1975-1989. Phil’s two songs on the album are often played live these days when Phil performs with his rotating cast of Friends, and these songs, “Pride Of Cucamonga” and “Unbroken Chain” are elicit ecstatic responses. These would be the final two Phil-sung songs on a Grateful Dead studio album. Peaking at #16 on the Billboard Top 200 chart in 1974, the album’s terrific batch of new songs and exceptional production had Dead Heads scooping up the album 50 years ago upon its release.

Tracklist:

1-1. Grateful Dead – U.S. Blues (2024 Remaster) (04:41)
1-2. Grateful Dead – China Doll (2024 Remaster) (04:11)
1-3. Grateful Dead – Unbroken Chain (2024 Remaster) (06:46)
1-4. Grateful Dead – Loose Lucy (2024 Remaster) (03:23)
1-5. Grateful Dead – Scarlet Begonias (2024 Remaster) (04:19)
1-6. Grateful Dead – Pride of Cucamonga (2024 Remaster) (04:17)
1-7. Grateful Dead – Money Money (2024 Remaster) (04:24)
1-8. Grateful Dead – Ship of Fools (2024 Remaster) (05:32)
1-9. Grateful Dead – China Doll (Demo) [2024 Remaster] (02:46)
1-10. Grateful Dead – Wave That Flag (Demo) [2024 Remaster] (05:00)
2-1. Grateful Dead – Sugaree (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (07:28)
2-2. Grateful Dead – Mexicali Blues (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (03:51)
2-3. Grateful Dead – Tennessee Jed (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (08:15)
2-4. Grateful Dead – Jack Straw (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (04:57)
2-5. Grateful Dead – Brown-Eyed Women (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (04:59)
2-6. Grateful Dead – Beat it on Down the Line (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (03:55)
2-7. Grateful Dead – China Cat Sunflower (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (08:06)
2-8. Grateful Dead – I Know You Rider (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (06:54)
2-9. Grateful Dead – El Paso (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (04:32)
2-10. Grateful Dead – U.S. Blues (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (05:15)
2-11. Grateful Dead – Greatest Story Ever Told (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (04:50)
2-12. Grateful Dead – It Must Have Been the Roses (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (05:40)
2-13. Grateful Dead – Me and Bobby McGee (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (05:41)
2-14. Grateful Dead – Deal (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (04:46)
3-1. Grateful Dead – Around and Around (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (06:38)
3-2. Grateful Dead – Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (07:58)
3-3. Grateful Dead – Truckin’ (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (10:10)
3-4. Grateful Dead – The Other One (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (21:39)
3-5. Grateful Dead – Row Jimmy (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (08:48)
3-6. Grateful Dead – Big River (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (05:41)
3-7. Grateful Dead – Ship of Fools (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (06:15)
3-8. Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74) (09:25)