Favorite Dead Song?

So what is your favorite Grateful Dead song & why?

I love Friend of the Devil because that is the first song my husband and I danced to when we got married. It was in the community rose garden at night when we were going for a walk just the two of us. We bumped into a small accoustic old hippie band and told them about our day and they said they would play a song in honor of the special day. Friend of the Devil came out and its been meaningful ever since.

 

Touch of Grey.

Anyhow, there's an entire Grateful Dead subforum in "Music".

 

fire on the mountain or black peter

 

terrepin station and box of rain have always been 2 of my favorites. theres so many though. but id say terrepin is number one. robert hunter is a fucking lyrical genius.

 

Franklin's Tower... ^_^

 

Scarlet Begonias.

 

Morning Dew - Help on The Way - China Cat - Box of Rain - etc

 

off the list, I say Terrapin Station ... no doubt of their 'more' magical jams. But I choose just cause so many times JerryG goes WiLllLD on it.

But reading down through them LoveMinx has a point ... Franklin's Tower and freeinalaska has dead taste too ... Help on the Way and China Cat especially

also Standing on the Moon, every Dylan cover, Californication, and Venice Queen are all good ones ... right?

 

my favorite changes all the time, right now i'm really down with "Ship of Fools"....

 

what the hell?

no Dark Star?

 

agreed but also the thread is favorite Dead Song ... can you really find it in you to call Dark Star a song?

some of the best moments of my life coincided with the Dark Star

 

uhhh, yeah....one of my favorite intros and beautiful lyrics and melody....sounds like a song to me.....

sorry, just hungry. low blood sugar.

 

understood

what about the drum lines ... ?

 

it's a jam, man, c'mon

don't get critical, it's a song, it has music and lyrics, it fits the definition of a song
it's a great piece of music, if calling it that makes you feel better.

 

for me its got to be dark star.

 

Weather Report. It's one of my favorite songs by anybody. Oh, and another good one that's not on there is uncle johns band.

 

fucking brilliant song. i can't remember which Dicks Picks exactly, but it has a 14minute Weather Report> 27minute Jam.....and its just amazing....evry time i take a road trip that song is a must.....

 

that list is so limiting. but i relly like sugar magnolia and Scarlet Begonias

anyone heard the Sublime version of scarlet begonias? its real good too

 

on the list: box of rain

off the list: let it grow

 

since dark star counts for this thread, I'd say The Eleven Jam is #1 Dead song

I also love Mountains of the Moon, plus all the others I already mentioned

plus, all the rest