State Your Unpopular Opinions

My unpopular opinion (among fellow Grateful Dead fans lol) is that I actually like some of their studio albums more than their live stuff. I'm not a huge fan of the jam band genre and 20 minute space jams and much prefer when they stick to simple, tight, 4 minute songs on album

I feel like I'm probably committing blasphemy in the Grateful Dead sphere by saying that but, it is what it is

 

I know I've mentioned it here before but did I tell you the story about playing Grateful Dead for my friend while tripping?

 

I love those songs that are long. My niece heard Grand Funk's I'm Your Captain and called it "an Uncle [my name] song."

 

Inside Looking Out by Grand Funk is a really Good long one too.

 

John Mayer is better than Jerry Garcia..

 

I dont recall, do tell

 

Bob Weir songs are better than Jerry Garcia songs

 

So many roads?

call me a whinge boy if you will..

 

It's kind of a you had to be there thing, probably not best over text but I feel it's appropriate to the current convo.

It's college, my buddy and I are going camping in the woods to trip, his first time trying acid, I was doing 2ce (Mescaline analogue). He was really against the Dead, the couple times I tried to play it in his car, he immeadiately told me to turn it off and put something else on. I brought an assortment of CD's (these discs that contained a limited amount of space which could fit only one album). So we head out deep into the woods to trip and for the first part of it we're listening to some intensely psychedelic electronic music Shulman - In Search of a Meaningful Moment. Then after that album, I think I started some other electronic music, maybe Shpongle, but halfway through we decided to head back to the tents.

I'm walking with the boombox, he's starting to get overwhelmed by the electronic music and asks for something a bit more chill. I chose the Grateful Dead, after a couple songs he asks me "Who is this?" If I recall correctly it was on Sugar Magnolia, I reply Grateful Dead, he stops in his tracks, looks all wide eyed at the ground and goes "No wonder people like this shit"

 

Haha! That's a great trip story.
Sugar Magnolia is the song that got me into the Dead

 

yeah, i don't have the attention span for long wank fests in the middle of a song. just like all the old classic rock guitar and drum solos that show off someone's skill at the instrument, but are awful to listen to. or those old songs with 3 minute intros/outros. i prefer my minute and a half punk songs (which i then play on repeat, just to make my attention span argument invalid).

 

I don't agree to disagree on anything. I'm right.

 

Before I heard any grateful dead songs, I assumed they were a hardcore rock band, possibly death metal. Just based on the artwork of the albums like Steal Your Face. So I was quite surprised to hear their real music was upbeat and chill

 

Me too kinda.

music so unlike the pic.

 

no better way to kill a relationship than being a soppy romantic guy. women hate that.

 

Yeah be an alpha, that's what woman want. Lol.

 

Don't even know how unpopular this "opinion " is but the Small Faces were the best band ever !

 

Id sacrifice 6 Billion humans so the walruses wouldn't get cornered, and elephants, orangutans, deer etc can roam free

 

yep, alpha traits. if you don't maintain them and you are too beta, she'll always want someone more alpha.

 

There is no god.
The old testament of the bible is filled with stories trying to explain in their own words what primitive humankind didn't understand.
Humankind's ancestors originally came from somewhere else in the universe.