Album
Built To Last
1989 · Rock, Blues
21 collectors on Gatefold own this
Built To Last is a Rock album by Grateful Dead, originally released in 1989. On Gatefold: 59 pressings tracked, owned by 21 collectors.
About
Their previous album, <i>In the Dark</i>, had done the unthinkable and given The Grateful Dead their first Top 40 hit on their first (and only) Top 10 album. Naturally, the record label was anxious for the band to get back into the studio. The Dead themselves felt they'd captured a legitimate sound with producer John Cutler, even enjoying the process, so why not get back there? The Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter track "Foolish Heart" did well at AOR FM stations, and keyboardist Brent Mydland, working with longtime Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, wrote four of the nine tracks. The title track let Garcia and Hunter play further into the band's position as long-term philosophers in search of meaningful things from a temporary life in an eternal world. The sound is slicker, with reverb creating a wider soundstage layered with sleeker electric guitars and keyboards that spookily sound like Bruce Hornsby, who toured with the band and was a brief member after Mydland's 1990 death.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Foolish Heart5:10
- A2Just A Little Light4:42
- A3Victim Or The Crime7:33
- A4Standing On The Moon5:20
Side B
- B1Blow Away6:09
- B2Picasso Moon6:40
- B3Built To Last5:03
- B4I Will Take You Home3:45
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Psych Rock
- clean
- laid-back
- groovy
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bill KreutzmannDRUMS
- Bob WeirGUITAR, VOCALS
- Brent MydlandKEYBOARDS, VOCALS
- Jerry GarciaGUITAR, VOCALS
- Mickey HartDRUMS
- Phil LeshBASS
21 collectors on Gatefold own this · 59 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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