Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead is the first compilati… Read Full Bio ↴Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead is the first compilation album from rock band the Grateful Dead. It was originally released in February 1974. As with other such packages, the album was a way for Warner Bros. Records to capitalize on the Dead's back catalog, after the band had left the label. It was followed three years later by a second compilation, What a Long Strange Trip It's Been.
Upon fulfilling their contract with Warner Bros. Records, the Grateful Dead left the label and started their own production and publishing arm for the release of their albums and other projects. After Wake of the Flood was successfully released on the independent Grateful Dead Records, Warner Bros. compiled Skeletons from the Closet as a "best-of" package, with tracks representing six of the band's nine albums on their label (along with a track from Bob Weir's solo album, Ace).
Eight of the tracks are from Dead studio recordings, and two are from live albums. However "Turn On Your Love Light" is an edited version, that first appeared on the Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders album The Big Ball, rather than the complete version from Live/Dead. "One More Saturday Night" is a live version from Europe '72. Though "Mexicali Blues" is from Weir's solo album, he is backed by the Grateful Dead. Nothing is presented from previous albums Anthem of the Sun, Grateful Dead or Bear's Choice, nor versions from singles.
Upon fulfilling their contract with Warner Bros. Records, the Grateful Dead left the label and started their own production and publishing arm for the release of their albums and other projects. After Wake of the Flood was successfully released on the independent Grateful Dead Records, Warner Bros. compiled Skeletons from the Closet as a "best-of" package, with tracks representing six of the band's nine albums on their label (along with a track from Bob Weir's solo album, Ace).
Eight of the tracks are from Dead studio recordings, and two are from live albums. However "Turn On Your Love Light" is an edited version, that first appeared on the Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders album The Big Ball, rather than the complete version from Live/Dead. "One More Saturday Night" is a live version from Europe '72. Though "Mexicali Blues" is from Weir's solo album, he is backed by the Grateful Dead. Nothing is presented from previous albums Anthem of the Sun, Grateful Dead or Bear's Choice, nor versions from singles.
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Skeletons From the Closet: The Best of the Grateful Dead
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Casey Jones Driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones you better …
Friend of the Devil I lit up from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds Didn't…
Mexicali Blues Laid back in an old saloon, with a peso in…
One More Saturday Night I went down to the mountain, I was drinking some…
Rosemary Boots were of leather A breath of cologne Her mirror was a…
St. Stephen Saint Stephen with a rose, in and out of the…
Sugar Magnolia Sugar Magnolia blossom's blooming Head's all empty and I don…
The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) The Golden Road (to unlimited devotion) See that girl, bare…
Truckin' Truckin', got my chips cashed in Keep truckin', like the do-…
Turn On Your Love Light Without a warning you broke my heart, takin' it baby,…
Uncle John's Band Well the first days are the hardest days, don't you…