The Grateful Dead - Beyond Description (Box Set)

This monumental 12-disc assemblage presents the band's amazing, long strange trip from 1973 to 1989, encompassing the albums released on their own Grateful Dead Records label and later Arista. It's an essential companion piece on Rhino's first 12-CD Dead box, The Golden Road (1965-1973), which spotlighted the entirety of their early Warner Brothers output and concurrent evolution from a scruffy hippie outfit in the Haight to one of the biggest bands on the planet. Including studio masterpieces and live landmarks alike, Beyond Description enhances this repertoire with the sonic brilliance of 2004 mastering technology and a wealth of newly discovered supplemental material. It's an extraordinary portrait of a legendary band.

Disc: 1
1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
2. Let ME Sing Your Blues Away
3. Row Jimmy
4. Stella Blue
5. Here Comes Sunshine
6. Eyes of the World
7. Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part I/Part II (Let It Grow)
8. Eyes of the World [Live] [*]
9. Weather Report Suite [Studio Acoustic Demo] [*]: Prelude/Part I/Part II
10. China Doll [Studio Outtake] [*]
Disc: 2
1. U.S. Blues
2. China Doll
3. Unbroken Chain
4. Loose Lucy
5. Scarlet Begonias
6. Pride of Cucamonga
7. Money Money
8. Ship of Fools
9. Loose Lucy [Studio Outtake] [*]
10. Scarlet Begonias [Live] [*]
11. Money Money [Live] [*]
12. Wave That Flag [Live] [*]
13. Let It Rock [Live] [*]
14. Pride of Cucamonga [Studio Acoustic Demo] [*]
15. Unbroken Chain [Studio Acoustic Demo] [*]
Disc: 3
1. Help on the Way/Slipknot!
2. Franklin's Tower
3. King Solomon's Marbles, Pts. 1 -2: Stronger Than Dirt/Milkin' the Turke
4. Music Never Stopped
5. Crazy Fingers
6. Sage & Spirit
7. Blues for Allah/Sand Castles & Glass Camels/Unusual Occurrences in the
8. Groove #1 [Instrumental Studio Outtake] [*]
9. Groove #2 [Instrumental Studio Outtake] [*]
10. Distorto [Instrumental Studio Outtake] [*]
11. to E Flat Jam [Instrumental Studio Outtake] [*]
12. Proto 18 Proper [Instrumental Studio Outtake] [*]
13. Hollywood Cantata [Studio Outtake] [*]
Disc: 4
1. Estimated Prophet
2. Dancin' in the Streets
3. Passenger
4. Samson & DeLilah
5. Sunrise
6. Terrapin Station Part 1/Lady With a Fan/Terrapin Station/Terrapin/Terra
7. Peggy-O [Instrumental Studio Outtake] [*]
8. Ascent [Instrumental Studio Outtake] [*]
9. Catfish John [Studio Outtake] [*]
10. Equinox [Studio Outtake] [*]
11. Fire on the Mountain [Studio Outtake] [*]
12. Dancin' in the Streets [Live ][*]
Disc: 5
1. Good Lovin'
2. France
3. Shakedown Street
4. Serengetti
5. Fire on the Mountain
6. I Need a Miracle
7. From the Heart of Me
8. Stagger Lee
9. All New Minglewood Blues
10. If I Had the World to Give
11. Good Lovin' [Studio Outtake] [*] - Lowell George
12. Ollin Arageed [Live] [*]
13. Fire on the Mountain [Live] [*]
14. Stagger Lee [Live] [*]
15. All New Minglewood Blues [Live] [*]
Disc: 6
1. Alabama Getaway
2. Far from Me
3. Althea
4. Feel Like a Stranger
5. Lost Sailor
6. Saint of Circumstance
7. Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber)
8. Easy to Love You
9. Don't Ease Me In
10. Peggy-O [Studio Outtake] [*]
11. What'll You Raise [Studio Outtake] [*]
12. Jack-A-Roe [Studio Outtake] [*]
13. Althea [Live] [*]
14. Lost Sailor [Live] [*]
15. Saint of Circumstance [Live] [*]
Disc: 7
1. Dire Wolf
2. Race Is On
3. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
4. It Must Have Been the Roses
5. Dark Hollow
6. China Doll
7. Been All Around This World
8. Monkey and the Engineer
9. Jack-A-Roe
10. Deep Elem Blues
11. Cassidy
12. To Lay Me Down
13. Rosalie McFall
14. On the Road Again
15. Bird Song
16. Ripple
Disc: 8
1. To Lay Me Down [Studio Rehearsal] [*]
2. Iko Iko [*]
3. Heaven Help the Fool [*]
4. El Paso [*]
5. Sage & Spirit [*]
6. Little Sadie [*]
7. It Must Have Been the Roses [Alternate Live Version] [*]
8. Dark Hollow [Alternate Live Version] [*]
9. Jack-A-Roe [Alternate Live Version] [*]
10. Cassidy [Alternate Live Version] [*]
11. China Doll [Alternate Live Version] [*]
12. Monkey and the Engineer [Alternate Live Version] [*]
13. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie [Alternate Live Version] [*]
14. Ripple [Alternate Live Version] [*]
15. Tom Dooley [Live, 1978] [*]
16. Deep Elem Blues [Alternate Live Version, 1978] [*]
Disc: 9
1. Samson and DeLilah
2. Friend of the DeVil
3. New Minglewood Blues
4. Deal
5. Candyman
6. Little Red Rooster
7. Loser
8. Passenger
9. Feel Like a Stranger
10. Franklin's Tower
11. Rhythm DeVils
12. Space
13. Fire on the Mountain
14. Greatest Story Ever Told
15. Brokedown Palace
Disc: 10
1. Let It Grow [*]
2. Sugaree [*]
3. C.C. Rider [*]
4. Row Jimmy [*]
5. Lazy Lightnin' [*]
6. Supplication [*]
7. High Time [*]
8. Jack Straw [*]
9. Shakedown Street [*]
10. Not Fade Away [*]
Disc: 11
1. Touch of Grey
2. Hell in a Bucket
3. When Push Comes to Shove
4. West L.A. Fadeaway
5. Tons of Steel
6. Throwing Stones
7. Black Muddy River
8. My Brother Esau [Single B-Side] [*]
9. West L.A. Fadeaway [Alternate Version, 1984] [*]
10. Black Muddy River [Studio Rehearsal] [*]
11. When Push Comes to Shove [Studio Rehearsal] [*]
12. Touch of Grey [Studio Rehearsal] [*]
13. Throwing Stones [Live] [*]
Disc: 12
1. Foolish Heart
2. Just a Little Light
3. Built to Last
4. Blow Away
5. Victim or the Crime
6. We Can Run
7. Standing on the Moon
8. Picasso Moon
9. I Will Take You Home
10. Foolish Heart [Live] [*]
11. Blow Away [Live] [*]
12. California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On) [Live] [*]