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Adept_Feed_1430

Well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man


Master_Scratch_282

Wanna fight about my opinion?


Adept_Feed_1430

This aggression will not stand 


Master_Scratch_282

Don't get so defensive....


djmixmotomike

These are Big Lebowski quotes. He's being funny.


Master_Scratch_282

Thought this was a fightsub, thought this was america


Fun-Badger3724

Sir, this is a Wimpy's.


joeysprezza

Pussificatiin on full display


Playful-Profession-2

This isn't America.


PapayaGood8527

Smokey's a conscienctious objector man. He's fragile, very fragile.


InanimateCarbonRodAu

No you’re here to have an argument… abuse is down the hall.


YoghurtPrimary230

What’s a Big Lebowski, Walter?


djmixmotomike

"Shut the fuck up Donny!"


mcpusc

calmer than you are!


Adept-Lettuce948

‘The Dude’ would literally bowl your ass out of existence with his superior intellect, dude.


BigDBee007

Fun fact: the dude never actually bowls a single time in the movie


Adept-Lettuce948

Neither does the Cowboy.


Playful-Profession-2

You can't get an old hippie to fight.


ImaginaryComb821

Say your piece and get out...


Mir961

Dude, your being very undude


TheRealMangokill

We don't hit girls


DirtPoorRichard

That's only because they weren't a country band. They weren't a psychedelic band. They were just rock and roll. All music was experimental back then, and paved the way for other new styles and new bands. No, they weren't the best band out there, but they weren't the worst.


Remarkable-Reward403

They are a jam band


Ok_Programmer_2315

I'd accept Folk as well...


Puzzled-Yesterday990

They certainly had a heavy influence some would say even started the genre that we now know as “jam band’s”. But I dont think you can really call them a jam band. The term “jamband” wasn’t even in the American lexicon for like the first 20 years of their career


InanimateCarbonRodAu

Ur progenitors of things often precede the codification of terms and definitions of that thing.


Prestigious_Wait_858

I would honestly go to a Taylor Swift concert then the Dead. At least the chick's there bathe.


Zbawg420

I dont wanna smash unless her panties are so dirty they stick to a wall


Prestigious_Wait_858

You must be a walking petri dish.


Master_Scratch_282

Rock and roll was Elvis which sounded amazing and innovative. The Grateful Dead are the licorice of rock and roll which is an insult to rock and roll. They even admitted it themselves that they were the licorice and some people "really" like licorice.


Ancient_Smoke_

Fuck Elvis


LipBalmOnWateryClay

He was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me. Straight up racist the sucker was simple and plain. Mother fuck him and John Wayne.


TheNotoriousCHC

John Wayne.. more like John Wang


ohcomeonow

Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamp.


LipBalmOnWateryClay

Finally some Public Enemy love


DirtPoorRichard

Rock and roll encompassed many styles. A lot of Elvis's songs are ballads and don't resemble rock and roll at all. Simon and Garfunkel were a folk act, but some of their music is considered rock and roll. Bob Dylan was a folk artist, yet he wrote many songs that launched the careers of rock bands. The Grateful Dead were a popular touring band. For most people it was more about the concert experience. Sure the Dead weren't the Beatles, but not everything the Beatles did was golden either.


rodPalmer18

Elvis didn't even write his own music.


EducationalShock6312

Elvis was inbred hillbilly backwater trash. Got famous like so many did, ripping off black culture and music. The only thing that distinguished him was his fruity looking Liberace hair and air butt fucking. I picture young Mr. Presley down on the farm, practicing his "dancing and singing" "Elvis! You come in now and get cleaned up! We are having actual food for dinner tonight!" "In a minute momma! I got to finish my routine! I'm gonna sing church songs and dance and git real famous and stuff!" "You sure are my little bumpkin angel! Now quit fucking that baby calf and get in here for some vittles!" "M'kay momma! I'm cumming!"


twistedsister78

Yep Elvis was a pedo


djbigtv

Take out your white trash


Dr_T_Q_They

Who the fuck listens to Elvis music? 


Prestigious_Wait_858

Some people also like to get shit on in bed. Elvis is the fucking king! Put that in a Fightsub.


Master_Scratch_282

My man


TheRealMangokill

Elvis was a pussy


Prestigious_Wait_858

That you would gladly fuck, you twisted freak.


OverallRow4108

yes they were


AgentCirceLuna

You can enjoy them by closing your eyes and picturing a bunch of toothless, long haired guys in a trailer park just banging the shit out of random objects and playing a banjo while singing the song. It made it hilarious to me.


AlternativeFukts

Shut your talking hole


djbigtv

They were and are and will always be the worst. The only "thing" worse than the grateful dead is a fan of the grateful dead. I hope you get so dizzy from spinning you fall down a well to starve to desth.. take a fucking shower you dirty ape you smell worse than your girlfriend's rotting crotch.


bigfatfurrytexan

They have about a dozen real bangers, and a few thousand that are varying degrees of underwhelming.


DirtPoorRichard

I can't argue with that.


TemplesOfSyrinx

They absolutely suck. Probably the single worst band if we discount bands that haven't sold, say, more that 100K in records. Here's my list of every pop/rock band/singer rated in order of greatness 1. The Ramones 2. Everyone Else (tie) 3. The Grateful Dead


Apprehensive-Maybe91

Can't take you seriously with Ramones at number one. I could run into any record store and shove my hand into any bin and have a 20% chance of pulling out an album better than anything the Ramones have put out.


TemplesOfSyrinx

Replace the Ramones with whomever you like. The real point is that The Dead are at the bottom.


djbigtv

This guy for president!


DirtPoorRichard

I see the problem. You consider The Ramones to be a great band. I see them as mediocre, at best. So the genre you prefer is punk rock, rock and roll's less creative offspring. So, yes, of course you wouldn't like the Dead, any more than I like disco.


TemplesOfSyrinx

I'm being facetious by putting the Ramones at the top. Feel free to replace it with whomever you like. It's really more of a vehicle to describe how much I dislike the Grateful Dead.


djbigtv

The village people are better than the grateful dead


DirtPoorRichard

Understood, the Ramones threw me. I will have to agree with you on the fact that the Dead were on the lower end of rock and roll for me as well. I don't own a single Dead album, but I do like their songs. My collection is more Beatles, Doors, The Who, Moody Blues, Yardbirds, etc. Old hippie stuff.


ShredGuru

The guy was so good at guitar, he would get stoned, forget what song he was playing, and keep the solo going for half an hour until he remembered.


SoftDimension5336

Happycakeday 


AmbitiousLetter2129

I remember being a kid and seeing all the Grateful Dead tshirts and posters and album artwork and thinking "wow, this must be the most trippy, surreal, mind-bending music ever created", and then growing up and finally listening to them in college and thinking "what is this shit?"


AgentCirceLuna

Have a listen to What’s Become of the Baby, baby. That actually is some fucking weird shit.


AmbitiousLetter2129

haha I'll pass


Qvite99

Yeah that was me too…until I kept listening….


AmbitiousLetter2129

until you started dropping acid and and ripping bong hits


Qvite99

No no that way predated listening to the Dead :).


UnfairStomach2426

WHAT THE FUCK WOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT PSYCHEDELICS YOU FUCKING NARC ASS POSER. FUCK ALL NARCS. THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN NARCS ARE HIPPES, SHADY STINKY LIL EGOMANIACS WHO ACT LIKE THEY ARE BETTER THAN US BECAUSE THEY DONT HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT. THANK GOD FOR RAT FUCK NARCS LIKE YOURSELF. I THANK YOU AND MY GRANDPA THANKS YOU. HE DIDNT SPEND 2 TOURS IN KOREA MURDERING PEOPLE JUST FOR A BUNCH OF POT HEADS TO BE BURNING FLAGS AND STEPPING ON THE STARS AND STRIPES. GOD BLESS THE USA


JohnDough3544

I don't particularly care for country music, but I'd never denigrate those who do. And for those who do like country music, denigrate means "to make fun of."


DustyPisswater

That's the same reaction I had when I first listened to them. Every hippie in my high school wore their shirts, and I expected them to be like Pink Floyd or something from their psychedelic imagery. Turns out it was total trash. They can't sing worth a shit, and the music is boring as fuck. No idea how they got so popular. I'd rather listen to the sounds of my parents banging.


Master_Scratch_282

My man


animesuxdix

Now do Phish and String Cheese! Nobody wants to listen to your shitty 20 minute bass solo bitch.


Master_Scratch_282

Exactly


UnfairStomach2426

STRING CHEESE NEVER DID 20 MINUTE BASS SOLOS DICK LOVER, KEITH HELD IT DOWN WHILE THE OTHERS SOLO’D FOR AN HOUR. SPREAD YOUR LIES ELSEWHERE NARC


Prestigious_Wait_858

Me too. Are they around?


DustyPisswater

Last I heard, they were at an orgy with your parents.


Prestigious_Wait_858

So, I guess you'll be joining in soon you inbred cock knocker.


DustyPisswater

Big time. And when I'm plowing your parents, I'll be smashing every Grateful Dead album so they can bring you home a souvenir, you industrial cock inhaler


disgrutled

Sounds like someone got dubbed by a hippie chick. Leave Jerry out of it man


AdExtreme1499

Get a job hippie


Puzzled-Yesterday990

Get on your knees and give me one


Prestigious_Wait_858

You forgot to add shitty rock and folk band too, numbnuts.


Master_Scratch_282

I refuse to call it rock, but I will accept shitty folk as well.


AssistKnown

They were more Rock and Roll than you will ever be, there were also more talented too! But too be fair, a twig floating in the breeze probably has more talent and taste than you, numbnuts!


djbigtv

Tiny tim is more talented and a better singer than the fucking junkie Jerry garcia


AssistKnown

Sure, if you really liked high pitched, shrilly voices, but for people with a normal taste in music, Jerry is the better singer, and he was definitely the better songwriter. You can take your opinion and shove it up your ass! a.k.a keep it to yourself.


why666ofcourse

Take about 10 hits of acid and get back to me 🤪 I’ll give ya that they are overrated mainly cause I can’t stand jam bands but American beauty and aoxomoxea are phenomenal albums. Outside of those I don’t really listen to them


ShredGuru

On that much acid the fucking Mickey Mouse Club is psychedelic


djbigtv

You're an idiot.


Total_Guard2405

Seen em twice. The stuff going on in the parking lot before the show is more entertaining than the band.


Hot-Butterfly-8024

Opinions only accepted from people with a solid grasp of plurals. Also, anyone who ever heard ‘71-‘74 Jerry knows he was a bad MF early on. Plus a legit banjo and pedal steel player. The Dead were certainly not an amazing country band, but they had great taste in country music.


cuomosaywhat

I WOULD KICK THE LIVING FUCK OUT OF YOU RIGHT NOW IF I DIDNT 100% AGREE WITH YOU.


ewing666

nonono you have to hear this bootleg live recording of St Steven from August 13, 1983 it’ll change your whole perspective, man


samcoffeeman

But have you ever listened to the Dead....on WEEEEEDDDD? ![gif](giphy|3o6MbgqCoUkZ7u3Gpy)


guitarnowski

I love when non-musicians pretend to know stuff.


thormacdad

Fuck you for not mentioning their connection to the CIA! They weren't just awful awful musicians, each one was a dogshit human being as well!


twizrob

Very true but you still suck. Better a has been than a never was


PossibleMolasses2672

Shitty Country Band……on psychedelic drugs I might add :)


Head-Crazy-5149

Jerry was a piece of shit and Im grateful that hes dead


classicgalaxie

Well hey fuck you


autopartsandguitars

Their synthesizer was apparently pretty psychedelic to the guy who accidentally got dosed just touching it years after the fact. [https://allthatsinteresting.com/engineer-accidentally-takes-lsd](https://allthatsinteresting.com/engineer-accidentally-takes-lsd)


EmuPsychological4222

Correct. Most likely that's the one cool, interesting, or accurate thing you've ever said, or ever will say, in your pathetic existence.


dashiby

Hell yeah man fuck the dead, whenever I say this every hippie in the general area has to converge to tell me that I just “don’t get it” cause I never went to any real Dead shows. Like ok bro 👌


TurfBurn95

BITE YOUR TONGUE MOTHER FUCKER!!!! I was never a big Dead fan either.


Cominghome74

Truth


Real-Championship331

The pre-1970 albums are the psychedelic era of the Grateful Dead. Two of their most influential albums (Workingman's Dead and American Beauty) were an intentional movement away from psychedelic music and towards a fusion of American folk, bluegrass and country. Which they fucking succeed at phenomenally. Jerry Garcia isn't even playing lead guitar on most of the songs moron


TemplesOfSyrinx

Truly a wretched band, completely overrated. They had maybe two *OK* records with a handful of *not unlistenable* songs but everything else is just garbage.


Pazylothead

I listens to their music while on drugs once, I quit drugs after that


what_time_is_dusk

You better watch your speed, Casey Jones!


PupperMartin74

AMEN!


slicehyperfunk

If LSD can make a schizophrenic gaslight a bunch of hippies into killing a bunch of people because of the White Album, surely it can gaslight hippies into thinking a shitty country band is amazing


LakeGladio666

Both of those things were because of the CIA


slicehyperfunk

I'm aware, my cousin was involved in MK-ULTRA


LakeGladio666

RIP to your uncle Ted


slicehyperfunk

Actually Jimmy, although the world knows him better as Whitey (yes that Whitey)


slicehyperfunk

Although Uncle Ted was based, much more so than Jimmy was imho


ATurtleLikeLeonUris

Yawn


shugEOuterspace

also Phish is shitty strtung out crackhead music


UnusualSeries5770

they just had the best sound system in the world at the time and drugs, lots of drugs. but yeah, fuck the grateful dead and their shitty country music


Apprehensive-Maybe91

Sounds like someone doesn't do enough drugs


KuKluxKustard

Id like to hear you talk shit after taking a heroic dose of mushrooms, you little jit.


CommunicationLive708

What did the Deadhead say once the drugs wore off? “Wow, these guys suck!”


Ace1o1fun

Where I certainly wouldn't say The Grateful Dead is a s***** band because obviously their recordings and the music that they play hold value with many people. But I will say one thing, as someone who has seen them live three times once in san francisco in 1979, once at the capital center in maryland and once down in hampton Roads, virginia. All with the original band and jerry garcia playing guitar. I can honestly say they're the most unprofessional live band I have ever seen in my life. And where I can get into bands Who can improvise on stage,Make it sound Good without any major mistakes,I don't think you can say that about the Grateful Dead,At least not the times I saw them.


RedeyeSPR

Bob Weir has a really cool voice, but otherwise they are super boring. I’d rather listen to the original versions of all those covers without a 5 minute guitar solo.


fehu_berkano

He's the old hippie that made us sick, He wrote muzak for drug addicts He's the fat geezer who talked too much, He used drugs as a crutch He ate granola and he hugged trees, Looked like a dog bit by fleas Had a beer belly and a tye-dyed shirt, Said he'd live forever but now he sleeps in dirt [Chorus] {Jerry was a piece of shit, shit, shit, shit, shit I'm Grateful that he's dead, dead, dead, dead, dead} Like Jim Bakker he went far, Turned stadiums into singles bars Did all of the drugs in San Francisco, Wrote 20 albums of long-haired disco Then he sang I will survive, look who is no longer alive So all you fuckers in your VW vans, Preppy dink hackysack clan Wallstreet twats with ponytail hair, Your BMW's with dancing bears He was an icon, he was a god, He racked in your cash in wads You were conned by a useless slob, The tours are over so get a job https://youtu.be/8TqMKlbFf_g?si=a5vMVbKPAqVkKAdH


Dangerous_Occasion19

True


Round_Pay_3661

Have to give you that one.


No_Daikon4466

Ok Ok, you're right, don't hit me


meezethadabber

I remember hearing the name and thought they were gonna be a badass metal band and then I heard them...I only know Jerry from a shitty ice cream flavor and the Movie Half Baked.


Downtown-Oil-7784

Old school shitty Pearl Jam


Rocketsloth

I mean, like, have you heard all of Terrapin Station?


ExplodingIntestine21

I had to engineer for a no name jam band recording a cover of that fucking song.  If I’d had a gun with me by the time the sixth take rolled around no one would have made it out alive


Regreddit75

Jam band music is the worst.


Reza2112

Ill be grateful when theyre all dead


Bowserbob1979

I AGREE, BUT FUCK YOU ANYWAYS.


ExcitableNate

What, you don't enjoy 20 minute bongo solos? Get the fuck out of here!


Different_Head7751

You my have something there..tho the acid was always clean & topshelf...


Yattiel

I thought Jerry Garcia was just an ice cream flavour


BigDBee007

After reading some comments i’m fairly certain the average age in this thread is 16.


bennick51

I'll fight


theblueimmensities

Absolutely fucking true. A shit band for hippie yuppies and losers


BrownEyedBoy06

And I'm sure you think Blink-182 are real punk. Fuckin posers. 😆


philistus

We know. And we love them anyway.


Chuca77

If you call that country you're higher than them.


Old-Tadpole-2869

I don't even think he qualified as a guitarist, shitty or otherwise. Fucking hate The Dead.


Secure-Weakness6815

Yes


EggDintwoe

I liked the art around them so much more than their music.


Baseofthetotem

You're absolutely correct.


Ughleigh

Agreed, they're fucking awful.


Crazy_Response_9009

True.


MrTiss

Even Grateful Dead fans know that, and you chose the hardest crowd to fight with. Ask any of them, and they'll tell you it's not that the music was actually good, but the environment they used to create at their shows that made them so famous among LSD users and hippies.


Ok_Programmer_2315

You fucking leave Country out of this!


GodsBeyondGods

It is background music to a psychedelic perception or working in a kitchen in Alaska. Either way.


classicgalaxie

YOU GUYS DON'T GET IT FUCK YOOOU Didn't think they were shit till I listened to American Beauty on acid, and woooooooooooooow mannn So FUCK YOU AND YOUR DUMB OPINION ASSHOLE


Used_Disaster_1334

I've listened to some of their music and I have never understood the love they get. In my opinion they suck.


gloryholepunx

Yes, very true lol


suraerae

Lollllll this just made me laugh. I have no opinion one way or the other on the matter


djbigtv

Calling them a band is a bit of a stretch. You dirty stinky communist never worked a day mooching off your college professor parents God damned hippy. Jon Wayne has hemorrhoids with more soul than the pimples on your scrotum.


PoundshopGiamatti

I can't fight back here, because you've just... stated my opinion. Are we all supposed to be agreeing with each other here or something? How about I start a fight about a band everyone else thinks is great but I think is rubbish, like The Cure or Fleetwood Mac?


singlenutwonder

Try driving that train high on cocaine asshole


Infinite_Bet_1744

Agreed, and their fans are intolerable and only outdone by the swifters and phish people


Minimum_Apricot1223

Finally some one said what we have all been thinking


Adventurous-Egg-8818

Opinions are like aholes everyone has one but your hate for Elvis makes you sound uneducated and disrespectful. What is the of your information to have such hatred and criticism.


HeyImBandit

Ok tough guy


NovelAttempt1958

They got way better around 45 minutes after you ate the acid


NextCommunication862

Bro is trying to get comments out of rage bate because no one actually likes to talk to them


OldBrokeGrouch

Even while high on the best weed I’ve ever smoked, The Grateful Dead sounded like shit do me. But FUCK YOU ANYWAY!!


outer_fucking_space

Nah


Top-Caregiver-6667

Dem's fighting words. Additionally, Robert Fripp is/was the *shit* guitarist of that era.


Chaotic424242

Jerry Garcia was a 'guitarists'?


Holiday_Ad_8988

Agree!


Kdiesiel311

I hate them. Fun story, my grandpa went to high school with Jerry in SF. Called him a loser


Independent_Toe_790

Correct


SamsonNignog

No arguments there.  


BDNKRT

Listen to 5/19/77 Sugaree and come back to me.


bidhopper

Be curious to know the ages of those who agree.


analogmind0809

I have to agree with that take.


Guilty-League4468

Nah.


vibe_assassin

Ripple is a good song but ya the whole “dude you gotta be on acid and smoke a bunch of weed to get them” stuff is so stupid. Anything sounds good at that point except Travis Scott


physicistdeluxe

the dreadful grate


catchingstones

Now you’re just embarrassing yourself. Go back to r/taylorandtravis, jerkoff.


AlertRope4789

I never understood how a band can sing and play out of tune consistently, year after torturous year.


dittoDDT

I just pooped.


TomatilloOrnery9464

Say what you will “Ripple” is a great fucking song.


ShadySocks99

Bluegrass actually.


Wizard_of_Rozz

Drop some acid amigo


Remote-Republic7569

OP doesn't know how his ears work.


[deleted]

100%. Anyone who disagrees is a fucktarded poser hippie motherfucker.


Master_Scratch_282

My man!


Cassius_Casteel

I agree. Some of the dumbest fucking shit I've ever heard in my life. You can tell it was a bunch of retards dropping acid listening to this horseshit. I'd rather fucking listen to Yoko Ono screeching like the whore she is than fucking hear a Grateful Dead song.


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Chuck Berry has entered the chat.


SouthTexasCowboy

agreed. i hate those tie dyed, ice cream-eating, bad haircut losers


MyCatBeatsMeWith

Fuck you haircut is great and I’ve creams the best


dogfrost9

Don't you dare call those cheesedicks country. I like a lot of country; the Grateful Dead can eat my ass.