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Aoxomoxoa

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  • Audio CD (1 Nov 1994)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: WEA
  • ASIN: B000002KAX
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. St. Stephen (Remastered LP Version) 4:26£0.69
Listen  2. Dupree's Diamond Blues (Remastered LP Version) 3:32£0.69
Listen  3. Rosemary (Remastered LP Version) 1:58£0.69
Listen  4. Doin' That Rag (Remastered LP Version) 4:41£0.69
Listen  5. Mountains Of The Moon (Remastered LP Version) 4:02£0.69
Listen  6. China Cat Sunflower (Remastered LP Version) 3:40£0.69
Listen  7. What's Become Of The Baby (Remastered LP Version) 8:12£0.69
Listen  8. Cosmic Charlie (Remastered LP Version) 5:29£0.69

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Named after one of famed San Francisco poster artist Rick Griffin's lysergic palindromes, the Grateful Dead's third album saw the band inject their acid-fueled sting into folk music of various ages. Hunter added a lyrical landscape perfectfor the band's blend of exploration and tradition. Portraits of a rebellious mystic ("St. Stephen") and a dandy day-tripper ("Cosmic Charlie"), proper Olde English tales ("Dupree's Diamond Blues"), and hallucinatory excursions to the borders of Hunter's muse ("China Cat Sunflower", "Mountains Of The Moon") are remarkable in that their expansive overview is interwoven with precise detail.
The elongated strides of ANTHEM OF THE SUN were replaced with short bursts that hinted at the music's timeless sources. "St. Stephen" is a raw clarion call from Temple Mount. "Dupree's Diamond Blues" sounds like it fell out of the bluegrass tradition into a field of poppies. "Cosmic Charlie" is built on a "Revolution"-like riff, but with a far more subtle thrust and sweetly contraryharmonies. And "What's Become Of The Baby" is a nearly nine-minute excursion into weirdness that clearly mapped out oneof the interstellar musical spaces the Grateful Dead had begun visiting.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cosmic Charlies, 11 Oct 2001
The 4th album from the Grateful Dead has one of the most memorable sleeves of the era, several songs (St Stephen, China Cat Sunflower) which later became live staples, some of Robert Hunter's finest lyrics, wonderful harmonising, a frightening 8 minute halluncinogenic mantra, the awsome Mountains of the Moon, and a slightly country tinged feel in places (especially Dupree's Diamond Blues) which later made its full presence felt on Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. But best of all it has one of the finest closing tunes to an album ever, Cosmic Charlie, which is practically the Dead in a five minute nutshell. Mindblowing stuff!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Studio Dead, 15 Aug 2007
By Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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Aoxomoxoa was the band's third album, the eagerly awaited follow-up to Anthem Of The Sun, originally released in June 1969, but remixed and re-released in July 1971, and it is this remix that has been used for subsequent CD re-issues.

Whereas Anthem synthesized the bands live and studio halves into a glorious whole, Aoxomoxoa is a purely studio affair, more song based, and although some lengthier pieces were considered and rehearsed in the studio for the album, they were not used as they were considered more suitable for a live setting. The Eleven, for example, was instead recorded live for their fourth album, the legendary Live Dead, which was being recorded at live concerts during the same period. To quote Jerry Garcia from a Deadheads' newsletter, "If you take Live Dead and Aoxomoxoa together, you have a picture of what we were doing then. We were playing Live Dead and we were recording Aoxomoxoa." The studio and live sides of the band had been awarded their own platforms.

Earlier recordings for the album were also junked when the studio acquired an early 16-track Ampex. This was instantly taken up by the band with enthusiasm and is responsible for the album's remarkable clarity, though one of the reason for Jerry Garcia's 1971 remix was that he found the original results muddy and cluttered. He also removed some multi-tracks, harmonies, phase-shifting and stereo effects, which means that whatever our personal preferences we are listening to this album though Garcia's 1971 revisionist ears, not to the band's original 1969 statement. Whilst I wouldn't deny anyone the right to hear the remix, I would also like to hear the record as it sounded in 1969.

The songwriting axes had also changed since the previous album, to which all band members had contributed. The band had met up with writer and lyricist Robert Hunter, and having already collaborated with Garcia on Dark Star, and with Phil Lesh and Pigpen on Anthem Of The Sun's Alligator, had since become the band's lyricist in residence, mostly working with Jerry Garcia. The pair of them composed the entire album (with some musical contribution from Phil Lesh).

The songs have proved themselves of enduring quality, with favourites such as St Stephen (which also appears on Live Dead), China Cat Sunflower and occasionally Cosmic Charlie featuring in the band's live repertoire. Others were precluded from live performance due to the adventurous instrumentation and structure of the studio creations. The lyrics and arrangements are of a maturity that shows that there was far more to the band than mere acid-prankstering and partying, and the band had cohered musically as a unit, with the line-up as before but with Tom Constanten now recruited fully into the band. Only the "difficult" eight-minute chant What's Become Of The Baby breaks up the flow of the record as Americana sing-a-longs like Doin' That Rag complement blues tunes like Dupree's Diamond Blues, the single from the album (Cosmic Charlie being the B-side).

This was to be the band's last overtly psychedelic studio album since the band went through the most organically brilliant reinvention of musical history with 1970's Workingman's Dead.

Note that there is an Expanded Remastered version of this album also available with a playing time more than doubled by bonus tracks.
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