The heretics
The songs that don’t behave. If the Index only proved that the Beatles are Lennon and the Dead are Garcia, it would not be worth building.
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Most Garcia Beatles
Beatles songs whose identity depends most on what happened while they were being played.
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Dig ItThe Beatles did not write this one. They played it.14 - 2
Yer BluesA Beatles song that travelled between three bands inside a year.31 - 3
FlyingA made-up twelve-bar blues credited to all four, cut down from nine minutes.39 - 4
Get BackIt grew out of a jam, and the Beatles played it three times in one lunchtime.41
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Most Lennon Dead
Dead songs that were finished at the writing desk and stayed finished.
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Attics of My LifeThe most Lennon song the Dead played, and a choir could sing it.88 - 2Box of RainThirteen years off the stage changed nothing about it.85
- 3Brokedown PalaceThe song the band used to say goodnight. It did not need to change.84
- 4RippleHigh on the Index, and the lack of a jam has nothing to do with it.81
Put the two chief heretics head to head
That’s ridiculous… but I kind of see it.
Dead Center
Neither philosophy wins. These are the scored songs closest to 50, where the written song and the played event carry about equal weight.
GARCIAPerformance creates the music
DEAD CENTERNeither wins
LENNONComposition creates the music
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Albums
Pick a record to see where its scored tracks fall. Coverage is partial on every album so far, and each panel says how partial.
Grateful Dead · 1970
American Beauty
Coverage7 / 107 of 10 tracks scored
Median of scored81
Range55–88
Only 7 of 10 tracks are scored. These figures describe those tracks, not the album.
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