Grateful When You're Dead
| "Grateful When You're Dead / Jerry Was There" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Kula Shaker | |
| from the album K | |
| Released | April 22, 1996 |
| Recorded | 1996 |
| Genre | Psychedelic rock |
| Length | 5:42 |
| Label | Columbia Records |
| Songwriter(s) | Crispian Mills |
| Producer(s) | John Leckie, Shep & Dodge, Crispian Mills |
"Grateful When You're Dead" is a song by the English rock band Kula Shaker, taken from their first album K.
The song's title is a reference to the American rock band Grateful Dead and their lead guitarist Jerry Garcia. The song is in two parts: the GWYD part, which is a standard rock song, and the JWT part, which is more drifting with dark and ethnic sounds.
The single was released on 22 April 1996, both as a 7" and a CD, and reached number 35 on the UK singles chart.[1]
In Melody Maker, critic Neil Kulkarni declared "Grateful When You're Dead" and previous release "Tattva" to be "the two worst singles of '96".[2]
Track listing in both formats[edit]
- "Grateful When You're Dead/Jerry Was There"
- "Another Life
- "Under the Hammer"
- Catalogue number CD: KulaCD2
- Catalogue number 7": Kula 72
References[edit]
- ^ "Grateful When You're Dead / Jerry Was There" at OfficialCharts.com
- ^ Kulkarni, Neil (14 September 1996). "Kula Shaker: K". Melody Maker.
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