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Go to Heaven by The Grateful Dead
Go to Heaven is an album by The Grateful Dead, released in 1980. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 12 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Althea”, on 6 lists with a best position of #272.
Go to Heaven, released on Arista on April 28, 1980, was the Grateful Dead's eleventh studio album and the first with Brent Mydland on keyboards. For the third studio record running they handed the production to an outsider, this time Gary Lyons, and the result is the Dead at their most buffed and radio-friendly.
Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and the twin drums of Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart play it tight and tidy, and Mydland's keys add a fresh sheen. "Alabama Getaway" rocks like a bar band on a good night, and "Althea" is a loping, laid-back groove. It was also the last Dead studio album for more than seven years; after this, the stage was where the story happened.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Go to Heaven on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Althea | 6 | #272 | – | 2019–2026 | |
| 2 | Alabama Getaway | 6 | #394 | – | 1991–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.