Grateful When You're Dead

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"Grateful When You're Dead / Jerry Was There"
Single by Kula Shaker
from the album K
Released22 April 1996 (1996-04-22)
Recorded1996
Genre
Length5:42
Label Columbia Records
Songwriter(s) Crispian Mills
Producer(s) John Leckie, Shep & Dodge, Crispian Mills

"Grateful When You're Dead / Jerry Was There" 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

  1. "Grateful When You're Dead/Jerry Was There"
  2. "Another Life"
  3. "Under the Hammer"

References

  1. "Grateful When You're Dead / Jerry Was There" at OfficialCharts.com
  2. Kulkarni, Neil (14 September 1996). "Kula Shaker: K". Melody Maker .