The Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (Top 500 Countdown Update)

Take out "Cumberland Blues" and "Easy Wind" and you have a fantastic album. With them you have a very good album. These songs are fine on there own, but they just don't seem to fit in with the rest of the album. "Casey Jones" is a bit off as well, but it is such a catchy song it's hard to label it as being a negative influence. I've never listened to the Dead before this countdown except for what I've heard here and there. Where Anthem of the Sun lacked a pop sense this album has it in spades and it really works for me. I'm not sure who influenced Wilco, but I'm guessing they are big fans of this album and I am as well.