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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
ReleasedApril 22, 1996 (1996-04-22)
Recorded1996
GenrePsychedelic rock
Length5:42
LabelColumbia 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

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  1. "Grateful When You're Dead/Jerry Was There"
  2. "Another Life
  3. "Under the Hammer"
  • Catalogue number CD: KulaCD2
  • Catalogue number 7": Kula 72

References

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