| Aoxomoxoa | ||||
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| Released | June 20, 1969 | |||
| Recorded | September 1968 – March 1969 | |||
| Studio | Pacific Recording, San Mateo Pacific High Recording, San Francisco | |||
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| Length | 36:00 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts | |||
| Producer | Grateful Dead | |||
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Aoxomoxoa is the third studio album by American rock band the Grateful Dead, released on June 20, 1969, by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.[1] It was one of the first rock albums to be recorded using 16-track technology. The title is a meaningless palindrome, usually pronounced /ɒksə.məksˈoʊə/.
Rolling Stone, upon reviewing the album, mentioned that "no other music sustains a lifestyle so delicate and loving and lifelike".[2] The album was certified gold by the RIAA on May 13, 1997.[3] In 1991 Rolling Stone selected Aoxomoxoa as having the eighth best album cover of all time.[4] It was voted number 674 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[5]
- ^ "Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa Images", Discogs. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ^ Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip by Jake Woodward, et al. Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2003, pg. 99.
- ^ "RIAA Gold & Platinum database-Aoxomoxoa". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2009.
- ^ "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Album Covers" Archived July 15, 2012, at archive.today, Rate Your Music, list adapted from November 14, 1991, issue of Rolling Stone. Retrieved on July 29, 2006.
- ^ Colin Larkin (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 219. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.