Terrapin Station

This article is about the studio album by Grateful Dead. For the live album, see Terrapin Station (Limited Edition). For the suite from the album often called 'Terrapin Station', see Terrapin Part 1.
Terrapin Station
A painting of two terrapins dancing and play tambourines outside of a train station
Studio album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedJuly 27, 1977 (1977-07-27)
RecordedNovember 2, 1976 – May 8, 1977
StudioSound City Studios, Van Nuys
Automated Sound Studios, New York City
AIR Studios, London
Trident Studios, London
Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre
Length35:38
LabelArista
ProducerKeith Olsen
Grateful Dead chronology
Steal Your Face
(1976) 		Terrapin Station
(1977) 		What a Long Strange Trip It's Been
(1977)
Singles from Terrapin Station
  1. "Dancin' in the Streets"
    Released: October 1977
  2. "Passenger"
    Released: November 1977
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Rolling Stone[4]

Terrapin Station is the ninth studio album (and fourteenth overall) by American rock band the Grateful Dead, released July 27, 1977. It was the first Grateful Dead album on Arista Records and the first studio album after the band returned to live touring.

The album reached No. 28 on the Billboard Album Chart and achieved gold album status in 1987, after being released for the first time on CD (by Arista Records) following the release of that year's In the Dark. Terrapin Station was remastered and expanded for the Beyond Description (1973–1989) box set in October 2004.

It was voted number 848 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[6]

  1. ^ Richardson, Peter (2015). No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead. St. Martin's Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-1250082145. Terrapin Station was a major departure from their earlier efforts—more symphonic, and with a progressive, jazz-rock overlay...
  2. ^ Planer, Lindsay. "Terrapin Station". AllMusic. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ The Grateful Dead Album Guide Archived 2011-06-28 at the Wayback Machine, Rolling Stone
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
  6. ^ Colin Larkin (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 262. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.