Beyond Description (1973–1989) is the second twelve-CD box set retrospective of the Grateful Dead's studio and live albums. A companion to The Golden Road (1965–1973) box set, it covers their time on the Grateful Dead Records and Arista Records labels, from 1973 to 1989. The set contains expanded and remastered versions of all the albums during the brief period with their own label (except Steal Your Face), and during their time on Arista (except Without a Net and later box set So Many Roads). Included are numerous previously unreleased studio outtakes and live tracks. The ten albums in the set are Wake of the Flood, From the Mars Hotel, Blues for Allah, Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street, Go to Heaven, In the Dark, Built to Last, and the two live albums Reckoning and Dead Set (both expanded to two-CD sets). Pre-ordered copies included a bonus disc with five live tracks and a studio rehearsal. The albums, with the bonus tracks, were given individual release in 2006. Previous box set Dead Zone, released in 1987, contains six of the same albums.

Track listing

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Disc One: Wake of the Flood

Disc Two: From the Mars Hotel

Disc Three: Blues for Allah

Disc Four: Terrapin Station

Disc Five: Shakedown Street

Disc Six: Go to Heaven

Disc Seven: Reckoning, disc 1

Disc Eight: Reckoning, disc 2

Disc Nine: Dead Set, disc 1

Disc Ten: Dead Set, disc 2

Disc Eleven: In the Dark

Disc Twelve: Built to Last

Bonus Disc

Notes

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Additional performers

Production