I can't listen to Phish in very large doses these days. I made it about 2.5 minutes into the title track. I liked the shambling piano and the dark lyrics; wasn't really braced for the jazz boogie that followed. The second song, The Line, started off feeling like some of the more middling entries in their catalog, but it really picks up! I love the background vocals too. I also listened to 555 though and that starts off like all my Mike Gordon thump bass nightmares, so I don't know. I'll check out some of the other songs, maybe later.
― how's life, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 12:23 (nine years ago) link
As far as Phish studio albums go, it's pretty damn solid. It's probably my favorite stduio album of theirs since Billy Breathes or maybe Ghost. I'll be seeing them again later this month, now the third straight summer I've seen Phish 3.0 live.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
"gumbo" is really the only phish song i like. they played it tuesday nite in philly @ mann center.
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
I was listening to "Gotta Jibboo" today on my ride home; I really love that song.
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 July 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
fyi see also people dancing to Phish
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 July 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
their guitar tone is shit
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 11 July 2014 07:24 (nine years ago) link
I think I could actually listen to a ton of isolated instrumental tracks from Phish. Weirdly hypnotic.
― Walter Galt, Friday, November 1, 2013 12:24 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
but i was just thinking this too
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 11 July 2014 07:41 (nine years ago) link
Another thing I ask myself sometimes is "did I really spend 7 years listening to a band that basically had a love song named after a He-Man character?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTRVdogFaWI
― how's life, Monday, 11 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Q: how many dogs/cats did you know named Tela?
― carl agatha, Monday, 11 August 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Thought this might be about the non-ironic huge Spin article ranking 333 of their songs. I knew as soon as the appreciation for Juggalo culture started, Phish would be next. First it was the Vampire Weekend dude professing his Phish love and now Spin. I'm guessing Whiney will probably follow them on Fall Tour for a book (which, all joking aside, I would definitely read).
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 August 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
xp:
LOL. I was giving away a piano last year to some guy on freecycle and took it over to his house in my father-in-law's pickup truck. The guy opens his door and a little dog comes running out. "Tela, go back inside! Good girl." Sure enough, after we're done hauling the piano into his den, there's a Phish concert poster mounted above the mantel.
― how's life, Monday, 11 August 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
I would totally read a WGW-penned Phish book.
― how's life, Monday, 11 August 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/articles/all-333-phish-songs-ranked/
Any list in which Simple is ranked higher than You Enjoy Myself is a sham.
― how's life, Monday, 11 August 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Pleasingly high showing for the title track from Rift though!
i just want to say that if i owned two identical range rovers, i wouldn't want that to get out in the press. it'd make me look like john mccain, or something. (in fact, the two range rovers i own are completely different colors, so i'm safe on that one!)
― rushomancy, Monday, 11 August 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
"Sample in a Jar" is a good song but I just now realized what it's likely about from thinking a microsecond about the title. that's more thinking than I did when I listened to Phish
― Euler, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
My dearly departed and much beloved cat, who was already named when I got her at age 4, was named Sample and I always wondered if she was named after the song. (The person I got her from was not her original owner and didn't know anything about the name.)
Back in the olden days I knew a dog named Tela and cats named Fee, Esther, and Fluffhead.
― carl agatha, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
Phish spotted in the wild:
During last night's NFL game, some production team nerd kept playing "Wilson" as bumper music in honor of Seahwaks' QB Russell Wilson.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
jon, is someone paying you to keep that display name all summer?
― how's life, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Just too lazy to think of something new.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
hadnt realized they played down in mexico, set up looked gorg wow
http://phish.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PRM2016_0115_190720-0283_ALIVECOVERAGE.jpg
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 February 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
HOOSy Steenberg
― how's life, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
waht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_r54FPveiA&feature=youtu.be
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:55 (seven years ago) link
waht?
― brontosaur, Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:09 (seven years ago) link
Trey Anastasio's free jazz side project with MARSHALL ALLEN
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
oh lord this radiohead cover is terriblehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmLPnbH7T0c
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
fishmans singing there right? that @ least used to mean its kinda a joke
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
Not sure what stirred this one from the depths of my mind this morning.
BUFFALO BILLOriginally performed by Phish(Anastasio, Marshall)© Who Is She? Music (BMI)"Looking for owls?" The young man askedHoping to lighten the tensionAnd the scowl he received as his only replyMade him smile as he relived the mentionAnd the coward fool walked on aloneQuite proud of the fear he instilledAnd later they found himtied to a logBent over and buffalo billed
(Anastasio, Marshall)© Who Is She? Music (BMI)
"Looking for owls?" The young man askedHoping to lighten the tensionAnd the scowl he received as his only replyMade him smile as he relived the mention
And the coward fool walked on aloneQuite proud of the fear he instilledAnd later they found himtied to a logBent over and buffalo billed
― how's life, Saturday, 2 December 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
I think the worst thing about Phish might be the music.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 September 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
Rye rye roccoMarco EsquandolasBeen you to have any spike, man?
― how's life, Thursday, 6 September 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
I think the best thing about Faberge eggs might be the precious jewels
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 September 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
The Phish bassist has more strings than the band has good songs.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 September 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
comin down on phish like the wolfman's brother over here
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 September 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
I guess in light of my surprising latecoming to the Dead, I've put on You Enjoy Myself a few times lately and tried to listen with "fresh ears," i.e. as though I had no idea phishheads were a thing. It was pleasant and neat I guess but a bit unsatisfying -- the proggy parts aren't proggy enough, the harmonic movement is sort of mickey mouse, there are parts that *almost* evoke Phillip Glass but don't really lean hard enough into that to seem deliberate. Moments that reminded me of Close to the Edge but only in an approximated sort of way. Ultimately nothing that really made me want to revisit it let alone check out more music.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
Did a couple of looong solo drives this week in a car w Sirius xm and both times found myself stumbling across the phish channel in a moment of desperation. There are some solid moments and I’ve always thought their live mixes and each instrument sound really good. The keyboard dude has an awesome rig full of instruments I’d love to be able to afford and I think he uses them well. The drummer is a million times better than the dead’s guys after 1975. Trey seems like a genuinely nice dude who has handled himself quite well. But in the end it’s just too wanky. And I’m a massive GD apologist.
― tobo73, Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
This band’s saving grace for me is providing fodder for the very entertaining Analyze Phish podcast (R.I.P. Harris Wittels) — a must for fans and haters alike.
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
I second that^^^
― tobo73, Sunday, 28 July 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
I was gonna say “you can’t be serious” but I actually don’t like or hate phish so nevermind
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
is it like that Celine Dion 33 1/3
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:28 (four years ago) link
Just start at Ep. 1, you’ll get the idea pretty quickly. I’ve listened to the whole thing twice through (skipping Ep. 5 & 6, which are a detour involving Jaws).
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link
Out of all the thousands of bands I've seen over the decades Phish is still the least enjoyable performance I've ever endured. That was a support slot too, if I'd had to sit through 3 hours of it or however long they play things might have got nasty.
― crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:06 (four years ago) link
Phish is probably the most ILM-reviled band I kind of love. I went off to college in '94, which was the year they really broke. I mean, I also got into Dream Theater that year, but Dream Theater are the only band I ever stopped liking. Phish, they're still sort of the apotheosis of the hippie jam band thing to me - in '94, I hated the Dead; they were a long, strange train wreck in progress. In the years past I've come around to old Dead and realized the weird mystic power they had that Phish didn't... plus they had some good songs, which Phish never did.
But Phish are all very good musicians who can play well together. I like that. When that first live album of theirs came out I picked up a copy, and I do still enjoy "You Enjoy Myself". I like the intro a lot - I think it's better than the intro to "Firth of Fifth". I could do without the silly mouth noises, but yeah, last October when I realized I'd run out of good Grateful Dead live stuff to listen to I got back to checking out some of the most acclaimed Phish recordings, and there are some very good ones.
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 July 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
http://renameforall.com/get-involved/suggest-a-name/
There is a petition to suggest names for Denver, CO's Stapleton neighborhood, which was originally named after a former Denver mayor and KKK member. Right now the Phishheads are in the lead with Gamehendge. If you know, you know; if you don't, it's really stupid but here. I'm sure this petition is non-binding. I just want you to please click the link and help put the stupid hippies back in their place.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
Oh good, someone is going through the suggestions and policing for morons.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
Glad to see Westrbook back up in the lead by a comfortable margin.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
I get it that they are a live thing, but I love it when fans defend them but go on to say that they don’t really have any good songs or make good albums
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 19 June 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
The name could only beThe one, the onlyThe great and the knowlegeable
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 June 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
lol
― peace, man, Friday, 19 June 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
i owned farmhouse when i was a kid and also loved billy breathes but have never seen phish live and prob know better at this point that to try to get into them again
regardless i do want to talk about how the story of the ghost is a really rad record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
I loved SOTG back when I was a Phishhead. It was a huge record for me. I listened to it again recently to grade my original vinyl before selling it. It was pretty good! Guyute really didn't fit in, stylistically, and I have a personal aversion to all the circus imagery in Roggae, but everything else was solid. Particularly like the title track, Brian and Robert, Shafty.
― peace, man, Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link