I might say Fee is my least favorite because I’m tired of it. My daughter (age 14 - yes, a Phish phan!) always wants to hear it! I guess I can’t complain that she asks for Phish…
FEE IS SO LEGIT
If I had to pick a least favorite from the album I’d say “Contact.” It just never did much for me, which is unfortunate since this album contains three of my favorite Phish tunes and what I consider to be three of the quintessential Phish songs.
YEM
David Bowie
The Divided Sky
The first time I heard these songs I realized for the first time that music could be deep, meaningful and profound without heavy reliance on just lyrical content.
‘Contact’ is pure Gordon goofy, and I understand why people would not like it. But the jam when played live is great, always something a little funky.
I think for me personally it didn’t help that surrounding it are some of my absolutely favorite songs. So any marginally good song even would seem worse by comparison.
I just tried relistening to some live versions of it and I still can’t get much out of it. I like that they always seem to be having fun while playing it, but it still just doesn’t do it for me really.
Well, If we can pick bonus tracks… Union Federal. Even though it was a special recording seesion, considering it was an Oh Kee Pa Ceremony.
I love most of the songs on this album. Juanta is the firt album I listened to, so it’s still my favorite. I don’t particularly like Union Federal.
id go with union federal
I actually don’t consider Union Federal, Icculus and Sanity actually part of the album as they were tacked on to the re-release by the record company years later.
On actual album which was released on cassette in 1989 I think David Bowie sounds a little bit stiff in the recording studio and it was on the concert stage where it really began to shine.
Excluding the extra tracks, this is a tough question. Its seems every one of these songs blossomed into fan favorites. I loved hearing all of them live, but maybe for the album, Dinner and a Movie was my least favorite, but pinned up agianst the other songs on other albums it blows them out.
^yeah i could say that
Easily (excluded the bonus stuff) Dinner and a Movie, though it was funny to hear that at Brooklyn 6/17/04, knowing that people all over were watching the show in movie theatres.
Man, what a great album this is!
i say that union federal is my least favorite. I think a song can go on for as long as it wants to live, because its a different energy, but in the studio I think that energy just isn’t there and you should cut it to under 20 minutes.
I would have to say Dinner and a Movie as well. I must say I havent really listened to the composition as much and just fockused on the music but the lyrics are just that bad.
Union Federal gets my vote. Just don’t listen to it all that much.
I LOVE every song on the album besides Contact and Union Federal. I like both of these but these are my least favorite, especially Union Federal. That album is my second favorite album of all time, next to A. Bros.- Live at Fillmore East. I love the crispness, the mellowness, and the rockin’ ass jams. It’s wierd to me to hear phans say they don’t like songs like Divided Sky, Foam, Sanity, or Fee but we are all different. This album must be jammed occasionally.
My favorite studio album.
It’ll never sit right w/me that they tacked on the three bonus tracks.
If we’re talkin original release, then my least favorite track is probably Fee. Only because every other track on this album kicks my ears’ ass so much more.
If we’re talking Elektra’s CD reissue (note - the tape Elektra released had no bonus stuff; Divided Sky started side B), then definately Union Federal is my least favorite track of all 14 tracks.
I could definately go without Union Federal.
Contact
Reading through this thread I just want to point out that Fee is in fact a dude and does not suck.
The worst song is on this album for me is Union Federal. Isn’t it more of a jam?