“Thunderhead”.
One main reason. Deer Creek, I mean Verizon Wireless whatever, 7-23-03 I think, one of the most ripping running blazing out of control Antelopes I have heard in person, followed by Thunderhead. Talk about the biggest energy killer I have ever seen in any concert. I actually forgot for a few days they played Slave afterwards, it was that bad for me.
Anything but me…always upset me to hear them waste time playing this song
I’m with you on Friday Icculus.
I semi-agree with Icculus.
The beginning/lyrical section of Friday is horrible. Although once they start the “jam” section, I do not think it is too bad. Not good, but not bad.
Oddly enough I love ‘Anything But Me.’ Maybe I’m in the minority, but I think Phish’s ballads/slower songs are some of their best material. Whenever I get to ‘Squirming Coil’ I think “oh great, another one of these with a Page solo at the end. Whoopee.” But once I get into it, I love it.
Least favorite? I guess ‘Mexican Cousin’, but only because I wish they’d have left it off the album in favor of something else. It just screams “live only” to me in the way that ‘Buffalo Bill’ is occasionally amusing but not something I’ve ever wanted to hear.
I don’t care to much for the actual song roundroom
Mexican Cousin is their worst song ever.
don’t like friday.
HAHA-Mexican Cousin… 2/28/03 my friends and I were reeling from a great week or so on tour (we had no idea what we were getting in to that night at nassau, but thats a whole nother story) and as we sat in a hotel room getting ready to go the lots, my friend Mahon promised that if they played Mexican Cousin he was going to throw a bottle at Trey’s head. All I can say, is thank god we were way up in the arena and that there were plastic bottles at the collesium that night. Good times.
With that being said, definitely do not enjoy Friday.
Thumbs down to thunderhead…
personally i love mexican cousin and always have…when trey played it acoustic this summer in chicago i went crazy…why all the hate towards cousin
Friday is pretty damn bad… I gotta say
Whats with all you you hating on friday. I love the lyrics to this song. I often sing it to myself. I bought this album the day it came out and just thought, Damn this is a good album and I loved Friday, I still like it, but only as a friend. I also have to say that now that i listen to this album more Roundroom from start to finish is an amazing album, without a single BAD song on it. I even am retracting what i said about roundroom, because that song has grown on me.
Has anyone heard that the “roundroom” album plays to “home alone” like “dark side of the moon” plays to “wizard of oz”? Think about the beginning of “Pebbles and Marbles” seems like it could be possible, but i dont have a copy of “Home Alone” sitting around to test it. Someone try it out and please get back to me!
I don’t remember exactly, but I think I remember this being a phish.net April Fools joke.
Maybe so and maybe not.
Mock Song does nothing for me.
I do like Friday and Thunderhead for the record.
I finally got this album and all I can say is that I would rather listen to Friday 20 times in a row than listen to Mexican Cousin twice in a row…I really didn’t think Phish had it in them to write a song that bad…not even so much Trey, but Tom…Jesus man, what were you thinking?
One of the worst produced albums I’ve ever heard in my life. Terrible singing, lackluster playing, mediocre songs, I don’t know why the band would ever put their name on something like this except to fulfill a commitment to Electra records with disdain in their hearts.
But to throw this shit out there knowing that in the end their loyal phanbase would be the only ones to buy it, kind of pisses me off. If Electra didn’t deserve more effort, we certainly did.
^ But really fone…on the other side of the coin, it is their most “jammed” album…sure they might sacrifice the crafting of some of the songs, but it really sounds like some parts are spontaneous, which you just don’t really get with any other phish albums. Not just the jams, but the songs often sound, if not spontaneous, than certainly like they are developing them as they are recording them.
I didn’t get it at first…but I’m starting to view Roundroom as a kind of portal that allows us to glimpse into Phish’s creative process in the studio. Because the songs aren’t rehearsed and rehearsed until they lose their original “vibe” (for lack of a better word), it makes it seem like it is always kind of fresh in my mind. Even if some of the songs never turned into much (Mexican Cousin), the ones that did (46 Days, 7 Below) couldn’t have reached the heights they did without first being hammered out in the studio like this.
I don’t know that it’s my favorite phish album, but it has definately earned a place in my Top 5…Move over Farmhouse.
I would tend to agree with you if it weren’t for the fact that we get those aspects of Phish that you mentioned in every live show boot. The studio is the place to craft your music, to present that iconoclastic arrangement of the concept that you want to present to the world. What in god’s name is so special about Trey’s crackly out-of tune singing on this CD? We get that on practically every live show already.
Respectfully disagree. I think there was some distinctly special qualities to the basic songs on Round Room that were never given the proper chance to be developed. Yes, you did hear the rough takes on all of these songs. I’m just frustrated because I would like to have heard a finished product.
And don’t even get me started about Farmhouse.