I put on this ‘Live Ones vol 5’ compilation I made a while back. It’s like, Hoist/Billy Breathes era material that didn’t make it to studio albums. A pretty fun listen.
I got Party Time on the turntable right now. I’ve said it before, but I’m happy to report that it is STILL getting better w/repeated listens. Ain’t no Junta of course, but it’s a cool album with just a couple less favorable moments. I like many of the songs a lot, despite it not being my favored style of Phish music.
Billy Breathes on in the car yesterday. Eh, this album still sounds like a band with a sudden sense of identity crisis, to me. Not my favorite.
Still though, since I rarely listen to this one, it was nice to hear it. And I had it good and loud too, so I really listened good. Started from Theme, and listened all the way thru Caspian, wondering if there’ll be a blank LP side.
Junta on the turntable today. Side E. I did not mind one bit.
This is kind of a pushy thread title, isn’t it?
I just listened to Siket Disc. Working my way backward thru their albums, vinyl if I’ve got it. Wondering if this will ever get vinyl’d. Also wondering why I’m so dismissive of it … certainly it’s a Phish album, no?
I guess it’d be a cool looking record, because it’d be three songs on side A (what’s the use is disproportionately long compared to the other tracks) and six on B, I reckon.
a
My Left Toe 4.47
The Name Is Slick 3.59
What’s The Use? 11.19
~Total: 20:05
b
Fish Bass 1.11
Quadraphonic Toppling 1.58
The Happy Whip & Dung Song 5.29
Insects 3.11
Title Track 1.00
Albert 2.18
~Total: 15.07
Siket Disc
Slow day at work, being able to catch up on random things.
Background music.
Rift
It’s one of my favorite studio albums right along with Picture of Nectar. Rift was the first dosage of the Phish for me and the first album I listened to in it’s entirety (I had heard a few tracks off Junta)
It’s always in my car, but tend to slack at times on their studio albums… Not sure why… Cause them im reminded, why don’t I listen to these more
I think Sparkle and Weigh in hindsight would of fit nicely on Hoist.
Im also listening to Billy Breathes as it is also always in my car. Great album, and a good choice for when you really aren’t in the mood to listen to music, but at the same time you are 
Does Trey’s new album count? I guess not…
I got Party Time on at work. This album’s pretty strange, but not really strange musically. It’s like Joy 2. But like, straight to home video.
I am now listening to Party Time at work as well, thanks to your post this morning.
Came to the realization I think I have only listened to this 2-4 times. Not sure why, but I plan on finding out now.
OK, so there was definitely some throw away on that album.
But Gordon dominated in my opinion.
Only a Dream & Can’t Come Back need the Phish live treatment.
I stand by the Trey stuff, and I’m not much of a Trey apologist. He had his Treyday. His Trey in the sun.
It’s “In A Misty Glade” I don’t dig. The rest of it has definitely grown on me. The pair of Page tunes on there are great. I don’t see why Windy City isn’t played once in a while.
Came to the realization I think I have only listened to this 2-4 times.
I’m the same. It’s kind of an “outtakes” album but it’s official rather than just some tape that got circulated like the Billy Breathes sessions that had those cool studio versions of stuff like Funky Ghost and Fog That Surrounds. It didn’t help that it took forever for the band to ever have the album available on its own since it was stuffed as part of the Joy box set for so long.
I dusted off Traveler the other day. Still really dig that album.
I thought the other day that maybe I’ll catch up on Trey’s solo work eventually. Somehow have managed to follow Mike’s studio output, but not Trey’s or Page’s. I have a couple Trey albums and one Vida Blue CD.
I listened to Party Time again today, at work. It’s like you say Steve, it’s kind of an outtakes album, and it started as the unsightly Siamese twin of the Joy album, yet it’s its own album.
Two other Phish albums are like this; the ‘White Tape’, and Siket Disc. All three are totally Phish albums but they each kind of … don’t count … in their own special way.
Party Time has the additional issue of conflicted album art.
Two other Phish albums are like this; the ‘White Tape’, and Siket Disc. All three are totally Phish albums but they each kind of … don’t count … in their own special way.
See, the White Tape “kinda counts” for me since it’s really the “real first album” since that’s what they handed out at shows and stuff. So that feels more “real” to me. Siket Disc is clearly just a throwaway album of leftover stuff…I think I remember it was even sold at a discount at their store.
I also feel the same way about Trey’s 18 Steps which is just Bar 17 outtakes…and given how I was only lukewarm on Bar 17, I’m about the same about 18 Steps. One Man’s Trash FEELS like an outtakes album since it never felt like a “serious” solo effort by Trey…it’s got some weird tunes and Trey just put it out there and didn’t tour for it or anything. Even though it’s his “first solo album” I don’t feel like it counts either especially since a few tunes off that were re-recorded on his self-titled album.
Horseshow Curve also doesn’t feel like a “real album” and plays like more of a jam session to me. It’s quite good but obviously isn’t the same. For me, I’m big on Traveler, Shine and the Self-titled one and Bar 17 and Paper Wheels gets second billing. I’m also holding out for the “Let Me Lie” greatest hits which will be an album of all 20 versions of Let Me Lie that have come out over the years.
I will also say that Original Boardwalk Style is a sick live album…some badass jams on that one.
I agree that Siket Disc counts the least! I would argue that Party Time is as much a Phish album as The White Tape though.
I’m listening to Fuego & Party Time more than the other albums these days. At one time I’d made a collection of other 3.0 originals that aren’t on studio albums, but that’s subject to change if they’re putting a new album together … I wonder what’s gonna land on there and what won’t.
Maybe it’s time to give Joy a spin or three.
Phish CONFESSION:
Wait for it…
I’ve never listened to a Phish album. I own Joy because my sister bought it for my birthday. I may have spun one track and turned it off. And I think I’ve heard the composed part of the studio Reba.
Does this make me a shitty Phish fan? lol
Heathen!!!
JK I haven’t listened to much of any Phish albums also.
How’d you pull that off? Do you not have a lot of albums in general? I’m curious,… do you have a collection of live shows?
Yes, large collection of live. It’s pretty much all I listen to, with any band. If they don’t have it live, I generally don’t seek it out.
Like many of you I have well over 300 Phish shows on my hard drives, about half that in Dead shows and then 100s of misc. others. I’m addicted to DLing new live shows, it’s a brand new album of music is the way I’ve always looked at it. So, maybe that’s why I don’t do the studio thing?