What Phish Album Are You Listening To & Why?

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#135

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

#136

Siket Disc

Slow day at work, being able to catch up on random things.

Background music.

#137

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 :shifty:

#138

Does Trey’s new album count? I guess not…

#139

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.

#140

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.

#141

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.

#142

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.

#143

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.

#144

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.

#145

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.

#146

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.

#147

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

#148

Heathen!!!

JK I haven’t listened to much of any Phish albums also.

#149

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?

#150

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?

#151

BECAUSE HOW ELSE DO YOU KNOW ‘HE ENT TO THE BOG’?

#152

Listened to the whole “Round Room” last night to celebrate its 18th anniversary release. I vividly remember buying the CD at Barnes and Noble, bringing my (anti-shock, of course) discman with me and listening to it all in the Starbucks after school.
It was really fantastic to listen back, remembering the ups and downs of Phish at that time, and really enjoying the sound of the barn and minimal studio effects or production; I think the most sophisticated production-related decision they made was to layer keyboards in “Pebbles and Marbles,” which really isn’t a big deal at all.
Jamming on new tunes they hadn’t played live, releasing it prior to the return to MSG, playing on SNL - it was all especially exciting to me as a new fan. I had discovered Phish in 2000 or so (8th and 9th grade for me), so to me this was the first studio release I got to experience in real time. I wasn’t too hip to their history or that fans knew the “hiatus” really was just a break and not a permanent split. So when they announced a new album and that they’d return to touring, I was elated, and got to see my first show the following summer.
Anyway, I love this album. This is a true snapshot of brand-new music performed in their own space on their own terms. It stands out to me amongst their other albums because there really was no alternate agenda; they weren’t trying to please a record company or explore the studio or be influenced by a particular producer. Just four guys who love to make music and at that point in their career, that’s what they needed to focus on.

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#153

Listened to the whole “Round Room” last night to celebrate its 18th anniversary release.

Damn! 18 years? I remember working in my first ever job at CD Warehouse (remember them?) when this was released and playing it over the soundsystem. Like you, I was a recent fan and it was the first Phish album that had been released since I got into them, so I was heavily anticipating it and it’ll always be special to me for that reason.

It’s still an album I keep coming back to and I think both the songs and the production have aged very well. It was always my favourite sounding Phish album - it’s just so warm and real, and it captures their sound perfectly without feeling processed in any way. I’d love to hear the other albums produced in a similar style as it adds so much to the experience.

I’ll honour its 18th (still can’t believe that) and give it another spin on the headphones tonight. Happy birthday, old boy!

#154

Round Room is a great album! Pebbles and Marbles , All of these Dream, 7 below. Lots of beautiful songs on this alum, I might need to listen to this next!

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