Phish - Recommendations?

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 FragileDT wrote:

Completely disagree DallasBryan! Sorry! 

I would say JUNTA, LAWN BOY, or PICTURE OF NECTAR. The humor is there the whole way and they are all incredible (and I think they are better than) Rift. I also love all of their other albums, though they are less prog. The Story of a Ghost (I find) to be a great psychedellic/funk type album. Billy Breathes is also a great mellow rock album in my opinion. But if you want the funk-ish strange humor I recommend the early 3 for sure. 

I also would recommend almost any live albums. I just recently purchased COLORADO from 1988 and it is VERY strange with the entire early GAMEHENGE story, which is a strange, spoken word/sung concept album by Trey before Phish. 

Also, if you're a big fan of the song MAZE check out some live versions of it. It was one of their biggest live songs, some of them go on for about 20 minutes. Incredible live song. 

EDIT: Just listen to the song "REBA" that was recently added to the streams on the archives. What an incredible song. 

thanks for the correction, as I wouldn't claim to be a Phish-master,only in the passing thru their discography there is an endless amount of over-noodling junk. Think we have pointed a music veteran towards a good bit of their quality output, while trying to point him around an expensive dive into large amounts of aimless mishmash, which was the original intention.