Favorite Studio Phish Album
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Topic: Favorite Studio Phish Album
Posted By: SirPsycho388
Subject: Favorite Studio Phish Album
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 16:26
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PHISH doesn't seem to get much attention on PA due to their label as a "jam band". Though this is a more appropriate title for them, they are very progressive and have lots of complex elements of songwriting and style. Their sound is best heard in a live setting, but their studio efforts are still amazing.
So which studio album is your favorite? ------------- Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can |
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 16:39
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Farmhouse. I like something about that album a little bit more that the others. Not really sure why. ------------- 
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Posted By: 46and2
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 16:54
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i agree. phish is great, and severely underrated on this site. my favorite studio album would have to be junta or lawn boy.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 16:55
| I haven't heard enough of them to vote, but I did enjoy Lawn Boy very much. |
Posted By: MusicalSalmacis
Date Posted: January 10 2008 at 17:13
| Junta is my fave, but i have only heard junta, billy breathes and the story of the ghost |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 12:40
| An excellent band with many great albums to their name making it a difficult choice.....perhaps Rift. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 16:06
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 16:41
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1. Picture of Nectar 2. Junta 3. Farmhouse 4. Billy Breathes I don't like most of everything else. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 03:28
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tough pick, really. it was a tie between Junta and Rift for me.
Don't get me wrong, A Picture Of Nectar has a great feel to it, it reminds me of summer. Lots of jazz and crazy avant-funk. Then there's Lawn Boy, which has (maybe) the best song they ever wrote in the form of Reba. It's also got more avant-funk and great jams, very silly feel to a lot of the music. And then of course is Story of the Ghost, the funkiest album by the band, and also includes the very progressive Guyute.
But Junta and Rift beat these albums. However, i had to go with Junta, because it has a million serious songs, one better than the next. The most progressive album, besides Rift, which is the second most progressive album by the band IMO. It is more or less a concept album, in a strange weird way. A lot more serious songs there definitly.
So for me it's
1. Junta
2. Rift
3. A Picture of Nectar
4. Lawn Boy
5. Farmhouse
6. The Story of the Ghost
The rest of the albums are great, but all the songs on those albums are better live (pretty much all their material is anyway) come to think of it i havent listened to a studio album in a looong time.
For some official live albums i'd go with
1. Live Phish Vol. 11
2. New Years Eve '95
3. Live Phish Vol. 10
4. Colorado '88
5. Live Phish 14
6. Live Phish 15
7. Live Phish 18
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 17 2008 at 12:38
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I only discovered Phish last year, but they're (in my opinion) an astonishingly talented band; current favorite studio album (as opposed to their 30+ live albums...) definitely 'Rift'
In particular, the track 'Maze' takes it to a  rating on its own  ------------- 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 17 2008 at 12:42
Slightly off topic, given this is a studio album poll, but:
Thanks for the recommendations - so far I've only got 'A Live One', and that only a couple of weeks ago: currently sitting in the car's CD player to blow me away on my way to & from work -------------
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darkshade wrote:Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 17 2008 at 15:19
A Live One is really good too. i forgot about that one. Also Vegas 96, which just came out recently along with Colorado 88, is really good too. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 17 2008 at 15:21
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oh, and why IS Phish so under-appreciated on this site. and why are they in the prog related section and not a prog section. maybe eclectic prog? If Umphrey's McGee is under jazz-rock/fusion, then Phish should DEFINITLY be there or eclectic prog. Umphrey's wouldnt exist without Phish (and other bands) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: cookieacquired
Date Posted: January 20 2008 at 14:11
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I've only heard 5 of these but I gotta go with nectar
Trey's guitar tone on the album sounds oh so smooth and it has a stellar tracklist (a fine mix of regulation normal songs and songs that they could jam on forever)
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Posted By: MusicalSalmacis
Date Posted: January 20 2008 at 14:26
| Phish are as we all know best on stage. Every fan of Phish should hear New Year's Eve 1995 (Live At Madison Square Garden) it is pure perfection one of my fav live albums! |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 26 2008 at 16:36
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i have a sweet spot for A Picture of Nectar. it was the first album i heard by the band. i had only heard the studio "You enjoy Myself" previously. The tone and feel of the album is sooo good, it's hard to explain. there's a warmth to it and has a jazzy upbeat thing going. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 26 2008 at 17:27
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Aright... I'll bite... I'll dial up Phish up on Napster later on tonight and give a listen to Junta.
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Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: January 26 2008 at 17:45
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Picture of Nectar and Junta.
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 13:13
track 3 might scare you off, even i skip it a lot, only cause im not big on the carnival sounds, but the rest of the album is fire. if you like Junta, you should just get their albums in sequential order, with Lawn Boy next, followed by APON, then Rift. but it is all about Live Phish ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 13:20
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If yer going to skip anything on Junta, let it be Union Federal. Yeesh. I like Ester. It's not the best, but it picks up steam as it goes along.
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 13:37
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^^^ very true, forgot about that song, that one does pick up
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 14:15
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well as promised... just put on Junta.. and Phish is now being looked at by the AR team. Just don't get your hopes up.. lots of hoops to jump through hahahha.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 14:22
oh and if you wanted to get people to listen to them. .trust me.. you are... lots of people are scrambling to find Phish albums about now hahahhaha 
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 14:31
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 14:54
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hey if they dont get moved, oh well. at least i tried, and maybe got some more people to check out the band and they liked it all this discussion of Phish got me to put on the 40 minute "You Enjoy Myself" on LivePhish 14. so ridiculous ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 16:49
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listened to Junta... really good album.. in fact some aspects of it I loved... going for another one... A Picture of Nectar ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 27 2008 at 17:56
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definitely check out lawn Boy next. it's a bit more avant-guard but features the band's best song "Reba"
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 13:16
| Junta is a freaking awesome album |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: May 27 2008 at 17:08
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Rift may be the most cohesive and tightest album. My Friend My Friend may be the most progressive song on there.
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Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: May 29 2008 at 20:20
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Billy Breathes. It's one of their least proggy albums, but it's definitely the peak of Trey's "songwriter" phase, and it's some of the Steve Lilywhite's best work as a producer.
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