Timeline history of the most played Phish song from 2009 to 2020. “Golgi Apparatus” The first song in Phish’s unprecedented album-preview set on Halloween 2013 became Fuego’s closer upon its release. “Loving Cup” (Jagger/Richards) “Wingsuit” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (George Harrison) “Mellow Mood” (Bob Marley) 204. 4. “Tubthumping” (Chumbawamba) “Billy Breathes” “Talk” “Phish fans are used to inane lyrics,” Marshall told me recently, which made the downright beauty and poetry of these heartfelt songs — along with the likes of “Joy” (110), “Billy Breathes” (113), “Gone” (116), and many more — a challenge for studlyer fans who perhaps prefer the dark funk of “Meat” (111) the grungy pleasure of “Maggie’s Revenge” (106), or the psych-thrash improvisations of “Carini” (118). “Shafty” “Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley” (Allen Toussaint) 17. The Mockingbird Foundation. “Sanity” They played the tight song-based shows in the early 90’s. 318. “Good Times Bad Times” (Jimmy Page/John Paul Jones/John Bonham). “Ginseng Sullivan” (Norman Blake) “The Mango Song” Recorded for Undermind but unreleased until the Party Time disk that accompanied Joy’s deluxe package, this hilarious barbershop-harmony commentary on girl watching was the final song Phish recorded — separately — prior to breaking up in 2004. “Axilla, Part 2″ The bros may come for the epic “Disease” (23) “Chalk Dust” (22), and “Tweezer” (58) jams, but it’s often the miniatures that ice the cake. 49. “Seven Below” "Shafty" was once called "Olivia's Pool", and featured a different arrangement. © 1990-2021  The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc. | Hosted by, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, Rocketsled's Funky Main Man Meets Big Joe on Church Street, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, and David Freiberg, Bruce Sunpie Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots, Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati & Harry Simeone, She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride, Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad), Gaul Swerves and the Rest is Everything Else. “Ha Ha Ha” Anastasio snuck a knotty instrumental interlude and dance — “The Landlady” — into the middle of this high-energy Latin-tinged spinoff of his Goddard College Senior Study, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, AKA Gamehendge. Beginning with “Makisupa Policeman” (152), Anastasio and Marshall have been writing together since eighth grade. “Waste” “Maggie’s Revenge” 82. 186. “Steep” Not to be confused with the similar-sounding “Olivia’s Pool” (249), this short, dark, existential groove from Ghost offers cautionary advice to oblivious fools. Musical stalwarts like Joan Baez, Ray Charles, Elton John, David … “Split Open and Melt” U nlike the vast majority of music artist’s live performances, for Phish, most events aren’t planned. The real story is the rebirth of Trey and me as a songwriting team, but I don’t think it captured that very well.” “Olivia’s Pool”. “The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony”. “Alaska” 211. “Show of Life” Argent’s “Hold Your Head Up” (206) has introduced the band namesake’s irregular center-stage vocal and vacuum-cleaner solos since 1987 because the other bandmembers knew how much he hated the tune. I borrowed the ‘Paulatek reminds me of the Bible’ line from H. P. Lovecraft.” 218. “Flat Fee” 149. “Letter to Jimmy Page” “Limb By Limb” 263. 190. 165. “Halley’s Comet” Phish Band Statistics **** **** **** 26. “Windy City” Spun off of an early version of “My Friend, My Friend,” this ten-minute, four-section, jig-rhythmed, and through-composed portrait of a malevolent pig fits perfectly on The Story of the Ghost. 234. “Manteca” (Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo) “Prince Caspian” “Fast Enough for You” 282. “The Line” Phish is also about scale, as it were. 147. 24. 122. 208. It was debuted on Feb. 3 of that year at Hunt’s in Burlington, Vt. 115. Both the song’s chords and Gamehendge’s foremost executioner are referenced in the title of this Talking Heads-influenced show fluffer from Anastasio’s Goddard days. “Stash” “Night Nurse” (Gregory Isaacs/Sylvester Weise) 241. 19. This show was webcast via Live Phish and featured the debut of Evening Song and the Phish debut of 20-20 Vision. So of course Trey and I pretend to be working that into a song any time we’re together and Jon shows up.” “Happy Birthday to You” (Patty & Mildred Hill) 295. The delights of walk-in refrigeration, into which other songs are frequently inserted, have never been so alluring. “Meat” “Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan” Total number of shows played **** Number of individual songs Phish performed during this tour **** DATA SETS INCLUDED IN THIS STUDY. “Sleep” 94. “Secret Smile” “The Wedge” 225. The seven red lights refers to a horrible night in Baltimore when I full-speeded through maybe three red lights in order to freak out myself and a passenger, which was a horrible, horrible thing to do, obviously. “Crowd Control” 180. Since 2010, Phish has played two more Halloween shows, approaching them differently than in the past, seemingly abandoning the arduous task of … 257. 262. 71. “How Many More Times” (Page/Jones/Bonham) “Daniel Saw the Stone” (Traditional) “Mr. “The Inlaw Josie Wales” “What’s the Use?” “Touch Me” (Robby Krieger) “Horn”. 113. “Lonesome Cowboy Bill” (Lou Reed) The lowest ranked song that has been played more than once is Summer of ’89 at 226 th place. 45. “Round Room” 89. “Taste” “Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird” “If I Could” 229. “La Grange” (Gibbons/Beard/Hill) By nearly any criteria except, perhaps, record sales and radio play, Phish is the Grand Canyon of American bands—so big and bold and forever that we risk taking it for granted. “Uncle Pen” (Bill Monroe) 12. 266. 14. “Lifeboy” “Army of One” Phish isn’t above mocking the Proclaimers or Chumbawamba, or getting their bro on with rap covers, nor are they dismissive of Marley, Dylan, and Berry chestnuts their parents may have played. “When my wife asks me why I write such terrible things about her,” Marshall says, “I reply that I write them to exorcise the demons.”. This is an incomplete list of original songs composed by the rock band Phish. No band has gotten quite as much out of frustrated communication as Phish, who deliver the malaise with grace and beauty in this bare-bones acoustic jewel from Billy Breathes. 174. “Pig in a Pen” (Traditional) “Have Mercy” (Lloyd Ferguson/Fitzroy Simpson/Donald Shaw) 106. (Originals and Covers from 1983 to 2000) by sendboobpics Plays Quiz not verified by Sporcle . 312. Phish has only played this escapee from Trey’s solo group once, expanding his minimal lyric about dreams and streams into a 45-minute saga with … “Moose the Mooche” (Charlie Parker) I’ve also been out in kayaks in very cold water when I shouldn’t have been, and I’ve been lost in the woods without any way of starting a fire. 84. “A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing” “Title Track” (291) was one of several brief jam edits on the wonderful Siket Disc; “And So to Bed” (277) and “Aftermath” (278) told fragments of longer tragedy on The White Tape; and on Rift, “Lengthwise” (274) was Fishman’s brief, desultory prelude to the bittersweet closure of “Silent in the Morning” (105). “The Sloth” How to Play Support Sporcle. “Tweezer” Phish channels the sublime in this Undermind sailor’s song attached to the sort of floating groove no other band so instinctually evokes. 242. “Low Rider” (War) “Drowned” “Halfway to the Moon” And you might know it mostly as an encore jam, but I love it in the opener position – That’s where it fell at The Forum last year and it OWNED. “Roggae” 16. 324. The Easterners mixed that fast-picking, emotionally direct sound with their own askew point of view in tracks like “Poor Heart” (132), “Scent of a Mule” (136), “My Sweet One” (138) and “Runaway Jim” (59). 256. “Susie Q” (Dale Hawkins) “Mexican Cousin” “Saw It Again” — A horrible sense of recognition characterizes this punk-rocking studio escapee. “I Know a Little” (Steve Gaines) “And So to Bed” Marvelous by any measure, brain-teasingly complex writing (including a palindromic passage) sets the stage for ecstatic release in a composition that originated in both a youthful collaboration with his mother (Gus the Christmas Dog) and Anastasio’s adolescent freakouts with New Jersey chums. 68. “Camel Walk” 157. 39. J.J. Cale - "After Midnight" More than just a cover, this version of "After Midnight" at Big Cypress … “Suspicious Minds” (Mark James) With so much history, it’s easy to forget how relatively raw and experimental Phish’s earliest music was — as heard on their 1989 debut, Junta, and the 1986 demos collection nicknamed The White Tape (titled Phish when it was released on CD in 1998). 146. The closest Phish ever got to a political manifesto, unintentionally or not, arrived during the bleakest moments of the Bush administration and provided a perfect soundtrack for an Occupy video. 259. 33. 332. “Lawn Boy” The keeper from Phish’s 1996 Halloween cover of Talking Heads’ Remain in Light fits perfectly into the band’s own mini-repertoire of funky polyrhythmica. 226. A rousing, honking, and shouting blast of gospel-tinged glory from Hoist. 274. 231. 178. “Reba” The dress-wearing drummer has used the spotlight to deliver wrong and strong scary-oke takes on Syd Barrett, Marvin Gaye, Prince, Neil Diamond, and, most recently, Phish (a dismissive version of noted fan-unfavorite “Jennifer Dances”). 331. 258. “Corinna” (Taj Mahal/Jesse Ed Davis) “Swept Away” Written by Anastasio during his mid-’80s mentorship with composer Ernie Spires, this deviously difficult work in four parts cooks up a volatile concoction, both lyrically and in a slow-build improvisation. “Fee” “Love You” (Barrett) “Demand” “Cracklin’ Rosie” (Neil Diamond) For sanity’s sake, I’ve omitted songs from their Halloween album-covers projects. Their fourth studio album contained “Fast Enough for You” (114), “Horn” (125), and “Silent in the Morning” (105), the first of dozens of ballads that would redefine Anastasio and Marshall as “serious” songwriters. “Back on the Train” 170. “Trench Town Rock” (Bob Marley) 328. This jammed-out blast of Lou Reed ‘tude entered Phish’s regular rotation after the group covered the Velvet Underground’s Loaded during a 1998 Vegas Halloween show. “Wolfman’s Brother” 333. The guitarist played “Back On The Train” during each and every acoustic set in 1999 except the tour opener. 271. Not exactly. “Killing in the Name” (Rage Against the Machine) 47. 3. Fluffhead/Fluff's Travels (Junta, 1989) A dense, complex song-suite that follows the travails of a … 34. Although Phish in general, and Anastasio in particular, have steadily dialed back their tomfoolery over the years, the nearly rejected title track from their most recent album marks a refreshing return to stoopidity. Chalk Dust Torture: One of the most frequently played songs in the band’s career, and a clear favorite of Trey’s, this song could be used to open the run and whip the crowd into an immediate frenzy. But this darkness-on-the-edge-of-carnival offering about a girl’s flight and subsequent drowning suggest a promising creative road Anastasio left unexplored. “Terrapin” (Syd Barrett) “Back at the Chicken Shack” (Jimmy Smith) The greatest biology-inspired rock song ever written by a bunch of smart-ass (Princeton Day School) eighth-graders. 5. 125. “Can’t Come Back” With its “Batman”-theme breaks and its breakneck piano and guitar soloing, Rift’s urgent “Maze” is as labyrinthine as its title suggests. 85. “Run Like an Antelope” “His favorite lyric of mine is ‘Setting Sail,’ which he calls the ultimate sour-grapes song. Sharing melodic content with “Rift,” this 1987 piece is a mood-setting jewel of composed material and a two-part improvisation suggesting weirdness down the road. 7. “We can stage a runaway golf cart marathon!” proclaims Trey in this early, ritualistic, and Fishman-written chant once required for entry to Gamehendge. A wailing one-line lyric (“somebody’s jumping in the tub with your brother”) sparks a gnarly, Middle Eastern-tinged jam. It’s about the divorce Trey and I never got.” “All Things Reconsidered” Another classic from the condo basement, “Slave” provides prog-rocking foreplay to an orgasmic peak. “Keyboard Army” 97. “Maiden Voyage” (Herbie Hancock) “Faht” 272. “Weekapaug Groove” “Poor Heart” 2. Modern art, marriage, and urinary catheterization combine in this corn-poppingly anxious track from A Picture of Nectar. 251. “End of Session” The Mockingbird Foundation. “Timber” (Jerry) (Josh White/Sam Gary) A tightly wound composed section containing all manner of rhythmo-harmonic chutes and ladders uncoils into an improvisation-rich starship in this slice of inspired precocity. “The Connection” “Ghost” 86. “No Dogs Allowed” 55. “It withered on the vine but I always liked the lyrics. 10. “Wilson” “Wipe Out” (Surfaris) 88. Performed unironically and without amplification (prior to their arena era), songs like “Hello! Marshall, who has referred to the Gamehendge song cycle as Phish’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” named many of its main characters in this art-rocking minisuite. A must-listen. Urgent Talking Heads-influenced afrorock drives Marshall’s vividly ambivalent mid-’90s take on the Phish scene. “My Soul” (Clifton Chenier) I bet during the early years it was played almost every night. 239. 188. “Rift” Marshall mailed these lyrics to Anastasio during the latter’s isolation in Saratoga Springs. 155. “Two Versions of Me” “Ocelot” “Winterqueen” — Written at the same time as the Trey Anastasio Band vehicle “Frost” during what Marshall recalls as “a really great day in Trey’s studio, situated way up in the air. 292. “Backwards Down the Number Line” 119. 42. 3. 244. 81. 63. “Vultures” — “Like ‘Walls of the Cave,'” Marshall says, “Trey played piano and I played recording engineer when we wrote this. “The Old Home Place” (Dean Webb/Mitch Jayne) “Silent in the Morning” Phish defiantly declared themselves “reinvented, redefined, rearranged, but not refined” over chunky rhythms and funky treated keyboards on the title track to their 2004 pre-breakup album. “Tomorrow’s Song” 2018-08-03 Ghost Verizon Amphitheatre, Alpharetta, Georgia The key song in Anastasio’s Gamehendge cycle is a bittersweet ode to “a race of people practically extinct/ From doing things smart people don’t do,” and features a magnificent coda imported from Gus the Christmas Dog. “Bathtub Gin” 23. Although it never saw a recording studio, this catchy electric-bluegrass ode to a larcenous canine launched one of Phish’s longest jams, an inspired hour-long Worcester epic, in 1997. “David Bowie” 245. 163. Meditative Anastasio solos return this mellow karmic head scratcher from Farmhouse back to the void from whence it sprang. “Albert” Who said Phish couldn’t swing? “My Friend, My Friend” 214. “Foam” 209. 320. Epitomizing the carnivalesque magic of Phish’s oeuvre, this deliciously woozy 1989 blend of Anastasio’s music and friend Susannah Goodman’s through-the-looking-glass lyrics leads to some sublimely sloshed improvisations. Pulpuslacerataphobes may want to avoid Anastasio’s Kipling-esque and deceptively merry Junta-era account of a Buddhist weasel’s jealous encounter with an aging chimpanzee. “Light” “Slave to the Traffic Light” “Free” 127. “Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)” “All of These Dreams” 273. “Crosseyed and Painless” “Avenu Malkenu” (Traditional) 96. 40. 100. 161. “Victim” is the most recent Mike Gordon/Scott Murawski song to get its Phish debut. 11. “Nothing” You can read just about anything into this Band-esque Gordon slow groove from Round Room, although lines like “Penny, thistle, cell phone, blow/ Reap what you sow” suggest something less than ironic detachment. In 1994, Phish began the serious bluegrass study that would lead to the acoustic sweetness of Billy Breathes and shows involving a mini-set of acoustic tunes performed on a miniature stage. “Fikus” 230. “Boogie On Reggae Woman” (Stevie Wonder) Music Quiz / Most often played Phish songs live Random Music or Song Quiz Can you name the 20 most often played Phish songs in concert? “Rock and Roll All Nite” (Paul Stanley/Gene Simmons) 124. Eventually, though, it evolves into a Zen-like contemplation of silent trees. “Dog Faced Boy” 107. “Jerusalem, Jerusalem” (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) (Naomi Shemer) This is a rare Phish song that you could imagine being played on the radio. 315. “Bouncing Around the Room” 202. Data source: ihoz.com 60. 243. Yes. 219. “When the Circus Comes” “Brother” 310. 27. They have a melody, they have a chorus, just like any other rock song. 72. Relief? 61. This Round Room highlight movingly condenses many Marshall themes—water, air, caves, clouds, miscommunication, defeat—subsequently redeemed by a serene oceanic jam. 200. “Party Time” 313. 150. "IMAGINE" // JOHN LENNON. Nearly every component of Phish’s mythos can be found on their 1989 debut, Junta. 246. The longest 2001 of all time, which opened a four song second set in one of the most beautiful of all Phish venues, is twenty-four minutes of fire and space funk. 181. 192. 286. 205. 189. 228. “AC/DC Bag” “Cannonball” (Kim Deal). Phish’s most reliably open-ended jam vehicle — their “Dark Star,” if you will — originated as a 1989 soundcheck jam. “Johnny B. Goode” (Chuck Berry) The insistent music echoes the endangered skater’s plunge into and reemergence from the frozen depths. “Satin Doll” (Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn) Trey debuted “Back On The Train” at the second show of his inaugural solo tour in 1999. “Fire” (Jimi Hendrix) 90. 210. Concluding with a swirling bliss-out, this Billy Breathes highlight contains a Hitchcockian plot about uxoricide at sea. “Bold as Love” (Hendrix) A must-listen. “Magilla” The feeling of being a human target informs this otherwise elegant adventure story. Have a look which song was played how often on which tour! 240. 216. So the first two verses are about our daughters, while the second two became about Kristy.” “Donna Lee” (Parker) 191. “I Didn’t Know (Wright)” Dog Faced Boy was performed for … “My Long Journey Home” (Monroe) His most-hated lyrics of mine are a snippet Trey tried to turn into a song at one point: ‘Basking in the silence/ Soaking up the violence/ Will the good lord save?/ Or will I dance on grave?’ Fishman found it horrendous. 20. This Chocolate and Cheese Ween tune fits like a glove. “Frankie Sez”. “The Lizards” “Sleep Again” 183. 330. Page McConnell’s Vida Blue side project produced this deceptively innocuous yet harrowing take on a relationship in crisis. Criss-crossing rhythms track a precipitous descent in this harmonically sophisticated through-composed number from Junta. 9. 114. These linked songs from Trey’s unreleased Goddard project describe the Gamehendge protagonist’s arduous ascent up a mountain to meet the prophet Icculus, who sends the Famous Mockingbird to steal The Helping Friendly Book from the evil Wilson. 224. 136. “Chalk Dust Torture” “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” (Will Smith et al.) Anastasio played an acoustic first set at each show of the tour followed by a performance with a trio featuring drummer Russ Lawton and bassist Tony Markellis. 92. Phish rarely sound as weightless, bubbly, and afloat as during this extended aquatic metaphor for power relationships in love and life. 159. Phish is an American rock band that formed in Burlington, Vermont, in 1983.The band is known for musical improvisation, extended jams, blending of genres, and a dedicated fan base.The band consists of guitarist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman, and keyboardist Page McConnell, all of whom perform vocals, with Anastasio being the primary lead vocalist. “Guelah Papyrus” Anastasio composed this mature multipart orchestral work (also performed by Phish) during his 2007-08 drug-court stay in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Mockingbird Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Phish fans in 1996 to generate charitable proceeds from the Phish community. 237. “Waves” “Big Ball Jam” “Star Spangled Banner” (Francis Scott Key) Ma Baby” (Joseph E. Howard/Ida Emerson) 195. And Mike Gordon was fortunate enough to discover a song he might have written himself in his straightforward cover of Austin songwriter Butch Hancock’s Zen-country classic (as performed by Jimmy Dale Gilmore), “My Mind’s Got a Mind of Its Own” (131). 162. The Siket Disc, which contains interesting one-shots like the Eno-esque “Quadrophonic Toppling” (No. Nonetheless, the group’s ability to solo nimbly over complicated chord changes suggests a debt to the bebop tradition epitomized by Charlie Parker. 31. 123. View the statistics of songs played live by Phish. 175. 198. Gordon still functions as unorthodox antithesis to Anastasio’s dedication to craft, quality, and mass appeal evident in ravers (e.g. 29. Gordon’s 1985 paean to paranoia (“Me no are no nice guy”) has been a career-long launching pad for many of Phish’s most memorable improvisations, and is usually/eventually followed by the steam-releasing “Weekapaug Groove.”. 109. A cloud seems to hang over every note of this bipartite threnody for the victims of 9/11, written by Anastasio/Marshall in a glum Newark hotel room. 250. 308. 1. “Insects” “We’ve got it simple, ’cause we’ve got a band.” The best song Lennon-McCartney never wrote celebrates Phish’s synergistic band/community relationship with processional aplomb and sly surrealism. Eno and Fripp’s ambient adventures inspired this melodically undulating, lyrically touching shout-out to the lonely and alienated among us. “The Squirming Coil” “Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird”. But Trey was losing his sister to cancer at the same time, and that weighed heavily on our minds. 303. 294. “Light Up Or Leave Me Alone” (Jim Capaldi) “Time Loves a Hero” (Paul Barrière/Kenny Gradney/Bill Payne) Tunes like “Dave’s Energy Guide” (227) (originally “Memo to Fripp”) and the “Vibration of Life” (228) (a guitar looping at 420 beats per minute), meanwhile, screamed futurissimo just as loudly as these timeless vocals deliver their quaint historical charm. “What is the central theme to this everlasting spoof?” asked fellow Goddard student Richard “Nancy” Wright, who wrote this joyously demented doo-wop/rock hybrid Phish has been playing since 1986. Go Orange. “Buried Alive” 160. 116. “California Love” (Tupac Shakur) “Aftermath” 290. Fear of marriage inspired this increasingly anxious slice of electric bluegrass from Rift. Phish — an iconic, live rock & roll band, and the world of machine learning…what can they possibly have in common? “Purple Rain” (Prince) 254. 278. 270. “So with meaningless excitement/ And smooth atonal sound/ It’s like a cross between a hurricane/ And a ship that’s run aground.” Phish never came closer to characterizing their peculiar allure than in these lines from a deeply funky account of Anastasio and Fishman’s first encounter. “Friday” — “It’s a dude talking to a chick,” explains Marshall of this crash-and-burn bummer. 64. “The Happy Whip and Dung Song” “Brian and Robert” “Dog Gone Dog” Interestingly, the last known time that Phish performed the song during an actual show was on Apr. Nobody does foolish desperation better than Phish, especially in this subverted sword-and-sorcery pastiche featuring angry mobs, septic maidens, and a picture of a Burlington bar owner. “Black-Eyed Katy” 176. “Catapult” 220. “Sweet Adeline” (Harry Armstrong/Richard H. Gerard) “The Divided Sky” 311. 18. 156. “Birds of a Feather” Phish’s covers tend toward the faithful. 93. “Theme From the Bottom” "Taste" was once known as "The Fog That Surrounds" and containe… “Thunderhead” You decide. 25. Polyrhythmic Afrorock builds to an explosive peak in this potent instrumental kick starter from Farmhouse. 221. 83. A rare golden ticket for fans since 1987, “Harpua” is a storytelling doorway to an alternate dimension in which the titular dog and a cat named Poster Nutbag battle it out on a pop-culture landscape. 268. “He Ent to the Bog” 120. 238. “Walls of the Cave” “Over the Rainbow” (Harold Arlen/E. “Minkin” “Shrine” — “I worship the ground Jon Fishman walks on because of his lyrics to ‘Gumbo,'” says Marshall while explaining this odd ditty about a homicidal stalker. 77. “Bug” “Glide” Phish, Hampton 2018. 51. Phish is a verb, an ever-evolving entity whose first truly dramatic sea change occurred in 1993 with the release of the semi-conceptual Rift, about a nightmarish relationship. “Quinn the Eskimo” (Mighty Quinn) (Bob Dylan) Lou Reed would have approved. “It’s Ice” 65. “McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters” “You Enjoy Myself” “First Tube” “Pebbles and Marbles” A common set opener, this is another likely candidate. 299. “Possum” John Bonham’s primal thunder informs the sound of Jon Fishman (who went on to develop his own singularly chameleonic style). As Phish glides into its fourth decade together, including a four-year separation, let’s take a backward ramble down the number line containing nearly 350 songs the band—Trey Anastasio (guitar), Jon Fishman (drums), Mike Gordon (bass), and Page McConnell (keyboards)—has released on 12 studio albums and a couple of dozen live packages, from 1989’s Junta to this summer’s Fuego. The driving, dual-personality title track to Phish’s fourth studio album reflects the band’s growing bluegrass fixation while setting the emotional tone for a collection of communication breakdowns. “Highway to Hell” (Bon Scott/Angus Young/Malcolm Young) 232. “Funky Bitch” (Son Seals) Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star . “Frankenstein” (Edgar Winter) “Walk Away” (Joe Walsh) 53. “Sleeping Monkey” 227. 145. The lines “Relocated, not retired/ Reprimanded and rewired” made even more sense during their 2009 reunion run at Hampton Coliseum. “Heavy Things” “Maze” “Shine” (Ed Roland) For instance, the middle section of "Guelah Papyrus" was sometimes played by itself under the name "The Asse Festival". “In a Misty Glade” Over the past four years, the rock band Phish has generated over $120 million in ticket sales, handily surpassing more well known artists like Radiohead, The Black Keys, and One Direction.Since their start 30 years ago, Phish has consistently been one of the most popular and lucrative touring acts in America, generating well over a quarter billion dollars in ticket sales. 185. “Sparkle” 252. 260. 30. “Dogs Stole Things” “Peaches En Regalia” Another slice of polyrhythmic paradise, this “Limb By Limb” cousin from Farmhouse transforms Marshall’s tongue-tied thoughts into swirling improvisations. 134. The frequent show closer that launched a thousand glow sticks (true fact: a glowworm dies for every one of these thrown at a show), “Hood” transforms convolution into euphoria. “The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday” 57. 327. “My Mind’s Got a Mind of Its Own” (Butch Hancock) “Contact” 79. The composers of the band’s many covers are noted where appropriate. “Sand” “Alumni Blues” Music Quiz / Most Played Phish Songs in the 1.0 Era Random Music Quiz Can you name the Most Played Phish Songs in the 1.0 Era? “Sing Monica” Inspired by Rio de Janeiro parade drumming, Anastasio composed seemingly impossible polyrhythmic parts for Jon Fishman, who unravels and reconstructs them underneath particularly poignant Marshall lyrics about how love can tear you apart when you’re “trampled by lambs and pecked by the dove.”. “Hold Your Head Up” (Rod Argent/Chris White) 316. 78. 104. McConnell tunes such as “Magilla” (253) and “Cars Trucks Buses” (178) swing pretty well for a rock band, although the group’s debt to and love for electric Miles-inspired improvisation is evident in nearly every extended improvisation (and studio improv nugs like “My Left Toe” (270)) they lay down, in that alternative history of rock where Hendrix really did record with Miles. “Kung” 6. And since we're entirely volunteer – with no office, salaries, or paid staff – administrative costs are less than 2% of revenues! “Buffalo Bill” Here we go…. “The Horse” 158. Each band member steps up for a little lyrical self-reflection on this heady shuffle before going about their artistic business of “provoking dreams that don’t exist.”. From the days and hours leading up to the moment that the band steps foot onto the stage, there is no predetermined setlist, song choice, or … “Spread It ‘Round” “Cities” The centerpiece of Los Lobos’ 1992 masterpiece Kiko might have been written for Anastasio, who always reveals new shadows—and unintended tour metaphors—in its broken-hearted sentiments. “Something horrifying had happened to me during the first night of a songwriting session with Trey,” says Marshall, who described his fateful and “totally true” encounter with a girl in a shopping cart in a remarkable Lovecraftian story titled “The Beater” (available online somewhere). 264. 143. 144. 133. 151. 105. Nifty instrumental interlude “The Asse Festival” interrupts this Picture of Nectar track combining Anastasio/Marshall’s high-school mythology with biological free-association. 137. 152. 153. 117. 46. “I’m Gonne Be (500 Miles)” (Craig & Charlie Reid) “Title Track” Profoundly goofball lyrics (“The solar garlic starts to rot/ Was it for this my life I sought?”) tee up the band’s jazziest tension-and-release hyperspace explorations. 206. “Splinters of Hail” 166. 121. “Auld Lang Syne” (Robert Burns) 307. “A Day in the Life” (Lennon/McCartney) In town for a solo show at the Ryman Auditorium tomorrow night, The Other One sat with Phish for six solid songs, including Bobby singing lead on a brand new Phish jam and three Dead covers. “Anything But Me” A sort of futuristic Afropop released on 1990’s Lawn Boy, “Bouncing” weaves together multiple melodies with quintessential Marshall lyrics involving sailors, sirens, etc., coalescing into buoyant melodic bliss in under four minutes. 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