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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 16, 2021 8:40:22 GMT -6
 But what 2.0 or 3.0 shows should I check out?I would check out the Magnaball shows to get a good sense of 3.0 (8/21/15 - 8/23/15). They happened a couple months after the Fare Thee Well shows with the Dead, and Trey is considered to be at the top of his game since he practiced so much leading up to those shows. But if you just want to dive right into 3.0 to hear a lot of the newer songs, you might as well just listen to all 13 of the Baker's Dozen shows too. Fuck yeaaa thank you! I'll be queueing up 8/21 as soon as I finish the show I'm listening to now (10/31/98) - I'm feeling a little obsessive this week lmao |
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Post by dij22 on Jun 16, 2021 8:43:04 GMT -6
Back on my bullshit again! This - specifically the 2/17/97 show - is so far easily my favorite Phish show. The second set there is just fucking note-for-note perfect and the first set has its share of incredibly beautiful moments as well (looking at you, Divided Sky). But I have a request for the Phish denizens of the Board: so far I've entirely listened to 1.0 Phish. I'm not as overboard as I am w/ the Dead, I've probably heard between 12-20 shows at this point, entirely from like 94-99. But what 2.0 or 3.0 shows should I check out? I want to have a fuller sense of their discography, especially if I start going to shows sometimes soon. Lemme hear yr recs and I'll try one out this afternoon! Especially Heavy Things - would be interested to hear other favorite versions of that. They don't jam Heavy Things but the 10/30/2016 version is my favorite. Trey and Page are clearly feeling it and it has a good amount of extra mustard. That entire Halloween run is terrific, leading up to them covering Ziggy Stardust in full. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 16, 2021 9:55:24 GMT -6
I would check out the Magnaball shows to get a good sense of 3.0 (8/21/15 - 8/23/15). They happened a couple months after the Fare Thee Well shows with the Dead, and Trey is considered to be at the top of his game since he practiced so much leading up to those shows. But if you just want to dive right into 3.0 to hear a lot of the newer songs, you might as well just listen to all 13 of the Baker's Dozen shows too. Fuck yeaaa thank you! I'll be queueing up 8/21 as soon as I finish the show I'm listening to now (10/31/98) - I'm feeling a little obsessive this week lmao This Piper just blew my mind woah Starting 8/21 now! |
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Post by andrewvb on Jun 16, 2021 12:24:57 GMT -6
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 16, 2021 15:55:29 GMT -6
Fuck yeaaa thank you! I'll be queueing up 8/21 as soon as I finish the show I'm listening to now (10/31/98) - I'm feeling a little obsessive this week lmao This Piper just blew my mind woah Starting 8/21 now! Loved this! The run to close out the first set from Roggae > Rift > Bathtub Gin was incredible, the latter being maybe the best I've heard it yet? Fun stuff! |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 16, 2021 15:58:17 GMT -6
 .jpg) Went for a run today with these two. The former is creeping up my AOTY rankings and the latter was a first-time listen. And I think I prefer it to NO DREAM? I liked the original, but it was def not as impactful to me as Worry and POST-. The songs on the Ska version seem to have more space to breathe and I was hit harder by the lyrics/delivery than before. |
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Post by teekoh on Jun 16, 2021 20:26:56 GMT -6
The Spirit of the Beehive album feels like a Wrens album, which is a very nice thing.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 17, 2021 15:43:33 GMT -6
 This is now a Phish thread, until the rest of y'all start posting again about the music you listen to. This was fucking awesome, tho! I really hear what Dij said about Trey being on the top of his game after Fare Thee Well. His playing is transcendent throughout this show, particularly during the second set, holy shit. The jam closing at 46 Days was beautiful and meditative in a way that I don't often get from Phish. Backwards Down The Number Line was another new-to-me song that I loved. And they really took off at the end there. I'm listening to the studio version now from Joy and deeply enjoying it. It's like REM meets the Allmans or some shit. Tweezer's jam stayed in that same blissful zone as the 46 jam and then Prince Caspian brought it home perfectly. And there was still a whole nother set! Highlight there is a toss-up between Blaze On (also new-to-me) launching into a blazing Possum... or Cities going into an MLB Jam into Light. Really cool stuff! First set was good but didn't hook me at any particular point. Still need to listen to the bonus "Drive-In Jam". |
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Post by dij22 on Jun 17, 2021 17:26:31 GMT -6
That post brings me so much joy
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Post by Tweet on Jun 17, 2021 17:50:48 GMT -6
 Been listening to a lot of stuff to play catchup. Most of it has been bad. This, however, is not (unless you do not want to hear cicada sounds, which, fair). |
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Post by munkivelli on Jun 18, 2021 8:21:51 GMT -6
Speaking of mostly bad...   |
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Post by scoots on Jun 18, 2021 14:37:21 GMT -6
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 19, 2021 11:43:16 GMT -6
   Decided to make a formal Phish log akin to my Dead log, but I want to relisten to the shows as I notate them. Started the project yesterday with 11/22/97, because I wanted to hear the Haley's Comet from that show. Listened to the second set, which goes into Tweezer > Black Eye Katy (which is just kind of an extended jam, no? Reminds me in concept of the Dead's jam themes, like Spanish Jam, MLB, etc). But then explodes into an ecstatically building Piper. I'm not converted yet on Antelope, so that wasn't a personal highlight, but the Bouncin' > Tweezer Reprise encore was a nice touch. Today was 4/3/98, which has my favorite Weekapaug Groove so far - especially w/ the vocal Crosseyed riff halfway through. Really, the whole first set is great. Mike's, Billy Breathes, Reba, and a slick bluegrass track is a good setlist for me right now. I listened back through the second set on a run today and woooaahhh. The Roses > Nassau Jam was cool but Piper totally floored me. Idk if I'm just in the mood for it right now, but something about the way that track builds and builds in a near-shambles way is really powerful to me. Especially when Page is riffing on piano. My pace was a full 2-minutes faster today than yesterday thanks to this. Turns out I really like Piper! Rest of the set fucks too. I think I'm really turning a corner in my Phish fandom, much to the chagrin of my girlfriend and the non-jammy boarders who read this thread... Edit: second photo is wrong but w/e |
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Post by dij22 on Jun 19, 2021 11:45:34 GMT -6
 Decided to make a formal Phish log akin to my Dead log, but I want to relisten to the shows as I notate them. Started the project yesterday with 11/22/97, because I wanted to hear the Haley's Comet from that show. Listened to the second set, which goes into Tweezer > Black Eye Katy (which is just kind of an extended jam, no? Reminds me in concept of the Dead's jam themes, like Spanish Jam, MLB, etc). But then explodes into an ecstatically building Piper. I'm not converted yet on Antelope, so that wasn't a personal highlight, but the Bouncin' > Tweezer Reprise encore was a nice touch. Today was 4/3/98, which has my favorite Weekapaug Groove so far - especially w/ the vocal Crosseyed riff halfway through. Really, the whole first set is great. Mike's, Billy Breathes, Reba, and a slick bluegrass track is a good setlist for me right now. I listened back through the second set on a run today and woooaahhh. The Roses > Nassau Jam was cool but Piper totally floored me. Idk if I'm just in the mood for it right now, but something about the way that track builds and builds in a near-shambles way is really powerful to me. Especially when Page is riffing on piano. My pace was a full 2-minutes faster today than yesterday thanks to this. Turns out I really like Piper! Rest of the set fucks too. I think I'm really turning a corner in my Phish fandom, much to the chagrin of my girlfriend and the non-jammy boarders who read this thread... Antelope is definitely a song that you will love when you hear it live. Objectively fun way to close a set |
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Post by mookie on Jun 21, 2021 8:41:04 GMT -6
Second run through this one and it's pretty great, I think I found it from that list the guy from tima's website puts out each week. Very good soul/pop  |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 21, 2021 10:34:28 GMT -6
 Up today was another run through Phish at Star Lake, PA on 8/11/98 Highlights for me were an awesome Julius near the top of the show, I loved where the closing jam went, Wolfman's was nice after this - but I always love that; Bittersweet Motel brought down the house w/ its Pttsburgh-centric lyrics and led into a Reba that was kinda by the numbers at first but closed with a really lovely free-ish section. I also really liked the versions of Fee > Maze > Sample that closed set 1 - Fee, as I learned from Phish net is an old staple, but I'm somehow not familiar with it - it's great! Runaway Jim was the show highlight though w/ an awesome 35-minute jam that covered all the soaring highs and dissonant valleys of great Phish jams. Long as hell, but I enjoyed it and it didn't particularly drag. Rest of the show was relatively short and punchy, I particularly liked the Circus > Disease at the end of set 2. Good show! |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 21, 2021 12:46:29 GMT -6
Beautiful, dreamy album from a Lisbon-based psych outfit. RIYL: Broadcast, more laidback Stereolab, etc.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 22, 2021 10:37:17 GMT -6
 I am begging other people to post in this thread - otherwise I swear to god I'm just gonna make it wall-to-wall Phish content Today I listened back to the first show on Hampton Comes Alive, from 11/20/98. And it's good - but def not great, an opinion I didn't realize was shared by the larger phan (am I doing this right?) consensus until seeing it's relatively low score (just a hair over 4.0) for a 90s show on Phish net. I think it's because the jams don't really soar here the way they often do. Stash was good but I've heard better. And Split Open and Melt was objectively cool but for some reason didn't really send me. Rather, I'm viewing this album as a good showcase for individual songs. Rift was great here - and under 6 minutes. Roggae also really connected with me, at just a bit over 8 mins. And the acoustic Driver was lovely too. Same for Roses are Free (tho not 1/4 as cool as the jammed out one at Nassau) and Farmhouse. Bathtub Gin > Piper was probably the best jam of the set, but there are versions of both that I like more from my past week of listening. Harry Hood > Character Zero was my other big highlight. Phish's lyrics don't usually bother me, but something about the "thank you Mr. Minor" part in Hood always gets an eyeroll for me. So I'm always primed not to get into that song, but then the latter half just fucking slays so hard that it's almost always a highlight. And the solos in Zero here were awesome. Decent show - excited for where I go next. Edit: Oh yea, and that Gettin' Jiggy With It cover, tho extremely tongue-in-cheek, was godawful. Somehow this wasn't the song here that aged the least gracefully... they opened with Rock and Roll Part II !! |
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Post by teekoh on Jun 22, 2021 10:43:56 GMT -6
How about we beg you not to listen to any more Phish.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 22, 2021 10:47:28 GMT -6
How about we beg you not to listen to any more Phish. Get in line lmao - my girlfriend expressed a very similar sentiment to me over the weekend |
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Post by andrewvb on Jun 22, 2021 10:50:23 GMT -6
ok. the new natural information society record with evan parker is great.  |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 22, 2021 11:16:12 GMT -6
Hell yea - I still need to get to that, but the NIS simply does not miss.
Listening to this new record by Djinn now, and this song is probably the best jazz track I’ve heard all year. Spellbinding.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 22, 2021 12:43:55 GMT -6
 Lovely little songwriter record by John Andrews & the Yawns that came out on Woodsist earlier this year. Very Laurel Canyon / Nilsson / Drugdealer vibes. "River of Doubt" and "Thankyou" were standouts. |
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Post by teekoh on Jun 22, 2021 15:18:56 GMT -6
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 22, 2021 15:31:40 GMT -6
I love that there's something either slightly or very unsettling in all of these covers. Good shit.
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Post by teekoh on Jun 22, 2021 15:40:04 GMT -6
Happy to confirm that the content also ranges from slightly to very unsettling for each of them.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 23, 2021 10:46:37 GMT -6
 Gonna keep today's Phish write-up short and sweet. This was my second Phish show I checked out, early last year. It's extremely jam-heavy which is cool, but I think I prefer shows that pepper in more shorter, punchy songs. That said, the jams here are really great! It leads off with Tweezer, which is a fan favorite version into an amazing Reba that I actually enjoyed quite a bit more? Then came an epic version of Ghost, def my fave version of that so far - it has a beautiful section about 2/3 of the way through. Disease goes hard for 15 mins and I also really enjoyed When The Circus Comes To Town at the end, thought the vocals were great. Oh yea and there's a Wolfman's tacked on from 11/19 that rips - Trey starts absolutely shredding 12 mins into it. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 23, 2021 11:36:20 GMT -6
 POTENTIAL BOARD DARLING ALERT: Y'all should check out this record, Rosali - No Medium. It's a singer-songwriter record at its core, with vocals that remind me of Weyes Blood at times, but the instrumentation on this is next-level. It sounds at times like an early Big Thief record, where Buck and Adrienne are channeling their inner Crazy Horse. Gorgeous flourishes, fuzzed out country-rock leads, and incisive lyrics throughout this. Check it out! |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jun 23, 2021 12:04:03 GMT -6
POTENTIAL BOARD DARLING ALERT: Y'all should check out this record, Rosali - No Medium. It's a singer-songwriter record at its core, with vocals that remind me of Weyes Blood at times, but the instrumentation on this is next-level. It sounds at times like an early Big Thief record, where Buck and Adrienne are channeling their inner Crazy Horse. Gorgeous flourishes, fuzzed out country-rock leads, and incisive lyrics throughout this. Check it out! Just gave this another listen and her vocals reminded me a bit of The Weather Station too. And she’s opening for Hiss Golden Messenger this fall. Might check out the show? |
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Post by teekoh on Jun 23, 2021 16:37:10 GMT -6
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