A Live One

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Disney, 2003). Timestamp: 1 hour, 33 minutes, 40 seconds.

"You know what this list really needs? A live Phish album." Please.

Phish has always sounded like incredibly intricate, highly technical children's music to me.

Fun plus exhaustion minus interest. There are touches of dynamic range, neat solo work, and strangeness throughout, but it's truly an undifferentiated bag of directionless jams. Notable as a seminal recording, I guess, but long long long.

All I knew about Phish was the culture around their concerts and I’ve always kind of assumed they were a bit of a joke-y band, but this music kind of rocked.

Un peu long mais vraiment ça rock. J'avais entendu parler de l'album mais jamais écouté au complet. Je suis pas sdecu. 4

Incredibly long album. But it's with good, funky and sometimes jazzy music.

It's...fine I guess. Nothing remarkable, and I don't think I'll ever re-listen to this ever again. Phish just does nothing for me. Very talented and the recording is super crisp for a live album. Just not into their music or jam bands in general. I found myself skipping around the 15+ minute tracks searching for interesting licks and sections. My favorite tracks were the "normal" (5 min) tracks, but I couldn't name them if I tried because this album was forgettable to me. Not hating if you like this band or genre. I totally understand why they're relatively popular (although I imagine their core audience is rapidly approaching retirement age). Super talented musicians.

Not into Phish much at all, they are talented but the super long jam band thing ain’t my cup of tea. Also 2hrs oof.

Never listened to Phish before and now I've listened to over 2 hours of it. I liked it more than I expected. It sounded at times like Barenaked Ladies, a band that I like a lot that is nowhere on the real list (or, so far, on the user list). But I'm still not sure I "get" it.

It certainly sounds like Phish live

Never actually listened to any Phish at length. I've got nothing against this, solid jam-bandy rock, and some interesting material in the lyrics.

I really liked about half of it.

Ok so what kind of sick FUCK, after sitting through 3 years of albums that generally go too long, then chooses a 2-hour live album to foist on everyone else? Bad form. Also, this jam band stuff really didn't do it for me today. 2/5.

Yeah, Phish deserves a mention, but man 2 hours is a whole barrel of Phish I didn't need.

Phish workflow breakdown: Step 1: Strap on guitars and go wild: Wiiieeee wieeeeeeehhh, widily widily wieeeeehhhhh! Step 2: Repeat until timestamp of 2 hr 11 min has been reached. Step 3: Job well done. Step 4: Move on.

A two-hour-plus jam session that went on forever, with a few potential great tunes here and there

4/10. I always try to believe the best of people, so I have to assume that whoever added this was trying to add a Reel Big Fish album to the list, but due to an honest misunderstanding we ended up with a real big Phish album instead.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Phish gave the deadheads somewhere to go so they're not just out wandering the streets, but 2+ hours of pointless canoodling? No thank you. I'm sure it would be fun to see them live, but listening to this is not fun. 2 stars.

Meh

2 hours live??? Music is OK, but: two hours? No...

Terrible

I really can't fathom listening to all of these stellar albums and thinking this album belongs among them.

I know I have to give every album a fair chance, but this was making too much demand on my ears. Endless jams are just not my cup of tea.

You can’t tell me this isn’t the drug-fueled, adult-facing front for The Wiggles