A Live One

The person that chose this album for the list is either one of two things: a person who loves phish and most likely several drugs as well or an absolute sicko who wants to watch people suffer listening to a 2 hour live jam sesh after completing a list of albums where so many of them also sucked. I was not on drugs and most definitely suffered. 2.5/10

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Bouncing around the room

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

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

Meh

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.

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.

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

I really liked about half of it.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Terrible

It certainly sounds like Phish live

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.