Title: Bad versions of good songs...
Product review: TSIA. This album contains some of Phish's finest songs in their career. Such wonderful tunes as "REBA" and "squirming coil" which are a delight to hear live are here rendered as lifeless, unfocused, energyless rot. Now I have a feeling that I may get some flack for this someday but can anyone who has heard any of these songs live truly say that the studio tracks come even close? PHISH's first two albums are dull, musaky, and low-energy, partially because they hadn't figred out how to use a studio yet, they just tried to recreate their live performance. If only they had learned what they learned by "billy breathes" and applied it to the songs on this album, the album woudl be outstanding, but the result here is almost unlistenable. Check out the bootlegs for the real stuff, kids.
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