PhishBest Phish Albums Ranked

The Siket Disc

pitchfork

8.1

“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a surprisingly great instrumental studio album from Phish, an experimental batch of moody, improvised fragments unlike anything else in their catalog.”

Joy

rollingstone

8.0

“Phish turned 25 last November quietly; after all, they’d been defunct for over four years. So considertheir reunion LP, the self-released Joy, a belated birthday party."Happy happy, oh my friend/Blow out candles once again" sings TreyAnastasio on the nostalgic opener, "Backwards Down the Number Line."It’s the epitome of a Phish song, complete with bouncy country-rockgroove, […]”

New Year's Eve 1995: Live At Madison Square Garden (With Videos)

rollingstone

8.0

“Good luck getting hard-core Phish fans to agree on the band’s best show, but for many die-hards this 1995 New Year’s Eve celebration at New York’s Madison Square Garden is at the top of the list. Phish’s highly anticipated December 31st gigs were usually the capstones of a year of relentless touring, and 1995 was […]”

Billy Breathes

rollingstone

8.0

“Phish’s last album, the double CD A Live One, distilled a decade’s worth of dedicated road work by a group that has reinvented improvised rock for a new generation. If Phish have an identity, it is one characterized by endless change and musical risk, a yesterday-today-and-tomorrow sound that draws liberally from rock history and jazz […]”

Fuego

rollingstone

7.0

“Let's say you wanted to write a Phish album in 2014. You might well work in the words "rolling" (high-five, club kids!) and "wombat" (because it's a hilarious word, duh), and name-check recurring Phish-lyric character Wilson. Most important, you'd write optimistic songs that can be jammed all the way up to our depleted ozone in concert. Phish do all this on their 12th studio LP – struggling to tra”

Alpine Valley 2010 (Live)

rollingstone

7.0

“Jam kings hit a blissed-out peak on live setFor many Phish fans, the band’s nights at Wisconsin’s Alpine Valley Music Theatre in August were their best gigs of the summer. This new CD-DVD box set proves why, delivering focused jams and set lists that include rarities — "Fuck Your Face" has been played only five […]”