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With Billy Breathes, it's the closest they got to making what I would say is a good stoner album. You know what I mean: you put on the CD, you fire up a big one and you just go down that road. There hadn't been a good stoner record since Dark Side Of The Moon. Billy Breathes got close. I keep telling Trey Anastasio we can make a better one."
"Free" is a song by Vermont-based jam band Phish, released as the first single from their 1996 album Billy Breathes.The track reached number 7 on the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart, becoming their first song to reach the top 10 on that (or any) chart. [1]
The progressive rock song "Guyute" is the only track on the album to pre-date 1997, having first been performed by Phish in 1994. [ 8 ] A few of the album's songs reflect the band's 1997 "cow-funk" sound, with bass guitarist Mike Gordon taking a more prominent role.
Farmhouse received mainly positive reviews. Jason Ankeny of AllMusic praised the album as Phish's "rootsiest and most organic effort to date... [and] also their most fully developed – these are complete, concise songs and not simply outlines for extended jams, boasting a beauty and intimacy which expands the group's scope even as it serves notice of a newfound pop accessibility."
Carini, Dinner and a Movie → Mike's Song → Lawn Boy → Weekapaug Groove, The Mango Song → Billy Breathes, Theme From the Bottom Encore: Taste, Sweet Adeline Notes: The week-long trend of breaking out songs continued with the show-opening Cities, which was the first since July 5, 1994 (222 shows). Wolfman's included a Dave's Energy Guide ...
Phish recorded their sixth album Billy Breathes in the winter and spring of 1996, and the album was issued in October of that year. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] The album's first single, "Free", peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and No. 11 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and was their most successful song on both charts.
The songs on A Picture of Nectar explore a variety of musical genres, including jazz, country, calypso, rock and roll and neo-psychedelia. [1] Tracks 2, 8, 9, and 14 are instrumentals. The song " Manteca " is a cover of the song by jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie ; in Phish's short version, the melody line is sung as a goofy nonsense phrase. [ 5 ] "
Joy received generally favorable reviews upon its release, with a 65/100 critic score on Metacritic, based on nine reviews. [8] The New York Times commented that "Steve Lillywhite’s clear and ungimmicky production makes Joy sound like the band members onstage responding to one another," [9] while Billboard simply stated "Joy is a journey not to be missed."