The Best and Worst of Joy
Joy is officially released today. Many of you have already heard it through a leaked copy or perhaps you were listening to live versions via We Can Still Have Joy.
At any rate, I polled my colleagues at Coventry Music Blog about their favorite and least favorite songs on the new album. Aside from Time Turns Elastic getting the (obvious) nod for Worst Song, the other results were a little surprising considering that Oceleot got the nod for Best Song on Joy.
I asked everyone to rank their top three and bottom three songs. The number of first place votes is in parentheses.
Best Song on Joy:Although Backwards Down the Number Line had more first place votes than Stealing Time for Best Song, that was the only votes it received. Stealing Time was selected as second favorite song twice and even picked up a third place vote.
1. Ocelot (4)
2. Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan (1)
3. Backwards Down the Number Line (2)
Worst Song on Joy:
1. Time Turns Elastic (4)
2. Joy (2)
3. I Been Around (2)
Kill Devil Falls and Twenty Years Later did not get any first place votes for Best Song, however, they did get mentioned as a second or third favorite.
I Been Around featuring Page got only two votes for Worst Song and they were in the top spot. Joy, the bittersweet title track, was mentioned as the second Worst Song on the album on two occasions.
Sugar Shack is a mixed-bag with our crew. It was the only other song that got a first place vote for Best Song, yet it was also considered for Worst Song on the album and also got two votes for second worst song and two votes for third worst song.
So there you have it. We sampled the goods and have spoken. We love Ocelot and don't like TTE.
Comments
Joker advised I dress as an 'Ocelot' for Festival 8 and find all the other Phish animals (llamas, possums, birds, pigs, etc) and become their friend!!!!
:)
Light easily takes the cake.
Sugar Shack is smokin'.
BDTNL needs to be heard live and is a scorcher.
TTE has ironically grown on me more and more over the past several months, and right now is just a fabulous representation of where Phish has been and how far they've come all the way up to the present time.
Joy actually sounds really nice on the album too.
But then...where is Party Time?
i guess real musical composition is not what people are looking for.
everyone just wants the "single" or the "rager"
i hope they do more songs like TTE
Joy is easily my 4th least favorite song. But i felt bad putting it in the bottom three because of what the song supposedly signifies/represents to Trey so i cut it slack. Its not a bad song. I'm just not into jambands doing ballads or for that matter Jambanders sounding like lounge singers such as Page on Ive been around easily my least favorite tune. I mean come on two minutes of filler. Live in concert as a segue its fun as it was at SPAC. Did it deserve the album. I think not.
the problem with TTE is that it may play well live but not in the context of an album and needs some work. Im too ADD to handle a whole Prog record compososition
as an official voter I went: BDTNL, Sugar Shack, Light for favs. I thought these three have or will have the best jam potential. I mean Sugar Shack has that awesome funky intro.
I think its funny ocelot won favorite song amongst us. After 100 plays that is going to wear on me like the grateful deads Black Peter. not a bad song but it will get irritating in the long hall.
I guess we all get different things or are looking for different things out of our music!!!
Irongirl - glad we agree on the TTE. For me, it's just perfect for the ADD, so many quick and swift changes, keeps me on track and looking forward to that next change. ;)
Kid D - I believe I recall the Toyota Park version (TTE) also to be quite sizzling.
Sugar Shack is definitely MOST UNDERRATED!
But then Ocelot has to be OVERRATED.
Light is up there too...but it's the Moma-->Light from El Gorge that got me hooked on it, not the album version.
Go Phish!
PS - I think I'll try Alaska.
I'm not a huge fan of the 20 years later on the album, but the SPAC version was evidence enough for me that I'm looking forward to hearing that as often as possible.
and TTE is rock opera. they obviously appreciate it having showcased it in many spots this summer.
light is the greyest area, but i'm with pauly, the gorge jam was impressive.
I liked it quite a bit at Bonnaroo and actually liked it at Fenway too.
I'll disagree with the TTE comments in this thread in that :
A) I don't like it overall.
B) I like it EVEN LESS live than I do on the album. It's like a vacuum that sucks all the energy out of a show.
Kill Devil Falls is the opposite...don't care for a studio version but can be a rager live...again see Bonnaroo or Asheville.
I like BDTNL, Stealing Time and Ocelot.
If I was ranking it would be :
1. Light
2. BDTNL
3. Stealing Time
3 Worst :
Worst :
JOY
Second Worst :
TTE
Third Worst :
I've been around.
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