Best Phish Cover - Phish.net Forum

sweetfeet 12/02/12 12:45 pm

Curious as to what people think the best song that phish has covered is. I don't really know why, but I am personally a big fan every time they play Quinn the Eskimo.

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RR1994 12/02/12 12:49 pm

Cities. Better than the original. Not many other Phish covers you can say that about.

Honorable mentions:

12/31/95 JBG. Trey tears the house down on that version.
Night nurse from fall 2010, I forget the date. One of the most soulful renditions of any song that I've heard Phish do.

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listen4myHorn 12/02/12 12:50 pm

Che Hun Ta Mo

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zepphead 12/02/12 12:52 pm

album = dark side of the moon
song = no quarter (recent favorite, plus i'm biased. too hard, too many good ones, and Quinn is one of 'em.)
ill toss on roses, peaches, and all the beatles' covers too!

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zepphead 12/02/12 12:53 pm

jesus just left chicago............slip stitch version

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ahull13 12/02/12 12:55 pm

Crosseyed and Painless

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Babyrattlesnakes 12/02/12 12:59 pm

CE&P, with Drowned right behind it.

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ypehmish 12/02/12 1:02 pm

sally

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DanceTheJig728 12/02/12 1:09 pm

Psycho Killer or Boogie On or Rock and Roll

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lovedontfalter 12/02/12 1:12 pm

DEODATO'S DAWN

imho
=)

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SconyMack 12/02/12 3:53 pm

Rock and Roll, Cities, Ya Mar, or Roses

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IntoYesterday 12/02/12 4:15 pm

The one that goes

Dun daaaaaaa ba dump baaaaa
brmmmmm
brmmmmm
dun duun da dun dun dun da dun dun na na na

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mathemagician 12/02/12 5:02 pm

Torn and Frayed*

*my favs always change

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TwistAroundThatWay 12/02/12 5:43 pm

@RR1994 said:

Cities. Better than the original. Not many other Phish covers you can say that about.

Roses is a contender for that

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splitopenandmelted 12/02/12 5:46 pm

Roses, and I always have a blast listening to Killing in the Name because the crowd goes wiiiiiiild. Best if you watch the video as well cause everyone is jumping around like crazy. Plus I love when Fish sings. I also am partial to Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover. However, these definitely wouldn't popularly be considered "the best". They're just my favorites currently and songs I would shit if I got. (except Roses. I've had Roses a few times and did not shit my pants, for the record).

Edit: Also, Cities. Duh.

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MiguelSanchez 12/02/12 6:15 pm

2 words

Terrapin station

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jonstolethings 12/02/12 6:22 pm

For the jams: Crosseyed, Drowned, Sally

One timers: Night Nurse, Terrapin Station

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fishman4 12/02/12 7:41 pm

I'll throw in another one for Peaches en Regalia. So good.

12/6/96 is definitely my favorite version. So clean.

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/02/12 7:46 pm

"Great gig in the sky"

Ill say, Ill say ill say, ill say it again; Should be played for kids in music rooms around the world.

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hillyp 12/02/12 8:30 pm

Timber Ho
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do you even know what the original sounds like? I don't

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kingsley_zissou 12/02/12 8:42 pm

Take the A Train

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TheDeerman 12/02/12 8:52 pm

I'd probably go with Rock & Roll. A lot of really great jammed out versions over the years. And Page's vocals just make me smile.

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MiguelSanchez 12/02/12 8:54 pm

@MiguelSanchez said:

2 words

Terrapin station

If we're doing the regular covers I have to go w/ cross eyed or drowned

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/02/12 8:57 pm

Doesn't it have to be loving cup?

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deBebbler 12/02/12 9:01 pm

@hillyp said:

Timber Ho
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do you even know what the original sounds like? I don't

^^^This.

The original doesn't sound like Timber Ho!, that's for damn sure. Phish really made that one their own.

2001 is a distant second. Phish slays the tune, but Deodato's original is (.) (.)

@careful_w_that_axe_Miller said:

Doesn't it have to be loving cup?

No.

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beach 12/02/12 9:06 pm

@RR1994 said:

Cities. Better than the original. Not many other Phish covers you can say that about.

Honorable mentions:

12/31/95 JBG. Trey tears the house down on that version.
Night nurse from fall 2010, I forget the date. One of the most soulful renditions of any song that I've heard Phish do.

Here's the show...it's been hanging out on my iPod for a while

October 26, 2010

Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH

Set 1: After Midnight, The Sloth, Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues^[1], Mellow Mood, Access Me, Llama, All of These Dreams, The Curtain With > Scent of a Mule, A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, It's Ice > Walls of the Cave

Set 2: Possum > Light > Mike's Song > Simple^[2] > Makisupa Policeman^[3] -> Night Nurse^[4] -> Makisupa Policeman > The Wedge, Ghost -> The Mango Song^[5] > Weekapaug Groove^[6] -> Llama Reprise

Encore: Show of Life

[1] "From Goddard College" added to lyrics.
[2] Magilla tease from Page.
[3] "Woke up this morning with a policeman at my door all I could do was shrug, and go back in my bedroom and smoke another nug" lyrics.
[4] Phish debut.
[5] Heavy Weekapaug teases from Trey.
[6] Can't You Hear Me Knocking jam with Ghost and Night Nurse lyrics. Unfinished.

Notes: After Midnight was played for the first time since December 31, 1999 (206 shows). In Alumni, Trey added "from Goddard College" after the final "'cause I got a degree" lyric. Simple contained a Magilla tease from Page. Makisupa included the lyrics "Woke up this morning with a policeman at my door all I could do was shrug, and go back in my bedroom and smoke another nug." This show featured the Phish debut of Night Nurse; original artist Gregory Isaacs passed away the night before, October 25, 2010. Weekapaug was heavily teased by Trey in Mango before the segue into Weekapaug itself. Weekapaug subsequently contained a Can't You Hear Me Knocking jam, which featured lyrics from Ghost and Night Nurse, and was unfinished.

What I think is the best depends on my mood and the era. So, I'll just throw out my current 3.0 favorite - no quarter.

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johnnyd

12/02/12 9:10 pm

2001 - for best regularly played.
Taking the thread literally - best song that they covered - hmmm.
Bohoemian rhapsody maybe?

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ReadIcculus_ 12/02/12 9:16 pm

Fire

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beach 12/02/12 9:26 pm

@ReadIcculus_ said:

Fire

Good, but for Jimi I prefer Izabella.

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JonBaker 12/03/12 7:00 am

There's a bunch of them, but my two are Timber Ho and Loving Cup.......

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mymindisgoo 12/03/12 7:11 am

gettin jiggy with it na na na na na na na

not the best but its fun. everything else has been mentioned. oh and gtbts, especially from 11/22/95 i think

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PhishPhan_CT 12/03/12 7:23 am

a 1998 CITIES OR GUMBO ALL PhUnKeD OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!