Sun Spin: The Story of the Ghost

Favorite Phish Album- Hands down. I remember how excited I was when I first listened to this album and it has always been my favorite phish studio album. Please release 09 tour stat.

It seems like yesterday, when this album was released! It's hard to say it's my favorite, because Billy Breathes, Rift, and Junta are in my top picks as well. i think i saw 7 shows that year, 2 nights in hampton topping it off. can't wait, i got 2 for saturday. first time i was ever turned down for mailorder, but i got lucky through ticketbastard.

agreed this is one of my favorite albums by them. cant wait for 09!

This album is soo good, Billy Breathes def owns tho. 98 was the year Trey starting nooding that smack for sure ( leads to more spacey jams)

AWESOME

Never heard it, I'll have to jam it. I'm jamming CD one of the Roxy shows that arrived yesterday. I love my live Phish, never did dig the studio stuff much.

I vividly remember the afternoon of the Oct. day that this was released & going to the blockbuster music on capital blvd in Raleigh and scoring this gem of an album. Being a high school senior and knowing phish - knowing that you knew what the true deal was - priceless feelings of 1998.

This album has never been out of rotation for me - makes me wonder how many hundreds of times I have listened to these notes over the past ten years

Can it get any better than this?

HAMPTON 2009 BITCHES !!!

JC

I remember hearing this on the radio one night, driving with my father. it felt so good to hear Phish on the radio, which is still rare. I remembered the strange almost empty at times sound during the verses of Birds of a Feather. I will always love the guitar solo on this version, as the horns add many layers that are almost hidden behind the rest of the band and the intensity.

nice and dark. that jam on limb by limb jumps out of the speakers and I remember thinking wow they really captured their live energy on an album. brian and robert was a redefining moment for phish, where they showed they create a solid pop song with great lyrics. it always reminds me of my old apartment in the ghetto.. haha just two of my faves on that disc.

This album makes me cum so good i almost left my girlfriend for it.

phish news in the media means, big news in the next few days. wait for it...

The funk's so thick you can do the backstroke in it = Very Nice!

Guyute was the ugly pig, he walked on me and danced a jig, that he had learned when he was six, he laughed and did some other tricks,

like pulling weapons from his coat, and holding them against my throat

he lectured me in language strange,and scampered quickly out of range,

I'm bouncing like a newborn elf, I can't remain inside myself

Guyute glances in my eyes, and manages to hypnotize, as I sleep the sleep of death,he sucks from me my only breath,that I had breathed since I was ten,I hope this happens once again.

By the way... I miss Sessions At West 54th. David Byrne interviewing the guys was priceless.

Never heard this album before. Is it any good?

What's strange is I just saw a used copy of Ghost at a local cd store and thought, "Wow, did someone truly not like this, or were they desperate for money or what?" Don't know if it's there best studio album, but definitely some of their best cuts:Birds, Limb by Limb, Roggae, Velvet Sea

This being ten years old makes me feel old

Moma Dance from Lemonwheel has funk that is more thick than my ex girlfriend. Thats right...I said it!

Great album! I remember going to a pre release party at a bar/pizza shop in Boulder, CO with a group of friends and listening to the whole album. They gave out prizes including tickets to the McNichols Arena show, which I attended along with 10 others that year. The funk is definitely thick on this album.

Dear Noobs, Listen to Rift. This isn't the best album ever. It just has the most songs that Trey could remember how to play from 1999 on.

guyute is in my top 3 fav songs. ever.

but rift or junta is 100% their best albums...this is up there

This has always been my favorite studio album, too. I've always loved the dark, trippy feel to it. This will definitely be entering my cd player immediately!

This Moma is making me so happy right now. I still can't believe Phish is back together. Today is a glorious day. Long live PHISH!!!

I love that Pepe Le Pue shirt!

Great Album, Always bring this one on trips! I only got to to hear one Water in the Sky live.... Maybe 09?

salvadordali- Have you ever heard the slowed down version of Water in the Sky? It is the sh!t just throwing it out there

You tell they wanna jam soooo much longer on that 'Birds of a Feather'!

it seems everyone likes phish here... I know I will get a bunch of negative votes, but the lyrics are not that well done, and the songs are generally boring. I love grateful dead, wsp and most jam bands, I have even seen trey and gordo live together at rothbury, and it was just boring. But more power to all the fans of phish and I hope you enjoy your ten year reunion. Its been almost twenty years since WSP Spance Wrangler, that is a great album!

JUNTA !!!!! sure this is good for all the funk hippies but true phish is heard through junta :-D

They should add the Ghost opener from the Fillmore (10-15-98) to this list... So ripping the show was an instant classic after one tune

jwatson, remember that Guyute was a live staple for years before they put it on Ghost. I would also have to vote for Rift, but its close. Actually had this very debate this weekend, and we settled on any live recording haha!

JoeEngland - If you havnt already, check out walnut creek, they play a slow water in the skizzle.

Brian and Robert intro is sick!

what about undermind? that album takes the cake

This is my personal favorite studio effort. I also like Farmhouse, Rift, and Undermind. (and Billy Breathes.)

like the article says -- 2nd only to billy breathes -- but worth the price! love them both :)

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i don't think there is a best, it all depends on the mood. whatever though, if it's phish it makes me smile. good for you to the guy who got lucky at ticketbastard, i didn't think anyone did. see you in HAMPTON!!!!!

i still think rift was pretty sweet. 94' was about the first time they were on Letterman. they've been on at least 3 times.

Fucking BADASS. -98 was good shit. Can't wait for more.

Fantastic Album. Im also reminded of my senior year of high school from this one. Ive gotta give props to wallyloosie though. Undermind owns as far as studio albums goes. Thats my most anticipated part of the 09 tour... Undermind stuff is gonna get explored more live. Im really looking forward to that.

....Trampled By Lambs, & Pecked By Doves-. if you like Ghost, check it out.

you can't really rank phish albums best to worst because each of them has a unique taste and style. brendan got it right, depends on the mood. however I will say that ghost has probably been the most listened to phish, or possibly out of my whole collection, album I own.

it was great watching these songs evolve live, guyute used to sound nothing like it does on the studio.easily their best sounding studio effort IMO. John Siket is the man. alot of cool leftovers when making this if u havent heard "The Siket Disc' go out and get it great ambiant spaced out album

I love this record but I have to say they've never topped A Picture of Nectar. Lookin forward to catchin a gig again in '09!!

This was always my fav although some people argue Billy breathes is the best.... Junta has the song list, but was just not indicative enough of what those songs would become..... The title track of ghost sounds so cool and innovative... dude.. picutre of nectar cmon. This is like: ok everyone knows Rocky 4 is the best but its cool to say rocky 1 but no other one is acceptable

8-9-98....(rip jerry)

First set birds roggea and moma, all great.

My favorite phish set at the moment.

Do have a question tho for a phan more knowligable than myself.

They open with punch eye, and rip this solo that is (sped up but...) a different latin feel instramental track off a differnet album, im forgetting which, but was this the norm, where these two songs always blended live?

...and, idk the roggea off the album doesnt do it for me, find the magnatude of that low chord just isnt there. still solid but...

then again i suppose you could say that for most phish tracks, i feel roggea especially tho.

hot danm i love phish