HT Giveaway: Win A Joy Box Pt. 6
As we’ve been telling you endlessly over the past few weeks, we’ve got two Joy Boxes to giveaway and we’re giving our readers eight chances to win. The Joy Box – the most ambitious Phish release ever – includes a CD of Joy plus 10 posters, an extensive booklet as well as Party Time and a DVD featuring some of Phish’s live performances from the first half of 2009.
Today, we’ve got question number six of eight and each answer you give will count as one entry in the contest. That’s right, you can enter eight times by answering all eight questions. Just don’t get greedy and answer the same question twice. This contest will run until September 25, 2009 at 11:59PM. Just follow the rules below and we’ll announce our winners on 9/28:
- To enter the contest leave a comment below telling us about the first Phish album you ever heard and what you thought of it
- All comments must be longer than 10 words and shorter than 50
- Your comment must be left by 11:59 PM EST on Friday, Sept. 25
- Don’t be greedy, only one entry per person, per question
- Winners will be selected at random from all entries to all 8 questions
- Winners receive one copy of the Joy Box each
So there you have it. As you see, question #6 is “what was the first Phish album you ever heard and what did you think about it at the time?” Keep on checking Hidden Track for question #7.
- HT Joy Box Giveaway: Question #1, Question #2, Question #3, Question # 4, Question #5
- Previously on HT: Joy Review, Festival 8 Giveaway
- Dry Goods: Joy Box Pre-order
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.
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1st Phish album I ever heard was Rift back in undergrad, freshman year. My hallmates introduced me to the band when I was still listening mostly to rap – and I’m glad they did. I thought “This is new, and different, and fun, and great!”
Lawn Boy’s Reba. “Bag it, tag it” rang like a bell in my head. Was hooked.
Junta. Thought it was different. Listened again, was hooked 4 life.
Picture of Nectar. From that day on I decided I must live while I’m young and that somehow my youth should last forever.
Slip, Stitch and Pass.
I remember Mike’s Song. Played it for a while and then Junta cause a friend had it. Really dug Mike’s and Fee and that’s what started the obsession.
My best friend’s older brother played Junta for me when I was in sixth grade… I remember my brain almost exploding, while we were listening to YEM, when his brother told me that they jump on trampolines while playing their instruments!
I’ll never forget. May of ’92. A friend brought over “Nectar” and said, “you’ve got to hear this.” THe opening drums of “Llama” blew me away and I’ve been hooked since.
Lawn Boy. Blown Away. It was all Nirvana Pearl Jam and Metallica up to that point. It was eye opening to hear Phish for me.
Billy Breathes. Lent to me by a friend who loved Phish and Pearl Jam. I recall being intrigued by CTB, Bliss, and Swept Away — I’d never really listened to many albums that had a few unique counterpoints thrown int (from an album-oriented-rock standpoint). It was Rift, a few months later, that really got me hooked.
i had heard random songs, but the first album i ever heard was junta. i wasn’t captivated, though i thought yem was pretty unique.
Rift, and I loved it. My cousin (a huge deadhead) gave it to me, as he’d never been able to get into Phish. I was, though!
A Picture of Nectar. When Llama started I was extraordinarily nervous about what the singing would sound like. When Trey’s voice came through the speakers the friendliness in his voice sealed the deal. I bought every album they had released by the end of the week.
I was walking home when an old friend was driving his VW bug down the road and picked me up. I hadn’t seen him in a couple of years and the first thing he said to me was “Man, you’ve got to listen to this band.” “Contact” started up and I asked him what the name of the band was. “Phish” he told me and I remembered that I had seen Phish open for Santana and that they totally blew my mind, but I never got a hold of any of their cds. After that ride home, I soon was getting my hands on any Phish I could find.
A Picture of Nectar was the first Phish album I heard. I loved their music from that first introduction, and still do to this day, 16 years later!
Hmm, probably Junta, I recall listening to Fee and thinking how amazing of a song it was. This was when I was 6-7 years old, so it’s cool to think I loved the music way back then.
First album I heard was Lawn Boy and I thought the guys were crazy… I kept trying to find the lyrics to Antelope and didn’t realize the whole track is instrumental until the very end!
My first album was Rift, the song Weigh to be exact. My first initial thought was this is a really weird song about weighing someones head that you just cut off. But that intrigued me to listen to other tracks. Then when i really started to know Phish and the types of songs that Mike writes, the lyrics made sense.
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The first Phish album I’ve ever heard was Junta, Disc 1. I thought that they wrote some pretty amusing lyrics to some very cute tunes.
Cannot remember exactly what was the first song I ever heard, but a friend played them for me in high school on the bus on the way to a lacrosse game and I was hooked. It turned out that my parents had bought my younger brother A Live One for Christmas the year before and he had never even opened it. So I went home that night and claimed that double disc as my own and from that point on Phish has and always will be a huge part of my life! Also, a friend of my mom worked concessions for the Halloween show in 94 and gave her a gold chocolate coin to give to me (way before I even knew of the band). I still have the wrapper and keep it with my ticket collection. :)
Picture of Nectar. Thought the songs were strong, but the production hampered the success of the album. I had to get over the dry sound.
Junta – i thought it was so weird. I only liked Contact and the YEM “Boy, Man, God, Shit” I remember it being so out there and complex.
Rift. I loved it. I think The Wedge had something to do with my move to Colorado in ’94. Rift helped me to release and really feel the music so I was eventually able to dance to this new funky music I have fallen in love with!
Rift! I had no idea what was going on but I knew it was something special. It is still my favorite album.
The first Phish album I ever heard was Lawnboy and I mostly loved it for the quirky lyrics. Then I loved the quirky music, and my appreciation went on from there.