As if Phish fans weren’t riled up enough about Festival 8, the quartet has just upped the ante by unveiling a website with nearly 100 album covers of discs the band may potentially play in Indio. The only instructions on the site state “play the last record left alive” which leads us to believe that most of the album covers will be removed in some way in the time leading up to the festival giving fans a hint at what album will be covered on 10/31.

The album covers displayed on the website run the gamut from classic rock albums (Eat a Peach, Hot Rats, Pretzel Logic) to contemporary classics (Ten, Appetite For Destruction, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) to the no-chance-its-happening Pork Tornado debut featuring Jon Fishman.

In the past, Phish has never directly given their fans clues regarding the albums they cover on Halloween so this is new territory for the band. The unveiling of this “Haunted House of Albums” gives Phish fans a chance to get familiar with the potential albums before they head out to Indio for the three-day festival on October 30, 31 and November 1. For a fanbase not used to seeing their favorite band flex its marketing muscle, Festival 8 already has given us the “Save The Date” map, the first-ever full-length acoustic set and the Haunted House.

MMW’s Shack Man and Tom Petty’s Damn The Torpedoes seem to be the first two albums killed, i.e. out of contention for Festival 8.

READ ON for the full list of albums included in this “House of Albums” as well as a look at Phish’s past Halloween musical costumes…

Albums That Are Still Alive:
AC/DC – Back In Black (1980)
Aerosmith – Toys In The Attic (1975)
Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004)
The Band – The Band (1969)
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)
Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty (1998)
Black Sabbath – Paranoid (1970)
Blind Faith – Blind Faith (1969)
Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks (1975)
Bob Dylan & The Band – The Basement Tapes (1975)
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band – Against the Wind (1980)
Boston – Boston (1976)
Brian Eno – Before and after Science (1977)
Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run (1975)
Chicago – The Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
The Clash – London Calling (1979)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River (1969)
Curtis Mayfield – Super Fly Soundtrack (1972)
David Bowie – Hunky Dory (1971)
David Bowie – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)
David Bowie – The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Devo – Freedom of Choice (1980)
The Doors – The Doors (1967)
Duran Duran – Rio (1982)
Eagles – Hotel California (1976)
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – This Year’s Model (1978)
Eric Clapton – 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)
fIREHOSE – Flyin’ the Flannel (1991)
Frank Zappa – Apostrophe (‘) (1974)
Frank Zappa – Hot Rats (1969)
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974)
Grateful Dead – American Beauty (1970)
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction (1987)
Hall & Oates – Private Eyes (1981)
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual (1990)
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced? (1967)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland (1968)
John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band (1970)
Journey – Escape (1981)
King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973)
Kiss – Alive II (1977)
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (1969)
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Love – Forever Changes (1967)
Metallica – Master Of Puppets (1986)
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (2007)
Michael Jackson – Thriller (1982)
Michael McDonald – If That’s What It Takes (1982)
Miles Davis – A Tribute To Jack Johnson (1971)
Minutemen – Double Nickels On The Dime (1984)
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers (1976)
Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night (1975)
Nirvana – Nevermind (1991)
Pearl Jam – Ten (1991)
Peter Gabriel – So (1986)
Pink Floyd – Meddle (1971)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979)
Pixies – Come On Pilgrim (1987)
The Police – Ghost In The Machine (1981)
Pork Tornado – Pork Tornado (2002)
Prince – Purple Rain (1984)
Queen – A Night At The Opera (1975)
Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
Rage Against The Machine – Evil Empire (1996)
Ramones – Ramones (1976)
Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (1972)
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers (1971)
The Roots – Phrenology (2002)
Rush – Moving Pictures (1981)
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic (1974)
T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971)
Television – Marquee Moon (1977)
Tom Waits – Rain Dogs (1985)
U2 – The Joshua Tree (1987)
Van Halen – Van Halen (1978)
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks (1968)
Various Artists – Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (1977)
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (1983)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
X – Los Angeles (1980)
Yes – The Yes Album (1971)
ZZ Top – Tres Hombres (1973)

Albums That Have Already Gotten The Axe:
The Allman Brothers Band – Eat A Peach (1972)
The Beatles – Rubber Soul (1965)
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (1977)
Huey Lewis and The News – Sports (1983)
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man (1988)
Manu Chao – Clandestino (1998)
Medeski Martin & Wood – Shack-man (1996)
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
Primus – Sailing The Seas Of Cheese (1991)
Talking Heads – Fear Of Music (1979)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Damn The Torpedoes (1979)
The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Ween – White Pepper (2000)
The White Stripes – Elephant (2003)
The Who – Who’s Next (1971)

Here’s a look at past Halloween album covers…

10/31/1994 – Phish Covers The Beatles’ White Album

2: Speak to Me**, Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Martha My Dear, I’m So Tired, Blackbird, Piggies, Rocky Raccoon, Don’t Pass Me By, Why Don’t We Do It in the Road, I Will, Julia, Birthday Jam***, Yer Blues, Mother Nature’s Son, Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long, Revolution 1, Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle, Cry Baby Cry, Revolution 9+, Good Night++

10/31/1995 – Phish Covers The Who’s Quadrophenia

2: I Am the Sea, The Real Me, Quadrophenia, Cut My Hair, The Punk Meets the Godfather, I’m One, The Dirty Jobs, Helpless Dancer, Is It in My Head, I’ve Had Enough, 5:15, Sea and Sand, Drowned, Bell Boy, Doctor Jimmy, The Rock, Love Reign O’er Me

10/31/1996 – Phish Covers Remain In Light by Talking Heads

2: Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On), Crosseyed and Painless, Great Curve, Once in a Lifetime, Houses in Motion, Seen and Not Seen, Listening Wind, Overload (1:02)

10/31/1998 – Phish covers the Velvet Underground’s Loaded

2: Who Loves the Sun, Sweet Jane, Rock and Roll, Cool It Down, New Age, Head Held High, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, I Found a Reason, Train Round the Bend, Oh! Sweet Nuthin’

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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