[Originally Published: 7/17/2009]

The scenario is this: It’s October 31st at 8pm in Indio California. Phish has not announced what musical costume they are performing and they have not handed out playbills this year. Those banks of lights go down and it’s time for THE set. What’s it going to be?

Side Note: While many of our readers are familiar with the “Musical Costume” concept, it’s worth mentioning to those that aren’t that starting in 1994, on Halloween, Phish would play a three-set show and in the second set, would cover an entire album by another artist. There have been four:

1994 – The White Album (The Beatles)
1995 – Quadrophenia (The Who)
1996 – Remain In Light (The Talking Heads)
1998 – Loaded (Velvet Underground)

Name That Tune!

For fun, we’ve thrown together a collection of 35 albums – taken anywhere from 8 to 35 seconds of the first track, mixed it in with some Phish audience noise, added some fades, had fun with a few volume swells and this what we’ve got:

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You got 15 minutes? Why don’t you test yourself – see how many of these you would know as of right now. Some of the selections are the obvious front-runners, some are long shots, and some — well some of these I just included because I find myself hilarious.

If you’re stumped on a few, hopefully some fellow Hidden Track readers can help you out.

UPDATE [August 28]: While our readers have identified roughly 88% of the albums from the audio clip, there are still some that nobody has mentioned – four to be exact – do you know what they are?

READ ON after the jump for a Partial Answer Key including full credit given to the first HT commenters that ID’d the album…

01 AC/DC – Back In Black (Jennifer Kirk)
02 Little Feat – Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (Geoff)
03 Traffic – The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Dubious Moniker)
04 Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (Geoff)
05 Particle – Launchpad (Paul)
06 Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Ryan D)
07 Ween – Chocolate & Cheese (Geoff)
08 Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (Dave)
09 Michael Jackson – Thriller (Patrick Sweeney)
10 The Clash – London Calling (Patrick Sweeney)
11 Derek & The Dominos- Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (The Wizard)
12 Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage (noah)
13 Dire Straits – Comminique (Geoff)
14 Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (C. Cakes)
15 The Kinks – Are the Village Green Preservation Society (Patrick Sweeney)
16 Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (The Wizard)
17 Air – Moon Safari (The Wizard)
18 Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run (Patrick Sweeney)
19 The Gourds – Gogitchyershinebox (PhiLEAFdelphia)
20 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory (flushafleshfarm)
21 King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (“Sweet” Jonny Kendall)
22 Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Dave)
23 Guns N Roses – Appetite For Destruction (Patrick Sweeney)
24 Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience (eFatB)
25 Grateful Dead – American Beauty (Geoff)
26 David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust (Patrick Sweeney)
27 Dave Matthews Band – Under The Table And Dreaming (Pat)
28 Percy Hill – Color In Bloom (JP)
29 My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (Geoff)
30 Paul Simon – Graceland (The Wizard)
31 The Band – Music From The Big Pink (Patrick Sweeney)
32 The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (The Wizard)
33 Led Zeppelin – Physical Grafitti (Patrick Sweeney)
34 Supertramp – Breakfast In America (Geoff)
35 ??? – ??? (???)

DaveO

David Onigman is a recent transplant from Boston to San Francisco. In addition to behind the scenes work and the occasional post, DaveO contributes the (almost) weekly Cover Wars column, though he's always looking for guest authors for it.

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