Phish (The White Tape)

Rock · 1986 · 16 tracks · 54m

Phish (The White Tape)

A raw, tape-hissed collection of bedroom demos and surrealist experiments. The primitive, lo-fi origins of a future arena-rock powerhouse.

It's like finding a weird, brilliant cassette in your cool uncle's basement from before he got famous.

A curious and slightly eerie collection of basement experiments that feels like a secret shared between friends.

Phish (The White Tape) · vs · Phish

Basement Show+4.0σ

Basement Show saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks · 54m

01

Alumni Blues

4:11

02

And So to Bed

4:44

03

You Enjoy Myself

0:55

04

AC/DC Bag

4:09

05

Fuck Your Face

2:15

06

Divided Sky

1:16

07

Slave to the Traffic Light

4:35

08

Aftermath

2:55

09

Ingest

1:37

10

NO2

7:38

11

Fluff’s Travels

1:22

12

Dog Gone Dog

4:03

13

He Ent to the Bog

3:56

14

Run Like an Antelope

6:41

15

Minkin

3:00

16

Letter to Jimmy Page

1:16

Moments Worth Waiting For

The unsettling dental-drill sound effects and claustrophobic atmosphere of NO2

The primitive drum machine pulse and dry vocal delivery on the early version of Slave to the Traffic Light

The frantic, multi-tracked guitar interplay on the brief Letter to Jimmy Page

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