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June 02, 2004
A Picture of Nectar
Today in the car I listened to A Picture of Nectar, the first album I've bought in a while. Not sure I'd give this one as many stars as it got at Amazon, but maybe some of the sounds are missing in my car, which makes more noise than it used to.
As an aside, when Jean-Marc first rode in my car, he complimented the noise level. "Not bad for a diesel," he observed. "Yeah, but it's not diesel. It runs on unleaded," I admitted.
Some of the songs I heard first on A Live One. Matt bought that one for me a few years ago, and it was the album that really got me listening to Phish, then to Trey Anastasio. (I like guitar, and Trey plays guitar impressively well.) Trey has a bunch of good downloads right there on his site.
Anyway, A Picture of Nectar has yet to grow on me, although it probably will. I wonder if at some point you get to recognizing the same sorts of quoting in Phish that you do in Frank Zappa. I don't mean the 3rd party quotes. I mean the ones where he takes another look at his own music, or jokes about it.
Posted by Mark at June 2, 2004 09:32 PM