Phish: New Year's Eve 1995 – Live at Madison Square Garden

Phish: New Year's Eve 1995 - Live at Madison Square Garden
Live album by Phish
Released	December 20, 2005 April 18, 2015 (Vinyl)
Recorded	December 31, 1995
Genre	Rock, jam, jazz fusion
Length	217:41
Label	Rhino JEMP Records
Producer	Phish
Phish chronology
Undermind (2004) New Year's Eve 1995 - Live at Madison Square Garden (2005) Phish: Live in Brooklyn (2006 - recorded live in 2004) LivePhish.com Downloads series chronology Live Phish Downloads: 04.26.96 & 11.07.91 (2005) Live Phish Downloads: 12.31.95 (2005) Live Phish Downloads: The White Tape (2006)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

New Year's Eve 1995 - Live at Madison Square Garden is a live concert release by the American rock band Phish, released in 2005. The album comprises the band's entire December 31, 1995 show at Madison Square Garden, named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the "Greatest Concerts of the '90s".^[3]

The concert is widely considered by fans to be one of Phish's best-ever shows,^[4] and is referred to by the band itself as being one of their top five concerts. Following this 1995 show, Phish established a regular tradition of performing multi-night New Year's shows at Madison Square Garden.^[5]

The concert setlist features exemplary versions of Phish's live staples, including "Mike's Song" and a cover of The Who song "Drowned." The show also includes a substantial number of songs from Phish's mythic Gamehendge cycle, many of them fan favorites that have become somewhat rare in recent years.

The album was released on December 20, 2005, to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary, and received the "Archival Album of the Year" award at the 6th Annual Jammy Awards in 2006.

In addition to being a CD release, the album is available as a download in FLAC and MP3 formats at LivePhish.com. Selected songs are also available in MPEG-4 video. On March 5, Phish announced that this would be released for Record Store Day 2015 as the band's first full-length live vinyl box set release^[6]

Track listing

Disc one

Set one:

1. "Punch You in the Eye" (Anastasio) - 8:46
2. "The Sloth" (Anastasio) - 3:45
3. "Reba" (Anastasio) - 14:25
4. "The Squirming Coil" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 10:27
5. "Maze" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 10:18
6. "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" (Anastasio) - 5:22
7. "Fly Famous Mockingbird" (Anastasio) - 2:14
8. "Shine" (Roland) - 1:13
9. "Fly Famous Mockingbird" (Anastasio) - 7:19
10. "Sparkle" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:46
11. "Chalk Dust Torture" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 7:50

Disc Two

Set two:

1. "Audience Chess Move" - 1:32
2. "Drowned" (Townshend) - 12:27
3. "The Lizards" (Anastasio) - 10:37
4. "Axilla, Pt. 2" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 4:13
5. "Runaway Jim" (Abrahams, Anastasio) - 16:05
6. "Strange Design" (Anastasio, Marshall) - 3:36
7. "Hello My Baby" (Emerson, Howard, Singer) - 1:27
8. "Mike's Song" (Gordon) - 20:31

Disc Three

Set three:

1. "Gamehendge Time Phactory" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 5:03
2. "Auld Lang Syne" (Traditional) - 1:44
3. "Weekapaug Groove" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) - 17:42
4. "Sea and Sand" (Townshend) - 3:46
5. "You Enjoy Myself" (Anastasio) - 25:37
6. "Sanity" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell, Pollak) - 6:08
7. "Frankenstein" (Winter) - 5:47

Encore:

8. "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) - 4:59

Personnel

Phish

Trey Anastasio - guitars, vocals

Page McConnell - keyboards, vocals

Mike Gordon - bass guitar, vocals

Jon Fishman - drums, vocals

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Rolling Stone review
3. Fricke, David (1999-12-30). "Phish". Rolling Stone. p. 60.
4. 12-31-1995 Feature Phish.net. Online. Accessed: October 18, 2011.
5. Venue: Madison Square Garden Phish.net. Online. Accessed: October 18, 2011.
6. http://phish.com/news/side-k-you-enjoy-myself-new-years-eve-1995-live-at-madison-square-garden-deluxe-6-lp-live-vinyl-box-available-for-record-store-day/

External links

• Review at The Music Box - published January 2006, Vol. 13, #1