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Phish
Slave To The Traffic Light
Album: The White Tape
Genres: Jambands,Rock
Hey, Mountain Girl! Put down that bong and listen up as the ultimate jam band plies its trade in this mostly instrumental recording from the '80s. |
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If you’re not already a Phish-head, this prog-folk number probably isn’t going to help you decipher the appeal of the band that’s launched a thousand VW vans. As you might expect, “Slave to the Traffic Light” isn’t a song in the verse-chorus-verse sense, more a meandering, jazzy improvisation on a couple of different themes. The effect is indulgent, to say the least, though the band members seem to be enjoying themselves. The rest of us would be better served listening to a warped copy of John Barleycorn Must Die while dividing up the hash brownies.
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Jackie McCarthy |
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Jackie McCarthy is the former music editor of Seattle Weekly, and writes about music and other topics for CMJ New Music Monthly, Seattle Weekly, and Resonance on paper, and CDNow and Wall of Sound on the web.
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The White Tape, while suffering from poor sound quality, redeems itself by giving a fresh look into Phish's young and wild days. Many songs on this album aren't even songs, merely assorted sounds and sonicscapes, maybe intended for the chemicaly-inhanced listener? The White Tape isn't like your normal Phish album, it's very experimental and very...weird? Wait, ALL Phish albums tread that same path! But the White Tape drives in a slightly different vehicle than most albums...an absolute must for die-hard Phishheads who would like to hear the band's embryonic studio work.
Matthew D. Flowers
Phish is by far one of the best bands that likes to have true fans...true hippies. They aren't about having their songs played on every radio station. This is a group that's into it for the love of music, not the glory and fame like groups are these days. Their words are true and the meaning is not hard to understand. These are talented people who aren't going away.
sarah
A quentisential phish song, this jam showed me what music can do. The various themes culminate into a climax that is sure to raise the hairs on your arms. The entire song serves as 'conflict'; from the basic idea of being a slave to society, to the franetic jam section, to the lilting prelude...then resolution in rare form. Trey's guitar screams it's triuphant declaration, as if to defy the constraints of existence. The emotionally charged climax leaves the listener exhausted, yet with an erie sense of understanding.
dave
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