Released: 1992
Tracks: Llama; Eliza; Cavern; Poor Heart; Stash; Manteca; Geulah Papyrus; Magilla; The Landlady; Glide; Tweezer; The Mango Song; Chalk Dust Torture; Faht; Catapult; Tweezer Reprise
Best tracks: Cavern, Eliza, Magilla, Tweezer Reprise
Track to skip: none
This is an excellent album and a perfect place to start if you’re new to Phish. Nectar was the first Phish album I ever heard, thanks to my friend Clay at college. By the course of the first 4 songs, I was completely hooked (ha ha) and from that point forward I was, as they say, a Phishead. There’s just something so amazing about those first four. It starts out on a very fast funk-rock groove, then goes to a very mellow jazz piece, then to a medium tempo funk-rock groove and tops it off with bad ass, real country song. After about 20 seconds into Poor Heart I *knew* Phish was one of the most amazing bands I’d ever heard. I think that this album, as eclectic as it is, represents “Phish” better than any of the rest of them. I wouldn’t say it’s their best one (Billy Breathes is), but Picture of Nectar is what Phish sounds like. Just about everything they’ve done during their career can be traced back to here.
What else to say? I just love this album and I listen to it all the time.
Rating: 97
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