History YMMV / Phish

* BrokenBase: The fanbase isn't only split about what Phish's best single best concert was, but also their best year, best month, best tour, the best version of each song, which songs were performed the best in a certain concert, and so on and so forth.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: None of the band members use psychedelic drugs anymore, but their sobriety has had absolutely no effect on their music, and they play their songs just as trippy, strange, dark or wild as they would have before the reunion. Some of their newer songs, like "Blaze On", "Fuego", "No Men in No Man's Land" and "Mercury", can go in very psychedelic places live.

* FaceOfTheBand: As Phish's lead singer, Trey has reluctantly filled this role with the band much in the same way Jerry Garcia did in the Dead. Neither guitarist was particularly happy about this turn of events and Phish has gone out of their way to avoid it: Their live setup features all four members in a straight line from one another at the front of the stage.

* ArchivePanic: Not only do they have 13 studio albums (itself quite a bit), but like The Grateful Dead, they're known best for their great live albums. So throw in all the live albums and you have over 50 albums, including the 20 volumes of the ''Live Phish'' series. The official soundboard feed for all of the band's concerts since 2002 are also available for download or streaming on their website, and the band also regularly releases concert recordings from the '90s. Let us not forget the fan tapes, either: Over ''1500'' of the band's concerts, roughly 85% of the shows they've played since their formation in 1983, are circulating as completely legal fan-taped recordings. The sheer amount of these tapes make Phish the second most thoroughly documented act in pop music history, after Music/TheGratefulDead.

* DorkAge: The band's 2004 tour, their last before they broke up for five years, is considered by fans to be their worst stretch of shows. There's plenty of good shows in that run, including the one documented on the ''Live in Brooklyn'' DVD, but there's also concerts that are rated very poorly by fans, like the Las Vegas concerts that opened the tour. [[https://indyweek.com/music/features/review-phish-biography/ Reportedly]], Trey decided to break up the band after reading a negative review of the Vegas '04 concerts written by Jesse Jarnow, a journalist known as an authority on jam bands, who was [[https://jambands.com/reviews/shows/2004/04/16/phish-thomas-and-mack-center-las-vegas-nv-4-15/ appalled]] by the quality of those shows.
** The Coventry Festival, which ended that 2004 tour and were the band's last shows until they reunited, is considered to be the lowest point of the band's career. The festival was a TroubledProduction, hampered by sound issues, horrible weather and gridlocked traffic. As far as the actual music, it was often very clear that the band were too upset to perform at certain points; Both [=McConnell=] and Anastasio broke down in tears on stage while playing "Wading in the Velvet Sea" and could not finish singing the ballad. This culminated in a horrible, messy version of "Glide" during the festival's final concert that is usually considered to be the band's worst onstage moment. The band would recover with a great "Split Open and Melt" right after that, but that final show in general is considered to be one of the worst they ever played. Even the finale of the show was botched, with the band having to restart their final number "The Curtain (With)" because Trey realized the band was coming into the song's jam section in the wrong key. Although Coventry is an important part of the band's history and does have a few songs worth recommending, it is not considered to be an easy listen. Happily, the band has been in ''significantly'' better form since they reunited in 2009.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: "Sigma Oasis", with its chorus of "Take off your mask", was written by Trey and debuted by the band before the COVID-19 pandemic but not released on album until in the middle of it, by which time the meaning of that line had changed for most people (The band are all very pro-mask wearing).

* FaceOfTheBand: As Phish's lead singer, Trey has reluctantly filled this role with the band much in the same way Jerry Garcia did in the Dead. Neither guitarist was particularly happy about this turn of events and Phish has gone out of their way to avoid it: Their live setup features all four members in a straight line from one another at the front of the stage,.

* ArchivePanic: Not only do they have 13 studio albums (itself quite a bit), but like The Grateful Dead, they're known best for their great live albums. So throw in all the live albums and you have over 50 albums, including the 20 volumes of the ''Live Phish'' series. The official soundboard feed for all of the band's concerts since 2002 are also available for download or streaming on their website. Let us not forget the fan tapes, either: Over ''1500'' of the band's concerts, roughly 85% of the shows they've played since their formation in 1983, are circulating as completely legal fan-taped recordings. The sheer amount of these tapes make Phish the second most thoroughly documented act in pop music history, after Music/TheGratefulDead.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Have [[AwesomeMusic/{{Phish}} their own page]].

* CoveredUp: Several covers have entered the band's repertoire, and some have become more identified with Phish than their original artists

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Any moment involving Fishman, his vacuum cleaner, and the song "Hold Your Head Up" by Argent. The band regularly introduces Fish's [[StepUpToTheMicrophone solo segments of the show]], or songs that he sings lead on, with a couple bars of that Argent song...which he hates. What started as an in-joke during band practice in the late 80s has become a fan favorite part of their concerts.