This remnant will be replaced soon. The FAQ is back, with a new design! Which songs are Phish originals, and when did they debut? A list of all songs is available from ZZYZX's page, but here are the originals only, first in order of first appearance; and then alphabetically with date of first appearance in parentheses Chronological, by order of first appearance: 1984/5 12-1-84: Fluffhead, Makisupa Policeman, Skippy (different lyrics to McGrupp), Slave to the Traffic Light 3-4-85: Anarchy, McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters 10-17-85: Alumni Blues, Dave's Energy Guide, Mike's Song, Letter to Jimmy Page, Star Trek Jam, Revolution, Run Like an Antelope 10-30-85: Dog Log, Harry Hood, Possum, Prep School Hippie 1986/7 1-2-86: Golgi Apparatus, You Enjoy Myself, Tela 4-1-86: Icculus, AC/DC Bag, Dear Mrs. Reagan, The Pendulum 10-31-86: David Bowie, Sanity 12-6-86: Clod 3-6-87: Freeworld, Wilson 3-23-87: Crimson Jam 4-24-87: I am Hydrogen 4-29-87: Fuck Your Face, Lushington; (Halley's Comet debuted but is a Richard Wright tune) 5-11-87: The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday (T.M.W.S.I.Y.) 8-9-87: Divided Sky, Fee, Flat Fee, harpua, Suzie Greenberg 8-21-87: Big Black Furry Creature From Mars (B.B.F.C.F.M.), Bundle of Joy, The Curtain, The Sloth, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony 9-7-87: Fluff's Travels, Weekapaug Groove, Punch You in the Eye 11-19-87: Dinner and a Movie; (Timber Ho and Didn't Know debuted, but those are not originals) 1988/9 1-27-88: Lizards 2-8-88: Fly Famous Mockingbird 3-12-88: Colonel Forbin's Ascent 6-15-88: Contact 7-23-88: No Dogs Allowed 9-12-88: Esther 10-12-88: Foam 03-30-89: The Mango Song 05-26-89: Bathtub Gin 09-21-89: Who Do We Do 10-19-89: Reba 10-20-89: In a Hole 11-30-89: Lawn Boy 12-7-89: Rhombus 1990/1 1-20-90: Bouncing Around the Room, The Squirming Coil 2-25-90: Rift 4-5-90: Cavern, Tweezer 5-4-90: Runaway Jim 5-24-90: Horn 6-9-90: The Landlady 9-13-90: The Asse Festival, Buried Alive, Magilla, Tube, Stash 9-14-90: Destiny Unbound 9-16-90: Sample in a Jar 9-26-90: Gumbo 10-6-90: Don't Get Me Wrong (cowritten by John Popper) 10-30-90: Llama 11-24-90: Eliza 2-1-91: Guelah Papyrus 2-4-91: Chalk Dust Torture 5-10-91: Poor Heart 9-25-91: All Things Reconsidered, Brother, It's Ice, Sparkle 9-27-91: Glide 1992/3 3-6-92: Mound, My Friend My Friend, Maze, NICU, Sleeping Monkey 3-7-92: Weigh, Silent in the Morning 3-13-92: The Horse 4-17-92: Catapult 11-19-92: Axilla, Big Ball Jam, Fast Enough For You, Lengthwise 11-21-92: Buffalo Bill 11-22-92: Faht (a.k.a. Windam Hell) 2-3-93: Lifeboy, The Wedge 7-15-93: Leprechaun 1994/5 4-4-94: Down With Disease, Julius, If I Could, Wolfman's Brother, Scent of a Mule 4-9-94: Demand 4-14-94: Dog Faced Boy 4-16-94: Axilla II 5-27-94: Simple 6-25-94: N2O 7-15-94: Setting Sail 7-15-94: Guyute (10/7/94) 5-16-95: Flip (aka Time), Ha Ha Ha, Free, Strange Design, Spock's Brain, Theme From the Bottom 6-7-95: Acoustic Army, Taste (6/7/95) 6-8-95: Prince Caspian (6/8/95) 9-27-95: Billy Breathes, Cars Trucks and Buses, The Fog That Surrounds, Keyboard Army 9-30-95: Chess Intro 10-2-95: Chess Jam 1996/7 10-16-96: Swept Away, Steep (10/16/96) ??-??-96: Billy Breathes material 2-13-97: Walfredo, Love Me, My Soul, Rocko William 2-17-97: Carrini/Lucy with a Lumpy Face 6-6-97: 13 songs debuted at a small private party: Limb by Limb, Dogs Stole Things, Ghost, Water in the Sky, Vultures, Dirt, Twist (Around), Piper, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Oblivious Fool, I Don't Care, Samson Variation, Bye Bye Foot. Second debut date is given for public debut. 6-13&14-97: Dogs Stole Things, Wading in the Velvet Sea, Water in the Sky, Vultures, Ghost, Oblivious Fool, Stand, Dirt, Limb by Limb, Bye Bye Foot, Twist Around, Piper, I Saw it Again, Fooled by Images 6-16-97: I Don't Care 6-25-97: Meatstick (aka Time, but not Flip aka Time aka Glide II from 5/16/95. According to phish.com, Meatstick "was when Brad, Trey, Fish, Page and (manager) John Paluska came across the last item remaining in the hotel minibar" 6-19-97) 7-6-97 soundcheck: Blow Wind Blow (8-3-97 show); aka Samson 8-3-97: Samson Riff 11-7-97: Farmhouse (on Conan) 11-13-97: Black-Eyed Katy ( Fall '97: "Space Jam" 1998+ Note: See 1998 Lyrics (from Julia Mordaunt) 4-2-98: Birds of a Feather (not a cover, and not originally by the Meters), Relax (aka Frankie Says) 6-30-98: Brian and Robert (aka Staring at the Wall or This One's For You; reportedly about Brian Eno and Robert Fripp), Moma Dance (formerly Black-Eyed Katy), Roget (formerly misunderstood to be Relax, which actually hadn't been played; Page singing over Mind-Left Body-like chords) 7-2-98: Meat (not a cover of Zappa's or moe's Meats), Ficus, Shafty (formerly Obvivious Fool) ??: Bittersweet Motel ????????: more? ... Alphabetically, with order of first appearance in parentheses (IN CONSTRUCTION): AC/DC Bag (4-1-86) Acoustic Army (6-7-95) All Things Reconsidered (9-25-91) Alumni Blues (10-17-85) Anarchy (03-4-85) The Asse Festival (9-13-90) Axilla (11-19-92) Axilla II (4-16-94) Bathtub Gin (05-26-89) Beauty of my Dreams (2-16-97) Billy Breathes (9-27-95) Big Ball Jam (11-19-92) Big Black Furry Creature From Mars (B.B.F.C.F.M.) (8-21-87) Birds of a Feather (4-2-98) Black-Eyed Katy (11-14-97) Blow Wind Blow (7-6-97 soundcheck; 8-3-97 show); aka Samson (?) Bouncing Around the Room (1-20-90) Brian and Robert (6-30-98) Brother (9-25-91) Buffalo Bill (11-21-92) Bundle of Joy (8-21-87) Buried Alive (9-13-90) Bye Bye Foot (6-14-97) Carrini (aka Lucy) with a Lumpy Face (2-17-97) Cars Trucks and Buses (9-27-95) Catapult (4-17-92) Cavern (4-5-90) Chalk Dust Torture (2-3-91) Chess Intro (9-30-95) Chess Jam (10-2-95) Clod (12-6-86) Colonel Forbin's Ascent (3-12-88) Contact (6-15-88) Crimson Jam (3-23-87) Curtain, The (8-21-87) Dave's Energy Guide (10-17-85) David Bowie (10-31-86) Dear Mrs. Reagan (4-1-86) Demand (4-9-94) Destiny Unbound (9-14-90) Dinner and a Movie (11-19-87) Dirt (6-14-97) Divided Sky (8-9-87) Dog Log (10-30-85) Dog Faced Boy (4-14-94) Dogs Stole Things (6-13-97) Don't Get Me Wrong (10-6-90); cowritten by John Popper Down With Disease (4-4-94) Eliza (11-24-90) Esther (9-12-88) Faht (a.k.a. Windam Hell) (11-22-92) Farmhouse (11-7-97) Fast Enough For You (11-19-92) Fee (8-9-87) Fikus (7-2-98) Flat Fee (8-9-87) Flip (5-16-95) Fluffhead (12-1-84) Fluff's Travels (9-7-87) Fly Famous Mockingbird (2-8-88) Foam (10-12-88) Fog That Surrounds, The (9-27-95) Frankie Says (6-30-98) Free (5-16-95) Freeworld (3-6-87) Fuck Your Face (4-29-87) Ghost (6-13-97) Glide (9-27-91) Golgi Apparatus (1/2/86) Guelah Papyrus (2-1-91) Gumbo (9-26-90) Guyute (7-15-94) Ha Ha Ha (5-16-95) Harpua (8-9-87) Harry Hood (10-30-85) Horn (5-24-90) The Horse (3-13-92) I am Hydrogen (4-24-87) I Saw it Again (6-14-97) Icculus (4-1-86) If I Could (4-4-94) In a Hole (10-20-89) It's Ice (9-25-91) Julius (4-4-94) Keyboard Army (9-27-95) The Landlady (6-9-90) Lawn Boy (11-30-89) Lengthwise (11-19-92) Leprechaun (7-15-93) Letter to Jimmy Page (10-17-85) Lifeboy (2-3-93) Limb by Limb (6-13-97) Lizards (1-27-88) Llama (10-30-90) Love Me (2-13-97) Lucy with a Lumpy Face (aka Carrini) (2-17-97) Lushington (4-29-87) Magilla (9-13-90) Makisupa Policeman (12-1-84) Mango Song, The (03-30-89) Maze (3-6-92) McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters () Meat (7-2-98) Mike's Song (10-17-85) Mound (3-6-92) My Friend My Friend (3-6-92) My Soul (2-13-97) NICU (3-6-92) N2O (6-25-94) No Dogs Allowed (7-23-88) Oblivious Fool (6-13-97) Okipa (Oh Kee Pa?) Ceremony (8-21-87) The Pendulum (4-1-86) Piper (6-14-97) Poor Heart (5-10-91) Possum (10-30-85) Prep School Hippie (10-30-85) Prince Caspian (6-8-95) Punch You in the Eye (9-7-87) Reba (10-19-89) Relax (i.e. Frankie Says) (4-2-98: ) Revolution (10-17-85) Rhombus (12-7-89) Rift (2-25-90) Robert and Brian (i.e. Brian and Robert) (6-30-98) Rocko William (2-13-97) Roget (6-30-98) Run Like an Antelope (10-17-85) Runaway Jim (5-4-90) Sample in a Jar (9-16-90) Samson Riff (8-3-97) Sanity (10-31-86) (I) Saw it Again (6-14-97) Scent of a Mule (4-4-94) Setting Sail (7-15-94) Shafty (formerly Oblivious Fool) (4-5-98) Silent in the Morning (3-7-92) Simple (5-27-94) Skippy (12-1-84); different lyrics to McGrupp Slave to the Traffic Light (12-1-84) Sleeping Monkey (3-6-92) The Sloth (8-21-87) "Space Jam" (Fall '97) Sparkle (9-25-91) Tube (9-13-90) Spock's Brain (5-16-95) The Squirming Coil (1-20-90) Star Trek Jam (10-17-85) Stash (9-13-90) Steep (10-16-96) Strange Design (5-16-95) Swept Away (10-16-96) Suzie Greenberg (8-9-87) Taste (6-7-95) Tela (1-2-86) The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday (T.M.W.S.I.Y.) (5-11-87) Theme From the Bottom (5-16-95) Time, aka Meatstick (6-25-97) Tweezer (4-5-90) Twist Around (6-14-97) Vultures (6-13-97) Wading in the Velvet Sea (6-13-97) Walfredo (2-13-97) Water in the Sky (6-13-97) The Wedge (2-3-93) Weekapaug Groove (9-7-87) Weigh (3-7-92) Who Do We Do (09-21-89) Wilson (3-6-87) Wolfman's Brother (4-4-94) You Enjoy Myself (1-2-86) (still need to add 1996, billy breathes, and 1998) Covers explosion: The summer 1998 tour was marked by dozens of covers, including nearly a dozen new ones. In the fall of 1998, Coby "CMize" compiled and treed a collection as follows: Phish: A Summer Under the Covers 1. Sexual Healing 7/20/98 Ventura 2. Sea & Sand 7/20/98 Ventura 3. Too Much of Everything 7/26/98 Dallas 4. La grange 8/12/98 Vernon Downs 5. Albuquerque 7/26/98 Dallas 6. Ramble On 8/12/98 Vernon Downs 7. Running with the Devil 8/6/98 Atlanta 8. Burning Down the House 8/12/98 Vernon Downs 9. Sneakin Sally 7/28/98 Bonner Springs 10. Cities 7/31/98 Columbus 11. Boogie on Reggae Woman 8/3/98 Deer Creek 12. Been Caught Steelin 8/1/98 Alpine Valley 13. I Get a Kick Out of You 8/2/93 Deer Creek 14. Trenchtown Rock 8/11/98 Star Lake 15. Rhinocerus 8/3/98 Deer Creek 16. Ride Captain Ride 8/3/98 Deer Creek 17. Terrapin Station 8/9/98 Va. Beach 18. Sweet Jane 8/8/98 Merriweather Post 19. Sabatogue 8/8/98 Merriweather Post 20. Time Loves a Hero 8/11/98 Star Lake 21. Emotional Rescue 7/28/98 Bonner Springs 22. Call Me If You Need a Fool 7/29/98 St. Louis Thanks also to Scott, Phillip Zerbo, and Brad Petit 9/18/00. "...they want more, they want more new stuff..."" -- Trey Anastasio, Addicted to Noise, 6/7/95" This page last updated January 24, 2007. All contents © 1992-2007 Ellis Godard. All rights reserved.