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Originals

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