great review!
and what a wonderful night!

with regard to sing monica... i will share that something got stirred up in a great way for some of us when they played that song late in the set, there was suddenly a lot more room to dance. i broke out into a wild jumping hop of a bouncing elated dance frenzy with four of my friends. it is a very very danceable song and the lyrics crack me up every time. i have loved sing monica since first hearing it introduced in atlantic city on halloween with the acoustic version. in my opinion, sing monica is sheer fun and clever amusement.

i think jeremy's description of this song sounding like a 60s bay area pop song is a fair assessment, though popular music of the 60s bay area often contains a depth of meaning in the roots beneath the happy flowers. i felt like one happy flower in a gust of sweet wind as this song was played sunday night!

the lyrics and structure have the unmistakable stamp of phish originality. i can see tom marshall's fingerprints all over those words. the lyrics are in true phish spirit.
i am terrible with remembering dates specifically, but it must have been this past msg new years run, i recall hearing both sing monica and suzy greenburg one night and my impression is that sing monica is of the same wonderful jaded context as susie greenburg. that one darn girl who is just off in her own world and absolutely unattainable. - the manic pixie dream-girl. and phish describes her most eloquently in both cases. though i wonder, what could monica possibly be wrong about?

this song also seems to have a lot of possibility in that the band has already played it in different ways, accoustic/electric. the vocals feature the band as a quartet. i really like the acappella part. and i like the stop start timing i hear.

not all of us are going to have a favorite song in every phish song. the one you don't want to hear is something someone else was just waiting for all night. i spied a little listen during the xfinity sound check on july 1 and heard sing monica and was a little sad they did not play it that night. so i was happily thrilled with this version sunday night.

i wonder who inspired it? they will never tell that secret. but i would be very interested to read something more from tom marshall about how this song came to be last year in the song history notes. who is she? go phish!

and thank you again jeremy for this excellent review of sunday night's experience. it is a night we shall most surely remember.