Agreed, I am well aware from reading a lot of your posts that we hear phish very differently. Which is great.

I wouldn't call it "loggerheads" exactly, because I'm definitely not trying to argue a point or convince anyone of anything, just explaining how I perceived the shows to get to my subjective rankings.

@mahimahi - that helps me understand where you're coming from. And I am in pretty strong agreement with much of that. Winding a narrative out of a tour, year, or era is potentially much more descriptive and engrossing than simply making a list. (Until discovering the phish internet, I wasnt much of a best or ranking or debating guy. At all.) However, given our collective time and ability to collaborate, the latter is the exercise we chose to undertake. There's no proffer that its any more than an attempt to methodically and fairly aggregate the opinions of the handful of people that keep the site running and present the results to the community. Its not a comprehensive guide to 2014, but rather, exactly what its labelled and described in the intro. I'm actually grateful to have cause to sit down and try to craft a paragraph or two once or twice a year, as opposed to firing off one liners in the forum. Maybe we'll be able to get more creative with the structure next year.