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“You Enjoy Myself” by Phish
From the album Junta (1992)
“You Enjoy Myself” by Phish appears on 6 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2001 and 2024. It was first released in 1992 on the album Junta. Its best result is #304 on the WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,236 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"You Enjoy Myself", or "YEM" to the faithful, is the sprawling centerpiece of Junta, Phish's full-length debut, and it's the song the band has played live more than any other. Trey Anastasio wrote it in Florence while busking his way around Europe, and the title came from an Italian man who threw his arms around Anastasio and Jon Fishman near the Uffizi and tangled his English into the phrase that stuck.
It was first played onstage in February 1986 and turned up that year as a short a cappella piece on The White Tape demo, but the band-produced Junta version stretches it into a many-roomed jazz-fusion suite. Fans have named its sections, from "Nirvana" to "The Note" to "The Charge", and the words, what few there are, stay cryptic.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1713 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2004 | 389 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2009 | 304 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2014 | 442 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2014) | 885 |
| 2020 | 307 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2024 | 709 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
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