Big Boat
by Phish
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Phish bestography
Big Boat is ranked 21st best out of 70 albums by Phish on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Phish is A Live One which is ranked number 3542 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 424.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Big Boat track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Big Boat rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 70 Music Albums of 2016 | 39/70 | 2 |
| 2026 | brent13 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 78/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | brent13 | Top 20 Music Albums of 2016 | 13/20 | 2 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 98 Music Albums of 2016 | 79/98 | 1 |
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 11 Music Albums of 2016 | 11/11 | 0 |
| 2025 | brent13 | Phish's studio albums ranked | 16/17 | - |
| 2023 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 98/100 | 0 |
| 2021 |  ghosttomost | Top 90 Music Albums of 2016 | 89/90 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 11 | |||
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Big Boat ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/28/2024 21:22 | LosWochos | 47,530 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/17/2024 23:04 | Skerns | 5,212 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2023 17:33 | spigelwii | 671 | 84/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.3/100, a mean average of 63.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 63.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.
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Big Boat comments
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spigelwii 12/07/2023 17:29 | #300341
The nadir of Phish's career? Haters and fans can agree: Big Boat is either "terrible" or "terrible for Phish". I feel bad criticizing the guy whose brilliance helped bring us Welcome to My Nightmare and The Wall but Bob Ezrin's glossy production does Phish no favors here; it casts unimpressive vocal performances into the spotlight, layers unnecessary horns onto almost everything, and (worst of all) inspires Trey Anastasio to write about something most Phish fans have already declared they don't care about: his feelings.
With Ezrin maintaining a well-documented iron grip on the production and creation of this album (he was literally under the band's direction to do so), Big Boat ends up feeling even more restrained than the last record, Fuego. Here, Phish doesn't feel like they're even allowed to let loose musically and be eccentric as hell for more than 30 seconds at a time (these brief-but-glorious moments can be found in Home, Waking Up Dead, and the fantastic Petrichor) and as a result the entire thing just feels really depressing and un-Phishy, even if everything about the record SOUNDS Phishy to an layman's ear. (Edited)
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