Rift
by Phish
Phish bestography
Rift is ranked 4th best out of 69 albums by Phish on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Phish is A Live One which is ranked number 3736 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 396.
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Rift track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 04/15/2026 05:00 | Rswiv | 25 | 59/100 | |
| 12/07/2025 07:27 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 | |
| 07/14/2025 18:40 | brent13 | 2,063 | 67/100 | |
| 03/04/2025 13:53 | gregoyen | 39 | 98/100 | |
| 12/11/2024 08:18 | TonySayers61 | 24,736 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.
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RoundTheBend 05/01/2016 23:02 | #164955
Some of this stuff, while brilliant causes anxiety for me for some reason. I think it's the musical dissonance and not always in a space (not just 7th/9th/13th chords), but I feel they create this dissonance in the same way... they have something that barely fits into something that shouldn't... it's this crazy musical idea I don't think many musicians have played with. It's great... just, well I can't want to listen to it all the time.
Overall the album is top notch quality, just not top notch listen-ability if that makes any sense.
I happen to think Farmhouse is their best studio effort.
Rift is Phish's best studio effort. It features some of Tom Marshall's best poetry, a unifying thematic concept, and beautiful cover art.
sageamagoo 03/10/2013 17:41 | #67730
My Friend, My Friend is basically the epitome of studio Phish.
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