Rift
by Phish
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Phish bestography
Rift is ranked 2nd best out of 70 albums by Phish on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Phish is A Live One which is ranked number 3541 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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Rift track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Rift rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 38 Music Albums of 1993 | 21/38 | 2 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 91 Music Albums of the 1990s | 78/91 | 3 |
| 2026 | DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1993 | 97/100 | - |
| 2026 | brent13 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 21/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  O.T. | Top 62 Music Albums of the 1990s | 15/62 | 15 |
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 70 Music Albums of the 1990s | 30/70 | 12 |
| 2026 | brent13 | Top 17 Music Albums of 1993 | 3/17 | 4 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1993 | 24/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 72 Music Albums of 1993 | 71/72 | 0 |
| 2026 | abbolton | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 27/40 | 34 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 36 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 263 | |||
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Rift ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/25/2026 17:58 | abbolton | 77 | 83/100 |
| ! | 04/15/2026 05:00 | Rswiv | 30 | 65/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 07:27 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 74.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.
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Rift forum mentions
Rhyner 12/31/2025 18:19 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
rockbluesfolkjaz 12/02/2021 18:28 in What album are you listening to right now?Rift comments
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RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/01/2016 23:02 | #164955 | TOP COMMENT
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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 TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/10/2013 17:41 | #67730 | TOP COMMENT
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My Friend, My Friend is basically the epitome of studio Phish.
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