Billy Breathes
by Phish

Billy Breathes by Phish
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 7,707th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 82 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (142nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,240th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,707th)

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Phish bestography

Billy Breathes is ranked 5th best out of 69 albums by Phish on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Phish is A Live One which is ranked number 3677 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 399.

Phish album bestography « Higher ranked (5,558th)
Rift
This album (7,707th)
Billy Breathes
Lower ranked (8,682nd) »
Round Room

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Billy Breathes rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,707th | 1990s rank: 1,240th | 1996 rank: 142nd

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Billy Breathes ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 82 votes)
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12/09/2025 08:07 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,57973/100
 
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09/19/2024 17:49 Sandrof1969  Ratings distribution  2,70068/100

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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.

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85/100
From 01/30/2019 21:37 | #231009
Doesn't anybody see the sheer beauty of Waste and the jazzy playfulness of Taste: my two favorite Phish tracks collected on one album.
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From 09/18/2017 20:29 | #198209
Meh. Middling effort by a band that sometimes phones in their studio albums. They are capable of much better.
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From 05/28/2016 16:51 | #167082
How can this be higher rated the Picture of Nectar? Great songs on Billy Breathes...but still?
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From 05/18/2016 03:32 | #166361
Free and Talk are my favorite tracks. The beginning of Prince Caspian almost reminds me of what it really sounds like inside of a heart (that weird sound in the beginning, not so much the guitar of course).
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From 08/15/2014 15:48 | #119584
Well said
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From 06/20/2014 02:19 | #114836
Criminally underrated album, really wish more people would give this and other studio Phish a listen!
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