Billy Breathes
by Phish
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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 3500 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 430.
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Billy Breathes track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Billy Breathes rankings
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Billy Breathes ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/19/2026 22:07 | Skerns | 5,158 | 80/100 |
| ! | 06/12/2026 10:24 | RemainInLight | 3,621 | 35/100 |
| ! | 12/09/2025 08:07 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2025 20:04 | brent13 | 2,143 | 67/100 |
| ! | 03/04/2025 13:54 | gregoyen | 39 | 98/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.0/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.
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dihansse 01/30/2019 21:37 | #231009 | TOP COMMENT
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Doesn't anybody see the sheer beauty of Waste and the jazzy playfulness of Taste: my two favorite Phish tracks collected on one album.
Meh. Middling effort by a band that sometimes phones in their studio albums. They are capable of much better.
How can this be higher rated the Picture of Nectar? Great songs on Billy Breathes...but still?
RoundTheBend 05/18/2016 03:32 | #166361 | TOP COMMENT
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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).
Well said
Criminally underrated album, really wish more people would give this and other studio Phish a listen!
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