Billy Breathes
by Phish

Billy Breathes by Phish
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 7,629th   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 82 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (142nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,234th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,629th)

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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 3629 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 405.

Phish album bestography « Higher ranked (5,492nd)
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This album (7,629th)
Billy Breathes
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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).

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Billy Breathes rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,629th | 1990s rank: 1,234th | 1996 rank: 142nd

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Billy Breathes ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 82 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 13% 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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80/100
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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