Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
by Devendra Banhart
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Devendra Banhart bestography
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon is ranked 3rd best out of 12 albums by Devendra Banhart on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Devendra Banhart is Rejoicing In The Hands which is ranked number 4598 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 312.
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Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 57 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 2401-2500 | 86/100 | - |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 30/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 93 Music Albums of 2007 | 46/93 | 3 |
| 2026 | martintho | 100 best albums of the century | 99/100 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Music Australia Guide Best Albums 2007 | 29/50 | - |
| 2026 | Romanelli | Top 71 Music Albums of 2007 | 64/71 | 1 |
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 80 Music Albums of 2007 | 32/80 | 3 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top 82 Music Albums of 2007 | 53/82 | 2 |
| 2025 | sssvnnn | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 95/100 | 1 |
| 2025 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 2007 | 81/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 45 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 137 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/02/2026 15:43 | jnmayles | 2,425 | 73/100 |
| ! | 04/06/2026 16:02 |  EyeKanFly | 9,059 | 65/100 |
| ! | 09/21/2025 13:07 | TonySayers61 | 26,113 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.
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Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon forum mentions
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buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/16/2016 22:06 | #178548 | TOP COMMENT
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"So I leave my possessions to the wind / And I'm done with ever wanting anything / Well I can die satisfied / No desires do I hide / Not today, not today / Nor for the next one thousand lives." So Devendra Banhart proclaims in "Seahorse," and if all you knew were the lyrics, you'd be sure this was some painfully bombastic hippie band from the late sixties. Well, you're half right. Banhart probably deserves the "hippie" label to a degree, but "Seahorse" is one of the most unassailably rocking songs of the 2000s, with a guitar solo that would be the envy of any classic rocker from Jerry Garcia to Jimmy Page. The rest of the album is uneven in spots, but that one song is easily enough to get the album into the best of the 2000s.
I don't think rolling is the best way of getting down Thunder Canyon, but that's just a personal preference. I can dig it.
This one's alright, great for a road trip, but really nothing super special here.
After a while, sweet Devendra starts to all mash together.
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