It's Smoke Time (studio album)
by The Smoke
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It's Smoke Time track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
It's Smoke Time rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | blueandthemoon | Top 31 Music Albums of 1967 | 19/31 | 2 |
| 2025 |  travelful | Top 100 Music Albums of 1967 | 64/100 | 2 |
| 2024 |  mutley88 | Top 31 Music Albums of 1967 | 15/31 | 3 |
| 2022 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1967 | 50/100 | 3 |
| 2020 | Rovers | Top 97 Music Albums of 1967 | 50/97 | 2 |
| 2019 | panapsal | Top 100 Music Albums of 1967 | 76/100 | 1 |
| 2019 | Steppenwolf666 | Pokora's masterpieces of music (GB & Irish artists) | 79/100 | - |
| 2018 | Imaybeparanoid | Top 100 Music Albums of 1967 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2015 |  NoisyBeast | More Albums of the 1960s... #401-500 | 5/100 | - |
| 2015 | NoisyBeast | Top 100 Music Albums of 1967 | 63/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 10 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 19 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/17/2022 09:47 | TonySayers61 | 23,185 | 64/100 |
| ! | 11/11/2021 00:32 | DoctorBob | 72 | 83/100 |
| ! | 07/29/2021 21:20 | travelful | 3,782 | 72/100 |
| ! | 05/27/2021 02:51 | Moondance | 19,852 | 72/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2019 10:26 | Pluto11 | 11,733 | 72/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 79.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.7.
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The most obscure and under rated album I’ve ever heard. I found this album by accident a couple of weeks ago. This album is very very consistent, I feel like “Playing with Magic” is the only weak song. This is a very good album. Strange there’s not much information on this band and they only released one album.
The Yorkshire band The Smoke released only this single album during the almost ten years of their existence. Their great single, "My Friend Jack" from early 1967, should have been their big breakthrough, but because of the controversal lyrics it was banned by BBC, and therefore never became the big British hit it had deserved. Besides being very much in the style of early Pink Floyd the single had everything a hit single single needed; a great melody, a catchy riff, solid production and a modern sound. The single was in fact a hit in several Europen countries, and the band became relatively big in Germany.
Unfortunaly none of the succeeding singles had the qualities of "My Friend Jack", and though some of them were quite good, none of them came near the top of the charts.
This their only album was released in the wake of their European succees, and though there are several fine songs, the album seems rushed with many songs sounding like demos.
The album does show, though, that the band-members were competent songwriters. Most songs were self-written, and songs like "High in a Room" and "Waterfall", might with the right production have been hits. The playing is tight enough, but the vocals generally lack conviction and strength.
Among the extended list of bonus-tracks you'll find many of their singles, recorded during 1965-1974, along with some previously unreleased songs. Among them a handful are quite strong; examples could be "Sydney Gill", "It Could Be Wonderful", "Am I Dreaming" and "That's What I Want".
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