Banga
by Patti Smith

Banga by Patti Smith
Year: 2012
Release date: 2012-06-01
Overall rank: 14,961st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 38 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2012 (333rd)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (3,112th)
Award Best albums of all time (14,961st)

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Patti Smith bestography

Banga is ranked 7th best out of 13 albums by Patti Smith on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Patti Smith is Horses which is ranked number 195 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,685.

Patti Smith album bestography « Higher ranked (10,678th)
Gone Again
This album (14,961st)
Banga
Lower ranked (15,611th) »
Trampin'

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Overall rank: 14,961st | 2010s rank: 3,112th | 2012 rank: 333rd

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Banga ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 38 votes)
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04/10/2026 08:13 Tamthebam  Ratings distribution  22,98369/100
 
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12/15/2025 04:16 acoustic-horn  Ratings distribution  21675/100
 
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11/20/2024 15:44 MrOlan  Ratings distribution  95376/100
 
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03/21/2024 16:43 Sandrof1969  Ratings distribution  2,70568/100
 
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03/18/2023 05:06 MadhattanJack  Ratings distribution  5,74266/100

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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.9.

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From 02/24/2018 21:27 | #209507
"Banga" è un buon disco, con belle canzoni, un bel suono, con l'ospite Tom Verlaine che a mio avviso sparge la sua influenza anche oltre i due pezzi in cui suona...
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From 07/07/2016 19:23 | #170819
Patti Smith's best album for ages. It's a lovely album and if it was recorded in the seventies it would probably be looked upon a classic. A nice cover of Neil Young's, after the gold rush, too. A good underrated album.
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