Smokin'
by Humble Pie
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Humble Pie bestography
Smokin' is ranked 2nd best out of 15 albums by Humble Pie on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Humble Pie is As Safe As Yesterday Is which is ranked number 14843 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 78.
(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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Smokin' track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Smokin' rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 13/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | rockalbums in 2023 (deleting) | 35/99 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Most listened to artists in November 2020 (To delete) | 33/34 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 93/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Classic Rock albums of the year 1972 by Radio X | 5/25 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1972 | 70/100 | - |
| 2025 | dukeboxkool | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top albums of all time (301 - 400) | 49/64 | - |
| 2025 |  MetalMan67 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 60/100 | 2 |
| 2024 |  pedro1976 | Top 12 Music Albums of 1972 | 8/12 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 29 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 56 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/26/2026 14:11 |  RockyRaccoon | 7,249 | 84/100 |
| ! | 01/03/2026 06:35 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,223 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/14/2025 23:44 | dukeboxkool | 2,274 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.7/100, a mean average of 71.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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pedro1976 01/24/2024 17:39 in What album are you listening to right now?Smokin' comments
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Not groundbreaking in any way; it's actually the same stuff in most humble pie albums, but more powerful and heavier. It's got an awesome groove like some Zeppelin songs. Steve Marriot gives some of the best vocal performances ever on this album as well. For anyone interested in Humble Pie, whether or not you knew the Small Faces first (Steve Marriots first band, which are incredible as well) this would be the best album to start with in my humble opinion.
This is one of those hard-rocking bands (Flamin' Groovies are another that comes to mind) that feel they have to show other sides of themselves, their softer, more sensitive sides, on their albums. Maybe it makes me shallow, but as soon as they slow down--or even worse, bust out the acoustics--and start singing from their sincere hearts about how much they really do love their baby, I'm just waiting for them to get back to rocking. So they become playlist bands, rather than bands that I listen to their albums as such. Other than the obviously excellent Live at the Fillmore album, this is the Humble Pie album where they do that the least, so it's the one studio album of theirs that I kind of like as an album. But when I get in a Humble Pie mood, it's usually going to be just a playlist of their best hard-rocking tracks, leave out the filler and just let it rip.
Also, although I would expect Clem Clempson, who they poached from Colosseum, to be a good replacement for Peter Frampton, the live album is better than this one in part because Frampton on that one outplays Clempson on this one by a lot--to my taste, anyway, ymmv of course. Hate to say anything good about Frampton, who starred in the abomination that was the Sgt Pepper's movie and should be forever condemned for that, plus who can really stand him as a solo artist, but he was a pretty f'ing good player on that live album, and to me this one sounds thinner for his absence.
grogg 02/05/2016 05:06 | #158731
Bonus points for 30 Days, an undeniable classic, but the lead singer tries to do too much on most of the rest of the tracks. Doesn't work for me.
This is an uneven record but it has it moments.
Best Track: 30 Days in the Hole
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