Patti Smith 
Aliases: Patti Smith Group.
The best album credited to Patti Smith is Horses which is ranked number 200 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 7,490.
Patti Smith is ranked number 200 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 10,128.
Patti Smith official website: http://www.pattismith.net
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 09/23/2026 17:24 |  Leonard | 762 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/06/2024 10:32 | Pluto11 | 317 | 78/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2024 18:33 | pago82 | 1,406 | 67/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 83.2/100, a mean average of 82.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.1/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 16.1.
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Patti is a force of nature. This album with her original band set the standard for punk and poetry. Still her best.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/18/2017 01:56 | #190972
Horses is a powerhouse. After that, it's a bit mixed.
Scary as fuck brutal honest music
Another very underrated artist on this website, for me one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
She was a major influence in alternative rock as she greatly inspired groups such as R.E.M., U2, the Smiths, Hole and Garbage as well as Madonna which just shows the impact she's had on music (Edited)
serpico 06/17/2015 05:08 | #143991
Una gran cantante y poeta. Se puede notar su influencia en una gran generación de cantantes femeninas: Siouxsie Sioux, Kate Bush, Chrissie Hynde, Karen O, etc. Horses es uno de los grandes discos de todos los tiempos.
