Smokestack Lightning (track)
by The Yardbirds
Year: 1965
From the album Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds (track #7)
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Smokestack Lightning appears on the following album(s) by The Yardbirds:
- Five Live Yardbirds (track #3) (1964)
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: 1964-1966 (track #18) (compilation) (1986)
- Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds (track #7) (this album) (1965)
- Blues, Backtracks And Shapes Of Things Vol. 2 (track #1) (compilation) (1991)
- The Yardbirds' Greatest Hits (track #9) (compilation) (1966)
- London 1963 - The First Recordings! (track #1) (compilation) (1981)
- Live! Blueswailing July '64 (track #4) (2003)
- On Air: Original BBC Recordings (track #13) (compilation) (1991)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 12/20/2025 03:15 | Exist-en-ciel | 96,271 | 71/100 | |
| 10/05/2025 02:35 |  AAL2014 | 36,434 | 76/100 | |
| 04/04/2025 15:37 | matterhornrider | 22,887 | 86/100 | |
| 01/10/2025 10:08 | habibi333 | 2,579 | 64/100 | |
| 02/24/2024 17:45 |  paladisiac | 82,873 | 64/100 |
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This track has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 71.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 16.8.
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