Easter
1/1/1978, LAUNCH, Dave DiMartino
It was a mixed blessing: Smith was hip enough to cover "Set Me Free" from the cult '60s movie Privilege, but her amateurish voice made it barely listenable. Historians will...
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Easter
7/13/2005, AMG
Patti Smith came back from the year-and-a-half break caused by her fall from a stage in January 1977 without having resolved the art-versus-commerce argument that had marred...
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Dream Of Life
7/13/2005, AMG
The big difference between Patti Smith's four 1970s albums and this return to action after nine years lies in the choice of collaborator. Where Smith's main associate...
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Horses
7/13/2005, AMG
It isn't hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on her debut album, which anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played...
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Radio Ethiopia (Explicit)
7/13/2005, AMG
After the success of Horses, Patti Smith had something to prove to reviewers and to the industry, and Radio Ethiopia aimed at both. Producer Jack Douglas gave "the Patti...
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Wave (Remaster)
7/13/2005, AMG
The Patti Smith Group's most conventional album, Wave was given a bright pop/rock sound by producer Todd Rundgren. It was the last album Smith made before marrying and...
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Gone Again
9/30/1996, LAUNCH, Dave DiMartino
Smith's weak singing ability appeared less and less of a handicap in the mid-'90s, when such artists as Courtney Love were being featured on MTV Unplugged segments....
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Gone Again
7/13/2005, AMG
After years of silence, Patti Smith returned to music with a series of concerts in late 1995. It had been years since she had performed live -- for most of the '80s and...
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Peace And Noise
9/30/1997, LAUNCH, Bill Holdship
The return of Patti Smith has been a bit of a "Be careful what you wish for..." scenario. When Smith returned two years ago, following the death of her husband...
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Peace And Noise
7/13/2005, AMG
After a prolonged retirement, Patti Smith returned to action in 1996 with Gone Again. It was recorded after she suffered the loss of both her brother and her husband, Fred...
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Gung Ho
4/19/2000, LAUNCH, Rob O'Connor
There was a time when a new Patti Smith album was an event unto itself. She'd holed herself up in Detroit to raise a family and music took a backseat. Even the tiniest...
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Gung Ho
7/13/2005, AMG
Patti Smith's late-'90s comeback was devoted to reflective, intensely emotional music that explored her life in seclusion and the losses that forced her to reconnect with...
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Patti Smith Masters...
2/17/2005, AMG
Although the six-disc box set contains some of the most groundbreaking rock & roll ever recorded, Masters is essentially useless. The set contains all five of Patti Smith's...
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Trampin'
7/13/2005, AMG
Nearly 30 years and nine albums in, Patti Smith shows no signs of giving up, or giving in, despite the fact she expected to be quietly doing her work instead of making rock...
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Land (1975-2002)
7/13/2005, AMG
Patti Smith completed her contract with Arista Records after 27 years by assembling this compilation, which serves as both a best-of and rarities collection, one disc...
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