| Product Summary | | Label: Bmg/arista | | UPC: 00078221882620 | | Release Date: 6/18/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 60133657 | | Item#: MJYFHN | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23606 | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Patti Smith Group: Patti Smith (vocals, guitar); Lenny Kaye, Ivan Kral (vocals, guitar, bass); Bruce Brody (keyboards, synthesizer); Jay Dee Daugherty (drums, percussion). | | Additional personnel: Richard Sohl, Allen Lanier (keyboards); John Paul Fetta (bass); Andi Ostrowe (percussion). | | Recorded at The Record Plant, New York, New York and The House Of Music, West Orange, New Jersey. | | "Rock and roll is the only cultural asset America has given the world," declared a young Patti Smith years before she made her own records. Then she made EASTER, which made that asset a little more valuable. EASTER is an essential cultural touchstone. | | Whereas HORSES was built on poetry and RADIO ETHIOPIA scrapped accessibility for primal cacophony, EASTER was The Patti Smith Group's most approachable package of Smith's vision. | | As an artist and songwriter, Smith constantly pushed the boundaries of rock's scope: The demented "Space Monkey" builds a visual landscape, "Because The Night" melds pop with literary intention, and "Ghost Dance" transcends all musical genres to become a mantra. Possibly the most powerful track on the album is Smith's epic "Babelogue/Rock N Roll Nigger" segue, where she incorporates Jimi Hendrix, Jesus Christ and Jackson Pollack into a paean to artistic individuality and its inevitable alienation. |
Producer: Jimmy Iovine |
Engineer: Thom Panunzio; Charlie Conrad |
Musical Guests | | Allen Lanier |
| | Artist Overview | | One of the earliest and most important influences on punk rock (not to mention on post-punk songwriters like PJ Harvey), Patti Smith mated French Symbolist poetry with rock & roll, creating a musical style to match. In the process, she further shattered rock's gender barrier. Her 1975 album, HORSES, is one of the most seminal, acclaimed rock records of all time. Ironically, her biggest hit came with a 1978 version of Bruce Springsteen's "Because the Night." Smith spent much of the '80s and '90s away from the music business, but re-entered the fray in earnest starting with 1996's lauded GONE AGAIN. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/18/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1978 | | Catalog ID : 18826 | | Label : Arista Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00078221882620 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (11/96, p.154)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...equally enthralling [as HORSES]..."a |
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