Condition: Used
Patti Smith Group - Easter
Label: Arista
Catalog#: AB 4171
Format: Vinyl, LP
Vinyl: VG++ very light scuffs
Cover: VG+ ringwear,
Country: Canada issue
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave, Punk
Tracklisting:
A1 Till Victory 2:45
A2 Space Monkey 4:04
A3 Because The Night 3:32
A4 Ghost Dance 4:40
A5 Babelogue 1:25
A6 Rock N Roll Nigger 3:13
B1 Privilege (Set Me Free) 3:27
B2 We Three 4:19
Arranged By - Tom Verlaine
B3 25th Floor 4:01
B4 High On Rebellion 2:20
B5 Easter 5:58
Bagpipes - Jim Maxwell
Credits:
Drums, Percussion - Jay Dee Daugherty
Engineer [Recording Assistant] - Gray Russell , Joe Intile
Engineer [Recording] - Charlie Conrad , Thom Panunzio
Guitar, Bass, Vocals - Ivan Kral , Lenny Kaye
Keyboards, Synthesizer - Bruce Brody
Mastered By - Greg Calbi
Mixed By - Shelly Yakus
Other [Head Of The Crew] - Todd Smith
Other [Pclp] - Andi Ostrowe
Producer, Mixed By - Jimmy Iovine
Vocals, Guitar - Patti Smith
Written-By - Kral (tracks: A2, B3) , Daugherty (tracks: B5) , Kaye (tracks: A1, A4, A6) , Smith* (tracks: A1 to A6, B2 to B4)
Notes
Recorded At The Record Plant, NYC & The House Of Music, West Orange, NJ.
Mastered At Sterling Sound.
B1 Features Excerpts From Psalm 23.
Many years after her seminal late-seventies work, Patti Smith's debut, Horses, gets the lion's share of the accolades within her body of work. I'll probably get a lot of disagreement and maybe even a flame or two from that disc's staunch supporters, but in my opinion Easter is the pinnacle of her recording career. Horses is probably the more groundbreaking work, but to these ears it's a difficult listen and probably more trendy than it is good. Though given a more mainstream production, Easter is not one iota less tough or uncompromising.
Easter is stylistically a late-seventies hard rock album, but still it's all Patti, complete with her poetry and earthy sensuality. Her poetry is more mature sounding: There's only one ill-advised, childish diatribe here on "25th Floor", and the song appropriately enough soars so high you don't mind. Her vocals are less hysterical and more focused than ever before or since. She sings like a woman utterly possessed, and it's this element that gives Easter its power.
The Patti Smith Group shifts effortlessly from thundering anthems ("Till Victory", "Privilege") to stately ballads ("Easter") to quirky art-rock ("Space Monkey"). Patti's definitive reading of Bruce Springsteen's "Because the Night" -- which cuts both Natalie Merchant's soulless version and surprisingly the author's more gritty rendition -- is here too. Happily, it is neither the best thing about Easter, its weakest link, nor its centerpiece as it simply fits comfortably within the album's mosaic.
Granted, if you're the type who exists on an audio diet of the Velvets, Talking Heads, and Tom Waits and who thinks that REM sold out after Chronic Town, do the rest of us a favor and pass on this. However if you enjoy female rockers like Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Kate Bush, and Tori Amos -- or just love moody hard rock -- buy this. You're in for a real experience.
And surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life and you shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever...god damn.
Patti Smith - Easter
Patti Smith - 25th Floor
One of her best songs, she's amazing.
The Patti Smith Group - Because the Night
Phantom of the Opera/Gerard Butler fan video. Outstanding song by Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen, performed by The Patti Smith Group
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