Hello, todays Aetix is about an artist who's been serious about the state of the world for decades, escaping the clutches of Jehovian Witnesses closed mindedness she became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Her fusion of rock and poetry earned her the title of "Godmother of Punk".
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Patricia Lee Smith was born in Chicago December 30, 1946. Her mother, Beverly, was a waitress, and her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. She spent her entire childhood in Deptford Township, New Jersey, raised as a Jehovah's Witness. She had a strong religious upbringing and a Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining. Smith graduated from High School in 1964 and went to work in a factory. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 26, 1967, and chose to place her for adoption
n 1967, she left Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and moved to New York City. She met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe there while working at a book store with a friend, poet Janet Hamill. She and Mapplethorpe had an intense romantic relationship, which was tumultuous as the pair struggled with times of poverty, and Mapplethorpe with his own sexuality. Smith considers Mapplethorpe to be one of the most important people in her life, and in her book Just Kids refers to him as "the artist of my life". Mapplethorpe's photographs of her became the covers for the Patti Smith Group LPs, and they remained friends until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989.
In 1969 she went to Paris with her sister and started busking and doing performance art.[6] When Smith returned to New York City, she lived in the Hotel Chelsea with Mapplethorpe; they frequented Max's Kansas City and CBGB. As a member of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, she spent the early 70's painting, writing, and performing. Smith was briefly considered for the lead singer position in Blue Öyster Cult. She contributed lyrics to several of the band's songs, including "Debbie Denise" "Baby Ice Dog", "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini" (on which she performs duet vocals), and "Shooting Shark", Smith also wrote rock journalism, some of which was published in Rolling Stone and Creem
By 1974, Patti Smith was performing rock music herself, initially with guitarist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral on bass, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums and Richard Sohl, on piano. The Patti Smith Group was signed by Clive Davis of Arista Records, and in 1975 recorded their first album, Horses, produced by John Cale amid some tension, the album fused punk rock and spoken poetry .The austere cover photograph by Mapplethorpe has become one of rock's classic images.
As the popularity of punk rock grew, Patti Smith Group toured the United States and Europe. The rawer sound of the group's second album, Radio Ethiopia, reflected this. Considerably less accessible than Horses, Radio Ethiopia initially received poor reviews. On January 23, 1977, Smith fell 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit, breaking several neck vertebrae. The injury required an intensive round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energize and reorganize her life. Patti Smith Group produced two further albums before the end of the 1970s. Easter (1978) was her most commercially successful record. Wave (1979) was less successful, although the songs "Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot" both received commercial airplay
Before the release of Wave, Smith, now separated from long-time partner Allen Lanier, met Fred "Sonic" Smith, former guitar player for Detroit rock band MC5, who adored poetry as much as she did. (Wave's "Dancing Barefoot" and "Frederick" were both dedicated to him. They married and had a son, Jackson (b. 1982) who would go on to marry The White Stripes drummer, Meg White in 2009, and a daughter, Jesse (b. 1987). Through most of the 1980s Patti Smith was in semi-retirement from music, living with her family. In June 1988, she released the album Dream of Life. Fred Smith died on November 4, 1994 of a myocardial infarction. Shortly afterward, Patti faced the unexpected death of her brother Todd and original keyboard player Richard Sohl. When her son Jackson turned 14, Smith decided to move back to New York.
In 1996, Smith worked with her long-time colleagues to record Gone Again, featuring "About a Boy", a tribute to Kurt Cobain.After release of Gone Again, Patti Smith had recorded two new albums: Peace and Noise in 1997 and Gung Ho in 2000. Songs "1959" and "Glitter in Their Eyes" were nominated for Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
On April 27, 2004 Patti Smith released Trampin' which included several songs about motherhood, partly in tribute to Smith's mother, who had died two years before. It was her first album on Columbia Records, soon to become a sister label to her previous home Arista Records.
n August 2005, Smith gave a literary lecture about the poems of Arthur Rimbaud and William Blake. On October 15, 2006, Patti Smith performed at the CBGB nightclub, with a 3½-hour tour de force to close out Manhattan's music venue. Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 12, 2007. A live album by Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, The Coral Sea was released in July 2008. In 2010, Patti Smith's book, Just Kids, a memoir of her time in 1970s Manhattan and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, was published. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. Smith revieved the 2011 Polar Music Prize for devoting her life to art in all its forms.
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Horses is the debut album by American musician Patti Smith, released in 1975 on Arista Records. The record was a key factor and major influence on the New York punk rock scene. A member of the Mercer Arts Center crowd and a friend of Richard Hell, Patti Smith came to CBGB for the first time to see the Voidoids perform. A veteran of independent theater and performance poetry, Smith was developing an intellectual, feminist take on rock 'n' roll when she released Horses.
At the time she recorded Horses, Patti Smith and her band were favorites in the New York club scene along with Blondie and The Ramones. Smith was a rabid fan of many 60's rock musicians aswll as jazz such as John Coltrane. The former's influence can be best heard in the track "Gloria", a radical retake on the Them garage rock classic "Birdland"'s music, in particular, owed more to the jazz music Smith's mother enjoyed than to the influence of punk. The lyrics of "Birdland" are based upon "A Book of Dreams" (1973), a memoir of Wilhelm Reich by his son Peter.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 44 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The cover photo was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe using natural light in a penthouse in Greenwich Village. The triangle of light on the wall was the product of the afternoon sun.
Patti Smith – Horses ( 230mb)
01 Gloria 5:56
02 Redondo Beach 3:26
03 Birdland 9:15
04 Free Money 3:52
05 Kimberly 4:27
06 Break It Up 4:04
07 Land (9:26)
07.1 Horses
07.2 Land Of A Thousand Dances
07.3 La Mer (De) -
08 Elegie 2:56
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.Produced by Jimmy Iovine, it is regarded as the group's commercial breakthrough, owing to the success of the single, "Because the Night" (co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Smith), which reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 in the UK . Easter incorporated a diversity of musical styles, though still including classic rock and roll, folk, spoken word and pop music. In addition to the obvious religious allusion of its title, the album is replete with biblical and specifically Christian imagery. "Privilege (Set Me Free)" is essentially a prayer; the songwriting credit for it cites Psalm 23.
Patti Smith Group – Easter (flac 288mb)
01 Till Victory 2:51
02 Space Monkey 4:06
03 Because The Night 3:25
04 Ghost Dance 4:44
05 Babelogue 1:30
06 Rock N Roll Nigger 3:25
07 Privilege (Set Me Free) 3:29
08 We Three 4:18
09 25th Floor 4:03
10 High On Rebellion 2:37
11 Easter 6:15
12 Godspeed 6:10
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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 retiring from record-making for nine years, and it can be heard as a farewell to the music business, from "Frederick," the love song to her husband-to-be, Fred "Sonic" Smith, that leads it off, to the version of "So You Want to Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star)," among the most bitter accounts of fame on record. But Smith also achieves a sense of charm and sincerity on Wave that she hadn't even attempted on her earlier albums, even to the point of her imagined small-talk encounter with the late Pope John Paul I on the title track. Still, despite the hit successes of Dancing Barefoot and Frederick Wave is considered the weakest of Smith's efforts. Likely love was formost on her mind at the time it just don't mix aswell with her activist anger that usually drives her. Note i've added a PDF of her prized book, Just Kids.
Patti Smith Group – Wave ( 263mb)
01 Frederick 3:03
02 Dancing Barefoot 4:16
03 So You Want To Be (A Rock 'N' Roll Star) 4:20
04 Hymn 1:12
05 Revenge 5:05
06 Citizen Ship 5:12
07 Seven Ways Of Going 5:18
08 Broken Flag 4:56
09 Wave 4:41
10 Fire Of Unknown Origin 2:08
11 54321/Wave 2:43
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Patricia Lee Smith was born in Chicago December 30, 1946. Her mother, Beverly, was a waitress, and her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. She spent her entire childhood in Deptford Township, New Jersey, raised as a Jehovah's Witness. She had a strong religious upbringing and a Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining. Smith graduated from High School in 1964 and went to work in a factory. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 26, 1967, and chose to place her for adoption
n 1967, she left Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and moved to New York City. She met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe there while working at a book store with a friend, poet Janet Hamill. She and Mapplethorpe had an intense romantic relationship, which was tumultuous as the pair struggled with times of poverty, and Mapplethorpe with his own sexuality. Smith considers Mapplethorpe to be one of the most important people in her life, and in her book Just Kids refers to him as "the artist of my life". Mapplethorpe's photographs of her became the covers for the Patti Smith Group LPs, and they remained friends until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989.
In 1969 she went to Paris with her sister and started busking and doing performance art.[6] When Smith returned to New York City, she lived in the Hotel Chelsea with Mapplethorpe; they frequented Max's Kansas City and CBGB. As a member of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, she spent the early 70's painting, writing, and performing. Smith was briefly considered for the lead singer position in Blue Öyster Cult. She contributed lyrics to several of the band's songs, including "Debbie Denise" "Baby Ice Dog", "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini" (on which she performs duet vocals), and "Shooting Shark", Smith also wrote rock journalism, some of which was published in Rolling Stone and Creem
By 1974, Patti Smith was performing rock music herself, initially with guitarist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral on bass, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums and Richard Sohl, on piano. The Patti Smith Group was signed by Clive Davis of Arista Records, and in 1975 recorded their first album, Horses, produced by John Cale amid some tension, the album fused punk rock and spoken poetry .The austere cover photograph by Mapplethorpe has become one of rock's classic images.
As the popularity of punk rock grew, Patti Smith Group toured the United States and Europe. The rawer sound of the group's second album, Radio Ethiopia, reflected this. Considerably less accessible than Horses, Radio Ethiopia initially received poor reviews. On January 23, 1977, Smith fell 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit, breaking several neck vertebrae. The injury required an intensive round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energize and reorganize her life. Patti Smith Group produced two further albums before the end of the 1970s. Easter (1978) was her most commercially successful record. Wave (1979) was less successful, although the songs "Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot" both received commercial airplay
Before the release of Wave, Smith, now separated from long-time partner Allen Lanier, met Fred "Sonic" Smith, former guitar player for Detroit rock band MC5, who adored poetry as much as she did. (Wave's "Dancing Barefoot" and "Frederick" were both dedicated to him. They married and had a son, Jackson (b. 1982) who would go on to marry The White Stripes drummer, Meg White in 2009, and a daughter, Jesse (b. 1987). Through most of the 1980s Patti Smith was in semi-retirement from music, living with her family. In June 1988, she released the album Dream of Life. Fred Smith died on November 4, 1994 of a myocardial infarction. Shortly afterward, Patti faced the unexpected death of her brother Todd and original keyboard player Richard Sohl. When her son Jackson turned 14, Smith decided to move back to New York.
In 1996, Smith worked with her long-time colleagues to record Gone Again, featuring "About a Boy", a tribute to Kurt Cobain.After release of Gone Again, Patti Smith had recorded two new albums: Peace and Noise in 1997 and Gung Ho in 2000. Songs "1959" and "Glitter in Their Eyes" were nominated for Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
On April 27, 2004 Patti Smith released Trampin' which included several songs about motherhood, partly in tribute to Smith's mother, who had died two years before. It was her first album on Columbia Records, soon to become a sister label to her previous home Arista Records.
n August 2005, Smith gave a literary lecture about the poems of Arthur Rimbaud and William Blake. On October 15, 2006, Patti Smith performed at the CBGB nightclub, with a 3½-hour tour de force to close out Manhattan's music venue. Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 12, 2007. A live album by Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, The Coral Sea was released in July 2008. In 2010, Patti Smith's book, Just Kids, a memoir of her time in 1970s Manhattan and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, was published. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. Smith revieved the 2011 Polar Music Prize for devoting her life to art in all its forms.
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Horses is the debut album by American musician Patti Smith, released in 1975 on Arista Records. The record was a key factor and major influence on the New York punk rock scene. A member of the Mercer Arts Center crowd and a friend of Richard Hell, Patti Smith came to CBGB for the first time to see the Voidoids perform. A veteran of independent theater and performance poetry, Smith was developing an intellectual, feminist take on rock 'n' roll when she released Horses.
At the time she recorded Horses, Patti Smith and her band were favorites in the New York club scene along with Blondie and The Ramones. Smith was a rabid fan of many 60's rock musicians aswll as jazz such as John Coltrane. The former's influence can be best heard in the track "Gloria", a radical retake on the Them garage rock classic "Birdland"'s music, in particular, owed more to the jazz music Smith's mother enjoyed than to the influence of punk. The lyrics of "Birdland" are based upon "A Book of Dreams" (1973), a memoir of Wilhelm Reich by his son Peter.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 44 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The cover photo was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe using natural light in a penthouse in Greenwich Village. The triangle of light on the wall was the product of the afternoon sun.
Patti Smith – Horses ( 230mb)
01 Gloria 5:56
02 Redondo Beach 3:26
03 Birdland 9:15
04 Free Money 3:52
05 Kimberly 4:27
06 Break It Up 4:04
07 Land (9:26)
07.1 Horses
07.2 Land Of A Thousand Dances
07.3 La Mer (De) -
08 Elegie 2:56
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.Produced by Jimmy Iovine, it is regarded as the group's commercial breakthrough, owing to the success of the single, "Because the Night" (co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Smith), which reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 in the UK . Easter incorporated a diversity of musical styles, though still including classic rock and roll, folk, spoken word and pop music. In addition to the obvious religious allusion of its title, the album is replete with biblical and specifically Christian imagery. "Privilege (Set Me Free)" is essentially a prayer; the songwriting credit for it cites Psalm 23.
Patti Smith Group – Easter (flac 288mb)
01 Till Victory 2:51
02 Space Monkey 4:06
03 Because The Night 3:25
04 Ghost Dance 4:44
05 Babelogue 1:30
06 Rock N Roll Nigger 3:25
07 Privilege (Set Me Free) 3:29
08 We Three 4:18
09 25th Floor 4:03
10 High On Rebellion 2:37
11 Easter 6:15
12 Godspeed 6:10
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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 retiring from record-making for nine years, and it can be heard as a farewell to the music business, from "Frederick," the love song to her husband-to-be, Fred "Sonic" Smith, that leads it off, to the version of "So You Want to Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star)," among the most bitter accounts of fame on record. But Smith also achieves a sense of charm and sincerity on Wave that she hadn't even attempted on her earlier albums, even to the point of her imagined small-talk encounter with the late Pope John Paul I on the title track. Still, despite the hit successes of Dancing Barefoot and Frederick Wave is considered the weakest of Smith's efforts. Likely love was formost on her mind at the time it just don't mix aswell with her activist anger that usually drives her. Note i've added a PDF of her prized book, Just Kids.
Patti Smith Group – Wave ( 263mb)
01 Frederick 3:03
02 Dancing Barefoot 4:16
03 So You Want To Be (A Rock 'N' Roll Star) 4:20
04 Hymn 1:12
05 Revenge 5:05
06 Citizen Ship 5:12
07 Seven Ways Of Going 5:18
08 Broken Flag 4:56
09 Wave 4:41
10 Fire Of Unknown Origin 2:08
11 54321/Wave 2:43
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Any chance of reposting Patti Smith in flac please Rho?
ReplyDeleteRho, Horses link says bad gateway on sendspace. in case you wanted to know. Thanks, Mike
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