and Jay Dee Daugherty and long time friend Tom Verlaine joined on lead guitar. The shows were a huge success as Smith brought to a new audience old and newer material.
1996 saw the release of her sixth album ?GoneAgain? (produced by Malcolm Burn and Lenny Kaye also featuring John Cale and Jeff Buckley on backing vocals) which received much critical praise. Many of the songs are about loss and coming so soon after Fred?s death making the record must have been a cathartic experience for Smith. The mood of the record although introspective does seem to be an affirmation of the ability we all have to confront, draw strength and overcome emotional trauma. This record confirmed PattiSmith back to her best.
She followed the success of ?GoneAgain with the release of ?Peace and Noise? in 1997. Again the record had a good critical reception ...
Mauri 05.01.2004 (06.01.2004)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Smith, Patti
PattiSmith has been called the high priestess of Punk. I'm not sure how useful these labels can be but she was part of the early 70's New York Punk scene and she has always displayed what later would be identified as the punk ethos in her music.
After years earning a living as a music critic, playwright, songwriter, poet and actress
She joined forces with guitarist and friend Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl and Tom Verlaine to record a single 'Hey Joe' an adaptation of the old Jimi Hendrix hit. This is by many considered to be the first Punk Indie single.
With the departure of Tom Verlaine they were joined by lead guitarist and Czech exile Ivan Kral, the group followed the single by recording an album 'Horses' in 1976.
THE ALBUM
(Track Listing)
1. Gloria
2. Redondo Beach
3. Birdland
4. Free Money
5. Kimberly
6. Break It Up ...
Advantages: An incredibly distinctive female vocalist Disadvantages: Some feel this album is a little over-produced
Pattismith is a writer, poet, painter, performance artist and singer, and 'gung ho, released in 2000, is her third album since she returned from a temporary retirement. She is best remembered for her first album, 'Horses', which was released in 1975 and gave her a prominent position as a founder of punk, and has influenced many other performers. (Including my favourite band R.E.M.) Although her first album was released under the name of the PattiSmith Group, 'gung ho' is released under Patti's name only, but reunites many of the performers who helped make 'Horses' such a seminal work.
It's probably best to mention something before I go any further. I only own two PattiSmith albums - 'Horses' and 'Gung Ho', so this album is going to be reviewed as an album in its own right, and not a comparison with any of her earlier work. Many ...
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Product details
Title
Gone Again
Performer
Patti Smith
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Punk Rock
Release Date
22/01/2000
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1996
Label / Distributor
Arista / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Engineer
Malcolm Burn
Producer
Malcolm Burn; Lenny Kaye
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
743213847429
Catalogue Number
74321384742
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Patti Smith (vocals, acoustic guitar); Jeff Buckley (vocals, essrage); Lenny Kaye (acoustic & electric guitars); Oliver Ray (acoustic & electric guitars, whistle); Tom Verlaine (electric guitar, guitar); Cesar Diaz (electric guitar); Malcolm Burn (guitar, dulcimer); Sperbs, Whit Smith (guitar); Kimberly Smith (mandolin); Eileen Ivers (fiddle); Jane Scarpantoni (cello); Rick Kiernan (saw); John Cale (organ); Luis Resto (keyboards); Tony Shanahan (bass); Jay Dee Daugherty (drums); Hearn Gadbois (percussion). Recorded at Electric Lady, New York, New York. With her first release since the self-imposed exile that followed 1988's DREAM OF LIFE, Patti Smith reclaims her title as the original punk poet. Though the songs on GONE AGAIN bear little relationship to the punk movement that she helped spawn in the mid-'70s, the defiant, fiercely individualistic spirit of her early recordings remains intact. GONE AGAIN has a moody, elegiac feel, as many of the songs are inspired by Smith's recent encounters with tragedy: the deaths of her husband and collaborator Fred "Sonic" Smith; her longtime friend, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe; and her brother Todd. Smith is that rarest of birds, a songwriter whose poetic reach does not exceed her grasp. Even during her eight-year recording hiatus, she never stopped writing poetry, and the raw, vivid imagery of songs like "Beneath The Southern Cross," "The Raven" and the downright Rimbaudesque "Summer Cannibals" are prime examples of her lyrical prowess. The passing of her loved ones has forced Smith to look more deeply into her own heart, and these compositions reveal a deepened, almost transcendent perspective that makes GONE AGAIN sound like hard-won wisdom being whispered in your ear.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.64) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Village Voice (2/25/97) - Ranked #13 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. Rolling Stone (6/27/96, pp.53-54) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...GONE AGAIN is Smith's mourning album....[it is] the most focused and direct work Smith has done yet--clear-eyed even when it can't be dry-eyed and remarkably free of even the most excusable kind of self-pity..." Spin (8/96, p.95) - 7 (out of 10) - "...Nothing in her back catalogue prophesies her current music's hallucinatory strangeness. Though the songs shift from sturdy bar-band vamps to thorny, open-ended art rock and simple folk, the arrangements stay skeletal, the mood gloomy..." Musician (9/96, p.87) - "...Informed by the deaths of her husband, brother, and Kurt Cobain, GONE AGAIN marks a mournful return, as opposed to the triumphantly blasphemous resurrection of EASTER. Patti the Sadder and Occasionally Wiser..." Q (8/96, p.120) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...The way she delivers a lyric--as Dylan might, if he'd been born a girl and practised his scales--is ofen worth way more than what it says....contemplation is the order of the day....Throughout, there's an undertow of portent, effective because subdued..." NME (7/13/96, p.46) - 6 (out of 10) - "...Patti Smith comes not to make our heads spin, but to make our hearts bleed....grief set to music....GONE AGAIN...[is] a spectacularly downbeat record...instilled...with...tenacity..." Entertainment Weekly (6/21/96, pp.62-64) - "...she's a pushing-50 widow with two children who has decided to reinvest in the healing power of music and career. Her losses are our gains." - Rating: A- Alternative Press (10/96, p.184) - 4 (out of 5) - "...Smith has, in essence, offered us some intangible gifts-an album's worth of wisdom and strengh in an era of deconstruction and decay..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Gone Again
2.
Beneath The Southern Cross
3.
About A Boy
4.
My Madrigal
5.
Summer Cannibals
6.
Dead To The World
7.
Wing Ravens
8.
Wicked Messenger
9.
Fireflies
10.
Farewell Reel
11.
Farewell Real
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