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Artist...............: Patti Smith<br />
Album................: Land (1975 - 2002) (disc 1)<br />
Genre................: Rock<br />
Source...............: CD<br />
Year.................: 2002<br />
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Covers...............: Front Leaflet<br />
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1. (00:04:16) Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot<br />
2. (00:01:30) Patti Smith - Babelogue<br />
3. (00:03:23) Patti Smith - Rock N Roll Nigger<br />
4. (00:05:53) Patti Smith - Gloria<br />
5. (00:04:51) Patti Smith - Pissing In a River<br />
6. (00:03:48) Patti Smith - Free Money<br />
7. (00:05:10) Patti Smith - People Have the Power<br />
8. (00:03:23) Patti Smith - Because the Night<br />
9. (00:03:03) Patti Smith - Frederick<br />
10. (00:04:09) Patti Smith - Summer Cannibals<br />
11. (00:04:41) Patti Smith - Ghost Dance<br />
12. (00:06:37) Patti Smith - Ain't It Strange<br />
13. (00:04:01) Patti Smith - 1959<br />
14. (00:04:37) Patti Smith - Beneath the Southern Cross<br />
15. (00:03:05) Patti Smith - Glitter in Their Eyes<br />
16. (00:04:20) Patti Smith - Paths That Cross<br />
17. (00:05:00) Patti Smith - When Doves Cry<br />
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Playing Time.........: 01:11:47<br />
Total Size...........: 481.86 MB<br />
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Artist...............: Patti Smith<br />
Album................: Land (1975-2002) (disc2)<br />
Genre................: Rock<br />
Source...............: CD<br />
Year.................: 2002<br />
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1. (00:05:03) Patti Smith - Piss Factory (Track)<br />
2. (00:03:45) Patti Smith - Redondo Beach (Demo)<br />
3. (00:04:57) Patti Smith - Distant Fingers (Demo)<br />
4. (00:05:43) Patti Smith - 25th Floor (Live)<br />
5. (00:02:36) Patti Smith - Come Back Little Sheba (Track)<br />
6. (00:04:56) Patti Smith - Wander I Go (Track)<br />
7. (00:04:35) Patti Smith - Dead City (Live)<br />
8. (00:06:41) Patti Smith - Spell (Live)<br />
9. (00:05:05) Patti Smith - Wing (Live)<br />
10. (00:05:49) Patti Smith - Boy Cried Wolf (Live)<br />
11. (00:09:43) Patti Smith - Birdland (Live)<br />
12. (00:07:21) Patti Smith - Higher Learning (Track)<br />
13. (00:06:05) Patti Smith - Notes To The Future (Live)<br />
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Playing Time.........: 01:12:19<br />
Total Size...........: 431.93 MB<br />
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Patricia Lee Smith ( born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-<br />
songwriter and poet. She was influential in the birth of punk rock with her <br />
1975 debut album Horses. Called "Godmother of Punk" she integrated the <br />
beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Her allusions <br />
introduced American teens to 19th century French poetry, while her <br />
"unladylike" language defied the disco era. Smith is most widely known for the <br />
song "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and <br />
reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005 Patti <br />
Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the <br />
French Minister of Culture, and in 2007 she was inducted into the Rock and <br />
Roll Hall of Fame.<br />
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Early years<br />
Smith was born in Chicago. Her mother, Beverly, was a jazz singer, and <br />
father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. She spent her entire childhood <br />
in Woodbury, New Jersey. Raised the daughter of a Jehovah's Witness <br />
mother, she claims she had a strong religious education and a very good Bible <br />
education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was <br />
too confining and much later wrote the opening line of her cover version of <br />
Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience. Smith graduated from <br />
Deptford Township High School in 1964. The family was not wealthy and <br />
Smith went to work in a factory.<br />
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1967–1973: New York<br />
In 1967 she left Glassboro State Teachers College (now Rowan University) <br />
and moved to New York City. She met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe <br />
there while working at a book store with a friend, poet Janet Hamill. <br />
Mapplethorpe's photographs of her became the covers for the Patti Smith <br />
Group LPs, and they remained friends until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989. In <br />
1969 she went to Paris with her sister and started busking and doing <br />
performance art. When Smith returned to New York City, she lived in the <br />
Hotel Chelsea with Mapplethorpe; they frequented the fashionable Max's <br />
Kansas City and CBGB nightclubs. The same year Smith appeared with Wayne <br />
County in Jackie Curtis's play Femme Fatale. As a member of the St. Mark's <br />
Poetry Project, she spent the early '70s painting, writing, and performing. In <br />
1971 she performed – for one night only – in Sam Shepard's Cowboy Mouth. <br />
(The published play's notes call for "a man who looks like a coyote and a <br />
woman who looks like a crow".) She collaborated with Allen Lanier of Blue <br />
Öyster Cult, who recorded several of the songs to which Smith had <br />
contributed, including "Debbie Denise" (after her poem "In Remembrance of <br />
Debbie Denise"), "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of <br />
Vera Gemini", and "Shooting Shark". During these years, Smith also wrote <br />
rock journalism, some of which was published in Creem magazine.<br />
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1974–1979: Patti Smith Group<br />
<br />
by 1974 Patti Smith was performing rock music herself, initially with guitarist <br />
and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later with a full band comprising Kaye, <br />
Ivan Kral on bass, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums and Richard Sohl, on piano. <br />
Ivan Kral was a refugee from Czechoslovakia, fleeing in 1968 after the fall of <br />
Alexander Dubcek. Financed by Robert Mapplethorpe, the band recorded a <br />
first single, "Hey Joe / Piss Factory", in 1974. The A-side was a version of the <br />
rock standard with the addition of a spoken word piece about fugitive heiress <br />
Patty Hearst ("Patty Hearst, you're standing there in front of the Symbionese <br />
Liberation Army flag with your legs spread, I was wondering were you gettin' <br />
it every night from a black revolutionary man and his women..."). The B-side <br />
describes the helpless anger Smith had felt while working on a factory <br />
assembly line and the salvation she discovered in the form of a shoplifted <br />
book, the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations.<br />
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Patti Smith Group was signed by Clive Davis of Arista Records, and 1975 saw <br />
the release of Smith's first album Horses, produced by John Cale amidst some <br />
tension. The album fused punk rock and spoken poetry and begins with a <br />
cover of Van Morrison's "Gloria", and Smith's opening words: "Jesus died for <br />
somebody's sins but not mine." The austere cover photograph by Robert <br />
Mapplethorpe has become one of rock's classic images. As Patti Smith Group <br />
toured the United States and Europe, punk's popularity grew. The rawer <br />
sound of the group's second album, Radio Ethiopia, reflected this. <br />
Considerably less accessible than Horses, Radio Ethiopia received poor <br />
reviews. However, several of its songs have stood the test of time, and <br />
Smith still performs them regularly in concert. On January 23, 1977, while <br />
touring in support of the record, Smith accidentally danced off a high stage in <br />
Tampa, Florida and fell 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit, breaking several <br />
neck vertebrae. The injury required a period of rest and an intensive round <br />
of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energize <br />
and reorganize her life. Patti Smith Group produced two further albums <br />
before the end of the 1970s. Easter (1978) was her most commercially <br />
successful record, containing the single "Because the Night" co-written with <br />
Bruce Springsteen. Wave (1979) was less successful, although the songs <br />
"Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot" both received commercial airplay.<br />
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1996–2003: Re-emergence<br />
Music Samples:<br />
"Summer Cannibals" <br />
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In 1996, Smith worked with her long-time colleagues to record the haunting <br />
Gone Again, featuring "About a Boy", a tribute to Kurt Cobain. Smith was a <br />
fan of Cobain, but was more angered than saddened by his suicide. That <br />
same year she collaborated with Stipe on "E-Bow the Letter," a song on <br />
R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi, which she has also performed live with the <br />
band. After release of Gone Again, Patti Smith has recorded two new albums: <br />
Peace and Noise in 1997 (with the single "1959", about the invasion of Tibet) <br />
and Gung Ho in 2000 (with songs about Ho Chi Minh and Smith's late father). <br />
A box set of her work up to that time, The Patti Smith Masters, came out in <br />
1996, and 2002 saw the release of Land (1975–2002), a two-CD compilation <br />
that includes a memorable cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry". Smith's solo <br />
art exhibition Strange Messenger was hosted at The Andy Warhol Museum in <br />
Pittsburgh on September 28, 2002.<br />
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2004–present<br />
On April 27, 2004 Patti Smith released Trampin' which included several songs <br />
about motherhood, partly in tribute to Smith's mother who died two years <br />
before. Smith curated the Meltdown festival in London on June 25, 2005, the <br />
penultimate event being the first live performance of Horses in its entirety. <br />
Guitarist Tom Verlaine took Oliver Ray's place. This live performance was <br />
released later in the year as Horses/Horses. In August 2005 Smith gave a <br />
literary lecture about the poems of Arthur Rimbaud and William Blake. On July <br />
10, 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des <br />
Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In addition to her influence on rock <br />
music, the Minister also noted Smith's appreciation of Arthur Rimbaud. On <br />
October 15, 2006, Patti Smith performed at the CBGB nightclub, with a 3½-<br />
hour tour de force to close out Manhattan's music venue. She took the stage <br />
at 9:30 p.m. (EDT) and closed for the night (and forever for the venue) at a <br />
few minutes after 1:00 a.m., performing her song "Elegie", and finally reading <br />
a list of punk rock musicians and advocates who had died in the previous <br />
years.<br />
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Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 12, 2007. She <br />
dedicated her award to the memory of her late husband, Fred, and gave a <br />
performance of The Rolling Stones classic "Gimme Shelter." As the closing <br />
number of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Smith's <br />
"People Have the Power" was used for the big celebrity jam that always ends <br />
the program. From March 28 to June 22, 2008 the Fondation Cartier pour <br />
l'Art Contemporain in Paris hosted a major exhibition of the visual work of <br />
Patti Smith, Land 250, drawn from pieces created between 1967 and 2007. <br />
At the 2008 Rowan Commencement ceremony, Smith received an honorary <br />
doctorate degree for her contributions to popular culture. Smith is the subject <br />
of a 2008 documentary film, Patti Smith: Dream of Life. A live album by Patti <br />
Smith and Kevin Shields, The Coral Sea was released in July 2008.<br />
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Activism<br />
Smith has been a supporter of the Green Party (United States) and was a <br />
backer of Ralph Nader in the 2000 United States presidential election. She led <br />
the crowd singing "Over the Rainbow" and "People Have the Power" at the <br />
campaign's rallies, and also performed at several of Nader's subsequent <br />
"Democracy Rising" events. Smith, however, supported Democratic candidate <br />
John Kerry in the 2004 election. Bruce Springsteen continued performing her <br />
"People Have the Power" at Vote for Change campaign events. In the winter <br />
of 2004/2005, Smith toured again with Nader in a series of rallies against the <br />
Iraq War and call for the impeachment of George W. Bush.<br />
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Smith premiered two new protest songs in London in September 2006. Louise <br />
Jury, writing in The Independent, characterized them as "an emotional <br />
indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy". Song "Qana" (available at <br />
official website) was about the Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese village of <br />
Qana. "Without Chains" (available at official website) is about Murat Kurnaz, <br />
a Turkish citizen who was born and raised in Germany, held at Guantanamo <br />
Bay detainment camp for four years. Jury's article quotes Smith as saying:<br />
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I wrote both these songs directly in response to events that I felt outraged <br />
about. These are injustices against children and the young men and women <br />
who are being incarcerated. I'm an American, I pay taxes in my name and <br />
they are giving millions and millions of dollars to a country such as Israel and <br />
cluster bombs and defense technology and those bombs were dropped on <br />
common citizens in Qana. It's terrible. It's a human rights violation.<br />
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In an interview, Smith stated that Kurnaz's family has contacted her and that <br />
she wrote a short preface for the book that he was writing.Kurnaz's book, <br />
FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE, was published in English by Palgrave Macmillan in <br />
March 2008, with Patti's introduction <br />
http://us.macmillan.com/fiveyearsofmylife<br />
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Influence<br />
Patti Smith has been a great source of inspiration for Michael Stipe of R.E.M. <br />
Listening to her album Horses when he was 15 made a huge impact on him. <br />
He said later: "I decided then that I was going to start a band." In 1998, <br />
Stipe published a collection of photos called Two Times Intro: On the Road <br />
with Patti Smith. Stipe sings backing vocals on Smith's songs "Last Call" and <br />
"Glitter in Their Eyes". Patti also sings background vocals on R.E.M.'s "E-Bow <br />
the Letter".<br />
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In 2004, Shirley Manson of Garbage told about Patti's influence on her at <br />
Rolling Stone's issue "The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time", in <br />
which Patti Smith was counted number 47. The Smiths members Morrissey <br />
and Johnny Marr shared an appreciation for Patti's Horses, and their song <br />
"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" is a reworking of one of the album's tracks, <br />
"Kimberly." Later, Morrissey did a cover of "Redondo Beach," another song <br />
from the same album.<br />
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In 2004, Sonic Youth released an album called Hidros 3 (to Patti Smith). U2 <br />
also cites Patti Smith as influence.<br />
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In 2005 Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall released the single "Suddenly I <br />
See" as a tribute of sorts to Patti Smith. The lyrics describe Tunstall looking at <br />
Smith's picture in a magazine, admiring her fame and accomplishments and <br />
suddenly realizing what she wants to do with her life. The cover of Tunstall's <br />
debut album Eye to the Telescope was also inspired by Smith, specifically the <br />
famous cover shot from her album Horses, of which Tunstall said: "I aspired <br />
to what this image was about - which was a woman dressed in man's clothes <br />
with such mystery, but such confidence and attitude and character. I just <br />
thought, 'that's so what I want to be when I grow up'."<br />
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Canadian actress Ellen Page frequently mentions Smith as one of her idols <br />
and has done various photo shoots replicating famous Smith photos. She has <br />
said that the only time she's been truly star-struck was when she met Smith <br />
backstage at a concert in Europe and she has a dog named Patti in homage <br />
to Smith. Because of Page's suggestions, Smith's work and name also factor <br />
prominently in two of Page's movies, Juno and The Tracey Fragments.<br />
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