Patti Smith: The Arista Years 1975 - 2000 + Banga 2012

 

Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New

York City-based punk rock movement. Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work. In 1978, her most widely known song, "Because the Night," co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number five on the UK Singles Chart. As punk rock grew in popularity, the Patti Smith Group toured the U.S. 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.
               

However, several of its songs have stood the test of time, and Smith still performs them live. She has said that Radio Ethiopia was influenced by the band MC5. As the '80s became the '90s, Smith lost

some of those closest to her. Longtime friend and album-cover photographer Mapplethorpe died in 1989, followed a year later by pianist Richard Sohl. At the end of 1994, both her husband and her brother Todd died of heart failure within a month of one another. Smith returned to performing as a means of therapy, and re-formed the Patti Smith Group -- with Kaye, Daugherty, and new bassist Tony Shanahan -- for a few small-scale tours including a December 1995 excursion with Bob Dylan that R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe documented in the book Two Times Intro.
                   

In 1996, Smith worked with her long-time colleagues to record Gone Again, featuring "About a Boy", a tribute to Kurt Cobain, the former lead singer of Nirvana who died by suicide in 1994. Smith also appeared on "E-Bow the Letter" from R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and published The Coral

Sea, a book of poetry inspired by Mapplethorpe. "Through these poems, a singular, glowing vision of Robert Mapplethorpe develops and emerges. The Coral Sea is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1996. In 2008, Smith released The Coral Sea as an album with musical accompaniment by Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, recorded during two live performances of the duo. In The Coral Sea , Patti Smith (in the words of Tennessee Williams) 'rings the bell of pure poetry.' "―William S. Burroughs In linked pieces Patti Smith tells the story of a man on a journey to see the Southern Cross, who is reflecting on his life and fighting the illness that is consuming him.
               

In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French

Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In November 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids, written to fulfill a promise she made to Robert Mapplethorpe, her longtime partner and friend. She is ranked 47th on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of all Time, published in 2010, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2011.
          

An acclaimed poet, painter, author, and photographer as well as singer/songwriter, Patti Smith

ranks among the most ambitious, unconventional, and challenging artists. When she emerged in the '70s, Smith was hailed as punk rock's poet laureate, delivering the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan's heyday with her unabashedly intellectual and uncompromising songwriting. Smith followed her muse wherever it took her, from structured rock songs to free-form experimentalism.
                

One of the first musicians to reference Smith was Todd Rundgren. In the liner notes of his 1972 album

Something/Anything?, Rundgren wrote that "Song of the Viking" was "written in the feverish grip of the dreaded 'd'oyle carte,' a chronic disease dating back to my youth. Dedicated to Miss Patti Lee Smith." Seven years later, Rundgren produced the 1979 Patti Smith's Group album, Wave. Smith's sound became increasingly polished on 1979's Wave.
          

In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Smith supported the Green Party and backed Ralph Nader. She led the crowd singing "Over the Rainbow" and "People Have the Power" at the campaign's rallies, and

also performed at several of Nader's subsequent "Democracy Rising" events. Smith was a speaker and singer at the first protests against the Iraq War as U.S. President George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. Smith supported Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 election. Bruce Springsteen continued performing her "People Have the Power" at Vote for Change campaign events. In the winter of 2004–2005, Smith toured again with Nader in a series of rallies against the Iraq War and called for the impeachment of Bush.
                      

In 2024, Smith was awarded the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal by the Municipal Art Society

of New York for her contributions to New York City. She also appeared in and scored Turn the Wound, Abel Ferrara's documentary about life in Kyiv following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Smith reunited with Soundwalk Collective for a pair of projects: 2024's Correspondences, Vol. 1, a collaboration over a decade in the making that intertwined music, art, and environmental activism, and 2025's Khandroma, which featured her on the track "Chasing the Demon."
             

Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has

been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone. Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Wītt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
                        

Patti Smith – The Arista Years 1975/2000
Label: Legacy – 886979913929, Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Box Set, Compilation
Country: Europe
Released: 2011
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, New Wave

ALBUMS INCLUDED IN THIS POST:

01. Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
02. Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia (1976)
03. Patti Smith Group - Easter (1978)
04. Patti Smith Group - Wave (1979)
05. Patti Smith - Dream of Life (1988)
06. Patti Smith - Gone Again (1996)
07. Patti Smith - Peace and Noise (1997)
08. Patti Smith - Gung Ho (2000)
09. Patti Smith - Banga (2012)

CD1.  PATTI SMITH - HORSES 1975

                

Horses is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith, released on November 10, 1975 by Arista Records. Smith, supported by her regular backing band, recorded the album at Electric Lady

Studios in September 1975, choosing former Velvet Underground member John Cale as the album's producer. The music on Horses was informed by the minimalist aesthetic of the punk rock genre, then in its formative years. Smith and her band composed the album's songs using simple chord progressions, while also breaking from punk tradition in their propensity for improvisation and embrace of ideas from avant-garde and other musical styles.
                  

LINE - UP

          

Patti Smith – vocals
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Lenny Kaye – lead guitar
Ivan Král – guitar, bass
Richard Sohl – piano

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Allen Lanier – guitar on "Elegie"
Tom Verlaine – guitar on "Break It Up"

Patti Smith – Horses/Horses
Label: Arista – 88985413172, Columbia  
Format: 2 x CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered 2017
Country: Europe
Released: 1975
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk,    

DISC 1.  PATTI SMITH - HORSES 1975      

    
01.  Gloria    5:55
02.  Redondo Beach    3:26
03.  Birdland    9:15
04.  Free Money    3:54
05.  Kimberly    4:26
06.  Break It Up    4:05
07.  Land    (9:25)
07.1.  Horses    
07.2.  Land Of A Thousand Dances    
07.3.  La Mer (De)    
08.  Elegie
09.  My Generation (Bass – John Cale)   3:20

DISC 2. Horses, Recorded June 25, 2005, Royal Festival Hall, London, England    

01.  Gloria    7:01
02.  Redondo Beach    4:29
03.  Birdland    9:52
04.  Free Money    5:29
05.  Kimberly    5:28
06.  Break It Up    5:24
07.  Land    (17:35)
07.1. Horses    
07.2. Land Of A Thousand Dances    
07.3. La Mer (De)    
08.  Elegie    5:08
09.  My Generation    6:59

LAND: HORSES/LAND OF A THOUSAND DANCES/LA MER LYRICS

                              

The boy was in the hallway drinking a glass of tea
From the other end of the hallway a rhythm was generating
Another boy was sliding up the hallway
He merged perfectly with the hallway,
He merged perfectly, the mirror in the hallway

The boy looked at Johnny, Johnny wanted to run,
but the movie kept moving as planned
The boy took Johnny, he pushed him against the locker,
He drove it in, he drove it home, he drove it deep in Johnny
The boy disappeared, Johnny fell on his knees,
started crashing his head against the locker,
started crashing his head against the locker,
started laughing hysterically

When suddenly Johnny gets the feeling he's being surrounded by
horses, horses, horses, horses
coming in in all directions
white shining silver studs with their nose in flames,
He saw horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses.

Do you know how to pony like bony maroney
Do you know how to twist, well it goes like this, it goes like this
Baby mash potato, do the alligator, do the alligator
And you twist the twister like your baby sister
I want your baby sister, give me your baby sister, dig your baby sister
Rise up on her knees, do the sweet pea, do the sweet pee pee,
Roll down on her back, got to lose control, got to lose control,
Got to lose control and then you take control,
Then you're rolled down on your back and you like it like that,
Like it like that, like it like that, like it like that,
Then you do the watusi, yeah do the watusi
Life is filled with holes, Johnny's laying there, his sperm coffin
Angel looks down at him and says, "Oh, pretty boy,
Can't you show me nothing but surrender?"
Johnny gets up, takes off his leather jacket,
Taped to his chest there's the answer,
You got pen knives and jack knives and
Switchblades preferred, switchblades preferred
Then he cries, then he screams, saying
Life is full of pain, I'm cruisin' through my brain
And I fill my nose with snow and go Rimbaud,
Go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud,
And go Johnny go, and do the watusi, oh do the watusi
                    

There's a little place, a place called space
It's a pretty little place, it's across the tracks,
Across the tracks and the name of the place is you like it like that,
You like it like that, you like it like that, you like it like that,
And the name of the band is the
Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes,
Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes

Baby calm down, better calm down,
In the night, in the eye of the forest
There's a mare black and shining with yellow hair,
I put my fingers through her silken hair and found a stair,
I didn't waste time, I just walked right up and saw that
up there -- there is a sea
up there -- there is a sea
up there -- there is a sea
the sea's the possibility
There is no land but the land

There is no sea but the sea
There is no keeper but the key
Except for one who seizes possibilities, one who seizes possibilities.
I seize the first possibility, is the sea around me
I was standing there with my legs spread like a sailor
I felt his hand on my knee
And I looked at Johnny and handed him a branch of cold flame

The waves were coming in like Arabian stallions
Gradually lapping into sea horses
He picked up the blade and he pressed it against his smooth throat
And let it deep in

Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities
It started hardening
Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities
It started hardening in my hand
And I felt the arrows of desire
I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour
But no more, no more, I gotta move from my mind to the area
And go Johnny go and do the watusi,
Yeah do the watusi, do the watusi ...

             

Shined open coiled snakes white and shiny twirling and encircling
Our lives are now entwined, we will fall yes we're together twining
Your nerves, your mane of the black shining horse
And my fingers all entwined through the air,
I could feel it, it was the hair going through my fingers,
The hairs were like wires going through my body
I I that's how I
that's how I
I died

moved up
I tried to stop it, but it was too warm, too unbelievably smooth,
Like playing in the sea, in the sea of possibility, the possibility
Was a blade, a shiny blade, I hold the key to the sea of possibilities
There's no land but the land

looked at my hands, and there's a red stream
that went streaming through the sands like fingers,
like arteries, like fingers
He lay, pressing it against his throat (your eyes)
He opened his throat (your eyes)
His vocal chords started shooting like (of a horse) mad pituitary glands
The scream he made (and my heart) was so high (my heart) pitched that nobody heard,
No one heard that cry,
No one heard (Johnny) the butterfly flapping in his throat,

Nobody heard, he was on that bed, it was like a sea of jelly,
And so he seized the first
It was a black tube, he felt himself disintegrate
and go inside the black tube, so when he looked out into the steep
saw this sweet young thing (Fender one)
Humping on the parking meter, leaning on the parking meter

In the sheets
there was a man
dancing around
to the simple
Rock & roll
song

Flac Size: 705 MB

CD2.  PATTI SMITH GROUP - RADIO ETHIOPIA 1976

               

Radio Ethiopia is the second studio album by American musician Patti Smith, and her first album credited to Patti Smith Group. The album was released in October 1976 through Arista Records. Radio Ethiopia was the follow-up record to Smith's widely acclaimed debut Horses. The title track of the

album is one of Smith's most notorious songs, almost legendary for appearing to be "10 minutes of noise". Critics often described live renditions of the song as negative moments of Smith's concerts. Smith herself spoke highly of the track and of how the lyrics refer to Arthur Rimbaud's dying wishes. Arguments both for and against the song have been advanced by critics, fans and music listeners over whether the song truly is an example of the Patti Smith Group's boundary-pushing or merely self-indulgence
                

Patti Smith Group – Radio Ethiopia
Label: Arista – 07822 18825 2, BMG – 07822 18825 2
Series: The Patti Smith Masters
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered Jun 18, 1996
Country: Europe
Released: 1976    
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk

TRAXS        

              

  
01. Patti Smith Group – Ask The Angels    3:10
02. Patti Smith Group – Ain't It Strange    6:36
03. Patti Smith Group – Poppies    7:06
04. Patti Smith Group – Pissing In A River    4:53
05. Patti Smith Group – Pumping (My Heart)    3:22
06. Patti Smith Group – Distant Fingers    4:21
07. Patti Smith Group – Radio Ethiopia    10:04
08. Patti Smith Group – Abyssinia    2:16
09. Patti Smith Group – Chiklets    6:23

LINE - UP

Patti Smith – vocals, guitar (Fender Duo-Sonic), design
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, percussion, mixing, consultant
Lenny Kaye – guitar (Fender Stratocaster), bass, vocals, mixing
Ivan Král – bass, guitar
Richard Sohl – keyboards, synthesizer, piano

Flac Size: 293 MB

CD3.  PATTI SMITH GROUP - EASTER 1978

               

Easter is the third studio album by American musician Patti Smith, and the second release where her

backing band Patti Smith Group is billed. It was released in March 1978 by Arista Records. Produced by Jimmy Iovine, the album is regarded as the group's commercial breakthrough, owing to the success of the rock single "Because the Night" (co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Smith), which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the UK Singles Chart.
              

Patti Smith Group – Easter
Label: Arista – 07822 18826 2, BMG – 07822 18826 2
Series: The Patti Smith Masters
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered 1996
Country: Europe
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Punk

TRAXS            

                 

01.  Patti Smith Group – Till Victory    2:52
02.  Patti Smith Group – Space Monkey    4:07
03.  Patti Smith Group – Because The Night    3:25
04.  Patti Smith Group – Ghost Dance    4:45
05.  Patti Smith Group – Babelogue    1:30
06.  Patti Smith Group – Rock N Roll Nigger    3:26
07.  Patti Smith Group – Privilege (Set Me Free)    3:29
08.  Patti Smith Group – We Three    4:18
09.  Patti Smith Group – 25th Floor    4:04
10.  Patti Smith Group – High On Rebellion    2:38
11.  Patti Smith Group – Easter    6:16
12.  Patti Smith Group – Godspeed    6:10

LINE - UP

PATTI SMITH GROUP

Patti Smith – vocals, Duo-Sonic guitar
Lenny Kaye – Stratocaster guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, percussion
Ivan Král – bass guitar, vocals, Les Paul guitar
Bruce Brody – keyboards, synthesizer

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Richard Sohl – keyboards on "Space Monkey"
Allen Lanier – keyboards on "Space Monkey"
John Paul Fetta – bass guitar on "Till Victory" and "Privilege"
Andi Ostrowe – percussion on "Ghost Dance"
Jimmy Maxwell – bagpipes on "Easter"
Todd Smith – head of crew

Flac Size: 296 MB

CD4.  PATTI SMITH GROUP - WAVE 1979

                  

Wave is the fourth studio album by Patti Smith, and the third and final album where the Patti Smith Group is billed. It was released on May 17, 1979, by Arista Records. Produced by Todd Rundgren, the

album continued the band's move towards more radio-friendly mainstream pop rock sound. Wave garnered a mixed reception from music critics and was less successful than its predecessor, Easter (1978). However, the songs "Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot" both received commercial airplay. Following the album's release, the band disbanded, and frontwoman Patti Smith pursued a solo career nine years later with Dream of Life (1988).
               

Patti Smith Group – Wave
Label: Arista – 07822 18829 2, BMG – 07822 18829 2
Series: The Patti Smith Masters
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo 1996
Country: Europe
Released: 1979    
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave    

TRAXS    

             

  
01. Patti Smith Group –  Frederick    3:07
02. Patti Smith Group –  Dancing Barefoot    4:17
03. Patti Smith Group –  So You Want To Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star)    4:21
04. Patti Smith Group –  Hymn    1:12
05. Patti Smith Group –  Revenge    5:06
06. Patti Smith Group –  Citizen Ship    5:13
07. Patti Smith Group –  Seven Ways Of Going    5:21
08. Patti Smith Group –  Broken Flag    5:00
09. Patti Smith Group –  Wave    4:56
10. Patti Smith Group –  Fire Of Unknown Origin    2:09
11. Patti Smith Group –  54321/Wave    2:44

LINE - UP

Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, consultant
Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass guitar on "Wave", vocals
Ivan Kral – bass guitar, guitar, cello on "Wave", keyboards
Richard Sohl – piano, ocean effects on "Wave"
Patti Smith – vocals, piano on "Wave"

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Andi Ostrowe – percussion, timpani on "Seven Ways of Going"
Todd Rundgren – bass guitar on "Dancing Barefoot", production, engineering

Flac Size: 275 MB

CD5.  PATTI SMITH - DREAM OF LIFE 1988

               

Dream of Life was her first album after the dissolution of The Patti Smith Group, and the only album that she made with her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith. Lead single "People Have the Power" received

some album-oriented rock airplay at the time, and later was revived by Michael Stipe as a theme song for the 2004 Vote for Change concerts. "People Have the Power" was performed live for the first time by Patti and Fred Smith at the Arista Records 15th Anniversary Gala at Radio City Music Hall on March 17, 1990. "Paths That Cross" is dedicated to the memory of Samuel J. Wagstaff.
                

Patti Smith – Dream Of Life
Label: Arista – 07822 18828 2
Series: The Patti Smith Masters
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered 1996
Country: Europe
Released: 1988    
Genre: Rock
Style: Country Rock

TRAXS

             

  
01. Patti Smith – People Have The Power    5:11
02. Patti Smith – Up There Down There    4:50
03. Patti Smith – Paths That Cross    4:20
04. Patti Smith – Dream Of Life    4:39
05. Patti Smith – Where Duty Calls    7:49
06. Patti Smith – Going Under    6:00
07. Patti Smith – Looking For You (I Was)    4:08
08. Patti Smith – The Jackson Song    5:41

BONUS TRAXS

09. Patti Smith – As The Night Goes By    5:05
10. Patti Smith – Wild Leaves    4:04

LINE - UP

Patti Smith – vocals
Fred "Sonic" Smith – guitar, production
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, keyboards, consultant
Richard Sohl – keyboards

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Andi Ostrowe – backing vocals
Bob Glaub – bass on "Going Under"
Errol "Crusher" Bennett – percussion on "Looking for You (I Was)"
Gary Rasmussen – bass
Hearn Gadbois – percussion
Jesse Levy – cello on "The Jackson Song"
Kasim Sulton – bass
Malcolm West – bass on "The Jackson Song"
Margaret Ross – harp on "The Jackson Song"
Robin Nash – backing vocals on "Going Under"
Sammy Figueroa – percussion

PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER LYRICS

                   

I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools
upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste in the dust
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
                   

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

The power to dream, to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
Listen
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth's revolution
we have the power

People have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

The power to dream, to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
we have the power
People have the power
we have the power...

Flac Size: 324 MB

CD6.  PATTI SMITH - GONE AGAIN 1996

                 

Gone Again is the sixth studio album by Patti Smith, released June 18, 1996, on Arista Records. The

production of the record was preceded by the deaths of many of Smith's close friends and peers, including her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith, her brother Todd, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Sohl and Kurt Cobain, with whom Smith had sympathized. In addition to this, Gone Again also features the last studio performance of Jeff Buckley, released before his death less than a year later. In May 1999 Rolling Stone magazine placed the album on its list of "The Essential Recordings of the '90s".

                    

FRED  SONIC  SMITH

Patti Smith – Gone Again
Label: Arista – 74321 38474 2, BMG – 74321 38474 2
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Repress
Country: Europe
Released: 1996    
Genre: Rock
Style: Classic Rock

TRAXS    

               

  
01. Patti Smith – Gone Again    3:16
02. Patti Smith – Beneath The Southern Cross    4:35
03. Patti Smith – About A Boy    8:15
04. Patti Smith – My Madrigal    5:09
05. Patti Smith – Summer Cannibals    4:10
06. Patti Smith – Dead To The World    4:17
07. Patti Smith – Wing    4:53
08. Patti Smith – Ravens    3:56
09. Patti Smith – Wicked Messenger    3:49
10. Patti Smith – Fireflies    9:33
11. Patti Smith – Farewell Reel    3:54

LINE - UP

              

Patti Smith – vocals, guitar
Lenny Kaye – guitar, production
Luis Resto – keyboards
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Tony Shanahan – bass

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Oliver Ray – guitar, whistle, photography, feedback
Tom Verlaine – guitar
John Cale – organ
Kimberly Smith – mandolin
Hearn Gadbois – percussion
Jane Scarpantoni – cello
Jeff Buckley – vocals
Brian Sperber – guitar, engineer
Cesar Diaz – guitar

Flac Size: 339 MB

CD7.  PATTI SMITH - PEACE AND NOISE 1997

                  

Peace and Noise is the seventh studio album by Patti Smith, released on September 30, 1997, by Arista

Records. Peace and Noise received generally favorable reviews from critics, ranking No. 29 in The Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop poll. Uncut magazine ranked the album 21st in its list of the top 25 albums of 1997. The single "1959" was nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards.

                   

Patti Smith – Peace And Noise
Label: Arista – 07822 18986 2
Format: CD, Album, Slipcase
Country: Europe
Released: 1997
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock

TRAXS        

              

01. Patti Smith – Waiting Underground    5:20
02. Patti Smith – Whirl Away    5:01
03. Patti Smith – 1959    3:58
04. Patti Smith – Spell    3:17
05. Patti Smith – Don't Say Nothing    5:52
06. Patti Smith – Dead City    4:15
07. Patti Smith – Blue Poles    5:19
08. Patti Smith – Death Singing    3:44
09. Patti Smith – Memento Mori    10:34
10. Patti Smith – Last Call    5:09

LINE - UP

Patti Smith – vocals; clarinet on "Spell"
Lenny Kaye – electric and acoustic guitars; bass on "Waiting Underground", pedal steel guitar on "Blue Poles"
Oliver Ray – electric and acoustic guitars, photography; national duolian on "Last Call"
Tony Shanahan – bass; piano on "Waiting Underground", drums on "Last Call"
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums; organ on "Don't Say Nothing", harmonica on "Blue Poles", bass on "Last Call"

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Mark Burdett – art direction
Michael Stipe – backing vocals on "Last Call"[13]
Roy Cicala – engineering, mixing

Flac Size: 440 MB

CD8.  PATTI SMITH - GUNG HO 2000    

             

Gung Ho was released on March 21, 2000, by Arista Records. The title refers to a Chinese phrase

meaning "work together" adopted by the US Marines during World War II as a morale-building slogan. It is the first Patti Smith album to not include her on the cover (it shows, instead, a picture of her father, Grant Smith). The song "New Party" was used as the official song for the 2000 Ralph Nader's presidential campaign. Smith wrote the song "Grateful" in tribute to Jerry Garcia on August 9, 1995, the day of his death.
               

Patti Smith – Gung Ho
Label: Arista – 07822-14618-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Mar 21, 2000
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, New Wave, Punk    

TRAXS

                  

01. Patti Smith – One Voice    4:08
02. Patti Smith – Lo And Beholden    4:45
03. Patti Smith – Boy Cried Wolf    4:54
04. Patti Smith – Persuasion    4:36
05. Patti Smith – Gone Pie    4:06
06. Patti Smith – China Bird    4:08
07. Patti Smith – Glitter In Their Eyes    3:00
08. Patti Smith – Strange Messengers    8:06
09. Patti Smith – Grateful    4:34
10. Patti Smith – Upright Come    3:00
11. Patti Smith – New Party    4:33
12. Patti Smith – Libbie's Song    3:28
13. Patti Smith – Gung Ho    11:45

LINE - UP

Patti Smith – vocals, guitar, photography
Lenny Kaye – guitar
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Oliver Ray – guitar
Tony Shanahan – bass, keyboards

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Tom Verlaine – guitar solo, "Glitter in Their Eyes"
Grant Hart – piano, Farfisa, "Persuasion"
Jackson Smith – guitar solo, "Persuasion"
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins – violin, "Libbie's Song"
Kimberly Smith – mandolin, "Libbie's Song"
Skaila Kanga – harp, "Lo and Beholden"

Flac Size: 443 MB
09. PATTI SMITH - BANGA 2012

              

Banga is the eleventh studio album by American rock musician Patti Smith, released on June 1, 2012

on Columbia Records. Recorded throughout 2011 at New York's Electric Lady Studios and Hoboken's Hobo Recorders, Banga was produced by Smith, Tony Shanahan, Jay Dee Daugherty and collaborator Lenny Kaye. The album includes a number of guest musicians including Tom Verlaine of Television, Italian band Casa del Vento, Jack Petruzzelli and Smith's own children, Jackson and Jesse Paris.
              

Patti Smith – Banga
Label: Columbia – 88725 41106 2
Format: CD, Album, Special Edition
Country: Europe
Released: Jun 5, 2012
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock

TRAXS

                 

01. Patti Smith - Amerigo   4:36
02. Patti Smith - April Fool   3:47
03. Patti Smith - Fuji-San   4:13
04. Patti Smith - This Is The Girl   3:49
05. Patti Smith - Banga   2:51
06. Patti Smith - Maria   5:05
07. Patti Smith - Mosaic   4:13
08. Patti Smith - Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)   4:50
09. Patti Smith - Nine   5:03
10. Patti Smith - Seneca   5:40
11. Patti Smith - Constantine's Dream   10:20
12. Patti Smith - After The Gold Rush   4:23
        

EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK

    
13. Patti Smith - Just Kids   4:28

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Patti Smith – vocals, producer
Lenny Kaye – guitars, backing vocals (12), producer
Tony Shanahan – bass, keyboards, backing vocals (12), producer
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, percussion, mandocello (7), backing vocals (12), producer

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Tom Verlaine – guitar (2, 9)
Jack Petruzzelli – guitar (1, 3-5, 7) Hammond organ (9)
Jackson Smith – guitar (2, 4, 6, 8, 12)
Jesse Smith – piano (8, 12)
Johnny Depp – guitar, drums (5)
Louie Appel – drums (1, 6)
Rob Morsberger – piano (6)
Maxim Moston – violin (1, 6)
Entcho Todorov – violin (1, 6)
Hiroko Taguchi – viola (1, 6)
Dave Eggar – cello (1, 6)

Flac Size: 365 MB