Patti Smith Group - Wave

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Jun 27, 2016 Sold Date

Aug 24, 2015 Start Date

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Article name: Wave
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: MUSIC ON VINYL Number of tracks: 9

Tracklist LP - 1

Smith, Patti - Frederick Smith, Patti - Dancing Barefoot Smith, Patti - So You Want To Be Smith, Patti - Hymn Smith, Patti - Revenge Smith, Patti - Citizen Ship Smith, Patti - Seven Ways Of Going Smith, Patti - Broken Flag Smith, Patti - Wave

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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, the overall mediocre quality of the material makes this the slightest of Smith's efforts. ~ William Ruhlmann

William Ruhlmann