Biography

Punk rock's poet laureate, Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. Unconventional and challenging, Smith's music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan's heyday. If that hybrid remained uncommercial for much of her career, it wasn't a statement against accessibility so much as the simple fact that Smith followed her own muse wherever it took her -- from structured rock songs to free-form experimentalism, or even completely out of music at times. In the process, she obliterated expectations of what was possible for women in rock, and stretched the boundaries of how artists of any gender could express themselves. ~ Steve Huey

Top Tracks

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• 1959

• Are You Experienced?

• As The Night Goes By

• Ask The Angels

• Because The Night

• Beneath The Southern Cross

• Boy Cried Wolf

• Changing Of The Guards

• Dancing Barefoot

• Dead To The World

• Don't Say Nothing

• Dream Of Life

• Gandhi

• Glitter In Their Eyes

• Gloria

• Gloria: In Excelsis Deo/gloria

• Gone Again

• Gung Ho

• Land: Horses/land Of A Thousand Dances/la Mer (de)

• My Blakean Year

• My Generation

• One Voice

• People Have The Power

• Piss Factory (track)

• Pissing In A River

• Privilege (set Me Free)

• Radio Baghdad

• Radio Ethiopia

• Redondo Beach

• Rock N Roll Nigger

• Smells Like Teen Spirit

• So You Want To Be (a Rock 'n' Roll Star)

• Spell

• Stride Of The Mind

• Summer Cannibals

• Till Victory

• Waiting Underground

• Wave

• Wicked Messenger

Discography

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• Twelve

  Columbia

  2007

• Trampin'

  Columbia

  2004

• Gung Ho

  Arista

  2000

• Peace and Noise

  Sony BMG / BMG

  1997

• Gone Again

  Arista

  1996