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Land (1975-2002) (CD)

By: Patti Smith (Artist)

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Patti Smith Artist Snapshot:

One of the earliest and most important influences on punk rock (not to mention on post-punk songwriters like PJ Harvey), Patti Smith mated French Symbolist poetry with rock & roll, creating a musical style to match. In the process, she further shattered rock's gender barrier. Her 1975 album, HORSES, is one of the most seminal, acclaimed rock records of all time. Ironically, her biggest hit came with a 1978 version of Bruce Springsteen's "Because the Night." Smith spent much of the '80s and '90s away from the music business, but re-entered the fray in earnest starting with 1996's lauded GONE AGAIN.

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DISC 1 for Land (1975-2002) (CD) Album By Patti Smith (Artist)
1   Dancing Barefoot
2   Babelogue
3   Rock 'N' Roll Nigger
4   Gloria
5   Pissing In A River
6   Free Money
7   People Have The Power
8   Because The Night
9   Frederick
10   Summer Cannibals
11   Ghost Dance
12   Ain't It Strange
13   1959
14   Beneath The Southern Cross
15   Glitter In Their Eyes
16   Paths That Cross
17   When Doves Cry - (previously unreleased)
 
DISC 2 for Land (1975-2002) (CD) Album By Patti Smith (Artist)
1   Piss Factory
2   Redondo Beach - (demo)
3   Distant Fingers - (demo)
4   25th Floor - (live)
5   Wander I Go - (previously unreleased)
6   Come Back Little Sheba
7   Dead City - (live)
8   Spell - (live)
9   Wing - (live)
10   Boy Cried Wolf - (live)
11   Birdland - (live)
12   Higher Learning
13   Notes To The Future - (live)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Distills Smith's rock & roll life into 17 classic tracks, 14 studio and live rarities and 2 basic truths: There is no revolution without toil, and no euphoria without communion..."
Spin (6/02, p.107) - "...Worth scoring for 'Piss Factory' alone. An incandescent 1974 B-side that sounds like a teenage Rickie Lee Jones dry-humping Bruce Springsteen in a closet..."
Entertainment Weekly (3/22/02, pp.110-1) - "...The rare numbers make this a retrospective to be reckoned with..." - Rating: A
Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.73) - Ranked #8 in Mojo's "Best Box Sets & Compilations of 2002"
Mojo (Publisher) (5/02, p.114) - "...A master of the 3-minute rush of emotion...her songbook, never before combed for hits, is ripe for the picking..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Patti Smith (vocals, clarinet); Jeff Buckley (vocals, acoustic guitar); Lenny Kaye (vocals, guitar); Tom Verlaine, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Ivan Kral, Oliver Ray (guitar); Richard Sohl (piano, keyboards); Bruce Brody (piano); John Cale (organ); Tony Shanahan (bass); Jay Dee Daugherty (drums); Rick Kierman (musical saw); Michael Stipe, Wade Raley, Andi Ostrowe (background vocals).

Producers include: John Cale, Jack Douglas, Jimmy Iovine, Todd Rundgren, Fred Smith.

Recorded between 1974 & 2002. Includes liner notes by Susan Sontag and Patti Smith.

The two-disc set LAND (1975-2002) is post-punk icon Patti Smith's own selection of her finest work from the first quarter-century of her career. The first disc, a best-of collection, is a non-chronological sampling of her key songs ("Dancing Barefoot," "Because the Night," and many more) and adds one new track, a surprisingly effective cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry" that sounds like an outtake from 1978's EASTER. (Confusingly, the track list doesn't include the "Land" medley from 1975's HORSES.) The second disc starts with Smith's incredibly rare 1974 DIY single "Piss Factory," but then runs through previously unheard demos (like a skeletal early version of "Redondo Beach" that sounds more like crazed calliope music than the reggae song it became) and revelatory live tracks. LAND (1975-2002) is a thoughtful, idiosyncratic compilation, but it's more for fans than newcomers, who are still best advised to get a copy of HORSES and move on from there.

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