seems like /mu/ has always been on the side of Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground but not Patti Smith... why is that?
>>127992847two good songs and one of them is just a sprinsteen song and the other is just a todd rundgren song
>>127992847I used to jack off to her Easter album when I was younger and my mom banned me from the internet.
>>127992847I don't consume female music
Easter [Arista, 1978]As basic as ever in its instrumentation and rhythmic thrust, but grander, more martial. That's what she gets for starting an army and hanging out with Bruce Springsteen (not to mention lusting after Ronnie Spector), and she could have done a lot worse: the miracle is that most of these songs are rousing in the way they're meant to be. Meanwhile, for bullshit--would it be a Patti Smith album without bullshit?--there's the stuff about "niggers" and "transformation of waste," and as if to exemplify the latter there's a great song from Privilege, a movie I've always considered one of the worst ever. Guess I'll have to look at it again. A-
>>127992847SOVL
>>127992847I find most of her stuff unlistenable tbqh. The Springsteen song was good though.
Dream of Life [Arista, 1988]At first I took this for that most painful of embarrassments, a failed sellout. Was she unwilling to waste her hard-won politics on weirdos? Proving herself a fit mother by going AOR, only she hadn't heard any AOR in about five years? Sad, sad. But soon I was humming, then I was paying attention, and now I think of this as the latest Patti Smith record. If she doesn't sound as unhinged as last time, she probably isn't, but as matrons go she's still out there. Her prophetic rhetoric is biblical just like always, with a personal feel for the mother tongue I wish more metal Jeremiahs knew to envy. The music is a little old-fashioned and quite simple, controlled but not machined, and the guitars sing. Her Double Fantasy, suggests a Detroit Smith named RJ. Only we don't formalize our equality by doling out turns, adds a Detroit Smith named Fred Sonic. A-
>>127992847She’s a hack
>>127992847i want to fuck her
>>127992847she had surprisingly big titties
>>127992847I want to enjoy her music more than I ever actually did. Her lyrics are painfully stupid and her band is uninventive
Horses is a great album only because John Cale produced it. The other stuff is kind of mid.
>>127992847She is a top tier writer even now, but her music isn't consistent, though some of it is amazing. Comes off as a bit of a hack back in the day in an odd way, most of her shit is like freestyling until she finds something she can tap into. She just isn't really a musician, never really was, I think that's why people are confused or split on her. She's so nerdy about art it's endearing. True freethinker that gives no fucks and all the fucks at once. Humble too.
Her voice ain't great. She's got one vocal trick, that high pitched whine she uses as a cadence; and she uses it in all of her songs, so it gets old fast.Her best songs are all covers too. But I don't like the Springsteen song.>>127992920She's got a real pair hiding beneath all those loose clothes.
>>127992920You'd think she'd appreciate knowing you werent a faggot.
>>127992847She is great. Her first three albums are great
Pissing in the river
>>127992920What a based post.
>>127994301his """reviews""" are nonsensical
>>127992920I used to do that too. I also jacked off to the cover of The Slits - Cut. I still own both LPs that I beat off to all those years ago
>>127992847Dancing Barefoot is one of the most perfect songs of all time
>>127998308it's stock and uninspired
