OK, I give up.
I’ve tried to be nice for decades now but Patti Smith SUCKS.
Here is her career: one great song, “Piss Factory”, one greatest album of all time contender Horses, another great song “Rock N Roll Nigger”, another great song with Bruce, “Because The Night”, excellent backing vocals on R.E.M.’s last perfect moment “E-Bow The Letter” and a deeply felt left field later career classic “About A Boy”. A Poem here and there. And that’s it.
And she has been shoving it down our throats for decades.
Fucking Sam Sheppard doesn’t make you a playwrite, having kids with Fred “Sonic” Smith doesn’t make you a a groupie and having Dylan tune your guitar doesn’t make William Burroughs.
Last night there was a terrible P.O.V. documentary on PBS “Dream Of Life” about Patti. An unwatchablly flaterring portrait of the artist as an artist. Around twenty minutes in I turned it off… Is this what we want to do with our heroes? Lie about em? Fuck this shit.
Mike: Horses is a great album, get it.hel: Try Morrissey's cover of "redondo Beach"
she fucked everything.I missed that phase of the Village by like 5 years… freakin parents. By the time I could read a map to get there, all the really obscure stuff was common.
I always thought Tom Verlaine totally stole her vocal style. Listen to that first Television album and he sounds like a male Patti Smith-She fucked him too, apparently. I know very little about her, but what Ive heard ive liked.
oh my god I thought it was Jack White, more coffee please. She sucks. She got her self entangled in the Village art scene and became their harry queen. Cant tolerate her for a second