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Gung Ho - Patti Smith

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Manufacturer : Arista
Release date : 21 March 2000
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0078221461825
UPC : 078221461825

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Patti Smith's fourth album since her 1988 comeback vehicle Dream of Life finds the plugged-in poetess looking outward after the extended period of introspection that followed the death of her husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith. The scathing eight-minute-plus "Strange Messengers" illustrates Smith's renewed interest in the world around her, as the s ... (more)


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Track listing

1. One Voice
2. Lo and Beholden
3. Boy Cried Wolf
4. Persuasion
5. Gone Pie
6. China Bird
7. Glitter In Their Eyes
8. Strange Messengers
9. Grateful
10. Upright Come
11. New Party
12. Libbie's Song
13. Gung Ho

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Gung Ho

Posted : 3 weeks, 6 days ago at Oct 31 23:34
Gung Ho has Patti Smith imaging herself into several different political situations: in Vietnam, speaking for the stolen Africans in the Middle Passage, as Salome ordering the head of John the Baptist. What she manages to do with these situations is really something special, and a great testament to her talents as a poet and artist. She hasn’t been this full of piss-and-vinegar since Radio Ethiopia, but she’s still managing to sound like the goddess of alternative rock that she is. While this isn’t as crazy as the folk-punk hybrid Gone Again, this is more like Easter – full of big and scary ideas for a mainstream album, but given enough of a polish to give the illusion of being easily accessible. The lone single, “Glitter in Their Eyes,” is an anti-materialism rant, and possibl...Read more