Peace and Noise

Albums I listen for the first time in 2017 (520 items)
list by mirinbuddy

100 Best Albums Of 90's (With Favourite Tracks) (100 items)
list by kayipotoban

With 1996's Gone Again, Patti Smith reclaimed and returned to her throne as the only legitimate poet-rocker out there. Pretenders to the throne be damned! Smith gave you an album's worth which told her personal journey through death, grief and healing from the decade or so that lasted between Dream of Life and Gone, over a succession of alternative-folk songs that sounded as far-reaching and grand... read more

Description: Last year's bittersweet return Almost Gone memorialized lost friends and family in profound fashion. The deaths of beat luminaries Ginsberg and Burroughs color parts of her seventh album, but overall Smith is back on the barricades and rocking alongside her Lenny Kaye-led band. "1959," a plea for Tibet, is the catchiest, timeliest song here, and, like "Don't Say Nothing," it merits at least a dash of commercial airplay. Ain't going to happen, of course, but Smith's wisdom, apocalyptic imagery and artful invention (viz. "Memento Mori") is manna to devotees. --Jeff Bateman Last year's bittersweet return Almost Gone memorialized lost friends and family in profound fashion. The deaths of beat luminaries Ginsberg and Burroughs color parts of her seventh album, but overall Smith is back on the barricades and rocking alongside her Lenny Kaye-led band. "1959," a plea for Tibet, is the catchiest, timeliest song here, and, like "Don't Say Nothing," it merits at least a dash of commercial airplay. Ain't going to happen, of course, but Smith's wisdom, apocalyptic imagery and artful invention (viz. "Memento Mori") is manna to devotees. --Jeff Bateman ... (more) (less)