PATTI SMITH EASTER ORIG 1978 ARISTA PUNK/NEW WAVE LP AUTOGRAPHED TONGUE OF LOVE
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PATTI SMITH~EASTER~ORIG 1978 ARISTA PUNK/NEW WAVE LP~AUTOGRAPHED~TONGUE OF LOVE! PATTI SMITH~EASTER~ORIG 1978 ARISTA PUNK/NEW WAVE LP~AUTOGRAPHED~TONGUE OF LOVE!
Patti Smith Group ?– Easter
Arista ?– AB 4171
RARE ORIGINAL 1978 PRESSING!
AUTOGRAPHED BY PATTI ON THE FRONT - "TONGUE OF LOVE" PLUS HER SIGNATURE!
COVER IS IN VG++ CONDITION WITH LIGHT WEAR OVERALL AND MODERATE WEAR TO THE EDGES.
VINYL IS IN VG++/EX CONDITION.
INCLUDES THE 4 PAGE LYRIC INSERT.
Patti Smith came back from the year-and-a-half break caused by her fall from a stage in January 1977 without having resolved the art-versus-commerce argument that had marred her second album, Radio Ethiopia. In fact, that argument was in some ways the theme of her third. Easter, produced by Bruce Springsteen associate Jimmy Iovine, was Smith's most commercial-sounding effort yet and, due to the inclusion of Springsteen's "Because the Night" (with Smith's revised lyrics), a Top Ten hit, it became her biggest seller, staying in the charts more than five months and getting into the Top 20 LPs. But Smith hadn't so much sold out as she had learned to use her poetic gifts within an album rock context. Certainly, a song that proclaimed, "Love is an angel disguised as lust/Here in our bed until the morning comes," was pushing the limits of pop radio, and on "Babelogue," Smith returned to her days of declaiming poetry on New York's Lower East Side. That rant (significantly ending, "I have not sold my soul to God") led into the provocative "Rock n Roll Nigger," a charged rocker with a chorus that went, "Outside of society/Is where I want to be." Smith made the theme from the '60s British rock movie Privilege her own and even got into the U.K. charts with it. And on songs like "25th Floor," Iovine, Smith, and her group were able to accommodate both the urge to rock out and the need to expound. So, Easter turned out to be the best compromise Smith achieved between her artistic and commercial aspirations.
Tracklist
A1 Till Victory 2:45
A2 Space Monkey 4:04
A3 Because The Night 3:32
A4 Ghost Dance 4:40
A5 Babelogue 1:25
A6 Rock N Roll Nigger 3:13
B1 Privilege (Set Me Free) 3:27
B2 We Three 4:19
B3 25th Floor 4:01
B4 High On Rebellion 2:20
B5 Easter 5:58
Credits
Design [Insert] – Maude Gilman
Drums, Percussion – Jay Dee Daugherty
Engineer – Charlie Conrad, Gray Russell, Joe Intile*, Thom Panunzio
Guitar [Les Paul], Bass, Vocals – Ivan Kral
Guitar [Stratocaster], Bass, Vocals – Lenny Kaye
Keyboards, Synthesizer – Bruce Brody
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Mixed By – Shelly Yakus
Other [Head Of The Crew] – Todd Smith
Other [Pclp] – Andi Ostrowe
Photography By – Cindy Black, John Roberts (7), Mus. Rimbaud, Robert Mapplethorpe
Photography By [Cover] – Lynn Goldsmith
Producer, Mixed By – Jimmy Iovine
Text By – Patti Smith
Vocals, Guitar [Duo-Sonic] – Patti Smith
Written-By – Kral* (tracks: A2, B3), Daugherty* (tracks: B5), Kaye* (tracks: A1, A4, A6), Smith* (tracks: A1 to A6, B2 to B4)
Recorded At The Record Plant, NYC with engineers Thom Panunzio and Gray Russell & The House Of Music, West Orange, NJ with engineers Charlie Conrad and Joe Intile.
Mastered At Sterling Sound.
Includes folded insert with lyrics, credits and photos.
