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    • "Gloria" Smith couldn't have introduced herself any more explicitly than with the opening line to "Gloria," the first track off her debut album: "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine."
    • "Because the Night" Jimmy Iovine, who produced 1978's Easter, has been widely noted for his keen ear. Bruce Springsteen had the bones of "Because the Night" started but apparently couldn't figure out how to piece the song together.
    • "Pissing in a River" From: Radio Ethiopia(1976) Any artist who lands a successful debut is faced with the difficult task of a follow-up. Smith met this challenge with an album that was visceral, chaotic and sometimes downright indecipherable.
    • "Smells Like Teen Spirit" "When Nirvana came out, I was really excited," Smith told Rolling Stone. "Not so much for myself – my time had passed for putting so much passion into music and pinning my faith on a band.
    • ‘Dancing Barefoot’
    • ‘Dream of Life’
    • ‘Peaceable Kingdom’
    • ‘Paths That Cross’
    • ‘Hey Joe/Piss Factory’
    • ‘Free Money’
    • ‘People Have The Power’
    • ‘Redondo Beach’
    • ‘Because The Night’ – Easter
    • ‘Gloria’

    ‘Dancing Barefoot’ is dedicated to Jeanne Hebuterne, a French artist and mistress of Amedeo Modigliani. Here, Smith’s lyricism shines through, and her mystical lyrics depict a love of Shakespearean calibre. It’s reported that Hebuterne was so devastated by the death of Modigliani that she ended her own life two days after he passed on. In our opini...

    By the eighties, the aggression of punk had largely been gobbled up by commercialism. Patti Smith may have been at the forefront of a movement that helped to bridge the gap for many angry adolescents, but she suffered similarly as rock ‘n’ roll struggled to make an impact in the new world of lycra and leg warmers. Following Wave, Smith had chosen t...

    Patti Smith has continued to find herself a searing career in the 21st century and, through an active array of talents, she has found herself still as vitally important as ever. In 2007, Smith released, Twelve, an album comprised entirely of covers, but a few years prior, she released the fantastic LP, Trampin. On that record landed quite possibly ...

    By and large, the 1980s were a rough place for those acts who had founded the punk movement in the late seventies. The bands had largely either burnt out, faded away or turned their attention to ascending the charts. All except Patti Smith, who, instead, turned her music inwards and delivered some of her most personal music. Dream of Life, her albu...

    This is perhaps one of Patti Smith’s greatest ever. Her first release has her covering the Jimi Hendrix original and pushing the track into a new light. However, the B-side ‘Piss Factory’ is something all on its own. Originally written as a poem, this represents her change over from simply being a poet to being a musician. This was the beginning of...

    There’s no doubt that Smith’s career’s biggest album so far has to be the seminal 1975 effort Horses. There are plenty of good songs on the record, and, in fact, we’d probably argue that the LP deserves to be listened to as one singular piece, as it was intended. But there’s a raw intensity to ‘Free Money’, making it one of the most memorable songs...

    Patti Smith has never been far away from politics. In fact, only recently, she labelled Donald Trump’s time as president of the United States as “a terrible atmosphere to live in,” the singer also widely supported Greta Thunberg’s climate action. It means that there is no surprise such a unifying song, composed of the mechanics that illuminate the ...

    1975’s Horseswas undoubtedly filled with some of the most visceral and volatile sounds the world had ever heard, but there was one song that managed to lay the foundations for the future and harken back to the past — ‘Redondo Beach’. The song is one of the most jovial on the album as it recalls the summers spent languishing in the ocean’s lapping w...

    We contemplated in great detail whether to include this song on this list, but what would it look like without perhaps her most famous song? Written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith, this song catapulted her from punk poet of New York to musical genius known to many; for this reason, it holds the ultimate place in this list. The song rose to 13...

    Smith’s debut album Horses, released in 1975, cannot be missed off the list—but picking a single track is beyond challenging. The song ‘Gloria’ with its opening line: “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine” has always stuck as one of the greatest opening lines of any song or album. Smith’s combination of the poem ‘Oath’ with the Van Morrison ...

    • ‘Gloria: In Excelsis Deo’ – ‘Horses’ – 1975. “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine.” That was the world’s cheeky introduction to Patti Smith’s music.
    • ‘People Have the Power’ – ‘Dream of Life’ – 1988. In today’s divisive political climate, few songs stand the test of time better than tunes like ‘People Have the Power.’
    • ‘Free Money’ – ‘Horses’ – 1975. Returning to ‘Horses,’ ‘Free Money’ is another must-have song on any curation of Patti Smith’s best work. Like many of the songs preceding it on this list, ‘Paths That Cross’ included, it’s very interpretable.
    • ‘Paths That Cross’ – ‘Dream of Life’ – 1988. ‘Paths That Cross’ is another song that highlights the softer, more poignant side of Smith’s songwriting.
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  4. On Dec. 30, Patti Smith turns 75 years old. In honor of this landmark birthday, we’ve compiled a playlist of 75 songs by the legendary artist - as well as by...

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