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Gung Ho

Patti Smith | Format: Audio CD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Patti Smith is considered a poet whose energy and vision found its voice in the most powerful medium of our culture, music. As one of the early pioneers of New York City’s dynamic punk scene, she has been creating her unique blend of poetic rock and roll for over 35 years. She was born in Chicago in 1946, the eldest of four siblings and was raised in South Jersey. From an early age, she ... Read more in Amazon's Patti Smith Store

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  • Audio CD (26 April 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: RCA
  • ASIN: B00004RCYB
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 126,113 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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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 streetwise New Yorker turned Midwestern suburbanite rails at crackheads ("That's how you repay your ancestors?"). Working with producer Gil Norton (Foo Fighters,Pixies) and fronting a quartet built around long time lieutenants Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, Smith's music harks back to the commercial apex of New Wave; indeed, "Gone Pie" sounds like the singer sitting in with Blondie. In fact, Gung Ho as a whole feels like the album the high-priestess of punk didn't make in the early 1980s, a time when she was laying low and a number of artists inspired by her visionary early works were racking up MTV and modern-rock airtime. Gung Ho is somewhat muddled in execution, but then again, so are the times. --Steven Stolder

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Patti Smith's Finest 16 May 2001
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
This must be one of the finest recordings Smith has ever produced. Just as Joe Strummer, grew up and started to get real with X-Ray and The Rock-Art Style, so Smith has produced a CD of quality and vision. You could take any of these songs individually, and they would all be 'talked-aout classics'. The breadth of the woman is amazing. Listen to Libby's Song - a forgotten Woody Guthrie classic? - No Smith. Strange Messengers - REM, the Doors? No, again a Smith original.

This is astounding CD.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars a nice strong record 24 April 2000
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
i am really in love with this record, and i'm only 16! I feel though that if it wasn't for the deep lyics i might not be as drawn to it as i am. I find that the production doesn't evolve through out this album, and at times can become quite bland. But as i said, its the lyrics that create the emotion. When listening to the title track (an 11 minute epic), you find yourself emersed in the vietnam drentched themes. Interesing album, with the odd catchy tunes, try it for yourself
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4.0 out of 5 stars a nice strong record 24 April 2000
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Format:Audio CD
i am really in love with this record... I feel though that if it wasn't for the deep lyics i might not be as drawn to it as i am. I find that the production doesn't evolve through out this album, and at times can become wuite bland. But as i said, its the lyrics that create the emotion. When listening to the title track (an 11 minute epic), you find yourself emersed in the vietnam drentched themes. Interesing album, with the odd catchy tunes, try it for yourself
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5.0 out of 5 stars A CD to be enjoyed 24 May 2011
By Mr. M. Parnell
Format:Audio CD
Gil Norton's production of this album is excellent. It's well balanced and enables the listener to be taken on an inner journey where their spirit can dance and touch that which we normally cannot touch within ourselfs. Patti's voices her lyrics in her usual style which draws us into something which we instictively know is important. In Upright Come we are invited to come and beat on our drum. China Bird, which quickly became my favourate, is a personal prayer that truth will be revealed and invites us to spread our wings and fly towards the destiny that calls us onward. The guitar work enables one to do just that. Meaningful as the lyrics may be the album can be enjoyed without trying to find the tuths in them. If you want to forget or put aside the problems of the day then put on this album and simply enjoy
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars One great moment 21 April 2003
By Pieter Uys HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
Although this album has more musical and melodic variety than 1997’s Peace And Noise, it's not on a par with her best 70s work or later masterpieces like Gone Again. The one brilliant moment is the bluegrass number, Libbie's Song, a very moving and personal ode to General Custer after his death at Little Big Horn, through the words of his widow: "If it wasn't for your golden hair/would not be alone/I longed for you, I longed to die/The pillows bare by my side/Yet I shall abide." It’s worth the price of the album hearing Patti go bluegrass on such a lovely composition. Gone Pie is passable but nothing special. New Party sort of gets there but not quite. There is none of the passion that characterizes her best work. A lot of the songs are plodding, uninspired affairs, lacking melody and direction. There's nothing anthemic about any of them and very few tunes that stick in the mind afterwards. Then again, it’s not a bad album by any other standards than Patti Smith’s own. Get it just for Libbie’s Song which is a timeless masterpiece.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Divine, without equal 16 July 2000
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Gung ho, so apropos, Patt's still the queen of rock She's no fading star, she's come too far Others should kowtow and stop. The words and the music give me delight This one's as good as her best. My words do her no justice, she's miles ahead of all the rest Of the other artists both young and old Millions of copies should be sold!
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