Patti Smith

Background
"'Patti Smith is hailed as, like, the latest remarkable thing in America. I do think, and Jah Shamo says this LP is the best LP...better than the first Dylan album, better than the first Beatles album, better than the first Stones album, better than the first any album you can imagine. And I do think it is muck! Absolute, most extravagant muck I've heard in years. Let me read you a bit from the sleeve notes, you can interrupt me when you get fed up with it: 'compacted awareness, gems blackening (etc etc)'...I think it is muck.'" >WORK ONGOING
 * Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (1946- ) is an American new-wave artist christened "the godmother of punk" by the New York Times. Her musical style brings together three-chord punk derived from the Stooges and beat poetry in a Jack Kerouac format. The religious upbringing of her New Jersey youth left her with a distaste for organized religion that would find its most famous outpouring on the oft-quoted "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine."
 * Her 1974 single 'Hey Joe / Piss Factory' is described by allmusic.com as "the punk rock shot heard around the world", since the tracks had a spirit of daring that would fuel punk's anger in later years. This was cemented by the 1975 release of Horses, which had a brooding power and scope that inspired Siouxsie & The Banshees amongst others.
 * This LP did not find favour with Peel however, as this extract from a contemporary edition of Radio 1's Roundtable demonstrates:

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