PATTI SMITH - OUTSIDE SOCIETY (2LP)

Patti Smith Outside Society on 2LP

Punk rock’s poet laureate, Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. Ambitious, unconventional and challenging, Smith’s music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan’s heyday. Smith followed her own muse wherever it took her, from structured rock songs to freeform experimentalism. Her most avant-garde outings drew a sense of improvisation and interplay from free jazz, though they remained firmly rooted in noisy, primitive three chord rock & roll. She obliterated the expectations of what was possible for women in rock, and stretched the boundaries of how artists of any gender could express themselves.

The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee’s first career-spanning collection, Outside Society, is a new collection of 18 signature songs remastered from all ten of Smith’s studio albums. The chronologically arranged tracks move from her 1975 debut album, Horses (“Gloria,” “Free Money”), through her last release in 2007, Twelve (“Smells Like Teen Spirit”). Outside Society features brief recollections of each song, written by Patti, who personally supervised the song choices.

Patti Smith Outside Society Track Listing:

1.  Gloria
2.  Free Money
3.  Ain’t It Strange
4.  Pissing in a River
5.  Because the Night
6.  Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger
7.  Dancing Barefoot
8.  Frederick
9.  So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
10. People Have the Power
11. Up There Down There
12. Beneath the Southern Cross
13. Summer Cannibals
14. 1959
15. Glitter in Their Eyes
16. Lo and Beholden (Radio Edit)
17. Smells Like Teen Spirit
18. Trampin’