Patti Smith Group – Radio Ethiopia
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180-gram vinyl
Limited time album download included
The second album from the punk poet released in 1976.
"Smith's second album, Radio Ethiopia (1976), is very much a '70s album. She surprised many, and disappointed some of her punkier following, by turning to producer Jack Douglas and creating a guitar-powered hard-rock record, albeit one with idiosyncratic elements. Douglas had engineered John Lennon's Imagine (1973) and the New York Dolls' eponymous album of the same year, then produced a series of Aerosmith albums, including Toys in the Attic (1975) and Rocks (1976). (He would go on to produce several Cheap Trick albums, Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy and more Aerosmith.)
"Crediting the album to the Patti Smith Group is not accidental. Her vocals, including her yelps and wails, are treated as one among equals in the final mix, rather than as the dominant element that all the other musicians must support." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:Artist: Patti Smith GroupLabel: Arista, Legacy, Sony MusicFormat: LPUnits: 1Country: USGenre: Pop & RockA1 Ask The Angels
A2 Ain'T It Strange
A3 Poppies
A4 Pissing In A River
B1 Pumping (My Heart)
B2 Distant Fingers
B3 Radio Ethiopia
B4 Abyssinia