Patti Smith Group

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	Easter Used - LP - AB 4171 1978 Black Label Original With Custom Insert. Mastered By Greg Calbi At Sterling Sound, The Dead Wax Is Inscribed "Michelangelo Was A Ni--er" (Side One) And "Zug Island" (Side Two) Appears Glossy, Unplayed. Rear Cover Has A Barcode Pasted Onto Top Right Corner. Light Corner Crease. “Patti Smith Came Back From The Year-And-A-Half Break Caused By Her Fall From A Stage In January 1977 Without Having Resolved The Art-Versus-Commerce Argument That Had Marred Her Second Album, Radio Ethiopia. In Fact, That Argument Was In Some Ways The Theme Of Her Third. Easter, Produced By Bruce Springsteen Associate Jimmy Iovine, Was Smith's Most Commercial-Sounding Effort Yet And, Due To The Inclusion Of Springsteen's "Because The Night" (With Smith's Revised Lyrics), A Top Ten Hit, It Became Her Biggest Seller, Staying In The Charts More Than Five Months And Getting Into The Top 20 LPs. But Smith Hadn't So Much Sold Out As She Had Learned To Use Her Poetic Gifts Within An Album Rock Context. Certainly, A Song That Proclaimed, "Love Is An Angel Disguised As Lust/Here In Our Bed Until The Morning Comes," Was Pushing The Limits Of Pop Radio, And On "Babelogue," Smith Returned To Her Days Of Declaiming Poetry On New York's Lower East Side. That Rant (Significantly Ending, "I Have Not Sold My Soul To God") Led Into The Provocative "Rock N Roll Nigger," A Charged Rocker With A Chorus That Went, "Outside Of Society/Is Where I Want To Be." Smith Made The Theme From The '60s British Rock Movie Privilege Her Own And Even Got Into The U.K. Charts With It. And On Songs Like "25th Floor," Iovine, Smith, And Her Group Were Able To Accommodate Both The Urge To Rock Out And The Need To Expound. So, Easter Turned Out To Be The Best Compromise Smith Achieved Between Her Artistic And Commercial Aspirations.” William Ruhlmann, AMG. more
	Easter Used - LP - AB4171 1978 Black Label Original. "Because The Night" Hype Sticker On The Shrink Wrap. “Patti Smith Came Back From The Year-And-A-Half Break Caused By Her Fall From A Stage In January 1977 Without Having Resolved The Art-Versus-Commerce Argument That Had Marred Her Second Album, Radio Ethiopia. In Fact, That Argument Was In Some Ways The Theme Of Her Third. Easter, Produced By Bruce Springsteen Associate Jimmy Iovine, Was Smith's Most Commercial-Sounding Effort Yet And, Due To The Inclusion Of Springsteen's "Because The Night" (With Smith's Revised Lyrics), A Top Ten Hit, It Became Her Biggest Seller, Staying In The Charts More Than Five Months And Getting Into The Top 20 LPs. But Smith Hadn't So Much Sold Out As She Had Learned To Use Her Poetic Gifts Within An Album Rock Context. Certainly, A Song That Proclaimed, "Love Is An Angel Disguised As Lust/Here In Our Bed Until The Morning Comes," Was Pushing The Limits Of Pop Radio, And On "Babelogue," Smith Returned To Her Days Of Declaiming Poetry On New York's Lower East Side. That Rant (Significantly Ending, "I Have Not Sold My Soul To God") Led Into The Provocative "Rock N Roll Nigger," A Charged Rocker With A Chorus That Went, "Outside Of Society/Is Where I Want To Be." Smith Made The Theme From The '60s British Rock Movie Privilege Her Own And Even Got Into The U.K. Charts With It. And On Songs Like "25th Floor," Iovine, Smith, And Her Group Were Able To Accommodate Both The Urge To Rock Out And The Need To Expound. So, Easter Turned Out To Be The Best Compromise Smith Achieved Between Her Artistic And Commercial Aspirations.” William Ruhlmann, AMG. more
	Easter Used - LP - AB4171 1978 Black Label Original With Custom Insert. Mastered By Greg Calbi At Sterling Sound, The Dead Wax Is Inscribed "Michelangelo Was A Ni--er" (Side One) And "Zug Island" (Side Two). “Patti Smith Came Back From The Year-And-A-Half Break Caused By Her Fall From A Stage In January 1977 Without Having Resolved The Art-Versus-Commerce Argument That Had Marred Her Second Album, Radio Ethiopia. In Fact, That Argument Was In Some Ways The Theme Of Her Third. Easter, Produced By Bruce Springsteen Associate Jimmy Iovine, Was Smith's Most Commercial-Sounding Effort Yet And, Due To The Inclusion Of Springsteen's "Because The Night" (With Smith's Revised Lyrics), A Top Ten Hit, It Became Her Biggest Seller, Staying In The Charts More Than Five Months And Getting Into The Top 20 LPs. But Smith Hadn't So Much Sold Out As She Had Learned To Use Her Poetic Gifts Within An Album Rock Context. Certainly, A Song That Proclaimed, "Love Is An Angel Disguised As Lust/Here In Our Bed Until The Morning Comes," Was Pushing The Limits Of Pop Radio, And On "Babelogue," Smith Returned To Her Days Of Declaiming Poetry On New York's Lower East Side. That Rant (Significantly Ending, "I Have Not Sold My Soul To God") Led Into The Provocative "Rock N Roll Nigger," A Charged Rocker With A Chorus That Went, "Outside Of Society/Is Where I Want To Be." Smith Made The Theme From The '60s British Rock Movie Privilege Her Own And Even Got Into The U.K. Charts With It. And On Songs Like "25th Floor," Iovine, Smith, And Her Group Were Able To Accommodate Both The Urge To Rock Out And The Need To Expound. So, Easter Turned Out To Be The Best Compromise Smith Achieved Between Her Artistic And Commercial Aspirations.” All Music Guide - William Ruhlmann more
	Radio Ethiopia New - LP - AL 4097 Sealed 1976 Vinyl Original. more
	Radio Ethiopia Used - LP - ALB6-8379 1979 US reissue, Terre Haute pressing on the light Arista labels. Ring wear/shelf scuffing to jacket. "After the success of Horses, Patti Smith had something to prove to reviewers and to the industry, and Radio Ethiopia aimed at both. Producer Jack Douglas gave "the Patti Smith Group," as it was now billed, a hard rock sound, notably on the side-opening "Ask the Angels" and "Pumping (My Heart)," songs that seemed aimed at album-oriented rock radio. But the title track was a ten-minute guitar extravaganza that pushed the group's deliberate primitivism closer to amateurish thrashing. Elsewhere, Smith repeated the reggae excursions and vocal overlaying that had paced Horses on "Ain't It Strange" and "Poppies," but these efforts were less effective than they had been the first time around, perhaps because they were less inspired, perhaps because they were more familiar. A schizophrenic album in which the many elements that had worked so well together on Horses now seemed jarringly incompatible, with Radio Ethiopia Smith and her band encountered the same development problem the punks would -- as they learned their craft and competence set in, they lost some of the unself-consciousness that had made their music so appealing." All Music Guide - William Ruhlmann. more
	Radio Ethiopia Used - LP - AL 4097 Beautiful 1976 Original, With Insert. Looks Unplayed. Shrink Wrap Intact. more
	Radio Ethiopia Used - LP - AL 4097 1976 Blue Label Original With Insert. Clean Cut Out Hole. Two Corner Dings, Hence Price. more
	Radio Ethiopia Used - LP - AL 4097 1976 Original With Insert. Mastered At Sterling. Appears Glossy, Unplayed. more
	Radio Ethiopia Used - LP - 18RS 8 1980 Japanese Pressing With Obi. Vinyl Appears Glossy. Moderate Edge Wear. more
	Set Free Used Import - ARIST 12197 1978 UK 45rpm Mini LP. Appears New, Unplayed. Tracks Are: "Privilege (Set Me Free)," From Easter SPART 1043; "Ask The Angels," From Radio Ethopia SPARTY 1001; "25th Floor" Recorded Live In Paris And "Babefield" Recorded Live In London. more
	Wave Used - LP - AB 4221 1979 US original Terre Haute pressing with original inner. EX copy overall. Vibrant, clean jacket with a cut corner. "The Patti Smith Group's most conventional album, Wave was given a bright pop/rock sound by producer Todd Rundgren. It was the last album Smith made before marrying and retiring from record-making for nine years, and it can be heard as a farewell to the music business, from "Frederick," the love song to her husband-to-be, Fred "Sonic" Smith, that leads it off, to the version of "So You Want to Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star)," among the most bitter accounts of fame on record. But Smith also achieves a sense of charm and sincerity on Wave that she hadn't even attempted on her earlier albums, even to the point of her imagined small-talk encounter with the late Pope John Paul I on the title track. Still, the overall mediocre quality of the material makes this the slightest of Smith's efforts." All Music Guide - William Ruhlmann. more