Patti SmithBest Patti Smith Albums Ranked
7.9
Avg Score
28
Opinions
11
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 28 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Patti Smith's catalog across 11 albums from 28 opinions, with an overall average of 7.9/10. The top-rated Patti Smith album is Horses (1975) with a 8.5/10 average from 7 ratings, followed by Dream of Life and Peace and Noise. The discography on Wavelength spans 1975 to 2012. Gloria ranks as the highest-rated Patti Smith song on Wavelength with a 10.0/10 average.
Horses
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Patti Smith’s unparalleled debut, an album whose raw power and incalculable legacy catalyzed a new cultural order in music.”
Horses (Legacy Edition)
“New York poet and singer's proto-punk classic is reissued with a live track-by-track recital of the LP, recorded this past June, tacked on as a bonus.”
Gung Ho
“Patti Smith has never stopped being reckless. At a time when most songwriters can’t see beyond their neighborhoods or above their belts, the fifty-three-year-old Smith still insists that rock is a gateway to revelation. She doesn’t flinch from excess or outsize emotions; she makes known her desire, her fury, her exaltation, her grief. Drawn to […]”
Horses
“Patti Smith revisits – and reinvigorates – her classic debut on a powerful new live recording”
Outside Society (Remastered)
“This best-of compilation cleaves Patti Smith’s career into two halves: nine songs from her 1970s years as a firebrand-New-York-City-poet-turned-punk-rock-high-priestess, nine from her post-1988 comeback. A perfect primer for those who’ve discovered her through her recent National Book Award-winning memoir, it flows better than 2002’s double-disc anthology, Land. It also does a better job contextualizing her […]”
Land (1975-2002)
“This two-record set distills Patti Smith’s rock & roll life into seventeen classic tracks, fourteen studio and live rarities and two basic truths: There is no revolution without toil, and no euphoria without communion. "Piss Factory," which opens Disc Two and is actually from 1974, was her first great ode to joy, a flat-out declaration […]”
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