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Patti Smith: Songs
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There is nothing tidy about Patti Smith. Her wiry hair is often tangled. She is called the "Godmother of punk," but her "punk" songs last much longer than the conventional three minutes, and have been known to involve digressions about William Blake. At the height of '70s nihilism, epitomized by the Sex Pistols ("I got no emotions for anybody else/ You better understand I'm in love with myself"), she remained a Rimbaudian troubadour devoted to the visionary tradition ("And I know soon that the sky will split/ And the planets will shift/ Balls of jade will drop.") Today, over lunch at a Midtown restaurant, she could be mistaken for a naif, speaking of art as a pursuit of the "good" and the "sacred." Except she knows perfectly well how she sounds. She is, she has said, an "unfashionably unreconstructed '60s radical."
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During a break between songs, Smith said EMP was perhaps "flawed" but ... inspired. She said it was up to the people of Seattle to prevent it from becoming a "jive tourist attraction" and make sure it instead became "someplace that's meaningful."
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The second set begins with Patti playing the clarinet. She plays it like she sings: violently and full passion. And she rallies us to action with her words and says “the only way things are going to change is if we unify as human beings to protect our children and our environment.” Then she sings “Peaceable Kingdom” — a beautiful song which serves to remind us that though she plays tough, she’s not afraid to let all of her tender parts show.
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