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Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia

Patti Smith
Radio Ethiopia

On her second album, Patti Smith lays back, refusing to assert herself as she did on last year's Horses. The key is in the billing: on Radio Ethiopia, her group dominates. But while Smith can be an inventive, sometimes inspired writer and performer, her band is basically just another loud punk-rock gang of primitives, riff-based and redundant. The rhythm is disjointed, the guitar chording trite and elementary. Even at best ("Distant Fingers," for instance), the Patti Smith Group isn't much more than a distant evocation of psychedelic amateurs like Clear Light.

Smith seems to lack the direction necessary to live up to her own best ideas—the song-poem structure of the
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first album wasn't completely effective, but here there's no structure at all. Even her lyric writing, the most captivating and polished part of her work, seems depersonalized—there's nothing as moving as "Redondo Beach" or "Kimberly" on this album. And if there were, one would hardly be able to hear it in Jack Douglas' overpowering mix.

Smith obviously would like to be just another rock singer, with a band that could reach a broad, tough teenage audience. Ceding control to a band that lacks her best qualities and encourages her worst ("Pissing in a River" is only vulgar, without the transcendent quality of the earlier "Piss Factory") is hardly the way to go about it.

But the most disturbing image on Radio Ethiopia is the picture on the liner notes of Smith gazing reverently at Harry Crosby's opium pipe: the false artist worshiped by the real. (RS 230)

DAVE MARSH

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Artist	Title	Condition	Format	Price USD [Change]	Seller	Location
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia Arista Records 8 Track Lp Of The 1976 Album Pressed 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl. Sealed. Usa		LP	$15.45	Jack Wolak's	USA
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia 06498283 Arista, 76	nm	LP	$17.94	Haggle Vinyl	UK
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia * Tear On Cover/ Mark On Cover/ With Insert. Us, Arista, Al4097, 76	EX VG+	LP	$19.00	Timewarp	Austral
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia Lp 33rpm france-1976- Ask The Angels/ain't It Strange/poppies/pissing In A River/ Pumping (m...	NM/NM	LP	$23.74	Compagnie	France
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia White Label Promo W.insert. Artista Al 4097. Deletion Hole In Cover And Wear On Seams. Usa	VG+/EX	LP	$23.99	Vicious Slot	Austral
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia Us Punk/hardcore (lps) Arista 201117 And Insert Special Order	VG+/EX	Any/All	$13.05	Sounds Trave	UK
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia Patti Smith Group Radio Ethiopia (2007 Japanese Exclusive Limited Edition 9-track Jap, Bmg Japan...	New/Mint	Sticker	$33.01	eil / esprit	UK
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia - Lp Tracks Are Ask The Angels/ain't It Strange/poppies/pising In A River/pumping My Heart/distant Fin...	EX/EX	LP	$19.15	Ear of the	UK
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia -jap Card- 1 ! ! Not In Stock ! ! Item Is Not Ready To Ship Within The Usual 1 Days. Please Allow Up To... Special Order	NEW	CD	$90.57	Cdking24	Spain
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia -ltd- 1 ! ! Not In Stock ! ! Item Is Not Ready To Ship Within The Usual 1 Days. Please Allow Up To... Special Order	NEW	CD	$75.62	Cdking24	Spain
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia 7 Tracks Cassette, Smith, Patti: Radio Ethiopia 7 Tracks, Arista 8379/stock/ps/'76... Ask The Angels/popp...		Cassette	$10.50	Music Obsess	USA
Smith, patti	Radio Ethiopia.. 1 07822 188252 !! ! In Stock !!! Item Is Ready To Ship Within The Usual 9 Days. Eu, Arist, 12-5	NEW	CD	$17.53	Cdking24	Spain
Smith, patti	Radio Ethopia Arista, -98283(it)	VG+ VG+	LP	$8.06	A+B Records	Germany
Smith, patti	Radio Etiopia Germany, Arista, 201117, 1976	EX/EX	LP	$4.65	Some Records	Portuga
Smith, patti (group)	Radio Ethiopia Usa, Arista 4097, 1976, Wlp, Promo Pun	EX-	LP	$56.70	Vinylshop	UK
Smith, patti (patti Smith Group)	Radio Ethiopia Usually Shipped After 2 Business Days. Number Of Media (discs, Tapes, Records…): 1. Usa, Sbme Spe... Special Order	NEW/NEU! (	CD	$12.06	Total Recall	Germany
Smith, patti (patti Smith Group)	Radio Ethiopia In Stock. Shipped Within 24 Hours. Confirmation Email After Shipping. Number Of Media (discs, Tap...	used/gebra	LP	$7.31	Total Recall	Germany
Smith, patti : Group	Radio Ethiopia * Ring Wear On Cover/ Tear On Cover/ Deletion Cut/ With Insert Us, Arista, Al4097, 76	VG+ VG+	LP	$17.00	Timewarp	Austral
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia 4988017671962 we Sell Only Brand New And Factory Sealed Merchandise. Disc Xpress Carries Over 50... Special Order	New	CD	$38.88	Disc Xpress	USA
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia Cd. Release Date: 07/21/2009. Import, Pid, 4988017671962, 07/21/2009	NEW	CD	$43.74	SilverDisc	USA
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia Japanese Only Paper Sleeve Pressing Features The 1996 Remastering. Sony. 2009. Japan, Sony, 2009 Special Order	New	CD	$45.49	CD Euroxpres	USA
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia Japanese Only Paper Sleeve Pressing Features The 1996 Remastering. Sony. 2009.	NEW	CD	$48.87	GrooveNet	USA
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia Japanese Only Paper Sleeve Pressing Features The 1996 Remastering. Sony. 2009.	New	CD	$52.01	CDQuest	USA
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia 1976 Original Press, Vinyl Has Some Scuffing, Partial Sticker On Front Cover Arista, Al 4097	VG	LP	$5.50	Let It Be	USA
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia 1976 Release Arista, Al4097	LP: NM, CV	LP	$7.95	Recordsonthe	USA

Artist	Title	Condition	Format	Price USD [Change]	Seller	Location
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia Cover Nm. White Label Promo.coh Top Rt. 8 Cuts. Arista, 4097, 1976	M	LP	$9.72	reporecords	USA
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia Germany, Arista, 06298283, 1976	Ex/ex	LP	$11.72	WorldClass R	Netherl
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia Arista	vg+/vg++	LP	$12.65	stevens	USA
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethiopia Arista	NM	LP	$17.59	wax records	Greece
Smith, patti Group	Radio Ethopia Some Jacket Wear Canada, Arista, Amp-1-7306	NM	LP	$10.80	Airpower	Canada

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