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Patti Smith Group - Teenage Perversity & Ships In The night (1976)

Track listing:
  1. Introduction 0:14
  2. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together 2:41
  3. Stage Talk 1:06
  4. When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game 2:56
  5. Stage Patter 1:23
  6. Birdland 6:02
  7. Stage Patter 0:29
  8. Redondo Beach 3:39
  9. Stage Patter 0:30
  10. Snowball 3:25
  11. Intro To Distant Fingers 1:08
  12. Distant Fingers 4:33
  13. Intro To Break It Up 1:25
  14. Break It Up 3:56
  15. Gloria 7:58
  16. Stage Patter 0:38
  17. Scheherazade 3:53
  18. Take This Women 3:41
  19. Ghost Dance 4:54
  20. A Poem - Babelfield 5:54
  21. Pissin' In A River 5:01
  22. 25th Floor 6:05

Notes

Patti Smith released some good albums, but any serious fan of hers will tell you that she performed most of her material better live. There are a number of fine Patti Smith bootlegs, but this one — taken from a January 1976 show at the Roxy in Los Angeles, with near-perfect fidelity — is both her best and her best-known. Besides incendiary versions of several songs from her first few LPs, it features covers of "Louie Louie," "My Generation" (with John Cale guesting), and The Velvet Underground's "We're Gonna Have a Good Time Together" and "Pale Blue Eyes," as well as entertaining between-song raps and even a brief cameo by Iggy Pop. It's no exaggeration to claim that this may be her best album, and one of the best '70s punk/new wave albums of all.