Patti Smith Group "Wave" LP (1979)

Details: Patti Smith Group (Hub-Servall Pressing) "Wave" LP released on Arista Records, 1979. Record, fold-out poster, and cover. Great condition record media! Cover opening has wear along opening, light corner/edge wear on cover (great condition find).

Description: "Read beginning-to-end and end-to-beginning, Wave is the microcosm of the artist’s journey back to punk from pop, and into pop from punk. That journey operates, fluidly, on both planes. After all, Smith does not, and never will exist, classifiable. And like Smith, her fourth LP cannot be easily classified as just another “run-of-the-mill” pop album. Rather, it remains a rich, multicolored soundscape of contemplation and catharsis that upholds unexpected radio appeal at the same time—an almost inconceivable feat in a vehemently categorical industry.

Patti Smith was not simply riding the Wave of success. Wave, as it would be, evaded Easter‘s fluky, chart-climbing fate for brasher, fuller-realized experimentation unlike anything her band had done before: a shameless, self-reflexive dabble in a radically-mainstream sound." - PopMatters, Matt McKinzie

Grade: NM (Record) VG+ (Cover)

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A1. Frederick
A2. Dancing Barefoot
A3. So You Want To Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star)
A4. Hymn
A5. Revenge

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

B1. Citizen Ship
B2. Seven Ways of Going
B3. Broken Flag
B4. Wave