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Easter

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Easter
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Patti Smith
came back from the year-and-a-half break caused by her fall from a stage in January 1977 without having resolved the art-versus-commerce argument that had marred her second album,
Radio Ethiopia
. In fact, that argument was in some ways the theme of her third.
Easter
, produced by
Bruce Springsteen
associate
Jimmy Iovine
, was
Smith
's most commercial-sounding effort yet and, due to the inclusion of
Springsteen
's
"Because the Night"
(with
's revised lyrics), a Top Ten hit, it became her biggest seller, staying in the charts more than five months and getting into the Top 20 LPs. But
hadn't so much sold out as she had learned to use her poetic gifts within an
album rock
context. Certainly, a song that proclaimed, "Love is an angel disguised as lust/Here in our bed until the morning comes," was pushing the limits of
pop
radio, and on
"Babelogue,"
returned to her days of declaiming
poetry
on New York's Lower East Side. That rant (significantly ending, "I have not sold my soul to God") led into the provocative
"Rock n Roll Nigger,"
a charged rocker with a chorus that went, "Outside of society/Is where I want to be."
made the theme from the '60s British
rock
movie
Privilege
her own and even got into the U.K. charts with it. And on songs like
"25th Floor,"
Iovine
,
, and her group were able to accommodate both the urge to rock out and the need to expound. So,
turned out to be the best compromise
achieved between her artistic and commercial aspirations. ~ William Ruhlmann

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