Outside Society (Remastered)Patti Smith · 2011

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1Ain't It Strange 2Pissing In a River 39.4Because the Night 4Rock N Roll N****r 5Frederick 6So You Want to Be (A Rock 'N' Roll Star)7Up There Down There 8Beneath the Southern Cross 9Summer Cannibals 101959 11Glitter In Their Eyes 12Lo and Beholden (Radio Edit)13Smells Like Teen Spirit (Radio Edit)14Trampin'

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rollingstone

8.0

“This best-of compilation cleaves Patti Smith’s career into two halves: nine songs from her 1970s years as a firebrand-New-York-City-poet-turned-punk-rock-high-priestess, nine from her post-1988 comeback. A perfect primer for those who’ve discovered her through her recent National Book Award-winning memoir, it flows better than 2002’s double-disc anthology, Land. It also does a better job contextualizing her […]”

pitchfork

5.9

“In the wake of her National Book Award for the memoir Just Kids comes a single-disc compilation that attempts to encapsulate the pioneering punk's sprawling and uneven musical career. But the abridgement leaves us with a rock'n'roll throwback that's sturdy but not particularly flexible.”