Twenty-seven years: that's exactly how long it took for a double album in the form of a retrospective to revisit the magical moments of the fiery career of one of the rock's passionate figures. From 1975 to 1998, that is to say between the seminal and unsurpassed Horses and Peace And Noise influenced by the beat poet Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith recorded some essential and electrifying albums that ooze the New York asphalt. Marked by the imprint of Rimbaud and William S. Burroughs, by Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, by this mythology that Lester Bangs and Creem magazine reported on, she collaborated with all the legends that rock has to offer, from Lenny Kaye to Todd Rundgren, including Tom Verlaine, John Cale, and Jeff Buckley. From intense and feverish beginnings to the grandiloquence of the speeches that followed, from her poems set to music (the extraordinary "Piss Factory") to the dramas that struck her (the disappearance of her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith, former guitarist of MC5), from her cult cover of "Gloria" to the folk atmospheres of Gone Again, nothing is missing from the gems she brought back from the abyss, including the rare non-compilation at the time of the release of this box set accompanied by a valuable and extremely detailed booklet. Essential, even for those who may already have the complete collection of official albums.
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