Patti Smith Group - Wave (1979)
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz & 16-bit/44.1kHz | FLAC (Tracks), artworks | Stereo | 830 Mb, 250 Mb | 5% RAR Recovery
Styles: Rock | Filesonic + Filepost
Cut by Greg Calbi @ Sterling Sound, NYC
Arista Records
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz & 16-bit/44.1kHz | FLAC (Tracks), artworks | Stereo | 830 Mb, 250 Mb | 5% RAR Recovery
Styles: Rock | Filesonic + Filepost
Cut by Greg Calbi @ Sterling Sound, NYC
Arista Records
The Patti Smith Group's most conventional album, Wave was given a bright pop/rock sound by producer Todd Rundgren. It was the last album Smith made before marrying and retiring from record-making for nine years, and it can be heard as a farewell to the music business, from "Frederick," the love song to her husband-to-be, Fred "Sonic" Smith, that leads it off, to the version of "So You Want to Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star)," among the most bitter accounts of fame on record. But Smith also achieves a sense of charm and sincerity on Wave that she hadn't even attempted on her earlier albums, even to the point of her imagined small-talk encounter with the late Pope John Paul I on the title track. Still, the overall mediocre quality of the material makes this the slightest of Smith's efforts. –Allmusic
Track list:
01 Frederick
02 Dancing barefoot
03 So you want to be (A rock'n'roll star)
04 Hymn
05 Revenge
06 Citizen ship
07 Seven ways of going
08 Broken flag
09 Wave
Personnel
Patti Smith – vocals
Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass on "Wave", vocals
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, consultant
Ivan Kral – bass, guitar, cello on "Wave", keyboards
Richard Sohl – piano
Additional personnel
Andi Ostrowe – percussion, timpani on "Seven Ways of Going"
Todd Rundgren – bass on "Dancing Barefoot"
Technical personnel
Todd Rundgren – production, engineering
George Carnell – assistant engineer
Tom Edmonds – assistant engineer
Vic Anesini – mastering
TT: Technics SP 15 with SME 3009 tonearm & customized plinth
Cartridge: Ortofon Concorde 30 + OM 30 stylus
Phono amp: Pro-Ject Tube Box II with 2X JAN 12AX 7WA (General Electric)
Cables: Wire World Solstice 5.2
Computer: Sony Vaio VPCJ1
ADC: Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Software: WaveLab 5.01, ClickRepair, Redbook Resampled And Dithered with iZotope RX
Cartridge: Ortofon Concorde 30 + OM 30 stylus
Phono amp: Pro-Ject Tube Box II with 2X JAN 12AX 7WA (General Electric)
Cables: Wire World Solstice 5.2
Computer: Sony Vaio VPCJ1
ADC: Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Software: WaveLab 5.01, ClickRepair, Redbook Resampled And Dithered with iZotope RX