Blog: PopMatters

All hail Patti Smith, the postmodern beat queen who looks back at what she's done and finds a pattern -- where excess in all things is fine if succeeded by its opposite. Most people are familiar with the work of Pulitzer Prize winning author and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Patti Smith. This compilation, a greatest hits of sorts for a woman whose career cannot be measured by chart successes, offers selections from every one of her 10 albums over the past 30-plus years. Outside Society is not Smith's first compilation. She released the double disc Land [...]