I've always been told that Patti Smith is a pioneer of punk. Now, I love Patti Smith, but I don't see how her music translates to other other punk acts such as the New York Dolls. Wasn't punk a rebellion against what was popular at the time, progressive musicians with 8 minute long songs? Punk was fast and barely surpassed 3 minutes a song. Patti Smith's songs were often 5+ minutes. I could see the punk aspects in her lyrics, but in the music itself, I just don't get it.
2007-09-23 02:19:44 · 5 answers · asked by Drink a Toast to Never 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
well.....hmmm......
Patti's style, especially with Horses was a fusion of beat poetry performance and garage rock......the lyrical messages definitely resonate and identify with punk. During performances, she wasn't the clean cut image of a female performer and used profane language.....unconventional and different. To me, she's more of a proto-punk artist. She became known prior to the Punk movement, helped shape it and became a great influence to those punk acts who came after her. She falls into the same category (for me anyway) as The Velvet Underground and MC5, not punk as its defined in the late 70s/early 80s, but rather a great influence on those who followed.
2007-09-23 06:07:49 · answer #1 · answered by Dani G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Patt Smith was a punk idol. She pioneered the whole scene by actually supporting it and making it popular and well known and financially helping.
She is much alike the New York Dolls, who in terms of music werent very punk.
She did have some punk songs like -Rock N Roll ****** , Let It Roll(The Underground Anthem)
Dunno mucha bout her tho :P
2007-09-25 08:00:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a great question. I haven't the slightest clue what qualified her to be punk EVER. Well, maybe that's not totally true. I think she got labeled as punk by association with various acts of the CBGB era. That and she was married to Fred "Sonic" Smith from the MC5. Again, critics often agree with each other and they decided to say that purple is yellow. In other words, they deemed her first album Horses as punk.
2007-09-23 03:41:13 · answer #3 · answered by Rckets 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She is proto-punk Like The Stooges or The Velvet Underground or The Kinks I'm not a huge fan, but she is pretty punk. No, The Stooges are proto-punk... C'mon, does "Dirt" sound like a punk song to you? Yeah, you spelled it right, I don't know what she's talking about...
2016-05-21 07:07:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean...I think she just was accepted by the punk crowd. She was in pictures with arm pit hair and did other thing that weren't what pop artists would be. And her tunes were hard to categorize differently at the time. It really wasn't New Wave either
2007-09-23 02:34:00 · answer #5 · answered by LexLuger 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋