Patti Smith

This album – like "gone Again," Patti Smith's 1996 memorial to her dear departed – is alive
with ghosts: the patient spirits bearing silent witness in "Waiting Underground"; the young
soldier who is incinerated in a copter crash and propelled to eternal peace by Smith and
her stampeding band in the long, loud studio improvisation "Memento Mori"; the late Allen
Ginsberg, whose "Footnote to Howl" is the lyric meat of "Spell." Even the guitars... More >

Good thing she's still a little nuts, because funny's beyond or beneath her ("Whirl Away," "Memento Mori").