Peace and Noise

by Patti Smith

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 September 1997
  • Label: Arista
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 52:26
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in the deeply emotional wake of multiple personal tragedies, the punk poet laureate delivers a somber, highly reflective album grappling with mortality and grief. Featuring lengthy spoken-word passages and atmospheric, drone-heavy arrangements, 'Peace and Noise' serves as a profound meditation on loss and spiritual survival.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, death, melodic, female-vocals, guitars, distorted, political, personal

Tracklist

  1. Waiting Underground (5:20)
  2. Whirl Away (5:01)
  3. 1959 (3:58)
  4. Spell (3:17)
  5. Don't Say Nothing (5:52)
  6. Dead City (4:13)
  7. Blue Poles (5:19)
  8. Death Singing (3:44)
  9. Memento Mori (10:34)
  10. Last Call (5:08)

Credits

  • Tony Shanahan - bass, piano, written-by, drums
  • Jesse Paris Smith - concept by [the title peace and noise was conceived by]
  • Jay Dee Daugherty - drums, organ, written-by, harmonica, bass
  • Lenny Kaye - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, written-by, pedal steel guitar [pedal steel]
  • Allen Ginsberg - lyrics by [footnote to 'howl' by]
  • Michael Stipe - backing vocals [background vocal]

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