Set Free

by Patti Smith Group

Set Free cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Arista
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 17:34
  • Community rating: 3.94/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Jimmy Iovine, Jack Douglas

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Emerging at the creative zenith of her poetic punk era, this release highlights the artist's seamless fusion of beat poetry and three-chord rock and roll. The visionary lyrical imagery and passionate, shamanic vocal deliveries heavily informed the intellectual foundation of the global alternative rock movement.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, confrontational, spoken-word, literary, wordplay

Tracklist

  1. Privilege (Set Me Free) (3:27)
  2. Ask The Angels (3:07)
  3. 25th Floor (Live Version) (5:15)
  4. Babelfield (5:45)

Credits

  • Patti Smith Group - primary artist, written-by
  • BilBo - lacquer cut by
  • Mark London - written-by
  • Mike Leander - written-by
  • Ivan Kral - written-by

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