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Product Identifiers
Record LabelArista
EAN0078221874724
eBay Product ID (ePID)3957221
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
Era1990s
Run Time3352 Sec
Release Year1996
FormatCD
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenrePop, Rock
TypeAlbum
ArtistPatti Smith
Release TitleGone Again
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Recording ModeStereo
DistributionSony Music/Sony Dadc
Number of Tracks11
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Reviews4 Stars (out of 5) - "...The way she delivers a lyric--as Dylan might, if he'd been born a girl and practised his scales--is ofen worth way more than what it says....contemplation is the order of the day....Throughout, there's an undertow of portent, effective because subdued...", Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", "...Informed by the deaths of her husband, brother, and Kurt Cobain, GONE AGAIN marks a mournful return, as opposed to the triumphantly blasphemous resurrection of EASTER. Patti the Sadder and Occasionally Wiser...", 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...GONE AGAIN is Smith's mourning album....it is the most focused and direct work Smith has done yet--clear-eyed even when it can't be dry-eyed and remarkably free of even the most excusable kind of self-pity...", 4 (out of 5) - "...Smith has, in essence, offered us some intangible gifts-an album's worth of wisdom and strengh in an era of deconstruction and decay...", Ranked #13 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., "...she's a pushing-50 widow with two children who has decided to reinvest in the healing power of music and career. Her losses are our gains." - Rating: A-, 6 (out of 10) - "...Patti Smith comes not to make our heads spin, but to make our hearts bleed....grief set to music....GONE AGAIN...is a spectacularly downbeat record...instilled...with...tenacity...", 7 (out of 10) - "...Nothing in her back catalogue prophesies her current music's hallucinatory strangeness. Though the songs shift from sturdy bar-band vamps to thorny, open-ended art rock and simple folk, the arrangements stay skeletal, the mood gloomy..."
Recording TypeStudio
Number of Audio ChannelsStereo
