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Incredible as it seems in this age of merciless repackaging, Outside Society really is Patti Smith’s first ever ‘greatest hits’ collection. Culled from her Arista and Columbia albums, taking in everything from 1975’s seminal, John Cale-produced Horses to 2007’s cover-version project Twelve, it’s a remarkably consistent assemblage; Smith, for all her wide-ranging musical and literary influences, having never lost faith with the transformative, tabular rasa potential of rock’n’roll, stripped to its three-chords-and-the-truth essentials.
Despite being a 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Smith has stayed, as the album title alludes, unwaveringly aloof from celebrity culture. Yet...
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