Few women in music have had as enormous an impact and influence as Patti Smith. The first of the art-punk poets, Smith burst onto the early New York punk scene in 1975 with a series of "music poetry happenings" staged at the legendary CBGB club between 1974 and 1976. A former college dropout who moved to Greenwich Village in the late 1960s, where she developed her skills as a beat poet, Patti Smith eventually discovered that the energetic punk scene of the mid-1970s could work as the perfect vehicle for her controversial poetry and singing style. Having worked initially with a music critic and record store clerk named Lenny Kaye, Smith eventually formed her own band, with Kaye, keyboardist Richard Sohl, bassist Ivan Kral and drummer Dee Jay Daugherty.
DISC ONE
1. Land: Horses/Land Of A Thousand Dances/La Mer (De) 13:46
2. Redondo Beach 4:28
3. Fire Of Unknown Origin 3:43
4. Kimberly 5:31
5. Dancing Barefoot 5:53
6. Space Monkey 5:17
7. Privilege (Set Me Free) 5:23
8. 25th Floor 7:45
9. Cold Turkey 6:46
10. For Your Love 4:15
DISC TWO
1. Revenge 6:13
2. Frederick 7:04
3. Seven Ways Of Going 7:18
4. Poppies 8:39
5. All Along The Watchtower 4:11
6. Spider and the Fly 1985 3:43
7. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star 12:00
8. 54321/Wave 3:37
9. Twist And Shout 6:42