Patti Smith Group - Wave (US Original) Vinyl rip in 24 Bit/96 Khz + CD-format

The Patti Smith Group's most conventional album, Wave was given a bright pop/rock sound by producer Todd Rundgren. It was the last album Smith made before marrying and retiring from record-making for nine years, and it can be heard as a farewell to the music business, from "Frederick," the love song to her husband-to-be, Fred "Sonic" Smith, that leads it off, to the version of "So You Want to Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star)," among the most bitter accounts of fame on record. But Smith also achieves a sense of charm and sincerity on Wave that she hadn't even attempted on her earlier albums, even to the point of her imagined small-talk encounter with the late Pope John Paul I on the title track. Still, the overall mediocre quality of the material makes this the slightest of Smith's efforts. –Allmusic

Track list:

01 Frederick
02 Dancing barefoot
03 So you want to be (A rock'n'roll star)
04 Hymn
05 Revenge
06 Citizen ship
07 Seven ways of going
08 Broken flag
09 Wave

Personnel

Patti Smith – vocals
Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass on "Wave", vocals
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, consultant
Ivan Kral – bass, guitar, cello on "Wave", keyboards
Richard Sohl – piano

Additional personnel

Andi Ostrowe – percussion, timpani on "Seven Ways of Going"
Todd Rundgren – bass on "Dancing Barefoot"

Technical personnel

Todd Rundgren – production, engineering
George Carnell – assistant engineer
Tom Edmonds – assistant engineer
Vic Anesini – mastering