(06-08-2022, 06:59 AM)MarleyJag Wrote:

(06-07-2022, 07:53 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote: Patti Smith's biggest and well-known hit is Because the Night.  Maybe you have her confused with Van Morrison or the Shadows of Knight?

She did a remake of "Gloria" too, it rocks and got radio airplay back in the day which is why I didn't include it. It was on her first album, Horses. She was typically labeled punk rock but that's not really accurate. "Because the Night" is her most commercially successful song which she co-wrote wrote with Bruce Springsteen. She also co-wrote "Fire of Unknown Origin" which she recorded after the Blue Oyster Cult version came out (her version is COMPLETELY different than the BOC version).

Wave was not her biggest selling album but it has some good tracks on it, "So Ya Wanna.." probably qualifies as the most radio friendly track that *wasn't* on the radio. A couple others I might have mentioned actually did get some limited airplay, "Dancing Barefoot" and "Frederick".

Yea, I had the Horses album on vinyl back in the day. I agree, she was more pop than punk, but the way she performed and presented herself fell more on the side of the Sex Pistols than on the side of, say, Blondie or Pat Benatar.

One song that was all over MTV back in the mid/late 80's was 'Under the Milky Way Tonight', by the Church. Loved that song and video, but I can't ever remember hearing it on terrestrial radio back then.

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