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| | Patti Smith : Easter - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Easter, produced by Bruce Springsteen associate Jimmy Iovine, was Smith's most commercial-sounding effort yet and, due to the inclusion of Springsteen's "Because the Night" (with Smith's revised lyrics), a Top Ten hit, it became her biggest seller, staying in the charts more than five months and getting into the Top 20 LPs. |
 | | Certainly, a song that proclaimed, "Love is an angel disguised as lust/Here in our bed until the morning comes," was pushing the limits of pop radio, and on "Babelogue," Smith returned to her days of declaiming poetry on New York's Lower East Side. |
 | | So, Easter turned out to be the best compromise Smith achieved between her artistic and commercial aspirations. |
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