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''Radio Ethiopia'' is the second album by Music/PattiSmith, released in 1976. At the time it received negative reviews. It is best remembered for the TitleTrack, "Pissing In A River" and "Ask The Angels". It was preceded by ''Music/{{Horses}}''[[note]]Technically, a solo album where the rest of the band were listed as merely supporting musicians[[/note]] and would be followed by ''Music/{{Easter}}
''Radio Ethiopia'' is the second album by Music/PattiSmith, released in 1976. At the time it received negative reviews. It is best remembered for the TitleTrack, "Pissing In A River" and "Ask The Angels". It was preceded by ''Music/{{Horses}}''[[note]]Technically, a solo album where the rest of the band were listed as merely supporting musicians[[/note]] and would be followed by ''Music/{{Easter}}
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''Radio Ethiopia'' is the second album by Music/PattiSmith, released in 1976. At the time it received negative reviews. It is best remembered for the TitleTrack, "Pissing In A River" and "Ask The Angels". It was preceded by ''Music/{{Horses}}''[[note]]Technically, a solo album where the rest of the band were listed as merely supporting musicians[[/note]] and would be followed by''Music/{{Easter}}
''Music/{{Easter}}''.
''Radio Ethiopia'' is the second album by Music/PattiSmith, released in 1976. At the time it received negative reviews. It is best remembered for the TitleTrack, "Pissing In A River" and "Ask The Angels". It was preceded by ''Music/{{Horses}}''[[note]]Technically, a solo album where the rest of the band were listed as merely supporting musicians[[/note]] and would be followed by
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''Radio Ethiopia'' is the second album by Music/PattiSmith, released in 1976. At the time it received negative reviews. It is best remembered for the TitleTrack, "Pissing In A River" and "Ask The Angels".
Angels". It was preceded by ''Music/{{Horses}}''[[note]]Technically, a solo album where the rest of the band were listed as merely supporting musicians[[/note]] and would be followed by ''Music/{{Easter}}
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!! The Patti Smith Group:
* Patti Smith – vocals, Duo-Sonic guitar
* Lenny Kaye – Stratocaster guitar, bass guitar, vocals
* Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, percussion
* Ivan Král – bass guitar, vocals, Les Paul guitar
* Richard Sohl – keyboards
* Patti Smith – vocals, Duo-Sonic guitar
* Lenny Kaye – Stratocaster guitar, bass guitar, vocals
* Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, percussion
* Ivan Král – bass guitar, vocals, Les Paul guitar
* Richard Sohl – keyboards
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* RefrainFromAssuming: The song "Distant Fingers" has the chorus "Land, land, land", a CallBack to "Land" from ''Music/{{Horses}}'', where many listeners assume the song is called "Horses".
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'''Tracklist'''
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** The title track also quotes Music/JimiHendrix' "Power of Soul".
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'''Radio Ethiopia''' is the second album by Music/PattiSmith, released in 1976. At the time it received negative reviews. It is best remembered for the TitleTrack, "Pissing In A River" and "Ask The Angels".
'''Tracklist'''
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Ask the Angels" (3:07)
# "Ain't It Strange?" (6:35)
# "Poppies" (7:05)
# "Pissing In A River" (4:41)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Pumping (My Heart)" (3:20)
# "Distant Fingers" (4:17)
# "Radio Ethiopia" (10:00)
# "Abyssinia" (2:10)
!! ''Troping In A River''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''A'''sk The '''A'''ngels".
* AvantGardeMusic: "Radio Ethiopia", the stand-out experimental track of the record with a lot of NoiseRock and WordSaladLyrics almost drowned out by the music.
* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Ain't It Strange?" has a lot of screaming halfway.
* ContinuityNod: Her 2004 track "Radio Baghdad" (2004) is a shout-out to this album.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The black-and-white cover.
* DrugsAreBad: "Poppies". The poppies in question are the opium variety. Among other things, buried away in a double-tracked lyric she sings graphically about the laxative and emetic side- effect of heroin. If this were better known to non-users, what a deterrent it would be... ''"Kids! Heroin makes you shit yourself! Now do you think it's cool to do drugs?"
* EpicRocking: The 7:05 "Poppies" and the 10:00 "Radio Ethiopia".
* FaceOnTheCover: Patti sitting on the floor.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Radio Ethiopia" fades into "Abyssinia".
* GarageRock: The album has a strong garage rock sound, especially compared to her other records.
* HeavyMeta: "Ask The Angels"
--> ''World ending, it's just beginning''
--> ''And rock and roll is what I'm born to be''
--> ''And it's wild wild wild wild wild wild wild wild''
* {{Homage}}: The album is dedicated to French poet Creator/ArthurRimbaud and Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: "Pissing In A River"
--> ''I'm a slave, I'm free''
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Pissing In A River". Try telling someone that there's a poignantly beautiful, heart-wrenching song by that name, and they'll probably laugh at you.... until they actually listen to it.
* IWillWaitForYou: "Distant Fingers"
--> ''Oh, I am waiting for you''
--> ''Waiting for you to take me up by my starry spine''
--> ''Ohhh, ohhh, with your distant fingers''
* LocationSong: "Abyssinia", which was the original name of Ethiopia.
--> ''There will be no famine in my existence''
--> ''I merge with the people of the hills''
--> ''Oh people of Ethiopia''
--> ''Your opiate is the air that you breathe''
--> ''All those mint bushes around you''
--> ''Are the perfect thing for your system''
--> ''Aww clean clean it out''
--> ''You must rid yourself from these, these animal fixations''
--> ''You must release yourself''
--> ''From the thickening blackmail of elephantiasis''
--> ''You must divide the wheat from the rats''
--> ''You must turn around (and look oh God)''
* OneWordTitle: "Poppies" and "Abyssinia".
* PorkyPigPronunciation: "Pumping (My Heart)"
--> ''Oh, I see you stare spi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi (spiraling) up there and ho''
--> ''Oh, into the center of my brain''
* PrecisionFStrike: "Radio Ethiopia"
--> ''Oh, I feel so... ffffucked up!''
* QuestioningTitle: "Ain't It Strange?"
* RecordProducer: Jack Douglas.
* RefrainFromAssuming: The song "Distant Fingers" has the chorus "Land, land, land", a CallBack to "Land" from ''Music/{{Horses}}'', where many listeners assume the song is called "Horses".
* SelfBackingVocalist: "Poppies" at a certain point has Smith backed by herself one three different tracks, all singing different lyrics.
* ShoutOut:
** In the liner notes we read that the album is dedicated to Creator/ArthurRimbaud and Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi. Brâncusi is also namedropped during the TitleTrack:
--> ''When I see Brancusi''
--> ''His eyes searching out the infinite abstract spaces''
--> ''In the rude hands of sculptor''
--> ''Now gripped around the neck of a duosonic''
** We also read the following shout-out in the liner notes:
--> ''[[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli Ali]] is still champ!''
** According to the liner notes "Poppies" is inspired by Edie Sedgwick [[note]] A former model and actress in Creator/AndyWarhol's entourage, who died of a drug overdose in 1971 [[/note]], [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] and the Queen of Sheba. The latter is also mentioned in the song, along with Salome and Venus.
--> ''Hey Sheba, hey Salome, hey Venus eclipsin' my way ah.''
** Music/LouReed provides a TakeThat on his live album "Take On Prisoners", where he shouts:
--> ''Fuck "Radio Ethiopia"! I'm Radio Brooklyn!''
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Poppies" has a spoken word section halfway.
* SuperSpeed: The start of "Pumping (My Heart)" starts with a sped up sound.
* TitleTrack: "Radio Ethiopia"
--> ''Oh people of Ethiopia''
--> ''Your opiate is the air that you breathe''
* WordSaladLyrics: The album has been accused of having a lot of lyrics that don't make much sense.
* WorldWarThree: "Ask The Angels"
--> ''And world war is the battle cry''
--> ''And it's wild, wild, wild, wild''
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'''Radio Ethiopia''' is the second album by Music/PattiSmith, released in 1976. At the time it received negative reviews. It is best remembered for the TitleTrack, "Pissing In A River" and "Ask The Angels".
'''Tracklist'''
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Ask the Angels" (3:07)
# "Ain't It Strange?" (6:35)
# "Poppies" (7:05)
# "Pissing In A River" (4:41)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Pumping (My Heart)" (3:20)
# "Distant Fingers" (4:17)
# "Radio Ethiopia" (10:00)
# "Abyssinia" (2:10)
!! ''Troping In A River''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''A'''sk The '''A'''ngels".
* AvantGardeMusic: "Radio Ethiopia", the stand-out experimental track of the record with a lot of NoiseRock and WordSaladLyrics almost drowned out by the music.
* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Ain't It Strange?" has a lot of screaming halfway.
* ContinuityNod: Her 2004 track "Radio Baghdad" (2004) is a shout-out to this album.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The black-and-white cover.
* DrugsAreBad: "Poppies". The poppies in question are the opium variety. Among other things, buried away in a double-tracked lyric she sings graphically about the laxative and emetic side- effect of heroin. If this were better known to non-users, what a deterrent it would be... ''"Kids! Heroin makes you shit yourself! Now do you think it's cool to do drugs?"
* EpicRocking: The 7:05 "Poppies" and the 10:00 "Radio Ethiopia".
* FaceOnTheCover: Patti sitting on the floor.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Radio Ethiopia" fades into "Abyssinia".
* GarageRock: The album has a strong garage rock sound, especially compared to her other records.
* HeavyMeta: "Ask The Angels"
--> ''World ending, it's just beginning''
--> ''And rock and roll is what I'm born to be''
--> ''And it's wild wild wild wild wild wild wild wild''
* {{Homage}}: The album is dedicated to French poet Creator/ArthurRimbaud and Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi.
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: "Pissing In A River"
--> ''I'm a slave, I'm free''
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Pissing In A River". Try telling someone that there's a poignantly beautiful, heart-wrenching song by that name, and they'll probably laugh at you.... until they actually listen to it.
* IWillWaitForYou: "Distant Fingers"
--> ''Oh, I am waiting for you''
--> ''Waiting for you to take me up by my starry spine''
--> ''Ohhh, ohhh, with your distant fingers''
* LocationSong: "Abyssinia", which was the original name of Ethiopia.
--> ''There will be no famine in my existence''
--> ''I merge with the people of the hills''
--> ''Oh people of Ethiopia''
--> ''Your opiate is the air that you breathe''
--> ''All those mint bushes around you''
--> ''Are the perfect thing for your system''
--> ''Aww clean clean it out''
--> ''You must rid yourself from these, these animal fixations''
--> ''You must release yourself''
--> ''From the thickening blackmail of elephantiasis''
--> ''You must divide the wheat from the rats''
--> ''You must turn around (and look oh God)''
* OneWordTitle: "Poppies" and "Abyssinia".
* PorkyPigPronunciation: "Pumping (My Heart)"
--> ''Oh, I see you stare spi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi (spiraling) up there and ho''
--> ''Oh, into the center of my brain''
* PrecisionFStrike: "Radio Ethiopia"
--> ''Oh, I feel so... ffffucked up!''
* QuestioningTitle: "Ain't It Strange?"
* RecordProducer: Jack Douglas.
* RefrainFromAssuming: The song "Distant Fingers" has the chorus "Land, land, land", a CallBack to "Land" from ''Music/{{Horses}}'', where many listeners assume the song is called "Horses".
* SelfBackingVocalist: "Poppies" at a certain point has Smith backed by herself one three different tracks, all singing different lyrics.
* ShoutOut:
** In the liner notes we read that the album is dedicated to Creator/ArthurRimbaud and Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi. Brâncusi is also namedropped during the TitleTrack:
--> ''When I see Brancusi''
--> ''His eyes searching out the infinite abstract spaces''
--> ''In the rude hands of sculptor''
--> ''Now gripped around the neck of a duosonic''
** We also read the following shout-out in the liner notes:
--> ''[[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli Ali]] is still champ!''
** According to the liner notes "Poppies" is inspired by Edie Sedgwick [[note]] A former model and actress in Creator/AndyWarhol's entourage, who died of a drug overdose in 1971 [[/note]], [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] and the Queen of Sheba. The latter is also mentioned in the song, along with Salome and Venus.
--> ''Hey Sheba, hey Salome, hey Venus eclipsin' my way ah.''
** Music/LouReed provides a TakeThat on his live album "Take On Prisoners", where he shouts:
--> ''Fuck "Radio Ethiopia"! I'm Radio Brooklyn!''
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Poppies" has a spoken word section halfway.
* SuperSpeed: The start of "Pumping (My Heart)" starts with a sped up sound.
* TitleTrack: "Radio Ethiopia"
--> ''Oh people of Ethiopia''
--> ''Your opiate is the air that you breathe''
* WordSaladLyrics: The album has been accused of having a lot of lyrics that don't make much sense.
* WorldWarThree: "Ask The Angels"
--> ''And world war is the battle cry''
--> ''And it's wild, wild, wild, wild''
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