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1	* AmericansHateTingle: [[Music/SexPistols Johnny Rotten]] openly mocked Smith's first London performance for her bohemian, "hippie" appearance, compared with the working class orientation of British punk. (Patti comes from a working class background too, but he didn't know that or care.)
2	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, Patti's lead guitarist and drummer respectively. They've appeared on all (all but one in Kaye's case) of her albums and still continue to perform live with her to this day. Patti herself would tell you that they've been vital to her music for her entire career.
3	* FanNickname: "The Godmother of Punk".
4	* FirstInstallmentWins: While there are some great albums (particularly the next two), there's a general consensus that ''Music/{{Horses}}'' has guaranteed her place in music history.
5	* LesYay: Smith's cover of "Gloria" can be seen as being about a female-on-female one night stand. Similarly for "Debbie Denise", a song she wrote for Music/BlueOysterCult, though it underwent a [[TheCoverChangesTheGender sex-change]] when BOC performed it. There was also a photo shoot that implied this with Lizzy Mercier Descloux (a famous No Wave artist). In her autobiography she claims to be completely straight, though.
6	* RefrainFromAssuming: The "[[AlbumTitleDrop Horses! Horses! Horses! Horses!]]" song on ''Horses'' is actually called "Land." To further confuse matters, the song "Distant Fingers" on ''Music/RadioEthiopia'' has the chorus "Land, land, land." It's about [[InterspeciesRomance having romance with an alien]] and [[StayWithTheAliens leaving with him in his spaceship]].
7	--> ''All my earthly dreams are shattered/ I'm so tired, I quit/ Take me forever, it doesn't matter/ Deep inside of your ship.''
8	* SignatureSong: "Gloria" from ''Music/{{Horses}}'' for the songs in her typical genre, but overall "Because the Night" from ''Music/{{Easter}}'' wins, although it's sort of a BlackSheepHit.
9	* TearJerker:
10	** "Pissing In A River" from ''Music/RadioEthiopia''.
11	** Also "Birdland", from Music/{{Horses}} and "Ghost Dance" from Music/{{Easter}}.
12	* TheWoobie: For a spell in 1994, when the poor woman lost her husband, brother and long-time keyboardist all within a few months. Allen Lanier's death in 2013 saw her reunite with the Music/BlueOysterCult for several gigs. As Allen knew the end was coming, this was the last time they were to work together, and both knew it.

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