History Music / Easter

* {{Anarchy}}: "25th Floor/ High On Rebellion"

''Easter'' is a 1978 album by Music/PattiSmith and her best-selling album commercially. It spawned the hits "Because The Night" and "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger". It is the follow-up album to ''Music/{{Wave}}'' and would be followed up by ''Music/RadioEthiopia''.

''Easter'' is a 1978 album by Music/PattiSmith and her best-selling album commercially. It spawned the hits "Because The Night" and "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger".

** Smith's liner notes refer to Creator/ArthurRimbaud and his brother Frédéric, ''Film/{{Privilege}}'', the ConcertFilm ''Ladies and Gentlemen: Music/TheRollingStones'', Creator/AlainDelon, Creator/PierPaoloPasolini, Creator/BernardoBertolucci, Creator/JeanLucGodard, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance Ghost Dance movement]] [[note]] a 19th century religious movement among Native American tribes, mostly Plains people[[/note]], British model Jean Shrimpton, British musician Paul Jones (formerly of Music/ManfredMann), Creator/CharlesBaudelaire and Music/LittleRichard.

* {{Corpsing}}: During "Babelogue" Patti is heard cracking up a few times.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger" Patti calls UsefulNotes/JesusChrist and white painter Creator/JacksonPollock a "nigger", though she redefines the racial slur as a badge of honor and should be understood within that context.

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover photo was taken by famed photographer Creator/RobertMapplethorpe. He also took the pictures for ''Horses'', ''Wave'' and ''Dream Of Life''.

--> ''A stranger comes up to him: hands him an old, rusty Polaroid''

** Smith's liner notes refer to Creator/ArthurRimbaud and his brother Frédéric, ''Film/{{Privilege}}'', the ConcertFilm ''Ladies and Gentlemen: Music/TheRollingStones'', Creator/AlainDelon, Creator/PierPaoloPasolini, Creator/BernardoBertolucci, Creator/JeanLucGodard, the Ghost Dance movement [[note]] a 19th century religious movement among Native American tribes [[/note]], British model Jean Shrimpton, British musician Paul Jones (formerly of Music/ManfredMann), Creator/CharlesBaudelaire and Music/LittleRichard.

* NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: "Ghost Dance" is performed in the style of traditional Native American tribal music. Jim Maxwell performs bagpipes during "Easter".

* BlackSheepHit: "Because The Night" - a Music/BruceSpringsteen cover (kinda...) without Smith's distinctive feminist punk lyrics.
* BlasphemousBoast: "Babelogue"

* CoveredUp: An unusual example. "Because The Night" is more associated with Smith than Springsteen, who wrote it, then gifted it to Smith. She then rewrote some of the verses, so they are officially credited as co-writers. (To make things even more confusing, when singing it live Smith and Springsteen occasionally sing the other's lyrics, or even blend the two.)

The 1996 CD reissue adds "Godspeed" as a bonus track.

!! ''Rock 'N' Roll Troper''

--> '' What's the '''m'''ad '''m'''atter with the '''c'''hurch '''c'''himes? ''

--> '' Over the '''s'''kin of '''s'''ilk are '''s'''cars ''
--> '' From the '''s'''plinter'''s''' of '''s'''tation'''s''' ''
--> '' (...) When my hair was '''c'''ropped, I '''c'''raved '''c'''overing ''

--> '' '''B'''a'''b'''y was a '''b'''lack sheep. '''B'''aby was a whore''
--> '' '''B'''a'''b'''y got '''b'''ig and '''b'''a'''b'''y get '''b'''igger''

--> ''There he is, up in a tree.''
--> ''Oh, I hear him callin' down to me.''
--> ''That banana-shaped object ain't no banana.''
--> ''It's a bright, yellow U.F.O.''
--> ''And he's coming to get me. Here I go.''
--> ''Up, up, up, up, up, up, up ,up, up ...''
--> ''Oh, goodbye mama. I'll never do dishes again.''
--> ''Here I go from my body.''
--> ''Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Help! ''

--> ''All must not be art, some art we must disintegrate.''
--> ''Positive (anarchy must exist)''

* CoverVersion: "Privilege (Set Me Free)", a cover of the song Mel London and Mike Leander wrote for the film ''Film/{{Privilege}}'' (1967).

* EpicRocking: The 6:15 "Easter".

--> ''I have not sold myself to God''

--> ''We shall live again, shake out the ghost dance''

--> ''Outside of society, they're waitin' for me''
--> ''Outside of society, if you're looking''
--> ''That's where you'll find me''

--> ''I see it all before me''
--> ''The days of love and torment''
--> ''The nights of rock 'n' roll''

--> ''Blood on the TV, ten o' clock news''

--> ''Because the night belongs to lovers''
--> ''Because the night belongs to lust''
--> ''Because the night belongs to lovers''
--> ''Because the night belongs to us''

--> ''Come on. Set me free. Set me free''

--> ''Love's war. Love's cruel.''
--> ''Love's pretty, love's pretty cruel tonight.''
--> ''I'm waiting here to refuel.''

** Smith's liner notes refer to Creator/ArthurRimbaud and his brother Frédéric, ''Film/{{Privilege}}'', the ConcertFilm "Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones", Creator/AlainDelon, Creator/PierPaoloPasolini, Creator/BernardoBertolucci, Creator/JeanLucGodard, the Ghost Dance movement [[note]] a 19th century religious movement among Native American tribes [[/note]], British model Jean Shrimpton, British musician Paul Jones, Creator/CharlesBaudelaire and Music/LittleRichard.

--> ''The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.''
--> ''He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.''
--> ''He leadeth me beside the still waters.''
--> ''He restoreth my soul.''
--> ''He leadeth me through the path of righteousness for His name's sake.''
--> ''Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,''
--> ''I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.''
--> ''Hey, Lord, I'm waitin' for you.''
--> ''Oh, God, I'm waitin' for you;''
--> ''waitin' to open Your ninety-eight wounds''
--> ''and be Thee, be Thee.''
--> ''Lead me, oh, lead me.''

--> ''The transformation of waste is perhaps the oldest pre-occupation of man. man being the chosen alloy,''
--> ''He must be reconnected via shit, at all cost.''
--> ''Inherent with(in) us is the dream of the task of the alchemist to create from the clay of man.''
--> ''And to re-create from excretion of man pure and then soft and then solid gold.''

--> ''He spared the child and spoiled the rod''

--> ''I am the sword, the wound, the stain.''
--> ''Scorned transfigured child of Cain.''
--> ''I rend, I end, I return.''
--> ''Again I am the salt, the bitter laugh.''
--> ''I am the gas in a womb of light, the evening star,''
--> ''The ball of sight that leads that sheds the tears of Christ dying and drying as I rise tonight.''

--> ''Easter Sunday, we were walking''

--> ''You say you want me.''
--> ''I want another.''

'''Easter''' is a 1978 album by Music/PattiSmith and her best-selling album commercially. It spawned the hits "Because The Night" and "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger".

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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In "Babelogue" Patti says that in her heart she is a Muslim. In reality she is an atheist.

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover photo was taken by famed photographer Creator/RobertMapplethorpe.

'''Easter''' is a 1978 album by Music/PattiSmith and her best-selling album commercially. It spawned the hits "Because The Night" and "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger". "Because The Night" is kind of a BlackSheepHit for Smith, as it contains none of her typical feminist PunkRock and profanity loaded lyrical content.

* NWordPrivileges: "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger".

'''Easter''' is a 1978 album by Music/PattiSmith. It spawned the hits "Because The Night" and "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger". "Because The Night" is kind of a BlackSheepHit for Smith, as it contains none of her typical feminist PunkRock and profanity loaded lyrical content.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger" Patti calls UsefulNotes/JesusChrist adn white painter Creator/JacksonPollock a "nigger", though she redefines the racial slur as a badge of honor and should be understood within that context.

* EverythingIsLouderWithBagpipes: Jim Maxwell performs bagpipes during "Easter".