Not Blaspheming - Yesterday, I

Not Blaspheming - Yesterday, I wrote about Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame nominee Patti Smith "Easily the most overrated person in punk music; let's wait a year or two (although I think she did "Because the Night" better than Bruce, to say nothing of the dismal 10,000 Maniacs".

Email correspondent JS from Arizona writes:

Patti Smith's version better than Bruce's? In the words of Aretha Franklin in The Blues Brothers: Don't you blaspheme in here!

A fair point. I plead temporary, job-hunt-related insanity yesterday.

I should have said "Bruce's version is great - one of my five favorite Darkness-era songs, really - but it's pretty much Darkness-era Bruce whichever way you slice it, and there are times I'm just in the mood for Smith's more idiosyncratic take on the song".

Mea gulpa.

Posted by Mitch at September 17, 2003 10:00 AM