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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
I Am Reminded Why I Listen To Music Mar 06, 2008
This is the album that finally made sense of Patti Smith to me... my inroad to her work. Thanks to Gone Again, I honestly now understand what she has been doing for the last 33 years, and why she is compared to the likes of Dyaln, and Reed.
Gone Again is easily one of the best records I have ever heard. Breathtaking. A revelation. If you have ANY meaningful interest in American music, listen to this... then go buy the rest of her albums.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Back Again Dec 06, 2005
"Gone Again" represents one of the strongest Patti Smith Albums in years, easily joining the ranks of "Horses", "Radio Ethiopia", and "Easter." People curious about Patti Smith must come at her work with an understanding that she is not a pop-star tossing out throw away music or following quickly fading trends. Her work stands alone, often as a lone voice amidst the CD stacks in your local store, offering a wholly unique view and artistry. Introspective, exploratory, challenging and literate. She is truly an American treasure.
I view the strength of her albums on their coherence and the layering of lyrical vocals over the musical composition. The band in each of its incarnations is without peer. If you want to hear a powerhouse, tight, intuitive and virtuoso band, listen to the musicianship on any of the albums I have mentioned - including this one.
With that general overview posted, let me say the two opening tracks "Gone Again" and "Beneath The Southern Cross" are a one-two opening punch that few artists could come up with in a lifetime - let alone on one album. This album is a classic. Patti's burden has always been the challenge of the comparison of each subsequent album to the masterpiece "Horses." "Radio Ethiopia", "Easter" and now "Gone Again" can be added to the Pantheon of brilliance Patti seems to create out of her life's greatest triumphs and deepest sorrows.
An incredible album.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
breath-taking acoustic songs. Jan 03, 2005
those acoustic songs are so beautiful, it's just amazing. even though i definatly love 70's mother of punk rock patti smith, i just can't get over how gorgeous these acoustic driven songs are. anyone who loves real heartfelt music will love this. patti never fails to amaze me.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Near perfect comeback Oct 04, 2004
Patti Smith's Gone Again marked the end of a hiatus both in music making and subject matter - her only album between it and the 70's was the up with people bore Dream of Life. Here, she returned to dark, meta-spiritual music, but this was profoundly marked by the death of her husband and brother, and Gone Again plays like a rally to both accept the role of death and scream against it. So, the songs are divided between songs of plaintive mourning, like the lovely "Beneath the Southern Cross", and songs that angrily chant after redemption, such as a bold remake of Dylan's "Wicked Messenger." Smith's writing is as sharp here as it was two decades earlier, and if her experiments now aren't all interesting (like the laconic 9-minute rumination on Kurt Cobain "About a Boy"), they are, for the most part rewarding, moving, and at times, laced with the punk we thought she'd left behind. The title track is a fusion of all Smith's known for - beat poetry, quick vocals, and a defiance as feisty as ever.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
One of the Greats Jun 01, 2002
Patti Smith is an artist whose failures are often as interesting as her successes, and many of her recordings offer a mixture of both--but here in GONE AGAIN, which Smith dedicates to her deceased husband, there is only success piled upon success. This is easily the best of her post-comeback recordings, and it ranks along side her earlier successes HORSES and EASTER.The title cut, which opens the collection, blasts full throttle with all the ferocity one expects of Patti Smith at her best--but the cut is actually a little atypical of the album as a whole, which adopts a quiet, musing tone as Smith sings about life, love, and loss. In the process, Smith proves (as if there was any doubt) that she is just as if not more powerful without recourse to the screaming guitars and multi-layered vocals that marked her earlier recordings. "Southern Cross," "About a Boy," and "My Madrigal" are particularly fine, memorable, and haunting introspections... but simply stated, there is not a single weak track in the entire collection. It's all powerful stuff. This is easily one of Smith's best, and many will consider it her absolute best. And if you've ever wondered why Patti Smith is considered one of the most innovative, influential performers of "art" rock, GONE AGAIN will explain all you need to know. An essential recording.
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