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  1. Ask the Angels
  2. Ain't It Strange
  3. Poppies
  4. Pissing in a River
  5. Pumping (My Heart)
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  1. Ask the Angels
  2. Ain't It Strange
  3. Poppies
  4. Pissing in a River
  5. Pumping (My Heart)
  6. Distant Fingers
  7. Radio Ethiopia
  8. Abyssinia
  9. Chiklets
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After the success of Horses, Patti Smith had something to prove to reviewers and to the industry, and Radio Ethiopia aimed at both. Producer Jack Douglas gave "the Patti Smith Group," as it was now billed, a hard rock sound, notably on the side-opening "Ask the Angels" and "Pumping (My Heart)," songs that seemed aimed at album-oriented rock radio. But the title track was a ten-minute guitar extravaganza that pushed the group's deliberate primitivism closer to amateurish thrashing. Elsewhere, Smith repeated the reggae ...

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