Patti Smith Sarah McLachlan performing Because The Night

[TreasureOne]

Patti is the mother of punk. I bow to her. She blew my head when I was a teen, made me see what was possible for women instead of being pretty and nice. To see her with Sarah is incredible. I wish they'd played the Olympic ceremony together.

[keith175]

incredible

[ibgrimme]

Shoulda backed Sarah on this one Patti.You didn't do your song any service. Sometimes songwriters are great because of songwriting, not performance. Loved your first release of this years ago, and good effort here but sorry, time has not been kind to your vocal range

[Ayrshirenutter]

she's not a songwriter on this one,this songs a Bruce Springsteen cover

[jayfriedkin]

She wrote it with Springsteen. Gotta wonder what that songwriting session was like.

[Ayrshirenutter]

the song was written and recorded by springsteen for darkness on the edge of town and rejected two months before smith had even heard it,when smith heard the song she asked sprigsteen if she could change some lyrics to suit a womans perspective,hence the smith credit for co writing.there was no writing session between them.

[TreasureOne]

LOL You speak as if you were in the room when it happened.

[ideapazza]

meravigliosa ..mi piacciono tutte le patty del mondo

[RoMMeL516]

Natalie Merchant of 10,000Maniacs sang this song too and included it in one of their albums. It would have been a lot better if Sarah sang this with Natalie. Patti looked freaky on stage.

[ThePuck123]

@ RoMMeL516 : You shouldn't care how someone looks on stage - you should care how they sing, how they perform. This is Patti's song - and if Patti decides to sing this song when she's 80, then she's entitled to do so - and then it's still not important how she looks like - it's only important what she does with this song. She's performing it like no one else ever could. And-no matter if she looks "freaky" as you say or not - she's always the best to sing this song. To live it.

[ibgrimme]

Rumor has it she is really an alter ego of Alice Cooper

[vansuite]

intense .. power

[WestCoastRich]

She was hitting all kinds of bad notes. She should have let Sarah sing it, too.

[karlaelisa]

bloody fabulous

[SergeLoranger]

Patti Smith, you're hot! Love your voice! You rock big time. J'adore ta voix!

[tnodd]

I never realized that Iggy Pop sang this. I've never seen him with his shirt on.

[AngieReeves]

hahahahahahahhaahahahhaha!! Very good!!!

[smellmeter]

LOL

[bosston]

hehe! funny!

[havfruen72]

Is it just me or is Patti starting to look like Mick Jagger??

[kahbutey]

Just brilliant, what a powerful song, love it

[noahluna]

who is that guy singing with sarah

[bosston]

That's not a guy. That's Patti Smith. She wrote the song.

[bowiegirl]

Bruce Springsteen wrote it, I believe.

[bosston]

Yeah actually Bruce and Patti co-wrote together in 1977-78. Each of them changing a lyric or two.

[Ayrshirenutter]

Bruce springsteen was rehearsing the song and Patti heard it,she asked bruct to change some lyrics to a womans perspective,the melody/song was already written and because of some word changes Patti gets a credit,I'd hardly say that's co written

[TheOmarocker]

sometimes its better just a few words to express a whole hurricane of feelings and sensations, translate it,a godess touching a song of a human........

[gladf]

i didn't konw but i like her... it's good to know! 8)

[60SecondsOn]

I hate to say it, but the 10,000 Maniacs (MTV Unplugged) version is still my favorite. Wikipedia says that Bruce's version originally had a Latin rhythm, but I've never heard it recorded that way. It would be interesting to hear, though.

[wintersnite]

ultimate cool, raw sexuality, where have those intense females gone?

[LoreLen469]

That's right, this song would be great if Bruce and Patti'd performed it together

[bowiegirl]

Why not perform it with Bruce?