Patti Smith - "Piss Factory"

[davidbowierocksilove]

:D i feel like such a marie compared to my sister cherie...

[nooroloyia]

... hot like Sahara ... hard working asshole ... speedo-motorcycle ... had to earn my doe ... get off your mustang sally ... you ain't goin' no nowhere ... I walk up to hotshit dot hook and I say hey... hey sister ... you do it my way or I push your face in ... get off your mustang sally .... shake it up baby ... twist and shout ... watch me now ....

[131flora]

only heard this 1st time a few years ago everyone knows it's the 1st punk single such great lyrics piano vocals - impossible not to cry while listening to this what a gorgeous planet

[stadtrade102]

Just dont like the music ,dose my head in the lyrics are ok

[Ed534]

Never heard this one before. Sounds pretty good. I like the instruments. Would like to read the lyrics somewhere.

[heretoday7x]

She is freakin' awesome!

[ColdOasisU2]

The guitar in the start sounds like Can't Stop by Red Hot Chili Peppers

[MysticGizmos]

@ColdOasisU2 It's just a guitar note, and then a transition a whole step up, hahaha.

[ColdOasisU2]

one of the greatest lyrics written by a woman in rock

[tontoaine]

the ways that boys smell, that forbidden acrid smell

[tizzletdem]

i think i prefer ale

[tizzletdem]

or john smith?



[tizzletdem]

is this pattis smith?

[IVIIIVV]

Real life coming outta jersey even though she's not.

[MucusSkunkk]

this has to be favorite song of all time.. so good

[alicitapalomita]

This is about her life and the people she knew when she was just a kid she had to work in really horrible conditions at a factory. She's so inspiring she made a great song/poem out of the horrors of the past instead of letting herself get beat down. <3 love you patti. one of a kind.

[REMCUREBOY]

If I"m ever sent to a desert island to live for the rest of my life, and I'm allowed to take a disc of only Patti's music, I'll be just fine. I mean, having "Piss Factory" with me alone would make me happy to be alive.

[hayleycindy]

this woman moves me to tears...that is a quite an accomplishment for an artist in my opinion

[glaeken14]

I love it.

[JBonzo1988]

mi piaghete

[gunkadin]

Piss Factory is Beat poetry. Kerouac, with piano substitued for bongos.

[brakspeed]

like poetry

[irishturkishcoffee]

Re: lastpost

You just don't realize what a brilliant song it is! All her music is really meaningful and fantastic, but you probably just listen to the sort of meaningLESS, boring crap by stick-thin generics (who can't sing anyway, let alone write proper songs) and for your shallow drivel, she's very beautiful and you're the only person I've ever met who doesn't like her.

Piss off!

[jasonharris951]

Patti fans please do not take this personal, and this is just my messed up opinion I guess. I seen interviews with this lady and she is a kind hearted, soft spoken lady, but what the hell is so good about this music to all of you. It is weird and it sucks. She looks like now days what tiny tim looked like in his last days. How in the hell do these people become so famous. Everybody I run into tells me that I look like Kevin Bacon in his younger days, I don't see it. So where is my money.

[huggablesolipist]

@jasonharris951 Looks aren't shit, Talent and Genius will take you further.

[Nhovenghast]

@jasonharris951 Fame. So many people like to say they 'worked hard' to get where they are. They probably did, but a million others worked just as hard and got nothing. Some say they were 'determined to succeed', as if this were a novelty. Some say they were just lucky, which is probably more or less true, but it's not the whole story. So why is Patti Smith famous? Charisma, luck, intelligence, good timing, good promotion, a little 'je ne sais quoi', and likely a whole heap more random qualities.

[bigmagic96]

@jasonharris951 No offence taken, just listen to it properly. Start with Paths That Cross, Frederick, Dancing Barefoot, When Doves Cry, People Have The Power. Suspect you'll think differently afterwards.

All the best BM

[FXMAN66]

@jasonharris951 It is a messed up opinion because it is lacking any knowledge of this lady. If you knew her history and WHY she has made the mark she has not only only music but poetry you might be able to answer all of your questions!

[irishturkishcoffee]

I love her early songs.

[IzuraStar]

I cant stop hearing this track, the strength on it, is truly touchin. Is not just about the sarcasm, its about will, and dreams....youth dreams.

Im about to write that last part on my room wall: ..."i will never faint...i will never faint...im gonna be somebody...iam gonna be so big..."

I hope that, readin patti words everyday, reminds me how to deal bravely with the world...Thank you Patti Smith

[artiyuri]

Still speechless, I'm trying....but...groovy sh*t ! Cheers Lukensal...

[callmesomeone]

She is as they say she is and that is THE Godmother of Punk!..and for those that haven't read it yet, read it now! Just Kids is more than some book about growing up. It's a tale of growing together and what happens when circumstance forces togetherness to be apart. It's 100% magical 50% sad and totally original

[AhYaOk]

its a paycheck jack

[skinmelive]

I love her voice and sarcasm...

[MyPinkRainbow]

love it

[London2272]

When I first heard this song I was 16, just out of school and into a factory. It was on a compilation album of 'punk' and I just didn't get it.

Thirty two years later, I get it.

[smooterus]

@London2272 me against the wheel

[easywild]

the piano and her voice are amazing...

[Bootmahoy88]

God I love the antipathy Patti inspires. Love her or hate her. There is NO middle ground. She's always been a word smith like sabor wielder. No need to say a thing, just listen and stand back to watch the bugs fight. Really, art as instigator, this IS as good as it gets.

[iluvPANDAZZZZZZZ]

Can someone give me a website where i can get a biography about Patti Smith

[adamspun]

@iluvPANDAZZZZZZZ wiki mna check it out

[RobNickel001]

@iluvPANDAZZZZZZZ Get her new book "Just Kids". It's awesome. I just read the part where she recorded this song.

[irishturkishcoffee]

@RobNickel001 me too!

[moo135bl7]

this reminds me of my crap job

[flakbac]

makin the rich richer probably makin keith richard t-shirts

[GeeWizz9528]

Authentic and energizing.

[daddyfatsaxohten]

Old style piano and Patti riffing on words like they were written on some kind of alien typewriter... the kind of tune worth actually giving a listen to. Good stuff

[kaoslife2386]

woman natures punching bag

[infinityonfire147]

This is the anthem for everyone who works a shitty job.

[thegoldenwalrus]

This song inspired me to get the hell out of my shithole town. My favorite song.

[mailman2trashman]

i <3 her

[pabloagostini83]

my favourite patti ´s song. Thanks!

[lurch321]

I like how both Patti AND the piano sound angry as hell.

[dual506]

Genius.

[Fancybowties]

this lady is fucking incredible.

[1471ization]

James Brown singing i lost someone......

[IdeaUK]

i want to sample that piano, turn this into a hip hop beat

[madraykin09]

greastest song ever

[ScarlettRoberts]

work in shit places makes greats songs!

[lepopnoir]

Quintessential Patti xxx

[linsanda]

shake it up sally

[drivertv666]

this is it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[ccipollini1984]

I used to work at the processing center at the Goodwill. It was miserable work. The air broke all the time and it was crowded hot and half the people working there were either working off community service or on work release. Meanwhile, the supervisors watched every possible thing you did and wrote you up for the smallest possible "infraction". I have since left and am happy for that and know exactly what Patti must have felt. That inner world percolating and harsh, gritty reality dueling.

[TorysApollo]

I love this woman. She is a genius.

[BeGrunge]

Anyone have songs of hers that sound like this one tha they could reccomend? i like her other stuff a lot, but this has to be my favorite song of hers. she has a lot of different styles...

[serenitysam21]

Got to go to number 11 on the volume button for this one :-)

[findingarainbow]

This is a deep song about the bad things, helplessness and anger people stuck working shit jobs in filthy factories (thus the name of the song...it was so dirty and such a messed up place of wrong things happening she called it PISS factory its also like IM PISSED OFF)....experience and feel like she did when she was only 16 and had to work there to help her parents and siblings. ode to the working class, working children/females, rebels with causes and all people who free themselves of cages.

[remindbender]

on broken wor(l)ds spoken out hurts. this working class girl is ass tough'n'rough as she is gifted with passion. a heroine somewhat survives on her own myth.

[findingarainbow]

she is amazing she tackles so many social issues even how men are sexist towards women who are getting raped in sweat shops and horrible factories throughout the years long ago and even today so sad and im so proud of patti for being so brave back in 1974 and even braver today at 70 years old she is just amazing even more brave wow this is an incredible song of an incredible person so so so brave and important she should recieve humanitarian and music awards both thanks patti you are an angel

[ccipollini1984]

@findingarainbow

she's 63!

[loungelizard5000]

If people don't realize the all-time greatest rockers came out of Detroit, well.......they are really missing out. From John Lee hooker in the 40's to Jack Whites bands in the 2000's......Iggy and the Stooges, Aretha, Ted, Alice Cooper, Bob, MC5, Goober and the Peas, The Dirtbombs, Patti Smith, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Destroy All Monsters, ALLLLL the Motown stuff....just too many to list them all.

[Gogolmun]

@loungelizard5000 Agreed! It's places like detroit,philly,new york,memphis/nashville that just have this oomph to em, that gives birth to creation it seems more so than others. When you go there you can feel something that you don't really feel anywhere else...NO offense to anyone anywhere else.

[Crlmrtn]

@loungelizard5000 patti? new jersey and NY my friend

[loungelizard5000]

@Crlmrtn You are right...she grew up there and made her name there....but after she got married to Fred "Sonic" Smith, who was from Detroit, she lived in a suburb of Detroit, St. Claire Shores, throughout the 80's, and her son married the legendary Meg White, of Detroit's own, The White Stripes. FYI. You are right though, on where she grew up.

[theundertaker919]

ummmm piss factory? i think i have one of those.

[zukuzukuzukuzuku]

her brain makes honey and the air that went into her lungs and was just air, has come out as that honey, and she speaks in tongues

her silver tongue is a snake in your ear, telling you to take the fruit because it's good, and she's right, and the big man is wrong, and it is

eternally so

[otacon17x]

Much better than the A side

[zigzagw]

Feel the power

[byroncallas]

Patti - one of a kind. Yes - as good as it gets.

[woodywoodcock]

" EVER, Marquis Moon. If you don't know it, try it! 1 month ago"

Err, that's ' Marquee Moon'

[marissamickles]

I get to meet her today. Such an amazing woman, I mean, you can't name a better idol for a 15 year old like me! :)

[weightSndrumS]

these chords are from thet steely dan song

[slimukulele]

Allen Ginsburg slid up to Patti at a NYC automat ,gave some exrta change for a pie and asked her

Are you a Boy?

[christvswarhol]

@slimukulele Hahah classic.............

[fashionista16]

One of the best recordings ever made, no questions asked.

[lebarosky]

:43 pure Robert Mapplethorpe

[walesdad]

After all these years,still a stunning track.

[fnnichols]

Yea right

[cduffynyc]

Boogying guitarist is Tom Verlaine, lead ax from the great punk band TELEVISION, who made one of the best albums EVER, Marquis Moon. If you don't know it, try it!

[CaddyDolsome]

Nasty. Raw. Beautiful. Love it.

[londonjoe100]

im i goig mad.are is this single playin at 47.i still love it like.iv always played this trac on a old punk lpi think ithe new york dolls play next .

[SAbRiNabreathless90]

"Never return, no, never return, to burn out in this piss factory

And I will travel light.

Oh, watch me now. "

spectacular

[alixiisthefusion]

god......damn.....patti smith is ...i'm speechless. she blows me away every time i listen to her tracks.

[PersoonB]

wow, she is really the best...

[iwannabeyourdog1969]

"i would rather smell the way, boy's smell"

[ultimatech0pper]

shit guys thats rap in the 70s?

[MobiusCoin]

spoken word... yes

[fnnichols]

Saw P.S. movie last year,also saw her in D.C. in late 70,s twice.Movie was cool,she gets quite obnoxious after 2 hours though!

[leo81316]

Piss Factory by Patti Smith 4 me - This is as good as it gets. Pure voice - Blake in Brain, Blake in loin. the social truth of the 3rd generation of the forgotten orphaned by History in the shadow of the used to be Factory prosperity and The Devils Of Loudun gnosis of Saint Teresa draped like a Pietà over her own stink finger driven 12 times slack jaw, dripping and grinning up into the fireflies of far flung suns gone, gone, gone utterly Beyond the Green Door without apology. - Leo Rivers

[luchador1764]

@leo81316 Honestly, this is as bad as it gets. This zero talent song is absolutely worthless and has the most ridiculous message. I understand your felling of losing all the old greats from back in the day, but really dude this is god awful. Not a good voice, completely drugged out person, seriously dude this is horrible.

[dumdum5]

@luchador1764 you are a completly empty soul whith no feelings at all you 're mind is so small that you are incapable of feeling the energy the power of that music and those words you have to be at a certain level at list open to be touched by that kind of energy this is not for you don't destroy what you don't understand it's typical of ignorants to act like that go to avril lavigne just leave and don't come back

[jackhillty]

you betta get off your mustang, sally...

[javaanse54321]

patti smith is the best

[REMCUREBOY]

@javaanse54321 I concur !!

[yancybutler]

What happened to her voice from 1974-1978? it got alot deeper in that time.

[galehout]

yes, i think it's normal for a woman singer on 30 years old

[6motion6]

"Every afternoon like the last one, every afternoon like a re-run" just one of the many lyrical highlights. Anyone who has felt alienated from their labor knows this feeling. This lyric also is a great descripton of how anything in life must feel to someone who has no passion for anything.

[easychord1]

I'm 48 and have had this single since I was a teen. I love it, but although I get the drift of the lyrics, that she's in a dead-end job going nowhere, dreaming and despairing, I still don't understand exactly what it's about.

What is a piss factory, and who is Dot Hook? Is the singer a prostitute? A plumber? A drug addict? In jail?

Just wondering.

[josiahscurlock]

I've heard it said that it's about Patti Smith's own experiences working on a factory line, and how her agony was relieved by a copy of "Illuminations" by Arthur Rimbaud. As you say, though, the lyrics are somewhat obscure.

[6motion6]

I think Dot Hook is her sausage sucking co-worker who is one of those co-workers who love to make trouble for any work mate they don't like. I think piss factory is just a derogatory term for a factory-a horrible place to work. Although with all the disappearing jobs, particularly in manufacturing, a piss factory might help the economy, but that's ok, I don't want to work there. This song is one of my all time favorites!

[cachitakhusha]

it's flying away from doing things that don't matter.  A piss factory would be a place that produces nothing worth it... piss.

It's about refusing what other have planned for you...

It's about taking freedom into your own hands and kissing it.

She is vere

[fxclub]

great song

she should've jacked the singing in after making this imho

[sabahrosao]

thanx a lot,...i waited for this one more than 24 years..and it´s so beautiful...

[TakeMeToTheRiots]

God i love this song.

Randomly i always just say "These women got no teeth". :)

[colonelmatterson]

Funny, I find myself randomly saying "you're screwing up the quota" in that way that she says it.

[thetrueiggy]

"i figured i was speedo motorcycle"

thats my thing. :)

[AnarchoMojo]

Some true punk-lyricism here.

[theothor]

I remember this song in high school reston,va I think `81

[spotswoodthenewt]

LOL...Well that was in error, meant for who I sharing it with, but it's true, very rare, that original single, and this tune did change me... Thanks for putting it up here!

[spotswoodthenewt]

I know I sent this before, different video, though...shows the original single here, where I heard it from at age 15. Changed me the first time I heard it. That single is very rare, Mer records.

[gerardmanleyh]

Rare indeed - my copy has the labels stuck on the wrong sides, so make me an offer!!