We don't know the exact year that this clip first aired, and frankly, we're not even sure we want to know, as the sight of Patti Smith singing "You Light Up My Life" to an audience of overjoyed kids is so wondrous and strange, we'd like to think it took place within some yet-to-be-realized astral plane. The best part is the pre-performance Q&A, in which Smith's mentions of punk rock and Mick Jagger elicit shrieks of joy from the romper-room crowd. Be warned: This could make you weep with joy for days on end.
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During last week's discussion of Marmite artists—those artists that are so divisive, they force people to take sides, with no one left in the middle—Idolator commenter moomintroll wondered if we shouldn't try and find more ways to classify popular bands through their analogues to various condiments. Since we figured the safe space in the fridge inhabited by your ketchups, your mustards, and your molding bottles of Hidden Valley Ranch was as good a way to make sense of the current musical landscape as any, we invited her to flesh out her theory for us. It's after the jump!
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Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields will release a double-CD recording of The Coral Sea. The discs will draw from performances in 2005 and 2006, at which Smith recited a poem about the death of her friend photographer Robert Mapplethorpe while Shields made what was presumably an ungodly amount of noise behind her with guitars and effect pedals.
