Songs and albums convey recurrent themes of loss, mourning, recovery, anti-materialism, and complex responses to fame. Glitter in Their Eyes delivers a punchy plea for younger listeners to resist materialism, with Tom Verlaine contributing guitar. Peace and Noise continues the immersion in grief established earlier, while Don't Say Nothing reads as a note-to-self effort to shake off torpor and start over. Space Monkey pairs streetwise rock'n'roll with surreal imagery of alien invasion or vengeful space simians. Paths That Cross offers an optimistic view of eternity after a partner's death, Frederick proclaims unabashed love, and Privilege interrogates fame by fusing cinematic source material with Psalm 23.
Not all the politicking on Gung Ho landed right Stange Messengers is unbearably clumsy but Glitter in Their Eyes' plea for a younger generation not to get hooked on materialism is impressively punchy and potent, abetted by the presence on guitar of her old sparring partner, Television's Tom Verlaine. Like its predecessor, Gone Again, Peace and Noise was an album awash with loss and mourning.
18. Space Monkey (1978) A streetwise rock'n'roll strut, married to a lyric in which an alien invasion, or possibly the revenge of simians used in space exploration, gets mixed up with the French actor Pierre Clementi. If Easter was Smith's most commercial album thus far, you never forgot you were in the presence of a one-off figure. Smith in the 70s.
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