My Top Tracks: Patti Smith, Because the Night

This is the seventh post of My Top 100 Tracks When Patti Smith has come up in conversations in the past and people have said 'Oh, yeah, Because the Night, I love that song', I've always felt superior and sneery. It's her most commercially successful song, but she wrote lots of other great ones, less poppy and amazing. In fact, she didn't even write this one (I thought). But when I made my list of…