PATTI SMITH (1975) Horses / original US press Arista
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PATTI SMITH
HORSES (1975)
It isn't hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on her debut album, which anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played rock & roll, featuring Lenny Kaye's rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of Smith's vocals, and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics -- all prefigure the coming movement as it evolved on both sides of the Atlantic. Smith is a rock critic's dream, a poet as steeped in '60s garage rock as she is in French Symbolism; "Land" carries on from the Doors' "The End," marking her as a successor to Jim Morrison, while the borrowed choruses of "Gloria" and "Land of a Thousand Dances" are more in tune with the era of sampling than they were in the '70s.
Producer John Cale respected Smith's primitivism in a way that later producers did not, and the loose, improvisatory song structures worked with her free verse to create something like a new spoken word/musical art form: Horses was a hybrid, the sound of a post-Beat poet, as she put it, "dancing around to the simple rock & roll song." [William Ruhlmann – ALL MUSIC GUIDE]
LISTEN TO PART OF THIS RECORD HERE!
TRACK LISTING:
- Tedondo Beach
- Birdland
- Free Money
- Kimberly
- Break It Up
- Land
- Elegie
CONDITION: VG++ RECORD in a NEAR MINT JACKET! Original US pressing on Arista with light blue label. From the personal collection of writer George Gimarc – Punk Diary 1970-1982
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