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PATTI SMITH

LENNY KAYE, JAY DEE DAUGHERTY, IVAN KRAL, RICHARD SOHL, PATTI SMITH,
plus plus TOM VERLAINE and ALLEN LANIER*

Punk rock's poet laureate Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. 
Ambitious, unconventional, and challenging, Smith's music was hailed as the most exciting fusion 
of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan's heyday. If that hybrid remained distinctly uncommercial for 
much of her career, it wasn't a statement against accessibility so much as the simple fact that 
Smith followed her own muse wherever it took her -- from structured rock songs to free-form 
experimentalism, or even completely out of music at times. Her most avant-garde outings drew 
a sense of improvisation and interplay from free jazz, though they remained 
firmly rooted in noisy, primitive, three-chord rock & roll

"HORSES"

<reissue, originally published in 1975>

Produced by: John Cale

LP     ARISTA RECORDS     AB 4066 

PRINTED IN U.S.A.    LATE-70S REPRESSING

[Originally released in the US with catalog number AL 4066 in 1975, later reissued with catalog

number AB 6066 after 1976, and again reissued with catalog number ALB6-8362 in the 1980s.

Original US pressings were released on light blue 'Arista Records' labels, some versions

have 'Horses' printed in white lettering on the cover, while other versions

have 'Horses' printed in black lettering on the cover.]

SINGLE SLEEVE

HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER + LIGHT BLUE COMPANY INNER

This version: "HORSES" in black on front cover;

Light Blue label with 'Arista' on the left side of the logo on top.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: ARISTA  - LIGHT BLUE LABEL w/ARISTA on the left side of the LOGO on top - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (front, rear & spine) AB 4066

Catalog on labels:  AB 4066 (AB 4066 SA) / AB 4066 (AB 4066 SB)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): I T   AB-4066-SA-T6

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): I T   AB-4066-SB-CT7

Other / Runout (on both sides, Stamped): STERLING

On labels: rim text reads "Manufactured by Arista Records, Inc.,.......N.Y., N.Y. 10019"

?1975 Arista Records, Inc.

Produced by John Cale

Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.

On Back Cover: Notes by Patti Smith

Recorded and mixed at Electric Lady Studios NYC

*Allen Lanier appears through the courtesy of Columbia Records

? & © 1975 Arista Records........Printed in U.S.A.

tracklisting

Side A: GLORIA: In Excelsis Deo, Gloria (version)

REDONDO BEACH - BIRDLAND - FREE MONEY

Side B: KIMBERLY - BREAK IT UP

LAND: Horses, Land Of A Thousand Dances, La Mer(de) - ELEGIE

grading

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

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."...(AllMusic)