Patti Smith - Horses

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Article name: Horses
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: ARISTA USA Number of tracks: 8 Duration: 43:10

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Smith, Patti - Gloria (Digitally Remastered 1996) Smith, Patti - Redondo Beach (Digitally Remastered) Smith, Patti - Birdland (Digitally Remastered 1996) Smith, Patti - Free Money (Digitally Remastered 1996) Smith, Patti - Kimberly (Digitally Remastered 1996) Smith, Patti - Break It Up (Digitally Remastered 1996) / Land (Digitally Remastered 1996) [Horses / Land Of A Thousand Dances / La Mer] Smith, Patti - Elegie (Digitally Remastered 1996) Smith, Patti - Elegie

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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

William Ruhlmann