Name: Horses
Brand: Patti Smith

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

AL4006

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

180 Gram. Speakers Corner Version. Remastered - Pure Analogue From the Master Tapes Through to the Cutting Head

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

F Minor

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4260019712721

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Patti Smith

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Legacy

Essential

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 and 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 &amp; roll song."

Horses

Music GB