Description

‘Horses’ is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith, released in November 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. 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’.

Track Listing

1. Gloria5.58
2. Redondo Beach3.26
3. Birdland9.16
4. Free Money3.52
5. Kimberly4.27
6. Break It Up4.04
7. Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (De)9.26
8. Elegie2.56
9. My Generation3.17

Information

• Format: Vinyl / 12″ Album
• Label: Sony Music CMG
• Release Date: 07/08/2015
• Running Time (minutes): 46.40
• Number of Discs: 1
• EAN: 0888751117310