Smith, Patti
Horses
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Sealed 2012 Remastered Edition. “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.” AMG - William Ruhlmann