Patti Smith - Horses
Patti Smith – vocals
Jay Dee Daugherty – drums
Lenny Kaye – lead guitar
Ivan Král – bass guitar, guitar
Richard Sohl – piano
Allen Lanier – guitar on "Elegie"
Tom Verlaine – guitar on "Break It Up"
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Record Press : Pallas GmbH in Germany
Label : Speakers Corner
Original Label : Arista
Recorded January 1975 at Electric Ladyland Studios, New York City
Engineered and mastered by Bernie Kirsh, Bob Ludwig
Produced by John Cale
Photography by Robert Mapplethorpe
Originally released in 1975
Reissued in 2018
Tracks:
Side A :
- Gloria
- Redondo Beach
- Birdland
- Free Money
Side B :
- Kimberly
- Break it Up
- Land
- Elegie
Award :
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 26/500
1000 Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die - Ranked 343
Reviews :
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 Review by William Ruhlmann
"From its first defiant line, "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine," the opening shot in a bold reinvention of Van Morrison's garage-rock classic "Gloria," Smith's debut album was a declaration of committed mutiny, a statement of faith in the transfigurative powers of rock & roll. Horses made her the queen of punk." - www.rollingstone.com
Ratings :
AllMusic : 5 / 5 , Discogs: 4,37 / 5 , Rate Your Music: 3,97 / 5