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Patti Smith –Horses lp [usa]

400.00kr

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Cover is still in shrink but has bumped corners

Early US pressing with light blue label with white Arista logo. Horses in black on front cover. Matrix is: AL-4066-A RG PP AL-6066-SA-RE PP (Peter Pan pressing) Mom+Dad Sterling

Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine

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 n 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 n roll song.

Track list:
1. Gloria:
a) In Excelsis Deo
b) Gloria (Version)
2. Redondo Beach
3. Birdland
4. Free Money
5. Kimberly
6. Break It Up
7. Land:
8. Horses
9. Land, Of A Thousand Dances
10. La Mer(de)
11. Elegie

Additional information

Label

Arista Records

Catalogue Number

AL 4066