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Patti Smith - Horses (1975/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 43:10 minutes | 1005 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

 The seminal punk classic, newly remastered by Vic Anesini. Produced by John Cale (Velvet Underground), Patti Smith's poetic lyrics and the band's proto-punk sound continue to inspire countless bands. Horses ranks #44 on Rolling Stones' "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list, and frequently appears on many critics and fans top picks.


 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".  


Tracklist:

 01 - Gloria
 02 - Redondo Beach
 03 - Birdland
 04 - Free Money
 05 - Kimberly
 06 - Break It Up
 07 - Land
 08 - Elegie


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