Patti Smith - Horses
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Artist: Patti SmithEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
Published: 1996
CD Release Date: 1996-06-18
Music Label: Arista
Soundtracks:
- Gloria
- Redondo Beach
- Birdland
- Free Money
- Kimberly
- Break It Up
- Land: Horses/Land Of A Thousand Dances/La Mer (De)
- Elegie
- My Generation (Bonus Track)
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Free Music Review: Decade-defining rock album
Hit: 5 Stars
I should preface this review by saying that I don't listen to rock anymore, having long since left it for Miles, Mingus, Monk, Coltrane, Coleman, Cecil, and Braxton. However, there are still some few albums that "do it" for me, and I think these are among the albums that are definitive of rock'n roll: Hendrix's Are You Experienced?, Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, The Velvet Underground and Nico, The Stooges' debut, Zappa's Hot Rats, Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, Joni Mitchell's Blue, Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, The Stones' Exile on Main Street, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, The Clash's London Calling, The Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bullocks, The Violent Femmes' self-titled debut, the Pixies' Doolittle, Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, Nirvana's Nevermind, and, perhaps above all, Patti Smith's Horses. Smith's lyrics stand with Dylan's, Joni's, Leonard Cohen's, and Bob Marley's as the most influential popular poetry of the twentieth century. And her music is pretty good, too...
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On her 1975 debut, Smith was full of piss and vinegar, seriously interested in bringing together high art and low three-chord rock & roll. As a result, her free-form poetry meshes with covers of "Gloria" and "Land of a Thousand Dances," and the album centers on two long, highfalutin' pieces, including the three-part suite (warning! warning! art!) "Land." (The CD version appends a messy live take on The Who's "My Generation.") Led by Richard Sohl's piano, the arrangements don't exactly rock, and some of Smith's songwriting gets buried in its stylistic affectations (there's a great song under "Redondo Beach"'s fake reggae). But the point of Horses was Smith's persona of volume, cunning and exile, and it comes through distinctly. --Douglas WolkAlternative Rock Music CDs
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