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Horses is the debut album by American singer Patti Smith . It was produced by John Cale and released on December 13, 1975 on Arista Records . Horses is considered one of the most influential rock albums in music history. The portrait photo on the cover is from Robert Mapplethorpe .
Track list
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page A
- 1. Gloria - 5:57
- In Excelsis Deo (Patti Smith)
- Gloria ( Van Morrison )
- 2. Redondo Beach (Smith, Richard Sohl, Lenny Kaye ) - 3:26
- 3. Birdland (Smith, Sohl, Kaye, Ivan Král ) - 9:15
- 4. Free Money (Smith, Kaye) - 3:52
Side B
- 1. Kimberly (Smith, Allen Lanier, Kral) - 4:27
- 2. Break It Up (Smith, Tom Verlaine ) - 4:04
- 3rd country - 9:25
- Horses (Smith)
- Land, of a Thousand Dances ( Chris Kenner )
- La Mer (de) (Smith)
- 4th Elegy (Smith, Lanier) - 2:57
Bonus track (CD release)
- My Generation (Live) ( Pete Townshend ) - 3:16
reception
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The album received positive reviews. Lester Bangs wrote in Creem that the album contained "the best garage band sound that was heard so far in the 1970s". The German music magazine Sounds praised the "sound in which rock riffs and speech rhythms merged more and more" in 1979 and felt musically reminiscent of the rhythmic monotony and hypnotic singing of John Cales Velvet Underground , lyrically to Arthur Rimbaud , William S. Burroughs and the slang of New York heroin addicts . The reviewer complained, however, of an excess of artistic will, pathos and mannerism : some passages were "almost tormented artistic".
In 2012, the renowned music magazine Rolling Stone listed Horses at number 44 of the 500 best albums of all time . The New Musical Express ranks the album at number 12 of the 500 best albums of all time. In the list of 100 best albums of the Guardians is ranked No. 33. The magazine Time took Horses on the selection of the top 100 albums.
“Because Smith was a poet before she was a singer… and John Cale of the Velvet Underground produced… and her lover Robert Mapplethorpe took the cover photo, Horses is often praised for fusing classical verse, feminism, punk and the avant-garde — which makes this epic debut sound like it belongs on a syllabus for a class few people would willingly take. In fact, it's a rock record of overwhelming power. "
“ Horses turned out to be as obsessive as it was cathartic gem. An album that combined literary influences from poets like William Blake , Emily Dickinson and William Burroughs with ecstatic rock had never been tried before. [...] Horses achieved the status of a political manifesto for a different order of things than the bourgeois worldview, a permanent milestone in American alternative culture. "
“Patti Smith creates a moving mix of rock and poetry on her debut. She gives as much to Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan as she does to the philosophers William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud. Musically she often quotes the old rock greats, but lyrically she goes further: Patti Smith uses simple words to create powerful images in the listener's head. [...] Horses is exactly the kind of raw art rock that became the model for the later punk and new wave movement. But Horses is more than the three-chord minimalism that The Clash or the Buzzcocks later made famous. It's a collection of poetic allusions to rock music - which you may need to be a few years older to understand. But you can also feel the power that emanates from this album. "
“With Horses there were new rules for female pop stars: the LP set signals for singers from Chrissie Hynde and Johnette Napolitano to Courtney Love and Liz Phair . But Patti Smith's effect was not limited to one gender. She combined the energy of the sprouting New York punk scene with the adventurous tales of the Californian beat poets and created a unique sound that even influenced art-loving bands like Talking Heads and REM . Teaming up with John Cale, Smith created a hypnotic and painfully personal album that is still a big hit after 30 years. [...] Horses received positive reviews, the modest hit reached number 47 on the Billboard charts. More important and so far undisputed, however, was that the LP established Patti Smith as the greatest punk poet in rock history. "
In 2010 Horses was inducted into the National Recording Registry .
literature
- Mark Paytress: Break it Up: Patti Smith's “Horses” and the Remaking of Rock 'n' Roll . Piatkus Books / Portrait, London 2006. ISBN 0-7499-5107-9
Web links
- Horses at Allmusic (English)
- Deutschlandfunk.de , Corso , December 12th 2015, Juliane Reil: A milestone in rock history turns 40
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review by William Ruhlmann on allmusic.com (accessed November 15, 2017)
- ↑ Discography Patti Smith, in: Spin 9/2008, p. 108.
- ↑ Review by Josef Gasteiger on laut.de (accessed November 15, 2017)
- ↑ Review by Peter Felkel on musikexpress.de (accessed November 15, 2017)
- ↑ Lätz Däntz: Patti Smith: Horses. In: Sounds. Plates 66-77 , Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1979, p. 1168 f.
- ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com, accessed November 15, 2017
- ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 100-1 on nme.com, accessed November 15, 2017
- ↑ The Guardian 100 Best Albums Ever (1997) on discogs.com, accessed November 15, 2017
- ↑ a b All-TIME 100 Albums on time.com, accessed November 15, 2017
- ^ Schütte, Uwe: Basis-Diskothek Rock and Pop, Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 2004, pp. 165-66.
- ^ BR Ruhmeshalle: Horses (7.3.2013) on br.de, accessed on November 15, 2017
- ↑ Dimery, Robert (ed.): 1001 albums - music you should hear before life is over, 8th edition, Edition Olms Zurich 2015, p. 348.
- ↑ The Sounds of Fighting Men, Howlin 'Wolf and Comedy Icon Among 25 Named to the National Recording Registry at loc.gov, accessed November 15, 2017