HORSES
PATTI SMITH
(1975)
A1: GLORIA a) IN EXCELSIS DEO b) GLORIA (VERSION) (5.54); A2: REDONDO BEACH (3:24); A3: BIRDLAND (9:16); A4: FREE MONEY (3:47).
B1: KIMBERLY (4:26); B2: BREAK IT UP (4:05); B3: LAND a) HORSES b) LAND, OF A THOUSAND DANCES c) LA MER(DE) (9:36); B4: ELEGIE (2:42).
CATEGORY: POP-ROCK | DURATION: 43 MINUTES
After writing lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult, New York poet Patti Smith teamed up with Lenny Kaye, curator of the influential Nuggets compilation, to form an avant-garde garage band which shook up the world with a combination of Rimbaud-inspired hallucinatory poetry and driving rock and roll not heard since Jim Morrison and The Doors. Horses, the immaculate first articulation of this aesthetic – fittingly produced by John Cale – became an instant classic and further established that the future of rock and roll, from the New York Dolls up, was being minted in New York City – with London just one year behind.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT YOUNG (1964-2014)
“ÆTERNUM VORTICE LACRIMARUM SOMNIAT”