Patti Smith - 1975 Horses @ 320

Patti Smith - Horses (1975) @ 320 kbps

Horses is the debut album by Patti Smith released in November 1975, produced by John Cale. The innovative track, "Land", is a radical reworking of Chris Kenner's "Land of a Thousand Dances". "Gloria" is a similar reinterpretation of the old Van Morrison classic. "Birdland" is based upon "A Book of Dreams" (1973), a memoir of Wilhelm Reich by his son Peter.

While Horses's commercial success was modest – it peaked at #47 on the U.S. Pop Albums chart – its impact has been far greater.

Smith has been called an early pioneer of punk rock, such as by allmusic's William Ruhlman, who said that it "isn't hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on Horses", while PopMatters' David Antrobus chose it as his favorite album and considered it a life-changing classic. Michael Stipe bought the album as a high school student and says it "tore my limbs off and put them back on in a whole different order."

Horses frequently appears on lists compiling the greatest rock albums. Mojo Magazine named the album the tenth greatest of all time in 1995. In 2001, VH1 named Horses the 28th greatest album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 44 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

An episode of Millennium, "The Time Is Now", would later use the song "Land" in a bizarre "music video" sequence depicting a character's descent into madness.

Tracklist:


01. "Gloria" (Patti Smith, Van Morrison) – 5:56
"In Excelsis Deo" (Smith)
"Gloria" (Morrison)
02. "Redondo Beach" (Smith, Richard Sohl, Lenny Kaye) – 3:26
03. "Birdland" (Smith, Sohl, Kaye, Ivan Kral) – 9:15
04. "Free Money" (Smith, Kaye) – 3:51
05. "Kimberly" (Smith, Allen Lanier, Kral) – 4:26
06. "Break It Up" (Smith, Tom Verlaine) – 4:04
07. "Land" (Smith, Chris Kenner) – 9:25
"Horses" (Smith)
"Land of a Thousand Dances" (Kenner)
"La Mer(de)" (Smith)
08. "Elegie" (Smith, Lanier) – 2:56

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