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.".
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Redondo BeachLenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Richard Sohl | Patti Smith | Play | 04:37 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | BirdlandLenny Kaye, Ivan Král, Patti Smith, Richard Sohl | Patti Smith | Play | 09:52 | 22 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | Free MoneyLenny Kaye, Patti Smith | Patti Smith | Play | 03:50 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | KimberlyIvan Král, Allen Lanier, Patti Smith | Patti Smith | Play | 05:28 | 12 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | Break It UpPatti Smith, Tom Verlaine | Patti Smith | Play | 05:24 | 12 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (De)Chris Kenner, Patti Smith | Patti Smith | Play | 09:25 | 21 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | ElegieAllen Lanier, Patti Smith | Patti Smith | Play | 05:08 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | Gloria: In Excelsis Deo | Patti Smith | Play | 05:54 | 13 MB | 0 MB |
| 49 mins | 113 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Aaron | Photography |
| 2 | Vic Anesini | Mastering |
| 3 | Edie Baskin | Photography |
| 4 | John Cale | Bass, Guest Artist, Producer |
| 5 | Frank D'Augusta | Assistant Engineer |
| 6 | Jay Dee Daugherty | Drums, Musical Consultant |
| 7 | Danny Fields | Photography |
| 8 | Bob Gruen | Photography |
| 9 | Bob Heimall | Design |
| 10 | Bob Irwin | Mastering, Reissue Mastering |
| 11 | Lenny Kaye | Bass, Composer, Guest Artist, Guitar, Vocals |
| 12 | Chris Kenner | Composer |
| 13 | Bernie Kirsh | Engineer, Mastering |
| 14 | Ivan Král | Bass, Composer, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals |
| 15 | Chuck Krall | Photography |
| 16 | Allen Lanier | Composer, Guitar, Keyboards, Producer |
| 17 | Bob Ludwig | Mastering |
| 18 | Robert Mapplethorpe | Photography |
| 19 | Van Morrison | Composer |
| 20 | Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns | Inspiration |
| 21 | Patti Smith | Composer, Guitar, Liner Notes, Primary Artist, Vocals |
| 22 | Richard Sohl | Composer, Piano |
| 23 | Pete Townshend | Composer |
| 24 | Tom Verlaine | Composer, Guest Artist, Guitar |
| 25 | Sherri Whitmarsh | Design, Reissue Design |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |