Patti Smith - Horses (US original) Vinyl rip in 24 Bit/ 96 Khz + CD

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." –Allmusic.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Gloria" (Patti Smith, Van Morrison) – 5:57
Part I: "In Excelsis Deo"
Part II: "Gloria"
2. "Redondo Beach" (Smith, Richard Sohl, Lenny Kaye) – 3:26
3. "Birdland" (Smith, Sohl, Kaye, Ivan Kral) – 9:15
4. "Free Money" (Smith, Kaye) – 3:52

Side two

5. "Kimberly" (Smith, Allen Lanier, Kral) – 4:27
6. "Break It Up" (Smith, Tom Verlaine) – 4:04
7. "Land" (Smith, Chris Kenner) – 9:25
Part I: "Horses"
Part II: "Land of a Thousand Dances"
Part III: "La Mer (De)"
8. "Elegie" (Smith, Lanier) – 2:57

Band

* Patti Smith – vocals, guitar
* Jay Dee Daugherty – drums, consultant
* Lenny Kaye – guitar, bass guitar, vocals
* Ivan Kral – bass guitar, guitar, vocals
* Richard Sohl – keyboards