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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."
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John Cale, Producer - VAN MORRISON, Composer, Lyricist - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1975 Arista Records LLC
Lenny Kaye, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Richard Sohl, Composer, Lyricist, Piano - John Cale, Producer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Kral, Guitar, Bass Guitar
(P) 1975 Arista Records LLC
Lenny Kaye, Composer, Lyricist - Richard Sohl, Composer, Lyricist - John Cale, Producer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Kral, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 1975 Arista Records LLC
Lenny Kaye, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Richard Sohl, Piano - John Cale, Producer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Kral, Guitar, Bass Guitar
(P) 1975 Arista Records LLC
Allen Lanier, Composer, Lyricist - Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Richard Sohl, Piano - John Cale, Producer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Kral, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Bass Guitar
(P) 1975 Arista Records LLC
Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - TOM VERLAINE, Composer, Lyricist - Richard Sohl, Piano - John Cale, Producer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Kral, Guitar, Bass Guitar - Tom Verlaine (Television), Guitar
(P) 1975 Arista Records LLC
Christopher Kenner, Composer, Lyricist - Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Richard Sohl, Piano - John Cale, Producer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Kral, Guitar, Bass Guitar
(P) 1975 Arista Records LLC
Allen Lanier, Composer, Lyricist - Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Richard Sohl, Piano - John Cale, Producer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Kral, Guitar, Bass Guitar - Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult), Guitar
(P) 1975 Arista Records LLC
Allen Lanier, Producer - Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Richard Sohl, Piano - John Cale, Bass Guitar - Pete Townshend, Composer, Lyricist - PATTI SMITH, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivan Kral, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Vocal
(P) 1976 Arista Records LLC
DISC 2
Not Documented, Producer - Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Tony Shanahan, Bass Guitar, Mixing Engineer - TOM VERLAINE, Guitar - VAN MORRISON, Composer, Lyricist - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Flea, Bass Guitar - Emery Dobyns, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal
(P) 2005 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Lenny Kaye, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Tony Shanahan, Bass Guitar, Mixing Engineer - TOM VERLAINE, Guitar - Richard Sohl, Composer, Lyricist - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Flea, Bass Guitar - Emery Dobyns, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal
(P) 2005 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Lenny Kaye, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Tony Shanahan, Bass Guitar, Mixing Engineer - TOM VERLAINE, Guitar - Richard Sohl, Composer, Lyricist - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Flea, Bass Guitar - Emery Dobyns, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Ivan Kral, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2005 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Lenny Kaye, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Tony Shanahan, Bass Guitar, Mixing Engineer - TOM VERLAINE, Guitar - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Flea, Bass Guitar - Emery Dobyns, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal
(P) 2005 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Allen Lanier, Composer, Lyricist - Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Tony Shanahan, Bass Guitar, Mixing Engineer - TOM VERLAINE, Guitar - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Flea, Bass Guitar - Emery Dobyns, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Ivan Kral, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2005 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Tony Shanahan, Bass Guitar, Mixing Engineer - TOM VERLAINE, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Flea, Bass Guitar - Emery Dobyns, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal
(P) 2005 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Christopher Kenner, Composer, Lyricist - Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Tony Shanahan, Bass Guitar, Mixing Engineer - TOM VERLAINE, Guitar - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Flea, Bass Guitar - Emery Dobyns, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal
(P) 2005 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Allen Lanier, Composer, Lyricist - Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Tony Shanahan, Bass Guitar, Mixing Engineer - TOM VERLAINE, Guitar - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Flea, Bass Guitar - Emery Dobyns, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - PATTI SMITH, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal
(P) 2005 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Lenny Kaye, Guitar - Jay Dee Daugherty, Drums - Tony Shanahan, Bass Guitar, Mixing Engineer - TOM VERLAINE, Guitar - Greg Calbi, Mastering Engineer - Flea, Bass Guitar - Pete Townshend, Composer, Lyricist - Emery Dobyns, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - PATTI SMITH, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal
(P) 2005 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Album review
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."
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:53:35
- Main artists: Patti Smith
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Arista - Columbia - Legacy
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
(P) 2005 Sony Music Entertainment
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