Horses

Music Diary from Hell (2023-2024) (689 music items)

"17.6. A definite classic album, produced by John Cale who you may know from such classics as Nico and The Velvet Underground. "

Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (50 music items)

"Rock & roll poetry was a bore until this Jersey girl showed up – suddenly, it was all sex and sweat and switchblades and Jesus in black leather and horses and sweet young things humping the parking meter. And she had a really sick drummer. Essential moment: "Gloria," a six-minute blast of fast, filthy garage rock with "1-2-3-4! " energy."

RS: 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All-Time (40 music items)

"Before punk even existed, it already had its queen — a Lower East Side poet fusing Sixties garage rock and Rimbaud to create her own ecstatic vision. Working closely with guitarist Lenny Kaye, pianist Richard Sohl and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty (as well as CBGB buddy Tom Verlaine, who co-wrote the Jim Morrison tribute "Break It Up"), she made the New York scene's first major statement. Her record company hated Robert Mapplethorpe's classic cover photo, an image as boundary-shattering and beauti"

100 Greatest American Albums of All Time (100 music items)

"Rimbaud with punk guitars Patti Smith’s vision of extremist poetry and rock music, filtered through sex, the Beats and horses, was best realized on her Lenny Kaye? produced debut, on which ’60s garage covers melded with rude remarks about Jesus to produce the best punk-rock Bob Dylan album ever made. Not a hit (it peaked at number 47), but clearly a landmark. Standout tracks: “Gloria,” “Redondo Beach”"

The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (150 music items)

"The very nature of Patti Smith's debut album Horses rails against what many other "best of" albums are celebrated for — broad appeal, sonically pleasing aesthetics and hits. Horses is confrontational, defiant and completely unafraid of the ugly. And so was its author, who in 1975, for arguably the first time in music, set the lyrical stage for academia and animalism to writhe together; for the sophisticated and heady virtues of capital-P Poetry to crash into the visceral, bodily base of rock a"

500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)

"Bolting beatnik book-learning onto skinny New York loft-rock: a dawn-of-punk revelation. Standout track: “Free Money”"

2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends (2020 music items)

"HORSES (1975) PATTI SMITH Review coming soon... FAV TRACKS: "Break It Up"; "Gloria"; "Free Money"; "Land"; "Elegie"; "Redondo Beach"; "Kimberly"; "Birdland" "