With her sensational debut album "Horses" in 1975, Chicago-born singer Patti Smith immediately made it into the top league of the US rock business. Her voice, driven by an anarchistic spirit, swept through songs such as "Redondo Beach", "Gloria" and "My Generation", whose producer John Cale himself admitted that he occasionally found himself sitting at the mixing desk with his mouth open and surrendering to the vocals. A feeling that millions of Patti Smith fans know very well.
"Horses" is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith, which was released in November 1975. It is not difficult to describe Patti Smith as a forerunner of punk rock on the basis of her debut album, which anticipated the New Wave by about a year: The simple, crudely played rock 'n' roll with Lenny Kaye's rudimentary guitar playing, the anarchic spirit of Smith's vocals and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics all anticipate the coming movement as it developed on both sides of the Atlantic. Producer John Cale respected Smith's primitivism in a way that later producers did not, and the loose, improvised song structures matched her free verse to create something of a new form of spoken word/music art: 'Horses' was a hybrid, the sound of a post-beat poet, as she put it, "dancing around to a simple rock 'n' roll song".
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album with the release of Horses (50th Anniversary). The set includes the legendary album remastered directly from the original master tapes.
