Name: Horses
Brand: Patti Smith

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88875111731

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Black

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Import Version

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2015-08-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Lasgo

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Sales:8.875

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0888751117310

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Black LP

88691960281

2020-06-26

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886919602814

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Patti Smith

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Patti Smith is an American rock musician, born on December 30, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2007 as a performer. Patti is known for her influential contributions to the music industry.
She is the sister of a renowned artist and was married to another notable figure from 1980 until his death in 1994. Patti is also a mother to two talented individuals who have made their mark in their respective fields.
In addition to her musical career, Patti previously worked in a toy factory before dedicating herself fully to her passion for music. Her diverse experiences have shaped her unique perspective and artistic style.

New Wave / Post Punk

It isn't hard to make the case for <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/artist/patti-smith">Patti Smith</a> as a punk rock progenitor based on her debut album.

It anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played rock &amp; roll, featuring Lenny Kaye's rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/artist/patti-smith">Smith's</a> vocals, and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics -- all prefigure the coming movement as it evolved on both sides of the Atlantic. <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/artist/patti-smith">Smith</a> is a rock critic's dream, a poet as steeped in '60s garage rock as she is in French Symbolism; Land carries on from <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/artist/the-doors">The Doors'</a> The End, 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 <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/artist/john-cale">John Cale</a> 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 &amp; roll song."

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Horses

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