Horses

Artist: Patti Smith
Label: Arista
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 828767119823
EAN: 0828767119823
ASIN: B000BKDOB6

Release Date: 2005-11-08

Horses

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Tracks:

Gloria: In Excelsis Deo; In Excelsis Deo\ Gloria
Redondo Beach
Birdland
Free Money
Kimberly
Break It Up
Land:; Horses\ Land Of A Thousand Dances\ La Mer(de)
Elegie
My Generation (Bonus Track)

Tracks:

Gloria: In Excelsis Deo; In Excelsis Deo\ Gloria
Redondo Beach
Birdland
Free Money
Kimberly
Break It Up
Land; Horses\ Land Of A Thousand Dances\ La Mer (De)
Elegie
My Generation (Bonus Track)

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Album Description

November 2005 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Patti Smith's debut album, Horses, a groundbreaking rock & roll masterpiece which continues its unparalleled influence on rock music, style and culture. Arista/Columbia/Legacy Recordings will celebrate this musical milestone with the release of Horses/Horses, a two-disc Legacy Special Edition of Patti Smith's debut album, on Tuesday, November 8. <P>Disc One of Horses/Horses features the original album, in its entirety, along with the bonus track, Patti's interpretation of the Who's classic "My Generation." Initially released as the B-side to "Gloria," the first single from Horses, in 1975, "My Generation" features John Cale, the album's producer, on bass. The Legacy Special Edition of Horses has been remastered by Greg Calbi producing superior sound to previous editions of the album. <P>The second disc of Horses/Horses showcases Patti Smith and her Band--Lenny Kaye (guitar), Jay Dee Daugherty (drums), Tony Shanahan (bass), Tom Verlaine (guitar) and featuring Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers--performing the complete Horses album live, with a "My Generation" encore, at the Royal Festival Hall in London on June 25, 2005. This historic performance of Horses was the culminating concert at the 2005 Meltdown Festival, which was curated by Patti Smith. (Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty were both members of the ensemble that played on the original Horses while Tom Verlaine was a guest artist on the 1975 album). <P>Horses/Horses comes packaged with a deluxe booklet featuring rare archival photographs, ephemera, lyrics and documentation of the 2005 concert as well as Paul Williams' provocative essay on "Gloria."

Customer Reviews:

What Hasn't Been Said About This One?.......2007-04-20

Definitely one of the best albums in the history of recorded music, made even BETTER than the original! What more can be said? What more can you ask for?

Highly recommended. Unfortunately, Patti will never better this one no matter how long she keeps recording.

Art.......2006-08-28

As a long time lover and student of pop music, I declare Patti Smith's Horses album to be THE most original and greatest rock and roll record of all time. I seriously doubt there can be another record that will topple it from this position.

Dylan's dog, he's got wings, he can fly!.......2006-05-17

I've already reviewed the earlier version of Horses so no cheap recap. I was at BAM in NYC November 2005 to celebrate the 30th year. Was struck by the generational cross section & diversity -parents with teen children (maybe 'Boomers with grandkids, certainly Gen X & offspring,) twentysomethings, lesbians who cherish the message in "Gloria," curiosity seekers, the tragically hip who missed it on the first (or several)go-rounds. That we're even writing about an album thirty years old speaks to its importance. Can I quibble about the new version of "Land"? Sure. Do I care? No. When I first heard some of these songs 30+ years ago they had completely different lyrics entirely (like "Birdland" - which started with Patti's poem "bar stools were made for women like this...") Patti was, and is, not one to take the safe road. Other than having to put on reading glasses to read her poetry (I sympathize - sucks doesn't it?) she is still a most vital force. If you don't own "Horses," what are you waiting for? If you do, buy this version for the 2005 version live. Long may she Wave.

Patti .......2006-04-02

Some friends and I saw Patti and her band while we were freshmen at college, circa 1975-76. GLORIA is a classic of the rock & roll canon, of course, and Patti's version cuts into the heart of that song like none other, into the soul of being human, into the bones of being young and on the prowl.

God is alive and its name is Patti Smith.......2006-03-28

Having had advance notice of this album through both http://pattismith.net and the longstanding Babelogue e-mail group, I pre-ordered this and received it the day before delivery.

I've given the original "Horses" as graduation gifts to MANY people...and at the same time, somehow, their mamma's were especially turned on by it as well.

Of course I'd heard the album when it was new, and when she first appeared in Houston, at University of Houston's Cullen Auditorium, all of my best friends made it. I even met a coulda-been at the after-party :) (ahhhh, damn liver disease), and at one point we had to step over a lady with an owl-mask on, reclined on the staircase, with a gentleman being very gentlemanly. That's the sort of night the entire month became. Good, loving and special vibes everywhere.

The concert really took off when Patti read one of her Babelogues leading into "Ghost Dance", but became primal and cosmologically True during "Land/Horses". When she and Lennie traded places, while both playing Strats, "doggy style". Patti pulling the strings out to breaking when she was in front, to the point we could see the blood on her fingers.

I have to say that, because this Live disc almost lives up to that concert. Which is in my top-5 or so ever. (Patti, two Dylans, Jimi, and Ravi Shankar)

The double-bassing which Flea helped is amazing. It's under the surface, like good bass-play is (including Jack Bruce in Cream, who, after all was said and done, WAS the leader of the group) (ok, here come the Eric debaters, but I love all 3 of them)

The Babelogue to "Land" doesn't grab me nearly as much as the original, in fact I think that it takes away from the part about "Johnny was against the locker, He drove it home he drove it home" etc), but it is up to date, and grand, no matter my own personal biases.

Focusing on just the one song, I'd have to listen again (and I did just 2 hours ago), but I think that she left out the verses of Oceanic love, with her legs open to the Sea, the Sea of Possibilities

The best line...I missed it 2 hours ago but I know it's on the live disc (I was kissing my amour) (blush)...

>>I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour
But no more, no more, I gotta move from my mind to the area<<
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The entire collection is worth so much that anyone who's not yet a Patti Fan HAS to buy it. Don't forget to listen to the music and lyrics of the album-ending "Elegie"

As an aside, she and the PSG played "Free Money" and one or two other songs on The Mike Douglas Show "back then" :D

AHHHH, one can only dream of What If...she and Link Wray could have ever played together...

PS: as a fun addendum, I saw Cannibal & the Headhunters, as an opening act for The Beatles, do "Land of 1,000 Dances". That was fun.

Music Album:

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Below the Bassline ~ Ernest Ranglin

Edge ~ Lenny White

Montreux '77 ~ Count Basie Big Band

Opus De Jazz ~ Milt Jackson

Cool and Sparkling ~ Paul Smith

Very Swedish ~ Sweet Jazz Trio

Yume Daiko/Enka Musume No Watari Dori ~ Rie Morino

Classical Trance

Les Yeux Fermes ~ Eiffel

Stay Free ~ Dustbox