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Horses | 
| Artist: Patti Smith
Label: Arista
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy Used: $3.98
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 2659
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 18827
UPC: 078221882729
EAN: 0078221882729
ASIN: B000002VQQ
Publication Date: 1996
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Condition: Visible scratches. No-Hassle return policy. Domestic orders ship First Class with tracking information. All international orders ship Airmail.
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| Tracks:
| • | Gloria: In Excelsis Deo/Gloria - Patti Smith, Morrison, Van | | • | Redondo Beach - Patti Smith, Kaye, Lenny | | • | Birdland - Patti Smith, Kaye, Lenny | | • | Free Money - Patti Smith, Kaye, Lenny | | • | Kimberly - Patti Smith, Kral, Ivan | | • | Break It Up - Patti Smith, Smith, Patti | | • | Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (De) - Patti Smith, Kenner, Chris | | • | Elegie - Patti Smith, Lanier, Allen | | • | My Generation - Patti Smith, Townshend, Pete |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
On her 1975 debut, Smith was full of piss and vinegar, seriously interested in bringing together high art and low three-chord rock & roll. As a result, her free-form poetry meshes with covers of "Gloria" and "Land of a Thousand Dances," and the album centers on two long, highfalutin' pieces, including the three-part suite (warning! warning! art!) "Land." (The CD version appends a messy live take on The Who's "My Generation.") Led by Richard Sohl's piano, the arrangements don't exactly rock, and some of Smith's songwriting gets buried in its stylistic affectations (there's a great song under "Redondo Beach"'s fake reggae). But the point of Horses was Smith's persona of volume, cunning and exile, and it comes through distinctly. --Douglas Wolk
Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing includes one bonus track. BMG. 2008.
Album Details
Limited Edition Reissue of this Classic Album Presented in a Special Package featuring a CD with a Top Side that Resembles an Original LP Vinyl Album, but Don't Let the Looks Deceive You...it's A Fully Playable CD.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 61 more reviews...
 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times November 28, 2008
IAmARevenant (Earth A.D.)
Patti Smith's classic "Horses" is as much a theatre piece in audio form as it is a rock n roll album. Smith's instances of spoken word poetry certainly make you feel like you're listening to more than a rock album. And this album really did bring me to understanding of the true powers of music, a revelation that I've never realized until I heard this album. In this album, it truly is the best of times, it truly is the worst of times; it brings out the best and worst that life can give you, through the powers of poetry and music. It can make you happy, sad; it can make you laugh, cry. As I said before, this truly has the dimensions of a grand theatre piece, just in the form of a rock album.
I'll never look at any other album the same way again. Patti Smith's "Horses" is a truly life-changing album.
Horses is the beautiful poetry of a genius November 19, 2008
Brad Hoevel (Saginaw)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Patti Smith's Horses is a brutal and bloody masterwork of American punk rock.
I am a little surprised to see that this album has only been reviewed 64 times, while most of the artists that I consider to be Smith's sonic neighbors---Velvet Underground, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Van Morrison etc.---have many hundreds of reviews. Maybe this is because the soundstyle of Horses is hard to classify: its too much punk to be considered psychedelic rock, and its too psychedelic to be called punk. Horses seems too well-planned to be garage rock, but at the same time its too primitive to be called art rock. Come to think of it, the music is a lot like the album cover: androgynous. It's kind-of weird for me to say this, but at times I've found myself quite unable to connect with this album, skipped through every song, and then threw it down on the floor in disgust. Other times I've been truly inspired by the album, and have listened to it over and over again on repeat.
Finally, I must say that I agree with the numerous others who have pointed out the uselessness of the My Generation bonus track---it completely disrupts the flow of the album.
 Commerical, generic garbage for aging hippies. November 10, 2008
Kelsey
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Who still listens to this junk? First, she isn't even hot. Who listens to ugly female singers? Listen to true beauties like Jessica Simpson. Hot = talent. Second, this album is like 1000 years old. It never even got any BET airplay! An artist is only good if they're on BET. Third, this is commerical, generic garbage! It was overproduced, too commercial and Patti's voice was generated through a computer. What you're hearing is basically a machine making this pathetic excuse for "music". She even tried making a rap song ("Redondo Beach"). Wow, Patti, give it up. You'll never be as good as 50 Cent. Sorry.
 A real disappointment July 11, 2008
Bob Dog (Boondocks, NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I listened to "Horse" a couple of times after having heard music by Ms. Smith that I found dynamic and emotionally moving. I had also heard rave critiques and was very interested in hearing what many consider to be her best work. The words that come to mind are self absorbed and pretentious, and in large part musically lame. Enjoy it if you enjoy it: perhaps you had to be there at the time of its inception to truly appreciate it. As far as I am concerned this piece falls far short of its mark, and the praise that has been heaped upon it.
Patti's Poetic Punk Horses June 11, 2008
G. Merritt (Boulder, CO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine"--Patti Smith.
With her 1975 debut album, Horses, Patti Smith managed to single-handedly fuse beat poetry with punk rock. At the time, Smith was a member of the NYC St. Mark's Poetry Project and the founding member of Patti Smith Group, featuring Lenny Kaye on guitars, Ivan Kral on bass, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums, and Richard Sohl on piano. Produced by John Cale (with some inspiration from the spirit Jimi Hendrix), the album opens with an intense cover of Van Morrison's 1964 Them song, "Gloria," then transitions into "Redondo Beach" (a song Morrissey frequently performs live; Live at Earls Court). Smith based the lyrics of "Birdland" on a memoir of Wilhelm Reich, Book of Dreams (1973). Both Morrissey and Johnny Marr of The Smiths have said that Horses left them in awe. They are not alone. (Although Morrissey has always said he chose the name The Smiths because it was "the most ordinary name" he could think of, I have always wondered if he chose the name out of love for Patti Smith.) For me, Horses was a college favorite. A near-perfect album song sequence includes:
1. Gloria (Digitally Remastered 1996) 5:56
2. Redondo Beach (Digitally Remastered 1996) 3:27
3. Birdland (Digitally Remastered 1996) 9:15
4. Free Money (Digitally Remastered 1996) 3:52
5. Kimberly (Digitally Remastered 1996) 4:26
6. Break It Up (Digitally Remastered 1996) 4:02
7. Land (Digitally Remastered 1996) 9:28
8. Elegie (Digitally Remastered 1996) 2:42
9. My Generation (Bonus Track/Digitally Remastered 1996) 3:31
G. Merritt
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