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Genre: Pop/Rock, Folk
Styles: Alternative, Proto Punk
Source: Original Release / Arista / AL4066 / Vinyl
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 2,900 kbps
Bit Depth: 24
Sampling Rate: 96,000 Hz
Lineage:
AR "Legend" Turnatable / Rega RB300 / Goldring 1024GX
Perreaux SXV1 Phono Stage / Perreaux SM6 Pre
Sony PCM-D50 Linear PCM Recorder 24/96 Wav
Sony Sound Forge 9.0d / Click and Crackle Removal 2.0
24/96 FLAC , dbPoweramp flac encoder level 8
It isn't hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on her debut album, which anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played rock & roll, featuring Lenny Kaye's rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of Smith's vocals, and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics -- all prefigure the coming movement as it evolved on both sides of the Atlantic. Smith is a rock critic's dream, a poet as steeped in '60s garage rock as she is in French Symbolism; "Land" carries on from the Doors' "The End," marking her as a successor to Jim Morrison, 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 John Cale 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 & roll song."
![Patti Smith - Horses (1975) [24 bit FLAC] vinyl](https://f.t0r.space/cover/7347611.webp)
