HORSES (VINYL) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label:    Arista – 88691960281
Format:    Vinyl, LP, Album, Record Store Day, Reissue, Remastered
Country:    US
Released:    Apr 21, 2012
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Punk, Art Rock

A1        Gloria:    5:54
A1.1        In Excelsis Deo
Written-By – P. Smith*
A1.2        Gloria (Version)
Written-By – Van Morrison
A2        Redondo Beach
Written-By – L. Kaye*, P. Smith*, R. Sohl*
3:24
A3        Birdland
Written-By – I. Kral*, L. Kaye*, P. Smith*, R. Sohl*
9:16
A4        Free Money
Written-By – L. Kaye*, P. Smith*
3:47
B1        Kimberly
Written-By – A. Lanier*, I. Kral*, P. Smith*
4:26
B2        Break It Up
Guitar – Tom Verlaine
Written-By – P. Smith*, T. Verlaine*
4:05
B3        Land:    9:36
B3.1        Horses
Written-By – P. Smith*
B3.2        Land, Of A Thousand Dances
Written-By – Chris Kenner, Antoine Dominoe*
B3.3        La Mer (De)
Written-By – P. Smith*
B4        Elegie
Guitar – Allen Lanier
Written-By – A. Lanier*, P. Smith*
2:42

Record Company – Sony Music Entertainment
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – RCA Records
Copyright © – RCA Records
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Marketed By – Sony Music Entertainment
Distributed By – Sony Music Entertainment
Lacquer Cut At – Cohearent Audio
Pressed By – United Record Pressing
Recorded At – Electric Lady Studios
Mixed At – Electric Lady Studios
Design – Bob Heimall*
Drums – Jay Dee Daugherty
Engineer – Bernie Kirsh
Engineer [Assistant] – Frank D'Augusta*
Executive-Producer – Wartoke Records Inc.
Guitar, Bass – Ivan Kral
Lacquer Cut By – MZ*
Lead Guitar – Lenny Kaye
Mastered By – Bernie Kirsh, Bob Ludwig
Photography By – Robert Mapplethorpe
Piano – Richard Sohl
Producer – John Cale
"Birdland" was inspired by Peter Reich and Huey Smith.

'RSD First' Release.

Runouts are etched.

Legacy logo on sticker, with a different catalog number: 8869196028151
Barcode (Text): 8 8691-96028-1 4
Barcode (Scanned): 886919602814

Personnel: Patti Smith (vocals); Ivan Kral (vocals, guitar, bass); Lenny Kaye, Allen Lanier, Tom Verlaine (guitar); Richard Sohl (piano); John Cale (bass); Jay Dee Daugherty (drums). Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, New York. Originally released on Arista (8362). Includes liner notes by Patti Smith. With the exception of Bob Dylan, few rock n' rollers explored poetry within the rock format as thoroughly as Patti Smith. By the mid-70's, Smith had been a regular poetry-reader in New York City clubs for years, and with a deep admiration for The Rolling Stones, it was only natural to set these poems to music. With an exciting rock band to back her up (including renowned music critic Lenny Kaye on guitar), Smith built up a following on the strength of the band's trance-inducing live shows and her thrillingly liberated vocal style, which built on Dylan's mid '60s expressiveness with ecstatic, octave-jumping yelps. Produced by ex-Velvet Underground bassist John Cale, HORSES was considered 'punk rock' when it was first released, but there was much more to it. Smith had a gift for being able to paint vivid pictures with her prose, as evidenced by a pair of 10-minute long epics, "Birdland" and "Land" (which consisted of 3 sections--"Horses," "Land of A Thousand Dances," and "La Mer"). Other tracks are more conventional, yet just as gripping--a cover of "Gloria," "Free Money," and "Kimberly," plus a ragged live cover of The Who's "My Generation" (included on the '96 remastered CD edition as a bonus track). HORSES is a classic.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: PUNK
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 05/22/2012