Smith, Patti: Horses (50th Anniversary) LP

Celebrate 50 years of Patti Smith’s debut studio album with the release of Horses (50th Anniversary). The 2-LP set features the iconic album remastered direct from the original master tapes, and previously unreleased outtakes and rarities, including Patti Smith’s 1975 RCA audition tapes.

Before recording the 1975 poetic proto-punk classic Horses, Patti Smith and her band honed the tunes in a triumphant run of shows at New York's iconic venue, CBGB. In the studio, producer John Cale then helped the band to further refine the songs in a process that brilliantly showcases their anarchic spirit and primitive beauty. Smith's background as a rock critic and poet is equally in evidence here as heard on the re imaginings of such warhorses as "Gloria" and "Land of 1000 Dances," where she boldly adds her own provocative and unflinching lyrics to great effect. Horses' influence on the burgeoning punk-rock movement is undeniable and it remains a pillar of the genre as well as one of the finest debuts of all-time!