Horses (Vinyl LP) Electronic

Horses (Vinyl LP) ElectronicIt 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

when it was in danger of being overlooked

Self-produced

where singer Gerry Roslie turns his throat to hamburger

Highlights include 'Son of A Baker

reaching number 2 in the UK and number 3 in the USA

and one of the definitive albums of the psychedelic era

Til The Band Comes In was his sixth studio album

also in 1967

"Drop" was recorded in a banana ripening warehouse (no joke) with hair-farming studio warlock Chris Woodhouse playing drums and graced with the presence of talented gurus Mikal Cronin

Remember Velvett Fogg - you will hear the name again

this underground masterpiece is now a recognised classic

The bonus track is the non-album single side Sittin In Circles