PATTI SMITH - HORSES - 33 1/3 BOOK MARTIN POPOFF

PATTI SMITH - HORSES - 33 1/3 BOOK MARTIN POPOFFDescribed as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. While Horses pays homage to the record's origins in the nascent New York punk scene, the book's core lies in a detailed analysis of Patti Smith's lyrics and includes discussions of lyrical preoccupations: love, sex, gender,

Never Say Goodbye

It appears on Rolling Stone's lists of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time"

The lyrical themes on the record relate to media bias

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6 Just Because

This relationship - between young people and the empathetic music that sets them off down a road of self-discovery and self-definition - is emo

Green River

and is the best-selling album of all time in the UK

Slash is everything Slash is: funny

circa 1961

For all the disc's solo trailblazing

4 Call Me the Breeze