0232. Patti Smith
Horses
One of the most celebrated albums in alternative music Horses is a staple on top-lists everywhere. And well, I guess I can see why, cause Patti Smith throws a lot of ambition in there.
Her complete reimagining of the Them-track Gloria is a feat in par with the Battlestar Galactica-remake (sorry for the nerd-reference but it had to be made) - keeping the backbone of the song, but changing the rest so much that it surpasses the original by miles.
I'm surprised of Redondo Beach's reggae-take since, well, it's as unexpected as on the Paul Simon album from a few years earlier and not the genre I associate with the punk-influencer Smith.
This album is nicely intellectually stimulating, partly since some of the lyrics are (based on) poems she published earlier and partly due to the meta-feel to in Gloria and other referencing songs (not least in the titular chapter of the Land-suite).
Quite interesting.
