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Horses
On her 1975 debut, Smith was full of piss and vinegar, seriously interested in bringing together high art and low three-chord rock & roll. As a result, her free-form poetry meshes with covers of "Gloria" and "Land of a Thousand Dances," and the album centers on two long, highfalutin' pieces, including the three-part suite (warning! warning! art!) "Land." (The CD version appends a messy live take on The Who's "My Generation.") Led by Richard Sohl's piano, the arrangements don't exactly rock, and some of Smith's songwriting gets buried in its stylistic affectations (there's a great song under "Redondo Beach"'s fake reggae). But the point of Horses was Smith's persona of volume, cunning and exile, and it comes through distinctly. --Douglas Wolk
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Tracks| 1 | Gloria | | 2 | Redondo Beach | | 3 | Birdland | | 4 | Free Money | | 5 | Kimberly | | 6 | Break It Up | | 7 | Land: Horses/Land Of A Thousand Dances/La Mer (De) | | 8 | Elegie | | 9 | My Generation (Bonus Track) |
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