OK, we will keep the New York theme going. About a decade after The Velvet Underground, New Yorkers had another ground-breaking artist on the scene. This time it was Patti Smith and she could be seen playing at CBGB's and hanging around with the current emerging punk scene artists like Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine. She had a poetry inspired style of performance, which she has carried through her career. Her debut album "Horses" is ranked as one of the greatest albums, to this day. The title track is actually a part in a trilogy or medley called "Land". It is broken into 3 parts with "Horses" being part 1. It has tributes and borrowed lines of another song within its 9 or so minutes. If anyone got to see the excellent NZ movie "In My Father's Den" you may remember the inspirational use of this album.... particularly "Horses" during a crucial scene. It reminded me how powerful the song was and it was a work of genius by the director.
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