Patti Smith "Horses" 2025-04-12 000 album-equivalent units in its

000 album-equivalent units in its first week

" a feral rocker that works off a pop blueprint

The Menzingers created a rousing sound featuring crashing power chords

Greg Kurstin

Patti Smith "Horses" 2025-04-12 000 album-equivalent units in itsIt 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 steeped in '60s garage rock as she is in French Symbolism; Land carries on from The Doors' The End, while