Described 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.
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- Horses, by Philip Shaw (33 1/3 series)
- About Patti Smith's Horses
- Patti Smith's Horses (33 1/3) Philip Shaw: Continuum
- Patti Smith's Horses
Philip Shaw demonstrates how Horses transformed the possibilities of both poetry and rock music; how it achieved nothing less than a complete and systematic derangement of the senses. Smiths' Meat Is Murder: Ver todas las apps de lectura gratuitas de Kindle. Empieza a leer Patti Smith's Horses en tu Kindle en menos de un minuto.
Detalles del producto Tapa blanda: Opiniones de clientes No hay opiniones de clientes. But I think the real strength of his book lies in the biographical sketches he provides about her early life and development as an artist. Shaw does an admirable job with explaining how Smith got tot eh point where she could record an album like Horses and provided insight into the background and lyrics of the songs. It was interesting to hear her past with people like Sam Shepard and the whole downtown scene. I find many of Smith's songs timeless-and the ones from this album include "Land," "Gloria," and "Redondo Beach.
I guess so, these days! This is a good one to start with. Love reading about the earlys NYC scene. Horses is one of the or so albums that actually deserves a book written about it. Everything about it, from the innovative blend of poetry and garage rock, to the iconic cover art, has become interwoven into the fabric of rock and influenced countless bands. Where the book falters is that it lacks insider perspective, with none of the people involved in making the record contributing first-hand insights there are some quotes reprinted from other sources.
Without that crucial piece of info, this stands strictly as a fan essay, which is intriguing for other fans, but can hardly be called the final word on the album. The best parts of the book are its artistic biography of Smith prior to its release. On the other hand, the book relies heavily on the "theory" of Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and other late twentieth century noncemongers, whose melange of Marx and Freud persuaded the academic Left to waste its days in unintelligible, irrelevant indolence for a time. Shaw, for example, makes note of the androgyny of Mapplethorpe's dramatic cover photograph.
He's not the first to notice. After all, no amout of intellectualisation or speculation can enhance the experience of listening to that terrifying passage where Smith maniacally intones "Horses, Horses, Horses, Comin' in in all directions". Makes me shiver every time.
Nevertheless, it's disappointing that so little is said about some of the most arresting and disturbing images of the entire album. Whilst it's clear that the author aims to illustrate the multiple-self and gender ambiguity aspects of the album as a whole, it seems a bit naive to ignore everything else completely. I'm thinking specifically of the many references to heroin in "Land". It's what I thought the thing was about in the first place. For chrissake, the whole 9 minutes sounds like an aural oral? I had the distict impression that Shaw was making up for this lack of interpretability under a blanket of uni-student pseudo-Lacanian philosophising.
In fact you might say this book represents an attempt by Shaw to impose his psycho-analytical interpretive "structure" this is equivalent to a phallus, I've learnt onto what, thankfully, remains a beautiful and mysterious record that refuses to give up completely its darkest meanings. Ultimately, I'm secretly quite glad he fails to penetrate Patti Smith's depths with his over-intellectualised probings. On the other hand, perhaps I'm reading waaay too much into this thing Jul 06, Richard rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Rock 'n' roll fans and armchair psychoanalysts.
Horses, by Philip Shaw (33 1/3 series)
But they are uneven affairs. Some of them are extremely most tedious subjective appreciations masquerading as "creative" writing. Others are solid and well researched. Shaw's book on the great Patti Smith album falls mostly into the latter category. Shaw discovered Lacan and Kristeva in graduate school and acts as if his armchair psychoanalysis might actually interest someone without a Ph.
D Since I have a Ph. D, I can say that despite his trying to be the village explainer good if you were a village, but if not, notas Stein said of Pound --Patti Smith's masterpiece survives his exegesis, and because of his historical and biographical information and decent bibliography I feel that I got my money's worth.
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Oct 11, Ruth rated it it was ok. Oh- there is way too much Freud in here, and I wasn't sure whether to take seriously all the stuff he says about "the power of the phallus".
This record is great because it's straight-up rock and roll poetry, and all that psychoanalysis is way too distracting, and almost offensive- there must be other way to approach a close reading. I did like knowing the background of what all the songs were about, though, especially my favorite, Kimberly, and now when I hear it I can imagine a young girl hold Oh- there is way too much Freud in here, and I wasn't sure whether to take seriously all the stuff he says about "the power of the phallus".
I hadn't known about all the references to dead rock stars, either, or about all the particulars of the inspirational visions and dreams. But I probably could have gotten that info somewhere else. I think this guy was just trying too hard. Jul 22, Vaughan is currently reading it. I've been "currently reading" this one for months. Another one in this series that is way too cerebral and "let me justify all my college degrees by mentioning lots of structural theory.
And did I mention the Situationists yet? A shame too as this is, well, a desert-isle album for sure. Some interesting historical stuff about the times but too much egg head philosophizing.
Oh well, it's short and I'll finish it at some point. I may never finish this one.
Patti Smith's Horses (33 1/3) Philip Shaw: Continuum
Not I've been "currently reading" this one for months. Not because it's horrible though it errs away a lot of the books in this series do by being really pretentious and really navel-gazing at the same time. If you're a fan of hers, you probably know all this stuff anyway. I wanted to find out if it was true that Ms. Smith was pleasuring herself during the "go, Johnny, go! Sep 21, Patrick McCoy rated it liked it Shelves: But I think the real strength of his book lies in the biographical sketches he provides about her early life and development as an artist.
Patti Smith's Horses
Shaw does an admirable job with explaining how Smith got tot eh point where she could record an album like Horses and provided insight into the background and lyrics of the songs. It was interesting to hear about her past with people like Sam Shepard and the whole downtown scene. May 26, Tom Schulte rated it really liked it.
Another great, slim exegesis of a great album. I spent about 4 hours reading this and flipping the LP, listening over and over. The first third, roughly, is a personal biography of Patti taking her from Illinois to Chicago, after preface material and remembrances of her early rock poetry solo performances.
Then comes a band, recording biography taking us up to Horses. The conclusion before references is a track by track analysis of the album.
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This is a fine balance of heady musicology with big w Another great, slim exegesis of a great album. This is a fine balance of heady musicology with big words "oneiric", etc. Jan 09, David rated it really liked it. I loved this book I learned more about Patti's youth and can now understand some of the influences in her life that come through in Horses. At times Shaw is too technical and we really don't need to know what key the song is written in, but he dives deep into the lyrics of Patti's epic album. Without Patti's validation to the meanings behind the lyrics it may be all speculation, but it is interesting and thought provoking.
If your a fan of the album and Patti Smith Sep 18, Jeff rated it really liked it. For Philip Shaw, this record seems to be a starting point for rock and roll to be taken seriously as a subject for academic study. Blurring lines between sex and death, male and female, sacred and profane, this record breaks open new territory with its nods to Rimbaud and Verlain, Hendrix and Morrison s both Jim and Van , and Shaw references Lacan and Freud and Barthes in his job of pulling A good look at why HORSES by Patti Smith is not just a great album, but an important album as well.
Blurring lines between sex and death, male and female, sacred and profane, this record breaks open new territory with its nods to Rimbaud and Verlain, Hendrix and Morrison s both Jim and Van , and Shaw references Lacan and Freud and Barthes in his job of pulling apart the ribs and deconstructing the meat of these HORSES. Aug 01, Matt Comito added it. May 11, Bridget rated it really liked it Recommends it for: I learned that "Birdland," my least favorite Patti Smith song, is based on the life of Willem Reich- also the basis for one of my favorite Kate Bush songs- "Cloudbusting.
One person reads about another person's life and creates art from it; another artist sees the same source material and make something less than my ideal. Maybe it's all the orgone. Jan 17, Craig Dove rated it liked it. I was not expecting quite so much Lacan in the analysis - with no particular suggestion that Patti Smith was familiar with the theoretical writings that the author thinks illuminate her work. I guess they do: I expected to get through it in a weekend or two, though, and instead kept putting it down.
Feb 28, Brian rated it did not like it. Nov 16, Nathan rated it liked it Shelves: I enjoyed reading this, particularly a lot of the development issues dealing with the construction of Smith's works. I'm glad it didn't go too far into her various romantic affairs, focusing on her work instead. As usual, song by song analysis gets a bit old for me. May 08, Jonathan rated it it was ok.