Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the “punk poet laureate”, Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. The music on Horses was informed by the minimalist, garage rock-inspired aesthetic of the then-nascent American punk rock movement.
1.Gloria– Reworking of Van Morrison song, there is an ambiguity who is singing(male/female) with speculations of it being lesbian in tone
2.Redondo Beach– Recounts story of a woman who drowned after she left her beachside hotel because of the argument with her friend
3.Birdland– Inspired from the book of dreams in which the son said to have seen his dead father in a spaceship just for a moment after which the spaceship disappeared
4.Free Money– Pattie grew up as a poor kid, song wrote from the perspective of her mom who struggled raising the kids
5.Kimberly– Song is about Smith’s youngest sibling, Kimberly. Pattie’s struggles in raising her forms the theme of the song
6.Break It Up– Dream by Pattie in which Jim Morrison bound like Prometheus suddenly broke free
7.Land/Horses– Song is about her first time experience with hallucinogenic drugs
8.Elegie– About being left behind, the mourning or grief accompanying the death of someone close
9.My Generation– Its about her generation, how the older generation tries to get them down and how she doesn’t care about it
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