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Crucial Vinyl: Patti Smith - Horses

The Don's Crucial Vinyl, an album that has shaped his musical taste, is Horses by Patti Smith.

Each week Don selects a piece of Crucial Vinyl (an album that has shaped his musical taste and helped make him who he is). He features three tracks from it and explains why it means so much to him.

This week he chooses Horses by Patti Smith.

Don says, "Patti Smith is rightly credited as being a major inspiration for the New York punk scene.
Her debut album Horses in 1975 influenced everyone, as it coincided with the emerging UK punk scene too. Its impact on women everywhere was obvious, but it struck men too - particularly me.

I saw Patti live at The Roundhouse in London in 1976, and soon afterwards she stumbled into my shop Acme Attractions on the Kings Road. She liked my dub reggae soundtrack and mentioned that she was a fan of Tapper Zukie, who happened to be a mate of mine.

Cut to yours truly live on stage at the Hammersmith Odeon a few months later with a mic in my hand, Patti writhing at my feet and Tapper Zukie on guitar. Patti had asked us along to see her show, and suddenly, without warning, dragged us on stage in front of a packed house not knowing I'd never been on stage, much less held a mic, and Tapper couldn't play guitar. Talk about punk rock!".

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Music Played

  • Beastie Boys

    Sure Shot

    • Grand Royal.

  • Dennis Brown

    Wolf And Leopards

    • Wolves And Leopards.
    • Blue Moon.
    • 1.

  • Carlton and the Shoes

    Love Me Forever

    • Studio One Classics.
    • Soul Jazz.
    • 2.

  • The Charlatans

    So Oh

    • Modern Nature.
    • BMG.
    • 2.

  • Dub Mentor

    Guns Of Brixton (feat. Yan Jun)

    • Guns Of Brixton (single).
    • EnT-T.
    • 1.

  • Eyedress

    When I'm Gone (feat. Georgia)

    • (single).
    • Abeano.
    • 1.

  • Jonny Faith

    Zheng

    • Zheng/Slumber (single).
    • Tru Thoughts.

  • Flaming Lips feat. My Morning Jacket, Fever The Ghost and J Mascis

    She's Leaving Home

    • With A Little Help From My Fwends.
    • Bella Union.
    • 001.

  • HONNE

    All In The Value

    • All In TheValue (single).
    • Super.

  • The Idle Race

    The Skeleton And The Roundabout

    • The Skeleton And The Roundabout (Single).
    • Liberty.
    • 1.

  • Jungle

    Busy Earnin' (6 Music Session, 17th July 2014)

  • Salif Keita

    Souareba

    • The Mansa Of Mali...A Retrospective.
    • Mango.
    • 7.

  • Hank Levine

    Portrait Of A Blonde

    • Werewolf: The Dolton Records Story 1959-1962.
    • NOT NOW MUSIC LTD.
    • 10.

  • LoneLady

    Groove it Out

  • Manasseh

    Stranger Version

  • Mariachi El Bronx

    Everything Twice

  • Om Unit

    Wicker And Pearl

    • Threads LP.
    • Civil Music.
    • 13.

  • Roy Orbison

    Leah

    • All-Time Greatest Hits Of Roy Orbison.
    • Crescent Direct.
    • 2.

  • Patti Smith

    Gloria

  • Portishead

    All Mine

    • Go Beat.

  • Finley Quaye

    Ride On And Turn The People On

    • Maverick A Strike.
    • Epic.
    • 5.

  • Cutty Ranks

    Tink Me Did Dun?

  • Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program

    All Is Well

    • Brainfeeder.

  • The Raveonettes

    The Heavens

    • Pretty In Black.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Patti Smith

    Redondo Beach

    • HORSES.
    • Arista.

  • The Smiths

    Oscillate Wildly

    • Louder Than Bombs.
    • WEA.
    • 015.

  • 鲍鈥怰辞测 & John Holt

    Wear You To The Ball

    • Wear You To The Ball (Single).
    • Treasure Isle.
    • 1.

  • Stevie Wonder

    All Day Sucker

    • Songs In The Key Of Life.
    • Motown.
    • 10.

  • Ye

    Spaceship (feat. GLC & Consequence)

    • Roc-A-Fella Records.

  • Tapper Zukie

    M.P.L.A (Subsonic Legacy RMX)

    • M.P.L.A.
    • Klik.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Nov 2014 22:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music