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6 records

Horses

1975

It opens by announcing that Jesus died for somebody's sins but not hers. Robert Mapplethorpe took the cover photograph in a friend's apartment.

★ 7.6

1973

David Bowie mixed it and everyone including Iggy Pop hated the result. Iggy remixed the whole thing himself twenty-four years later.

★ 6.4

1969

John Cale of the Velvet Underground produced it, and the band arrived in New York with only five songs, writing the rest overnight.

★ 6.3

1969

The band rehearsed in a rented house for months while Van Vliet dictated every part to them by ear. Frank Zappa paid for it.

★ 6.3

1971

Marc Bolan sings everything with the same wobbling vibrato over two-chord boogie, and producer Tony Visconti buried strings underneath it.

★ 6.1

1972

Rundgren played every instrument himself on three of the four sides, then used an actual band for the fourth, just to show the difference.

★ 4.9