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Artist: New York DollsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Personality Crisis
- Looking for a Kiss
- Vietnamese Baby
- Lonely Planet Boy
- Frankenstein
- Trash
- Bad Girl
- Subway Train
- Pills - New York Dolls, Diddley, Bo
- Private World
- Jet Boy
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Music Review: New York Dolls 1st Album rocks!
Rating: 5 Stars
I'd heard talk about a band from the 70's named New York Dolls, referred to as the seminal punk glam band, also credited as a major influence for Slash and Izzy of Guns N' Roses, one of my favorite bands. I first ordered their 2nd album, "Too Much Too Soon" having never heard any of their music, only knowing of David Johansen as the 80's Buster Poindexter and the cab driver in the movie Scrooged.
After listening to it for a couple of days, I knew I had to have more Dolls! This album, their first, is every bit as good as "Too Much Too Soon". I've heard comments that this one is not as good, but I couldn't disagree more. There's not a track on this album I don't like. "Personality Crisis", "Looking For a Kiss", "Trash", "Subway Train", and "Pills" jumped right out as great rockers, but after listening to the album a few times, the tracks that didn't jump right out to me at first started to get their hooks into me. I found myself singing "Jet Boy" in the shower and humming "Lonely Planet Boy" on the way to work.
This is raw, three to five chord, two guitar, music with blistering quick guitar leads and driving drum beat. The subjects covered by the music range from loneliness to addiction to heartbreak, all the basics of great rock & roll.
I would whole heartedly recommend this album to any New York Dolls fan who doesn't already have it (is that even possible?) or to anyone interested in discovering who the New York Dolls are and how they influenced rock & roll as we know it today.
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Limited edition Japanese pressing has been remastered and comes packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Along with the Stooges, the New York Dolls were largely responsible for pioneering the sound and attitude of punk, and this, their self-titled debut, is one of the founding documents of post-'60s rock. Outrageous, shambolic, and bursting with energy, the Dolls borrowed from the amped-up, bluesy swagger of the Rolling Stones, the pop confections of Phil Spector, and the campy theatricality that would flower with the glam movement, yet brought it all together with a visceral impact that recalled the jolt of early rock & roll. Mercury. 2006.In 1972, when rock & roll was all but dead in Manhattan, five cross-dressing glam punks from the boroughs convened and began hammering out crude, sub-Chuck Berry rock for the downtown in-crowd. It took another year before a record company dared to sign them, thus foisting The New York Dolls on an essentially uninterested world. Taking their cue from the band's guitarist/Keefalike Johnny Thunders, hardcore Dolls fans pooh-poohed Todd Rundgren's production as wimpy: twenty-five years after its release, songs like "Personality Crisis" and "Looking for a Kiss" sound more trashily invigorating than ever. With the Rolling Stones finished as a vital force by '73, the doomed Dolls were there to step into the void. A classic. --Barney Hoskyns
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