There are hints of girl group pop and more than a hint of the Rolling Stones, but The New York Dolls doesn't really sound like anything that came before it. It's hard rock with a self-conscious wit, a celebration of camp and kitsch that retains a menacing, malevolent edge. The New York Dolls play as if they can barely keep the music from falling apart and David Johansen sings and screams like a man possessed. The New York Dolls is a noisy, reckless album that rocks and rolls with a vengeance. The Dolls rework old Chuck Berry and Stones riffs, playing them with a sloppy, violent glee. "Personality Crisis," "Looking for a Kiss," and "Trash" strut with confidence, while "Vietnamese Baby" and "Frankenstein" sound otherworldly, working the same frightening drone over and over again. The New York Dolls is the definitive proto-punk album, even more than anything the Stooges released. It plunders history while celebrating it, creating a sleazy urban mythology along the way.
A punk rock coffee table book sounds like an oxymoron; one of the most dangerous, confrontational, aggressive genres of music being something to look over with tea from your friends at church? If Bob Gruen's New York Dolls Photographs is on any coffee tables, some would say, it should be next to tea laced with PCP or with syringes and broken, bloodied guitar strings in place of crumpets and toa...
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This was sort of exciting…I got asked to write a bigger longer show preview for Philadelphia Weekly last week, on the New York Dolls show. Here it is:Too Much Too Late Rock critic Richard Meltzer never wrote anything funnier than his account of a mid-’70s food fight with the New York Dolls, David Johansen and Meltzer flinging handfuls of macaroni salad at one another at a Mercury party, leath
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1. Dolly Parton, "Jolene." This oft-covered early hit for Parton is wonderful, but I continue to wonder how a woman so clearly dedicated to making the most of herself would write a song like this one. In real life, I imagine Dolly kicking Jolene's ass.2. The New York Dolls, "Looking for a Kiss." If you're only going to watch one video here, this is your extra-special goody. Of course, if you ca...
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Take an online version of the Myers Briggs personality test. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp Are MOGgers more extroverted or introverted? Share your results. Here are mine:slightly expressed extrovertmoderately expressed sensing personalityvery expressed feeling personalitymoderately expressed judging personality There's also a link that will tell you what famous people share ...
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There was a time, many years ago, when music TV presenters could speak their minds. There was none of the sycophantic cuddling up and overtly flowery language we see and hear today. New York Dolls first live appearance in 1973, on UK TV show "The Old Grey Whistle Test" was introduced in disparaging tones as "mock rock" by that venerable hippy, 'Whispering' Bob Harris. "They are to the Rolling ...
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A punk rock coffee table book sounds like an oxymoron; one of the most dangerous, confrontational, aggressive genres of music being something to look over with tea from your friends at church? If Bob Gruen's New York Dolls Photographs is on any coffee tables, some would say, it should be next to tea laced with PCP or with syringes and broken, bloodied guitar strings in place of crumpets and toa...
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Second from left: David Johansen, Todd Rundgren (centre) and Sylvain Sylvain - photo: Marty Temme Bien étonnés de se trouver ensemble again: Todd Rundgren will produce the next New York Dolls album:The New York Dolls and legendary record producer / rock star, Todd Rundgren have been reunited for the first time in 36 years. Rundgren will produce the Dolls' new album at his studio on the island .
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Not realy but I have spent the weekend in Melbourne - staying at the old homestead - where Dad is on a serious New York Dolls trip. We played, and sang, this song endlessly. In fact everything we touched was "...while it was hot".And let's face it, in his day Johnny Thunders was the coolest motherfucker on the planet. Now I really want a classic TV Yellow Les Paul Jr. Oh, and bigger hair. Much...
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| 1 Personality Crisis |
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| 2 Looking for a Kiss |
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| 3 Vietnamese Baby |
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| 4 Lonely Planet Boy |
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| 5 Frankenstein |
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| 6 Trash |
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| 7 Bad Girl |
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| 8 Subway Train |
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| 9 Pills |
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| 10 Private World |
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| 11 Jet Boy |
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