New York Dolls

Met name door de 'zang' heb ik direct een punk-beleving. Het is een wat eenzijdig beeld. Want dit album is eens niet opgenomen in een schuur. En de piano en gitaar worden met aandacht bespeeld. Het heeft soms zelfs iets speels en is vrij dansbaar. Ergens pakt die muzikale tegenstelling wel. Maar ik had toch liever een fijne zanger hierbij gehoord.

So this is what all those terrible hipster punk bands were trying to sound like. It does rock pretty hard. I’m sure the live shows were fun back in the day. Better than the Rolling Stones anyway.

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RIP David Johansen.!
It's hard to overestimate how incredible and influential this band is. This is 1973, 1973! So much of what people consider the Punk song in the late '70s is exactly ripped right from this.

Something less commented on about early punk music (~1977) is that it can, in the best possible way, be camp and theatrical. Years before the word punk had passed anyone’s lips as a genre title The New York Dolls were serving up music with a mixture of camp and aggressive, pent up sensibilities that points to an entirely new type of music. Other than Iggy Pop I’d struggle to identify who they were in debt to, but could point to plenty of bands who are indebted to the dolls.

This LP is chock full of propulsive beats, hooky melodies and surprising gear shifts. Looking For a Kiss has a bizarre quality to it - it’s like having a drag queen shout in your face. Compare this to the more reflective Lonely Planet Boy. It keeps you on your toes and keeps your pulse racing. The dolls are not just influential, they are packing a wide variety of hits.

Nicht so ganz mein Style, aber auch nicht super schlecht. Von den ganzen Punk Sounds die wir bisher hatten, ist dieser noch angenehm zu hören.

How could you not fucking give that a 5?

Seriously, just go fucking listen to it. I don’t wanna type up a whole soliloquy about it; it’s 42 minutes of just incredibly fun proto-punk rock & roll that feels ahead of schedule for 1973, with great guitar work, really strong percussion, and a whole variety of instruments. Todd Rundgren did a hell of a job producing these guys to get the most of them & to capture the full energy of their sound & style, but consider me really fucking impressed by the New York Dolls themselves. These guys are innovators, and you can hear just about everyone they influenced (it's a LAUNDRY list on Wikipedia, seriously) at some point throughout this album.

It’s obviously a 5, and to give it anything less tells me you’re either a curmudgeonly fool or someone who’s been burned too many times by actually shitty 70s rock to not appreciate this for what it is. OK, fine, you can give it a 4 if you thought the overuse of the choruses was just too big of an issue or something. Either way, just loosen up and have fun with this thing – it flew by in a heartbeat, and I was rocking out the whole time. Easy, easy 5. Arguably a 10.

Nothing really stuck with me, but I wouldn’t say it was unenjoyable.

Classic punk rock, gritty songs by a band that can barely play, you can hear the influence they had on bands in the mid to late 70s and even into the 80s. Your favourite bands favorite band...

Still holds up 50 years later!

Nunca entendí la estética del glamrock (sigo sin entenderla). Al final el disco está mejor de lo que parece, si dejas a un lado los prejuicios. Me he guardado "Personality crisis", "Looking for a kiss" y "Trash".

Punk rock with a much more 70's rock/glam-metal feel. Not bad. Kind of reminded me of Quiet Riot or Twisted Sister at times. 4/5

This album is really good. Relatively simple musicianship that works to the group’s benefit. This manages to be both gritty and dirty while maintaining some glam rock aesthetics. Favorites were Personality Crisis, Looking For A Kiss, Trash, Pills, and Jet Boy.

This album rocks. The songs themselves are pretty formulaic, but they take everything up to 11. I can only imagine how insane their live shows must have been. Favorite tracks: Personality Crisis, Lonely Planet Boy (yeah, even the slow(er) songs are good - great sax, and I like how the backing vocal at the end was sung into a guitar pickup), Trash, Pills.

EDIT: Originally said 5 but in retrospect, it's more of a 4, mainly because it's a little repetitive and formulaic (but still awesome).

Hell yes!!

It was..... Okay. Decent instrumentation throughout, but nothing that stuck with me. Sounded like background bar rock.

One track did stand out as pure garbage, and it was ironically not "Trash" but rather "Frankenstein" with horrendous vocals that go on for 6 minutes??? Not all of the album is like that, but it IS just about the only thing I can recall about the album by the end of my listen.

Actually, no, "-Ah, how you call your loverboy? -TRASH" did stand out as a great line. Perhaps I was too harsh.

Very little to like here. It's a very specific, early 70s punk sound, where the singers all adopted the same nasally affect and they all took pride in not being able to play their instruments well. I have respect for the fact that I, intellectually, understand that it was groundbreaking and foundational, so I'll add a star for that, but I did not like this album at all.

It’s fine. I think in 1973 I would have loved it. But in 2025, I just want to listen to the Clash, Ramones, or Strokes, or whoever else obviously grew out of this.

That this is proto-punk and way out there for the time is wild to me. Sounds so normal? Like grungier rolling stones? I guess it influenced many others. It's ok, 3*

Mix between the clash and the Ramones? Unfortunately I'm not a fan of either... I think American punk lasted longer because there were less rules about what is and isn't punk. It's decent background music