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| Allmusic Biography : The New York Dolls created punk rock before there was a term for it. Building on the Rolling Stones dirty rock & roll, Mick Jaggers androgyny, girl group pop, the Stooges anarchic noise, and the glam rock of David Bowie and T. Rex, the New York Dolls created a new form of hard rock that presaged both punk rock and heavy metal. Their drug-fueled, shambolic performances influenced a generation of musicians in New York and London, who all went on to form punk bands. And although they self-destructed quickly, the bands first two albums remain among the most popular cult records in rock & roll history. All of the members of the New York Dolls played in New York bands before the band formed in late 1971. Guitarists Johnny Thunders and Rick Rivets, bassist Arthur Kane, and drummer Billy Murcia were joined by vocalist David Johansen. Early in 1972, Rivets was replaced by Syl Sylvain and the group began playing regularly in Lower Manhattan, particularly at the Mercer Arts Center. Within a few months, they had earned a dedicated cult following, but record companies were afraid of signing the Dolls because of their cross-dressing and blatant vulgarity. Late in 1972, the Dolls embarked on their first tour of England. During the tour, drummer Murcia died after mixing drugs and alcohol. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan. After Nolan joined the band, the Dolls finally secured a record contract with Mercury Records. Todd Rundgren -- whose sophisticated pop seemed at odds with the bands crash-and-burn rock & roll -- produced the bands debut New York Dolls, which appeared in the summer of 1973. The record received overwhelmingly positive reviews, but it didnt stir the interest of the general public; the album peaked at number 116 on the U.S. charts. The bands follow-up, Too Much Too Soon, was produced by the legendary girl group producer George "Shadow" Morton. Although the sound of the record was relatively streamlined, the album was another commercial failure, only reaching number 167 upon its early summer 1974 release. Following the disappointing sales of the Dolls two albums, Mercury Records dropped the band. No other record labels were interested in the group, so the Dolls decided to hire a new manager, the British Malcolm McLaren, who would soon become famous for managing the Sex Pistols. With the Dolls, McLaren began developing his skill for turning shock into invaluable publicity. Although he made it work for the Pistols just a year later, all of his strategies backfired for the Dolls. McLaren made the band dress completely in red leather and perform in front of the U.S.S.R.s flag, all of which meant to symbolize the Dolls alleged communist allegiance. The new approach only made record labels more reluctant to sign the band and members soon began leaving the group. By the middle of 1975, Thunders and Nolan left the Dolls. The remaining members, Johansen and Sylvain, fired McLaren and assembled a new lineup of the band. For the next two years, the duo led a variety of different incarnations of the band, to no success. In 1977, Johansen and Sylvain decided to break up the band permanently. Over the next two decades, various outtakes collections, live albums, and compilations were released by a variety of labels and the New York Dolls two original studio albums never went out of print. Upon the Dolls breakup, David Johansen began a solo career that would eventually metamorphose into his lounge-singing alter ego, Buster Poindexter, in the mid-80s. Syl Sylvain played with Johansen for two years before he left to pursue his own solo career. Johnny Thunders formed the Heartbreakers with Jerry Nolan after they left the group in 1975. Over the next decade, the Heartbreakers would perform sporadically and Thunders would record an occasional solo album. On April 23, 1991, Thunders was found dead in his room at the St. Peter House in New Orleans, Louisiana. Nolan performed at a tribute concert for Thunders later in 1991; a few months later, he died of a stroke at the age of 40. In 2004, former Smiths vocalist Morrissey -- who was once the president of a British New York Dolls fan club -- invited the surviving members of the New York Dolls to perform at the 2004 Meltown Festival, a music and cultural festival that was being curated that year by the singer. To the surprise of many, David Johansen, Syl Sylvain, and Arthur Kane agreed to the gig, with Steve Conte (from Johansens solo band) standing in for Thunders and Gary Powell from the Libertines sitting in on drums. The groups set was well received by critics and fans (and was recorded for release on DVD and compact disc), which led to offers for other festival appearances, but only a few weeks after the Meltdown show, Kane checked himself into a Los Angeles hospital with what he thought was a severe case of the flu. Kanes ailment was soon diagnosed as leukemia, and he died only a few hours later, on July 13, 2004, at age 55. With Sam Yaffa (of Hanoi Rocks) on bass, the remaining Dolls played a hometown tribute to their fallen brothers at Little Stevens International Underground Garage Festival in New York City on August 14, 2004, reuniting again (this time with Brian Delaney on drums) in 2006 for the all-new CD/DVD One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. The Todd Rundgren-produced Cause I Sez So appeared on Rhino in 2009. A fifth studio album, Dancing Backward in High Heels, featuring both Johansen and Sylvain and produced and mixed by Jason Hill, appeared from 429 Records early in 2011. | ||
 | Album: 1 of 22 Title: New York Dolls Released: 1973-07-27 Tracks: 11 Duration: 42:42 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Personality Crisis (03:43) 2 Looking for a Kiss (03:20) 3 Vietnamese Baby (03:39) 4 Lonely Planet Boy (04:10) 5 Frankenstein (original) (06:00) 6 Trash (03:09) 7 Bad Girl (03:05) 8 Subway Train (04:22) 9 Pills (02:49) 10 Private World (03:40) 11 Jet Boy (04:40) |
| New York Dolls : Allmusic album Review : When the New York Dolls released their debut album in 1973, they managed to be named both "Best New Band" and "Worst Band" in Creem Magazines annual readers poll, and it usually takes something special to polarize an audience like that. And the Dolls were inarguably special -- decades after its release, New York Dolls still sounds thoroughly unique, a gritty, big-city amalgam of Stones-style R&B, hard rock guitars, lyrics that merge pulp storytelling with girl group attitude, and a sloppy but brilliant attack that would inspire punk rock (without the punks ever getting its joyous slop quite right). Much was made of the Dolls sexual ambiguity in the day, but with the passage of time, its a misfit swagger that communicates most strongly in these songs, and David Johansens vocals suggest the product of an emotional melting pot who just wants to find some lovin before Manhattan is gone, preferably from a woman who would prefer him over a fix. If the lyrics sometimes recall Hubert Selby, Jr. if hed had a playful side, the music is big, raucous hard rock, basic but with a strongly distinct personality -- the noisy snarl of Johnny Thunders lead guitar quickly became a touchstone, and if he didnt have a lot of tricks in his arsenal, he sure knew when and how to apply them, and the way he locked in with Syl Sylvains rhythm work was genius -- and the Dolls made their downtown decadence sound both ominous and funny at the same time. The Dolls were smart enough to know that a band needs a great drummer, and if theres something likably clumsy about Arthur Kanes bass work, Jerry Nolans superb, elemental drumming holds the pieces in place with no-nonsense precision at all times. "Lonely Planet Boy" proved the Dolls could dial down their amps and sound very much like themselves, "Pills" was a superbly chosen cover that seemed like an original once they were done with it, and "Personality Crisis," "Trash," and "Jet Boy" were downtown rock & roll masterpieces no other band could have created. And while New York Dolls clearly came from a very specific time and place, this album still sounds fresh and hasnt dated in the least -- this is one of rocks greatest debut albums, and a raucous statement of purpose thats still bold and thoroughly engaging. | ||
 | Album: 2 of 22 Title: Too Much Too Soon Released: 1974-05 Tracks: 10 Duration: 37:03 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Babylon (03:33) 2 Stranded in the Jungle (03:51) 3 Who Are the Mystery Girls? (03:09) 4 (There’s Gonna Be a) Showdown (03:39) 5 It’s Too Late (04:37) 6 Puss ’n’ Boots (03:06) 7 Chatterbox (02:27) 8 Bad Detective (03:39) 9 Don’t Start Me Talkin’ (03:15) 10 Human Being (05:43) |
| Too Much Too Soon : Allmusic album Review : After the clatter of their first album failed to bring them a wide audience, the New York Dolls hired producer Shadow Morton to work on the follow-up, Too Much Too Soon. The differences are apparent right from the start of the ferocious opener, "Babylon." Not only are the guitars cleaner, but the mix is dominated by waves of studio sound effects and female backing vocals. Ironically, instead of making the Dolls sound safer, all the added frills emphasize their gleeful sleaziness and reckless sound. The Dolls sound on the verge of falling apart throughout the album, as Johnny Thunders and Syl Sylvain relentlessly trade buzz-saw riffs while David Johansen sings, shouts, and sashays on top of the racket. Band originals -- including the bluesy raver "Its Too Late," the noisy girl-group pop of "Puss N Boots," and the Thunders showcase "Chatterbox" -- are rounded out by obscure R&B; and rock & roll covers tailor-made for the group. Johansen vamps throughout Leiber & Stollers "Bad Detective," Archie Bells "(Theres Gonna Be A) Showdown," the Cadets "Stranded in the Jungle," and Sonny Boy Williamsons "Dont Start Me Talkin," yet its with grit and affection -- he really means it, man! The whole record collapses with the scathing "Human Being," on which a bunch of cross-dressing misfits defiantly declare that its OK that they want too many things, cause theyre human beings, just like you and me. Three years later, the Sex Pistols failed to come up with anything as musically visceral and dangerous. Perhaps thats why the Dolls never found their audience in the early 70s: Not only were they punk rock before punk rock was cool, but they remained weirder and more idiosyncratic than any of the bands that followed. And they rocked harder, too. | ||
 | Album: 3 of 22 Title: Lipstick Killers: The Mercer Street Sessions 1972 Released: 1981 Tracks: 9 Duration: 40:22 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Bad Girl (03:45) 2 Looking for a Kiss (03:42) 3 Dont Start Me Talking (03:42) 4 Dont Mess With Cupid (03:07) 5 Human Being (06:16) 6 Personality Crisis (04:13) 7 Pills (03:16) 8 Jet Boy (05:13) 9 Frankenstein (07:03) |
 | Album: 4 of 22 Title: After the Storm Released: 1985 Tracks: 8 Duration: 00:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Personality Crisis (demo) (?) 2 Looking for a Kiss (demo) (?) 3 Bad Girl (demo) (?) 4 Subway Train (demo) (?) 5 Anarchy in the UK (live) (?) 6 Pretty Vacant (live) (?) 7 Liar (live) (?) 8 Dolls (New York) (live) (?) |
 | Album: 5 of 22 Title: Night of the Living Dolls Released: 1985 Tracks: 10 Duration: 33:27 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Personality Crisis (03:42) 2 Puss ’n’ Boots (03:06) 3 Trash (03:07) 4 Vietnamese Baby (03:39) 5 Give Her a Great Big Kiss (02:40) 6 Looking for a Kiss (03:19) 7 Subway Train (04:20) 8 Chatterbox (02:25) 9 Babylon (03:31) 10 (There’s Gonna Be a) Showdown (03:38) |
 | Album: 6 of 22 Title: Endless Party Released: 1991 Tracks: 19 Duration: 1:14:53 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 7 Day Weekend (03:25) 2 Frankenstein (05:46) 3 Mystery Girls (02:56) 4 Showdown (01:33) 5 Back in the U.S.A. (02:18) 6 Endless Party (06:22) 7 Human Being (05:43) 8 Its Too Late (03:29) 9 Bad Detective (03:29) 10 Lonely Planet Boy (04:06) 11 Subway Train (04:49) 12 Private World (03:44) 13 Trash (03:06) 14 Human Being (05:43) 15 Dont Start Me Talkin (03:21) 16 Hootchie Cootchie Man (04:31) 17 Great Big Kiss (03:34) 18 Vietnamese Baby (03:33) 19 Babylon (03:24) |
 | Album: 7 of 22 Title: Seven Day Weekend Released: 1992 Tracks: 19 Duration: 1:17:04 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Seven Day Weekend (03:28) 2 Frankenstein (05:46) 3 Mystery Girls (03:01) 4 (Theres Gonna Be a) Showdown (01:40) 5 Back in the U.S.A. (02:18) 6 Endless Party (06:18) 7 Jet Boy (04:49) 8 Its Too Late (05:00) 9 Bad Detective (03:32) 10 Lonely Planet Boy (04:11) 11 Subway Train (05:05) 12 Private World (03:51) 13 Trash (03:13) 14 Human Being (05:59) 15 Dont Start Me Talking (03:21) 16 Hoochie Coochie Man (04:37) 17 Great Big Kiss (03:37) 18 Vietnamese Baby (03:51) 19 Babylon (03:25) |
| Seven Day Weekend : Allmusic album Review : With only a pair of official albums issued during their brief tenure as a band together (1973s self-titled debut and 74s Too Much Too Soon), the New York Dolls has been the subject of numerous postmortem releases. While many just repackaged tracks from the two aforementioned albums, others, like 1992s Seven Day Weekend, collected previously unheard demos from sessions prior to the recording of their debut album (recorded in March 1973 at Planet Studios in New York City). Featuring a total of 19 tracks, the sound quality is excellent -- the band manages to play the tracks even rawer than how they would turn out on their two albums (probably not far from what the Dolls sounded like in concert at the time). In addition, there are several tracks that never made it on subsequent releases -- the title track, "Back in the USA," "Endless Party," "Great Big Kiss," and "Hootchie Cootchie Man." But the real highlights are the rough readings of such Dolls classics as "Jet Boy," "Lonely Planet Boy," "Subway Train," "Vietnamese Baby," "Trash," "Human Being," "Private World," and "Babylon," many of which top the officially-released album versions. Serious New York Dolls fans will definitely enjoy these rough and ready historical recordings. | ||
 | Album: 8 of 22 Title: Live in NYC, 1975: Red Patent Leather Released: 1993 Tracks: 15 Duration: 55:38 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Red Patent Leather (03:37) 2 On Fire (03:29) 3 Something Else (02:25) 4 Daddy Rolling Stone (03:39) 5 Aint Got No Home / Dizzy Miss Lizzy (03:57) 6 Girls Girls Girls (03:45) 7 Down, Down Downtown (04:15) 8 Pirate Love (04:12) 9 Pills (03:13) 10 Teenage News (03:49) 11 Personality Crisis / Looking for a Kiss (05:41) 12 Stranded in the Jungle (03:48) 13 Trash (03:42) 14 Chatterbox (02:38) 15 Puss n Boots (03:23) |
 | Album: 9 of 22 Title: Paris le Trash Released: 1993-09-10 Tracks: 17 Duration: 00:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Introduction (?) 2 Personality Crisis (?) 3 Bad Girl (?) 4 Looking for a Kiss (?) 5 Give Her a Great Big Kiss (?) 6 Stranded in the Jungle (?) 7 Pills (?) 8 Vietnamese Baby (?) 9 Trash (?) 10 Chatterbox (?) 11 Puss ’n’ Boots (?) 12 Hoochie Coochie Man (?) 13 Jet Boy (?) 14 Looking for a Kiss (?) 15 Who Are the Mystery Girls (?) 16 Chatterbox (?) 17 Human Being (?) |
| Paris le Trash : Allmusic album Review : Holy moly! To paraphrase a famous late-70s English band that the New York Dolls had an overwhelming influence on (the Sex Pistols), "Never mind their other live documents, this is the killer diller." The mix favors Jerry Nolans famous cool drumming and especially the dirty crunch of master guitarist Johnny Thunders. Great as his (and Nolans) Heartbreakers were, the Dolls were the best place for his power-blues style riffs and ripping, squealing, barking, and screaming power leads, so subversive and nasty that they summed up with every siren blast all that rock & roll could aspire to. He could wander where he pleased since Syl Sylvain was such a smooth rhythm guitarist, and both are truly in sync here. Singer David Johansen is low in the mix but clearly audible where he belongs, and bassist Arthur Kane sounds reasonably sober. All this adds up to the finest quality recording weve heard of a seminal band in their prime; not only were they (from all accounts) a fabulous band on-stage that never really was all that comfortable in studios (much like the Heartbreakers later), but as much as their two studio LPs are as great as they are infamous, both seem muted compared to Raw Powers detonation around the same time, and this disc will correct that. Its not perfect: Some of the backing vocals by Sylvain and Thunders are a little too loud and slightly off, theres too much talking space between songs, and their covers of the Shangri-Las "Give Him (Her) a Great Big Kiss" and Willie Dixons "Hoochie Coochie Man" (first-ever Dolls release for both, right?) are both too sloppy to fit with the rest of this greatness. The band also mucks-up completely the start of Bo Diddleys "Pills" without the smarts to just start over. But who the hell cares!? One listen to "Bad Girl" with its sexy swank, and "Vietnamese Baby," "Chatterbox," and "Looking for a Kiss" with this totally loud, totally smokin, totally hot live sound, and youll be glad this tape was unearthed and released. One caution: youll have to really turn up the volume; this is one of those rare cases where only blasting it makes it sound hot. Paris Le Trash is definitely the most important album to get after the studio LPs and may even be the best introduction, period! | ||
 | Album: 10 of 22 Title: Rock n Roll Released: 1994 Tracks: 21 Duration: 1:16:50 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Courageous Cat Theme (02:21) 2 Trash (03:09) 3 Personality Crisis (03:43) 4 Babylon (03:33) 5 Looking for a Kiss (03:20) 6 Lone Star Queen (04:11) 7 Vietnamese Baby (03:39) 8 Lonely Planet Boy (04:10) 9 Frankenstein (05:58) 10 Private World (03:39) 11 Chatterbox (02:27) 12 Bad Girl (03:03) 13 Dont Mess With Cupid (02:53) 14 Subway Train (04:21) 15 Who Are the Mystery Girls? (03:09) 16 Stranded in the Jungle (04:06) 17 It’s Too Late (04:37) 18 Puss ’n’ Boots (03:06) 19 Jet Boy (04:40) 20 Human Being (05:47) 21 [untitled] (00:54) |
| Rock 'n' Roll : Allmusic album Review : Since the two studio albums recorded by the original incarnation of the New York Dolls -- 1973s New York Dolls and 1974s Too Much, Too Soon -- will fit (just barely) on one CD without editing, just how useful is a collection that features most but not all of the songs from those albums along with some bonus tracks of dubious quality and importance? Rock n Roll aims to be a definitive summary of the Dolls glorious but chaotic career while offering a few rarities for die-hard fans, but the loyalists get shortchanged just a bit by this set. "Lone Star Queen" sounds like a tossed-off demo, "Dont Mess with Cupid" is a less impressive cover than the versions of "Pills" or "Dont Start Me Talkin" that dont make the cut, and while "Courageous Cat Theme" is good fun that gives Johnny Thunders plenty of room to strut with his guitar, its hardly a lost classic. But even in a less than ideal presentation, this music is still powerful, and Rock n Roll really does capture a good bit of what made the New York Dolls truly special -- the prima donna swagger of David Johansens vocals, the aural sneer of Johnny Thunders guitar, the chock-a-block counterpoint of Syl Sylvains rhythm work, the sharp, efficient wallop of Jerry Nolans drums, and the dirt simple but heartfelt pulse of Arthur Kanes bass. Add in the bands songs, which offer a clever street kids perspective on the joys and terrors of life in the concrete playground of New York City, and you get a band that sound every bit as smart, witty, and thoroughly unique today as they did in 1973. And though the songs fare better in the context of their original albums, the opening triple play of "Trash," "Personality Crisis," and "Babylon" is inspired, as is the closing salvo of "Jet Boy" and "Human Being." All in all, Rock n Roll isnt perfect, but it is the best single-disc New York Dolls collection thats been released to date, and its the next best thing to picking up those first two albums (which is still the preferred option). | ||
 | Album: 11 of 22 Title: Im a Human Being Released: 1998 Tracks: 15 Duration: 58:05 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 (Im Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (04:46) 2 Great Big Kiss (04:56) 3 Dont Mess With Cupid (03:10) 4 Chatterbox (02:29) 5 Babylon Tell Me Your Name (03:27) 6 Pirate Love (03:49) 7 Showdown (03:49) 8 Who Are the Mystery Girls? (03:06) 9 Personality Crisis (02:06) 10 Down, Down Downtown (03:40) 11 Teenage News (03:17) 12 On Fire (03:48) 13 Dizzy Miss Lizzy (03:43) 14 Jet Boy (06:09) 15 Im a Human Being (05:50) |
| I'm a Human Being : Allmusic album Review : Any (or all) of the following would be a fitting description of the New York Dolls live on-stage -- sloppy, loud, drunk, and trashy. Over the years, countless Dolls bootlegs have appeared, some worthwhile, others that should have remained in someones attic. But overall, Im a Human Being is a keeper. Including selections from one of the Dolls best-known bootlegs, Red Patent Leather, tracks from another show, reportedly from Vancouver during 1974, are featured as well. The sound quality is surprisingly good (what appears to be soundboard recordings), and is loaded with tracks that never appeared on any of the Dolls two studio albums. Included are such covers as "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Dont Mess With Cupid," as well as tracks that would later appear on post-Dolls albums by Johnny Thunders ("Pirate Love," "Down Down Downtown") and Syl Sylvain ("Teenage News"). But not all the selections are oddities, as some of the Dolls best-known tracks are included -- "Personality Crisis," "Jetboy," the title track. While it may not be a complete show, Im a Human Being is a good live sampling of latter day Dolls. | ||
 | Album: 12 of 22 Title: Live in Concert, Paris 1974 Released: 1999 Tracks: 11 Duration: 43:54 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Personality Crisis (03:51) 2 Bad Girl (03:17) 3 Looking for a Kiss (03:53) 4 Give Her a Great Big Kiss (04:53) 5 Pills (03:04) 6 Vietnamese Baby (04:31) 7 Trash (03:13) 8 Chatterbox (02:32) 9 Puss n Boots (03:20) 10 Hoochie Coochie Man (04:45) 11 Jet Boy (06:35) |
 | Album: 13 of 22 Title: A Hard Nights Day Released: 2000 Tracks: 21 Duration: 1:18:47 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Seven Day Weekend (03:25) 2 Frankenstein (05:43) 3 Who Are the Mystery Girls? (02:57) 4 (Theres Gonna Be a) Showdown (01:34) 5 Back in the U.S.A. (02:18) 6 Lookin for a Kiss (03:35) 7 Jet Boy (04:49) 8 Its Too Late (03:53) 9 Bad Detective (03:28) 10 Lonely Planet Boy (04:09) 11 Subway Train (05:01) 12 Private World (03:54) 13 Trash (03:11) 14 Human Being (05:58) 15 Dont Start Me Talking (03:22) 16 Give Her a Great Big Kiss (03:36) 17 Vietnamese Baby (03:36) 18 Babylon (03:28) 19 Bad Girl (03:16) 20 Pills (03:23) 21 Personality Crisis (04:02) |
 | Album: 14 of 22 Title: Great Big Kiss Released: 2002 Tracks: 34 Duration: 2:11:20 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Seven Day Weekend (03:24) 2 Frankenstein (05:42) 3 Mystery Girls (02:56) 4 (There’s Gonna Be a) Showdown (01:35) 5 Back in the U.S.A. (02:18) 6 Endless Party (06:16) 7 Jet Boy (04:46) 8 It’s Too Late (04:55) 9 Bad Detective (03:29) 10 Lonely Planet Boy (04:07) 11 Subway Train (04:59) 12 Private World (03:47) 13 Trash (03:09) 14 Human Being (05:55) 15 Don’t Start Me Talking (03:20) 16 Hoochie Goochie Man (04:33) 17 Great Big Kiss (03:34) 18 Vietnamese Baby (03:47) 19 Babylon (03:25) 1 Red Patent Leather (03:37) 2 On Fire (03:29) 3 Something Else (02:25) 4 Daddy Rolling Stone (03:38) 5 Ain’t Got No Home / Dizzy Miss Lizzy (03:57) 6 Girls Girls Girls (03:44) 7 Down, Down Downtown (04:15) 8 Pirate Love (04:09) 9 Pills (03:13) 10 Teenage News (03:38) 11 Personality Crisis / Looking for a Kiss (05:40) 12 Stranded in the Jungle (03:47) 13 Trash (03:42) 14 Chatterbox (02:36) 15 Puss ’n Boots (03:22) |
 | Album: 15 of 22 Title: Live From Royal Festival Hall, 2004 Released: 2004-10-04 Tracks: 15 Duration: 1:12:27 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Looking for a Kiss (03:38) 2 Puss n’ Boots (03:17) 3 Subway Train (05:11) 4 Bad Girl (04:08) 5 You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory / Lonely Planet Boy (05:52) 6 Private World (04:03) 7 Vietnamese Baby (03:54) 8 Dialogue 1 (02:24) 9 Frankenstein (06:41) 10 Babylon (04:15) 11 Dialogue 2 (02:07) 12 Trash (03:35) 13 Jet Boy (07:38) 14 Personality Crisis (08:24) 15 Human Being (07:20) |
 | Album: 16 of 22 Title: Private World: The Complete Early Studio Demos 1972–73 Released: 2006 Tracks: 36 Duration: 2:22:24 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Bad Girl (03:45) 2 Looking for a Kiss (03:42) 3 Don’t Start Me Talking (03:42) 4 Don’t Mess With Cupid (03:07) 5 Human Being (06:15) 6 Personality Crisis (04:13) 7 Pills (03:14) 8 Jet Boy (05:13) 9 Frankenstein (07:03) 10 Personality Crisis (04:03) 11 Looking for a Kiss (03:27) 12 Bad Girl (03:27) 13 Subway Train (04:44) 14 Seven Day Weekend (03:22) 15 Frankenstein (05:42) 16 Mystery Girls (02:57) 17 (There’s Gonna Be a) Showdown (01:34) 18 Back in the USA (02:14) 1 Endless Party (06:17) 2 Jet Boy (04:46) 3 It’s Too Late (false start) (01:26) 4 It’s Too Late (03:28) 5 Bad Detective (03:29) 6 Lonely Planet Boy (04:07) 7 Subway Train (04:59) 8 Private World (03:47) 9 Trash (03:09) 10 Human Being (05:55) 11 Don’t Start Me Talking (03:20) 12 Hoochie Coochie Man (04:33) 13 Give Him a Great Big Kiss (03:34) 14 Vietnamese Baby (03:35) 15 Babylon (03:26) 16 Bad Girl (03:16) 17 Pills (03:21) 18 Personality Crisis (03:57) |
 | Album: 17 of 22 Title: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This Released: 2006-07-24 Tracks: 13 Duration: 47:54 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 We’re All in Love (04:38) 2 Runnin’ Around (04:12) 3 Plenty of Music (04:00) 4 Dance Like A Monkey (03:38) 5 Punishing World (02:37) 6 Maimed Happiness (03:02) 7 Fishnets and Cigarettes (03:13) 8 Gotta Get Away From Tommy (02:27) 9 Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano (04:18) 10 Ain’t Got Nothin’ (04:28) 11 Rainbow Store (02:58) 12 Gimme Luv and Turn on the Light (03:19) 13 Take a Good Look at My Good Looks (05:00) |
| One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This : Allmusic album Review : The prospect of a new studio album from the New York Dolls in the year 2006 is a strange and puzzling thing, especially without the presence of Johnny Thunders, Arthur Kane, and Jerry Nolan, all of whom are currently gigging on another astral plane. But after the Dolls made an unexpected and surprisingly convincing return to the concert stage in 2004, David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, and their newly appointed partners started writing new material and took the risky step of taking the new band into the studio a mere 32 years after Too Much Too Soon. One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This has two major hurdles to clear for anyone who cared about the Dolls: they have to create something akin to the sloppy majesty of their two iconic studio albums without the help of ace guitar mauler Thunders, and they have to write songs with the same gritty blare and strutting attitude that came as second nature when they were twenty-somethings. Musically, this version of the Dolls is much more precise than they ever were back in the day, but the opening track, "Were All in Love," captures a fair share of the rattly subway train rhythm that was the Dolls aural trademark, and most of these tunes dont aim for the same degree of rock action as the groups most famous tunes, theres still an admirable crash-and-bash energy on "Gimme Luv and Turn on the Light" and "Dance Like a Monkey," and there are clear gestures towards the Dolls other sonic touchstones: vintage girl group sounds ("Rainbow Store"), old-school R&B; ("Take a Good Look at My Good Looks"), the blues ("I Aint Got Nothin"). Just as importantly, David Johansen hasnt sung rock & roll with this kind of strength, authority, and guts in years, and guitarists Sylvain and Steve Conte crank out the fire without too much audible worry about the weight of the past. (It also helps that the rhythm section is right on the money and Jack Douglas delivers the muscular but unobtrusive production this band always needed and never got.) As for the songs, with their frequent philosophical musings and multisyllabic constructions, this is heady stuff coming from what was once was a band of decadent street punk fashion mavens, but lets face it, one of the reasons Johansen and Sylvain survived and their bandmates didnt is they had a vision of the future that went further than the next party and the next fix, and the best songs on this album look at where these guys have been and where theyre going with a mixture of intelligence, perception, and street smarts. And if youre just looking for dumb fun, "Dance Like a Monkey" delivers. On One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, the New York Dollsare a far cry from the band that recorded "Personality Crisis" in 1972, but the album offers a reasonable approximation of the Dolls as smart, battle-hardened survivors whove got something to say and have a few laughs while saying it. If its not quite a triumph, its challenging and ambitious stuff that rocks on out and doesnt tarnish the memory of what Johansen and Sylvain accomplished so many years ago. | ||
 | Album: 18 of 22 Title: Live at the Fillmore East Released: 2008 Tracks: 10 Duration: 45:06 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Babylon (03:47) 2 Trash (03:32) 3 Jet Boy (06:49) 4 Personality Crisis (05:05) 5 Rainbow Store (03:37) 6 Looking for a Kiss (03:52) 7 Puss n Boots (03:05) 8 Dance Like a Monkey (04:45) 9 Pills (04:02) 10 Lonely Planet Boy (06:27) |
 | Album: 19 of 22 Title: ’Cause I Sez So Released: 2009-05-04 Tracks: 12 Duration: 41:30 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 ’Cause I Sez So (03:07) 2 Muddy Bones (03:00) 3 Better Than You (03:22) 4 Lonely So Long (04:05) 5 My World (03:26) 6 This Is Ridiculous (03:15) 7 Temptation to Exist (04:02) 8 Making Rain (04:06) 9 Drowning (03:32) 10 Nobody Got No Bizness (02:58) 11 Trash (03:52) 12 Exorcism of Despair (02:45) |
| ’Cause I Sez So : Allmusic album Review : Five years into one of the most unlikely reunions in recent rock & roll history, the New York Dolls have begun to acknowledge the great paradox of the new edition of the band. If ever there was a band with a distinctive musical and emotional personality, it was the Dolls, but with only two members of the original lineup still alive and able to take the stage in 2009, David Johansen and Syl Sylvain have had a heavy burden to bear, trying to make music that feels and sounds like the New York Dolls without their iconic lead guitarist, their original rhythm section, and the sort of lifestyle that defined their world view when they were the edgiest band in Americas toughest city. The new Dolls created a reasonable approximation of what their old sound would have been like had they all survived into the new millennium on 2006s One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, but 2009s Cause I Sez So suggests this band has little interest in living in the past, including their own. Todd Rundgren, who produced the Dolls brilliant 1973 debut, was behind the controls for this set, and the first two songs, "Cause I Sez So" and "Muddy Bones," conjure up the sloppy downtown energy of the Dolls Mk. 1 better than anything on One Day It Will Please Us, full of dirty guitars, crashing drums, and broadly strutting vocals from Johansen, complemented by Rundgrens roomy, natural-sounding production. But after that one-two punch, the album shifts gears, easing into a groove thats more easygoing and (gulp) mature than the classic Dolls assault, with a warmer and more subdued approach. "Lonely So Long" is a great pop tune with a faint resemblance to the Beatles, "Nobody Got No Bizness" is a high-spirited, hip-shaking R&B; shuffle, "Temptation to Exist" is a melodramatic ballad that sounds like it could have fit onto one of Johansens Buster Poindexter albums, "This Is Ridiculous" is a blues-influenced number that gives the singer plenty of room to showboat, and "Making Rain" edges uncomfortably into adult contemporary territory. As if to declare to anyone not paying attention that this isnt the Dolls as we remember them, theres a re-recording of "Trash" that puts a ganja-burnished reggae spin on the old proto-punk classic (possibly anticipating an adverse reaction from old fans, "Trash" is followed by "Exorcism of Despair," a chunky rocker very much in the traditional Dolls style). While the group as a whole sounds vital and in even better shape than they were on the fine One Day It Will Please Us, with its broad palate of musical influences and clear willingness to move past the constraints of the New York Dolls legacy, Cause I Sez So is clearly David Johansens album, and its a great showcase for one of the great rock singers of his generation. But is it the New York Dolls? Well, thats what it says on the front cover, and if the sound is different, the "Whatsit to You?" spirit of this set is as keen as ever, and that counts for a lot with these guys. | ||
 | Album: 20 of 22 Title: Dancing Backward in High Heels Released: 2011-03-14 Tracks: 12 Duration: 37:14 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Fool for You Baby (02:37) 2 Streetcake (03:18) 3 Fabulous Rant (00:25) 4 I’m So Fabulous (02:26) 5 Talk to Me Baby (03:03) 6 Kids Like You (03:52) 7 Round and Round She Goes (03:46) 8 You Don’t Have to Cry (03:04) 9 I Sold My Heart to the Junkman (02:24) 10 Baby, Tell Me What I’m On (03:57) 11 Funky but Chic (04:01) 12 End of the Summer (04:17) |
| Dancing Backward in High Heels : Allmusic album Review : On their third studio album since reuniting the New York Dolls in 2004, David Johansen and Syl Sylvain have finally begun acknowledging the obvious -- this is not the same band that traipsed in and burned out in a blaze of glory in the 70s. Not only are Johansen and Sylvain the only survivors from the bands original lineup, their efforts to re-create the bands original sound and impact have been well-meaning and entertaining without making much of an mark. 2009s ‘Cause I Sez So found them drifting away from the classic sound of the Dolls, and 2011s Dancing Backward in High Heels in many respects represents a clean break; Steve Conte, who took on the Johnny Thunders role in the reunited band, is gone, and with Frank Infante of Blondie in his place, on these sessions the guitar plays a lesser role in the arrangements, with keyboards and sax dominating many of the tunes. And while this album doesnt entirely abandon the Dolls as we knew them, it recalls the original groups influences, rather than the Dolls themselves, most notably classic ‘60s rock, girl group sounds, and vintage R&B; rather than the beautifully shambolic hard rock of their salad days. So Dancing Backward in High Heels isnt the New York Dolls as we once knew them, though it does sound very much like the work of David Johansen and Syl Sylvain, two guys close to 60 years of age who clearly still love rock & roll but have a different attitude about it than they did in 1972. The witty attack on out of towners in the Big Apple of "Im so Fabulous" rings true coming from these guys, the night-life tales of "Round and Round She Goes" suggest theyre still up for a rowdy good time, "Streetcake" and "You Dont Have to Cry" confirm David and Syl havent forgotten how to write a great pop tune, and the cover of "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman" is heartfelt and funny, just as it should be. And if "Funky But Chic" was reworked from Johansens first solo album, the cocky strut and swagger of the tune still sounds fresh and engaging in the 21st century. While the New York Dolls struggled to balance past and present on their previous reunion albums, Dancing Backward in High Heels is a product of the here and now as defined by two guys following their muse in their own way, which is just what they should be doing at this stage of the game. | ||
 | Album: 21 of 22 Title: Butterflyin’ Released: 2015 Tracks: 17 Duration: 00:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Puss ’n’ Boots (?) 2 Looking for a Kiss (?) 3 Trash (?) 4 Stranded in the Jungle (?) 5 Personality Crisis (?) 6 Bad Girl (?) 7 Pills (?) 8 Hoochie Coochie Man (?) 9 It’s Too Late (?) 10 Chatterbox (?) 11 Human Being (?) 12 There’s Gonna Be a Showdown (?) 13 Stranded in the Jungle (?) 14 Trash (?) 15 Chatterbox (?) 16 Don’t Start Me Talkin’ (?) 17 Personality Crisis (?) |
 | Album: 22 of 22 Title: Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972–1975 Released: 2018-04-27 Tracks: 92 Duration: 00:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Bad Girl (?) 2 Looking for a Kiss (?) 3 Don’t Start Me Talkin’ (?) 4 Don’t Mess With Cupid (?) 5 Human Being (?) 6 Personality Crisis (?) 7 Pills (?) 8 Jet Boy (?) 9 Frankenstein (?) 10 Personality Crisis (?) 11 Looking for a Kiss (?) 12 Bad Girl (?) 13 Subway Train (?) 14 Seven Day Weekend (?) 15 Frankenstein (?) 16 Who Are the Mystery Girls? (?) 17 (There’s Gonna Be a) Showdown (?) 18 Back in the USA (?) 1 Endless Party (?) 2 Jet Boy (?) 3 It’s Too Late (false start) (?) 4 It’s Too Late (full version) (?) 5 Bad Detective (?) 6 Lonely Planet Boy (?) 7 Subway Train (?) 8 Private World (?) 9 Trash (?) 10 Human Being (?) 11 Don’t Start Me Talkin’ (?) 12 Hoochie Coochie Man (?) 13 (Give Him a) Great Big Kiss (?) 14 Vietnamese Baby (?) 15 Babylon (?) 16 Bad Girl (?) 17 Pills (?) 18 Personality Crisis (?) 1 Trash (?) 2 The Milk Man (?) 3 Puss’n’Boots (?) 4 Intro / Personality Crisis (?) 5 Bad Girl (?) 6 Looking for a Kiss (?) 7 Who Are the Mystery Girls? (?) 8 Stranded in the Jungle (?) 9 Human Being (?) 10 Pills (?) 11 Trash (?) 12 The Milk Man (?) 13 Puss’n’Boots (?) 14 Babylon (?) 15 Lone Star Queen (?) 16 Don’t Start Me Talkin’ (?) 17 Puss’n’Boots (?) 18 Looking for a Kiss (?) 19 Trash (?) 20 Stranded in the Jungle (?) 21 Personality Crisis (?) 22 Bad Girl (?) 23 Pills (?) 1 Hoochie Coochie Man (?) 2 It’s Too Late (?) 3 Chatterbox (?) 4 Human Being (?) 5 Hoochie Coochie Man (?) 6 (Give Him a) Great Big Kiss (?) 7 Don’t Mess With Cupid (?) 8 Chatterbox (?) 9 Babylon (?) 10 (There’s Gonna Be a) Showdown (?) 11 Who Are the Mystery Girls? (?) 12 Jet Boy (?) 13 Human Being (?) 14 Intro / Personality Crisis (?) 15 Vietnamese Baby (?) 16 Bad Girl (?) 17 (Give Him a) Great Big Kiss (?) 1 Pills (?) 2 Frankenstein (?) 3 Lone Star Queen (?) 4 Don’t Start Me Talkin’ (?) 5 Red Patent Leather (?) 6 On Fire (?) 7 Something Else (?) 8 Daddy Rolling Stone (?) 9 Ain’t Got No Home / Dizzy Miss Lizzy (?) 10 Girls Girls Girls (?) 11 Down Down Downtown (?) 12 Pirate Love (?) 13 Pills (?) 14 Teenage News (?) 15 Personality Crisis / Looking for a Kiss (?) 16 Stranded in the Jungle (?) |