Track Listing
1. Personality Crisis
2. Looking For a Kiss
3. Vietnamese Baby
4. Lonely Planet Boy
5. Frankenstein
6. Trash
7. Bad Girl
8. Subway Train
9. Pills
10. Private World
11. Jet Boy
| Details | | Playing Time: | 42 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Todd Rundgren | | Producer: | Todd Rundgren | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
New York Dolls: David Johansen (vocals, harmonica); Sylvain Sylvain (guitar, piano, background vocals); Johnny Thunders (guitar, background vocals); Arthur Harold Kane (bass instrument); Jerry Nolan (drums).
Additional personnel: Buddy Bowser (saxophone); Todd Rundgren (piano, Moog synthesizer).
Recording information: The Record Plant, New York, New York.
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.
Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...Captures both the glory and sorrow of glam, the high jinx and wasted youth, with electric photorealism....[It] remains definitive glitter, the perfect eulogy for a short, spangled era...
Rolling Stone (04/27/2000)
Ranked #13 in Mojo's Top 50 Punk Albums - ...Oozing with seedy, late-night NYC glamour, it has fared excellently with age...
Mojo (03/01/2003)
5 stars out of 5 - Included in Q's 100 Best Punk Albums - ...A lurid clarion call to the musically disaffected.
Q
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