New York DollsBest New York Dolls Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
11
Opinions
5
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated New York Dolls's catalog across 5 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated New York Dolls album is New York Dolls (1973) with a 8.8/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Too Much Too Soon and One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. The discography on Wavelength spans 1973 to 2011. Personality Crisis ranks as the highest-rated New York Dolls song on Wavelength with a 9.3/10 average.
New York Dolls
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit downtown New York in the early 1970s and the debut album by the flashy, trashy rock’n’rollers who cleared the way for punk.”
One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
“David Johansen tells you in unrepentant terms in "Gimme Luv and Turn On the Light" why he and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain have the right to lead a New York Dolls in which they are the only original living Dolls. "This is infinity, this is eternity, this is my destiny!" Johansen crows with craggy defiance atop […]”
Dancing Backward In High Heels (Deluxe Version)
“Singer David Johansen and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain are the sole surviving founders of this glam’n’grime institution — "swindlers of the abyss," as Johansen puts it in his weathered-leather growl in "End of the Summer." They can still muster the familiar action like the atomic-jukebox roll of "Round and Round She Goes" and the hip-smackin’ "Streetcake." […]”
'Cause I Sez So
“The reconstituted New York Dolls stack up awfully well against the original Seventies band, whose glam rock inspired thousands of acts. This Todd Rundgren-produced follow-up to the Dolls’ fine 2006 comeback features new moves like reggae and Latin-tinged balladry. But the selling points are its Stones-y propulsion and the nuanced vigor of David Johansen. The […]”
One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
“Glam-punk pioneers stage an unlikely and possibly unwelcome comeback.”
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