New York Dolls "New York Dolls" 2023-05-26 is an essential career-spanning collection

is an essential career-spanning collection highlighting 26 previously released songs

and incomparable crooner Spike Slawson

there simply wasn't time for more than a day or so of fleshing out their music before recording started

the Bass Brothers

Fully ensconced in their G-Son studio

New York Dolls "New York Dolls" 2023-05-26 is an essential career-spanning collectionWhen the New York Dolls released their debut album in 1973, they managed to be named both "Best New Band" and "Worst Band" in Creem Magazine's annual reader's poll, and it usually takes something special to polarize an audience like that. While New York Dolls clearly came from a very specific time and place, this album still sounds fresh and hasn't dated in the least this is one of rock's greatest debut albums, and a raucous statement of purpose