Line #64 Music/NewYorkDolls


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2	[[caption-width-right:300: The cover of their [[SelfTitledAlbum eponymous debut album,]] 1973. Left to right: Arthur Kane, Sylvain Sylvain, David Johansen, Johnny Thunders, and Jerry Nolan.]]
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4	The New York Dolls are a landmark GlamRock band from, well, UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and are a major influence on PunkRock, NewWaveMusic, and AlternativeRock, especially bands such as Music/TheRamones, Music/{{Blondie\|Band}}, Music/{{Television}}, and Music/TheSmiths. Their look was also a major inspiration for HairMetal.
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6	Founded in 1971, New York Dolls are SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll incarnate, and three of the original five members had to pay for it. Led by singer David Johansen, they were dismissed by audiences due to their crossdressing, and their Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}-esque {{Protopunk}} landed them in the punk hall of shame.
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8	They re-formed from 2004 to 2011, although three of the members have died. They [[AvertedTrope averted]] TheBandMinusTheFace, since Johansen was still alive.
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10	!Discography
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12	!!The Original Two Albums
13	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum New York Dolls]]'' (1973)
14	* ''Too Much Too Soon'' (1974)
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16	!!The Compilations
17	During The80s, as the ex-Dolls pursued solo careers and their mystique continued to grow, several semi-official collections of demos and live tapes were released by a variety of small labels. Most of these had alternate versions of songs from the original albums, but some (notably ''Red Patent Leather'' and ''Seven Day Weekend'') had previously unreleased {{Cover Version}}s. The most interesting of these might be ''Actress: Birth of the New York Dolls'', an album's worth of otherwise unavailable originals by Actress, an early version of the band.
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19	!!The Post-Reunion Albums
20	These are the albums the Dolls have released since their reunion in 2004.
21	* ''One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This'' (2006)
22	* '''Cause I Sez So'' (2009)
23	* ''Dancing Backward in High Heels'' (2011)
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25	!! The following tropes are looking for a kiss:
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27	* TheAlcoholic: Arthur "Killer" Kane, to the point where he often would be too drunk to play bass.
28	* BigApplesauce: Where they were born, raised and started. It's even in the name.
29	* TheCasanova: Even by rock star standards, the Dolls pulled LOTS of women, and prided themselves on stealing groupies from other bands. Nancy Spungeon, of Sid and Nancy fame, started out as a New York Dolls groupie and was madly in love with Jerry Nolan, who was uninterested in her.
30	* CompilationRerelease: Their debut album and ''Too Much Too Soon'' were reissued as a double album in the U.K. in 1977, as well as on one CD in Japan in 1988.
31	* CoverVersion: The band had an extensive repertoire of {{Blues}} and {{Soul}} covers from The50s and The60s, with the occasional RockAndRoll or girl group pop number thrown in. Here they are, along with the releases they originally appeared on.
32	** ''New York Dolls'': Music/BoDiddley's "Pills"
33	** ''Too Much Too Soon'': The Cadets' "Stranded in the Jungle", Archie Bell & The Drells' "(There's Gonna Be a) Showdown", The Coasters' "Bad Detective", Sonny Boy Williamson's "Don't Start Me Talkin'"
34	** ''Lipstick Killers'': Music/OtisRedding's "Don't Mess With Cupid"
35	** ''Red Patent Leather'': Music/EddieCochran's "Something Else", Hank Ballard And His Midnighters' "Daddy Rolling Stone", Clarence "Frogman" Henry's "Ain't Got No Home", Larry Williams' "Dizzy Miss Lizzie"
36	** ''Seven Day Weekend'': Gary (U.S.) Bonds' "[[TitleTrack Seven Day Weekend]]", Music/ChuckBerry's "Back in the USA", Music/MuddyWaters' "Hootchie Cootchie Man", The Shangri-Las' "[[TheCoverChangesTheGender Great Big Kiss]]"
37	** ''Dancing Backward in High Heels'': Patty La-Belle and the Bluebells' "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman"
38	* CreepyCrossdresser: How some people regarded the band, who were all too happy to play up this image by wearing trashy women's clothing on stage.
39	* DestructiveRomance: Johnny Thunders and Sabel Starr.
40	* DrugsAreBad: EVERYONE in the band's initial run was fucked out of their tree on a near constant basis, and it contributed a great deal to the infighting that led to their dissolution. They also wound up being the official cause of Johnny Thunders' death, though family and friends claim it was foul play.
41	* GlamRock: They were among the first major players of the genre and one of the few North American acts to play it.
42	* IAmSong: "Human Being"
43	-->And if I'm acting like a king\
44	Well, that's cause I'm a human being\
45	And if I want too many things\
46	Don't you know that I'm a human being\
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48	And if I've got to dream\
49	Baby baby baby yeah I'm a human being\
50	And when it gets a bit obscene\
51	I'm a human being.
52	* LargeHam: David Johansen was ''not'' a subtle performer or someone who did anything by halves, to put it simply. Every song has him giving everything he has and every live performance has him leave teethmarks in the scenery.
53	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan were very much this to one another. They spent most of their adult lives together, played in most of the same bands, and, according to friend/rock photographer Leee Black Childers, Johnny would break down emotionally during spats with Jerry. He would lay with his head in Childers' lap and say, "Where’s Jerry? I can’t live without him, I can’t work without him, I can’t be without him." At Johnny's funeral, Jerry was inconsolable and said, "What am I going to do? My best friend is dead. My soulmate has gone." He died only a few months after Johnny, and [[TogetherInDeath they were buried very near one another in the same cemetery]].
54	* LowerClassLout: Their perception during their original run, and an image they were happy to play up - they looked and acted like a trashy, drug-addled drag revue playing at a titty bar or between showings at a porno theater, and their anti-establishment attitude and disdain for propriety inspired legions of punks.
55	* ProtoPunk: Their music is seen as a progenitor to PunkRock, both in sound, attitude as well as outfits.
56	%%ZCE* SelfTitledAlbum
57	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: They absolutely epitomized this trope, having a reputation for hedonism that made other bands sound like altar boys.
58	* ShoutOut: Johnny Thunders, which is one to the song of the same name by Music/TheKinks.
59	* StartMyOwn: A one-time touring guitarist by the name of Steven Duren would eventually go on to form Music/{{WASP\|Band}}.
60	%%ZCE* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth

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