New York Dolls - New York DollsAlong 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

If they couldn't they wouldn't be so enjoyable

This third album follows her rediscovery - after thirty years in the wilderness - with the 2000 re-release of 'Just Another Diamond Day' (a cult classic that made number 53 in the Observer Music monthly's 'top 100 British albums of all time')

CDRs and unlicensed "cover albums"

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[who] has quietly become one of the best arguments for jazz’s vitality"

Having sold millions of records worldwide and toured the globe they have forged the unlikeliest of careers

The album has been re-released by its original distributor

the lives and experiences of Rose's friends as their 20s slipped by in a haze of late nights

As the parts old and new rotate inevitably back and forth in cyclical perfection

Decades after its release

which polished up his spontaneously and sometimes sloppy recording style

This is a breathless