According to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (1995), the
New York Dolls predated the punk and glam metal
movements, and were "one of the most influential rock
bands of the last 20 years".[4]
They influenced rock groups such as the Sex Pistols,
Kiss,
the Ramones,
Guns N' Roses,
the Damned, and The Smiths,
whose frontman Morrissey organized a reunion show for the New York Dolls'
surviving members in 2004.[6]
After reuniting, they recorded and released three more albums—One Day It Will Please Usto Remember Even This (2006), Cause I Sez So (2009), and Dancing Backward in High Heels
(2011).[1]
The New York Dolls have been inactive following a 2011
British tour with Alice Cooper; the band's guitarist on that
tour, Earl Slick,
confirmed they had disbanded in an interview that same year.[2]»
In
order to better understand the conflict on Doll’s case for music appreciators
(I hate critics) is the following text from the same source: « According to AllMusic
editor Stephen
Thomas Erlewine, the New York Dolls developed an original style of hard rock
that presaged both punk rock
and heavy metal music,
and drew on elements such as the "dirty rock& roll" of theRolling Stones, the "anarchic noise" of the Stooges,
the glam rock
of David Bowie
and T. Rex,
and girl group
pop music.[1]
Erlewine credited the band for creating punk rock "before there was a term
for it."[1]
Ken Tucker,
who referred to them as a proto-punk
band, wrote that they were strongly influenced by the "New York
sensibility" of Lou Reed:
"The mean wisecracks and impassioned cynicism that informed the Dolls'
songs represented an attitude that Reed's work with the Velvet Underground embodied, as did the Dolls' distinct lack of
musicianship."[19]
When they began performing, four of the band's five
members wore Spandex
and platform boots,[20]
while Johansen—the band's lyricist and "conceptmaster"—[21]
often preferred high heels and a dress occasionally.[19]
Fashion historian Valerie Steele
said that, while the majority of the punk scene pursued an understated
"street look", the New York Dolls followed an English glam rock
"look of androgyny—leather
and knee-length boots, chest hair, and bleach".[22]
Music journalist Nick Kent
argued that the New York Dolls were "quintessential glam rockers"
because of their flamboyant fashion, while their technical shortcomings as
musicians and Johnny Thunders' "trouble-prone presence" gave them a
punk-rock reputation.[23]
By contrast, Robert
Christgau preferred for them to not be categorized as a glam
rock band, but instead as "the best hard-rock band since the Rolling
Stones".[24]
Robert Hilburn,
writing for the Los Angeles Times,
said that the band exhibited a strong influence from the Rolling Stones, but
had distinguished themselves by Too Much Too Soon (1974) as "a much
more independent, original force" because of their "definite touch of
the humor and carefreeness of early (ie. mid-1950s) rock".[25]
Simon Reynolds
felt that, by their 2009 album Cause I Sez So,
the band exhibited the sound "not of the sloppy, rambunctious Dolls of
punk mythology but of a tight, lean hard-rock band."[26]»
So
here u have them straight from the glam gutter, ranking #81 @ MYTop100List
In their golden decade
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