On the 50th anniversary of its release, moonagedemon looks back on the New York Dolls' landmark debut album. Read the full essay here:
Once, my grandmother told me about taking the floral hat pin she kept tucked in her coat lapel to stab a man who tried to attack her on the subway. I found myself laughing when she told me that story, but not because the incident was funny. I’m sure it was terrifying to live through. It was the way she told it, injecting humor into the horror, hinting at something wry in a tale that could’ve had a very different ending.
I find myself thinking about the real John Genzale–who later rechristened himself in a haggard Keith Richards’ image as Johnny Thunders–a lot. He was only a decade younger than my grandparents, and grew up fairly close to that house in Queens. He feels like someone I could’ve met at a party through them as an old neighborhood friend—a character, like so many people from their corner of the world are destined to be. He could’ve been the kid in one of those stories and they wouldn’t even know.
Any time the New York Dolls are brought up in conversation, music writers and historians are obligated to throw around the term “proto-punk.” They draw lines from the garage bands on the Nuggets compilation and the Rolling Stones to the Dolls on a chalkboard,-style.
“Bad Girls” pulls a similar trick, introducing an apocalyptic bent halfway through a dumb, hot-blooded rush: “Gotta get some love before the planet is gone / One nuclear bomb, they’re gonna blow it all away / Come on, bad girl, give us some lovin’ today.” It crosses the line from absurd to funny, and the New York Dolls mean it that way.
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