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Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975. A trio of pre-Mercury demo sessions – arguably as close as the Dolls ever got to nailing their sound in the cold austerity of the recording studio – are joined by a collection of incendiary live shows (including two American radio broadcasts) This package serves, then, as an alternative view of one of the few genuinely essential rock’n’roll bands to emerge from the early Seventies wastelands It is commonly perceived that the essence of the New York Dolls was never satisfactorily captured by their two albums for the Mercury label, both of which many believe suffered from unsympathetic production. Fortunately for us all, the band’s untutored rawness, unencumbered strength of purpose and unique vision is better served by the recordings that are gathered together for the first time on Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975. A trio of pre-Mercury demo sessions – arguably as close as the Dolls ever got to nailing their sound in the cold austerity of the recording studio – are joined by a collection of incendiary live shows (including two American radio broadcasts) that, despite the variable sound quality, capture their unfettered outrageousness and life-affirming vitality. This package serves, then, as an alternative view of one of the few genuinely essential rock’n’roll bands to emerge from the early Seventies wastelands. Includes early versions of acknowledged New York Dolls’ classics: ‘Jet Boy’, ‘Trash’, ‘Personality Crisis’, ‘Puss ‘n’ Boots’, ‘Stranded In The Jungle’, ‘Babylon’, ‘Who Are The Mystery Girls’, ‘Bad Girl’ and ‘Pills’. Come in a beautifully designed clamshell box set containing its own booklet with full sleeve notes, plus individual card wallets for each of the discs. All material contained within this package has been specially remastered for this release.

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Record LabelCyrd, Cherry Red

UPC5013929105201

eBay Product ID (ePID)6070916092

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2018

GenreRock

ArtistNew York Dolls

Release TitlePersonality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975

Dimensions

Item Height0.70 in

Item Weight0.40 lb

Item Length5.40 in

Item Width5.11 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs5

Number of Tracks103

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

TracksStudio Demos 72-73 Blue Rock Studio NYC June '72 - Bad Girl, Looking for a Kiss, Don't Start Me Talkin', Don't Mess with Cupid, Human Being, Personality Crisis, Pills, Jet Boy, Frankenstein, Personality Crisis, Looking for a Kiss, Bad Girl, Subway Train, Planet Studios NYC March '73 - Seven Day Weekend, Frankenstein, Who Are the Mystery Girls?, (There's Gonna Be a) Showdown, Back in the USA, Studio Demos 1973 Planet Studios NYC March '73 - Endless Party, Jet Boy, It's Too Late (False Start), It's Too Late (Full Version), Bad Detective, Lonely Planet Boy, Subway Train, Private World, Trash, Human Being, Don't Start Me Talkin', Hoochie Coochie Man, (Give Him a) Great Big Kiss, Vietnamese Baby, Babylon, Bad Girl, Pills, Personality Crisis, Houdini, One Night in Texas, After the Storm, Percy the Pimp, Running Wild, All in Your Mind, Suicide, Bonus Tracks - Feel Like I've Been Here Before, Del Bromham - Who Do You Love, The Best Friend I Ever Had, A ; B-Sides of Single - Released in 1979, Live Paris / Detroit / Long Island Bataclan Paris 23 Dec '73 - Trash, The Milk Man, Puss'n'boots, Michigan Palace Detroit 31 Dec '73 - Intro/Personality Crisis, Bad Girl, Looking for a Kiss, Who Are the Mystery Girls?, Stranded in the Jungle, Human Being, Pills, Trash, The Milk Man, Puss'n'boots, Babylon, Lone Star Queen, Don't Start Me Talkin', My Father's Place Long Island 14 April '74 (Wbab Radio Broadcast) - Puss'n'boots, Looking for a Kiss, Trash, Stranded in the Jungle, Personality Crisis, Bad Girl, Pills, Live 1974 Long Island / Vancouver / Dallas My Father's Place Long Island 14 April '74 (Wbab Radio Broadcast) - Hoochie Coochie Man, It's Too Late, Chatterbox, Human Being Vancouver Circa June/July '74, Hoochie Coochie Man, (Give Him a) Great Big Kiss, Don't Mess with Cupid, Chatterbox, Babylon, (There's Gonna Be a) Showdown, Who Are the Mystery Girls?, Jet Boy, Human Being, Dallas Sept '74 - Intro/Personality Crisis, Vietnamese Baby, Bad Girl, (Give Him a) Great Big Kiss, Live 1974 Dallas '74 / NYC '75 Dallas Sept '74 (Disc Five) - Pills, Frankenstein, Lone Star Queen, Don't Start Me Talkin', New York 1975 - Red Patent Leather, On Fire, Something Else, Daddy Rolling Stone, Ain't Got No Home/Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Girls Girls Girls, Down Down Downtown, Pirate Love, Pills, Teenage News, Personality Crisis/Looking for a Kiss, Stranded in the Jungle

NotesIt is commonly perceived that the essence of the New York Dolls was never satisfactorily captured by their two albums for the Mercury label, both of which many believe suffered from unsympathetic production. Fortunately for us all, the band's untutored rawness, unencumbered strength of purpose and unique vision is better served by the recordings that are gathered together for the first time on Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975. A trio of pre-Mercury demo sessions - arguably as close as the Dolls ever got to nailing their sound in the cold austerity of the recording studio - are joined by a collection of incendiary live shows (including two American radio broadcasts) that, despite the variable sound quality, capture their unfettered outrageousness and life-affirming vitality. This package serves, then, as an alternative view of one of the few genuinely essential rock'n'roll bands to emerge from the early Seventies wastelands.