Castle Us / Ryko
2002
Great Big Kiss
About This Album
The New York Dolls were a band whose pervasive and lasting influence has far outstripped their official recorded output, which amounted to a mere two albums before they called it quits. Not unlike bands with similar career trajectories (such as the Stooges, MC5, the Misfits, and the Sex Pistols), the current New York Dolls catalog is packed with posthumous albums of demos, live tapes, and various stray recordings, and Great Big Kiss brings two of the better-known semi-official releases together in one double-disc package. Disc one is a collection of live-in-the-studio demos (previously released under the title Seven Day Weekend; a slightly expanded version of the same material is also available as A Hard Night's Day) recorded shortly before the Dolls cut their self-titled debut album, while disc two is the 1975 Little Hippodrome concert which proved to be one of the band's last stands in New York City, which has been distributed under the title Red Patent Leather. The demos are more stripped down and straightforward than the later studio recordings of the same tunes, but they're also sloppier and often less energetic, and neither David Johansen or Johnny Thunders are having one of the best days of their career on this set.
Track List

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