NEW YORK DOLLS

(Mercury)

Personally, I don’t like the cover. The Dolls never wear that much make-up; it’s artificial-looking, gives the wrong impression. But this is the kind of band that gives the right impression by giving the wrong impression, starting with that two-strikes name -Dolls, and the straights fag-bait you while the gays straight-bait you and the hips trendy-bait you; New York, and the rest of the country puts up its dukes. To five young men from the outboroughs of Manhattan, such abuse is liable to feel... more or less the natural thing.