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New York Dolls: The New York Dolls: The New York Dolls (Mercury Import)

Review by Nick Kent, NME, 25 August 1973

THE NEW YORK Dolls are trash, they play rock 'n' roll like sluts and they've just released a record that can proudly stand beside Iggy ...

The Doors: Strange Days

Review by Max Bell, NME, 4 January 1975

WAS THIS ALBUM WEIRD? You bet yer snakeskin mitts it was. ...

Dr. Feelgood: Down By The Jetty (United Artists)

Review by Nick Kent, NME, 25 January 1975

BOYS, BOYS now what did I tell you about being "too 
ethnic"? ...

The Amboy Dukes - Journeys and Migrations

Review by Max Bell, NME, 3 May 1975

THIS MOST RECENT collection of The American Amboy Dukes, taken from the first three albums, is strictly one for masochistic archivists. Amusement value only. If ...

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 11 October 1975

I THINK IT was Lester Bangs who put forward the proposition that people who went to Black Sabbath concerts derived their pleasure from ingesting massive ...

The Pretty Things: Greatest Hits 1964-1967

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 6 December 1975

FOR A SHORT time, around the London clubs and art school dances, back in 1964, it seemed as though the Pretty Things might just unseat ...

Led Zeppelin: Presence

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 10 April 1976

M'lawds, ladies 'n' gennelmen, presenting the new album by... ...

The Ramones: Ramones (Sire — Import)

Review by Nick Kent, NME, 15 May 1976

A WEEK back, if you'd asked me nicely, I'd have dogmatically opined that Ramones – SASD 7520 – was absolutely the most grievous hot rock ...

Jefferson Starship: Spitfire

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 17 July 1976

IT WAS FUNNY, though, wasn't it? ...

The Flamin' Groovies: Teenage Head

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 16 October 1976

I MUST confess that when I was first confronted with the Flamin' Groovies, I was not impressed. ...

The Runaways: Queens Of Noise

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 29 January 1977

THE MAIN thing that's wrong with this album can be summed up in two words. They are Kim Fowley. Yes that's right. Fowley appears to ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 4 June 1977

‘BROTHERS AND sisters...the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are going to be the problem or whether ...

The Jam: This Is The Modern World

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 5 November 1977

SO THIS is the modern world. I'm glad they told me. For an instant I'd thought I'd been transported back to 1965. Flashback on flashback ...

Linda Ronstadt: Living In The USA (Asylum)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 30 September 1978

LINDA RONSTADT – oh my God, she's so hunky. Those long, bronzed legs, that Ms Piggy face, those capable fingers – is it any wonder ...

Blue Oyster Cult: Some Enchanted Evening

Review by Max Bell, NME, 7 October 1978

NOW THAT Blue Oyster Cult have a patented studio style of their own, neatly quashing any lingering doubts that they had softened up in the ...

The Barracudas, New Race, The Saints: The Saints: Out In The Jungle (Flicknife)/The Barracudas: Mean Time (Closer)/New Race: The First And The Last

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 16 April 1983

I MUST applaud the mysterious Tony D for his live review of The Barracudas (12/2/83) – the gig excited me in exactly the same way. ...

MC5: Babes In Arms (ROIR cassette)

Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, 20 August 1983

IDEALLY VLADIMIR Mayakovsky should be sitting down to this review, because never before or since has there been a band quite like the MC5 – ...