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Les Shaking Dolls were part of the second wave of French rock and roll bands; they formed in a very loose sense in Angers and began learning their instruments and figuring out how to play together, playing songs by other bands that they had seen coming through town that they had liked a lot. Bands like the Nomads, Died Pretty, the Doughboys; a bit of a mixed bag. They made a demo cassette before playing any gigs, and they gave a copy of it to the guys who run Black and Noir records. Black and Noir set up a gig for them to play in Angers, and based on that proposed to do a single, which turned out to be the excellent "Teenagers Go Nuts"/"Rock Bed And Chocolate". [...]
The thing that sets Les Shaking Dolls apart is their use of an organ; on their LP "God Is God" the songs are split about fifty fifty between grungier tracks with a pronounced SubPop feel and faster, more rocking songs [...]
[Taken from an article originally appeared in NFH NOISE FOR HEROES No 22. See blog for complete text]
Discography [Taken from Discographie du rock français, 1977-1997 by Association Euthanasie]