New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
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Artist: New York DollsEdition: Music CD
Format: CD+DVD, Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2006-07-25
Music Label: Roadrunner Records
Soundtracks:
- We?re All in Love
- Runnin? Around
- Plenty of Music
- Dance Like a Monkey
- Punishing World
- Maimed Happiness
- Fishnets and Cigarettes
- Gotta Get Away from Tommy
- Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano
- I Ain?t Got Nothin'
- Rainbow Store
- Gimme Luv and Turn on the Light
- Take a Good Look at my Good Looks
Free Music Notes for One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
Free Music Review: Put your arms around a memory
Hit: 5 Stars
I loved the Dolls from the very beginning, in the Oscar Wilde room at the Mercer Arts Center, when nobody came to see them & Billy was still the drummer. I was there at the Little Hippodrome for the Red Patent Leather finis. I saw their triumphant return at Little Steven's Underground Garage, with tears in my eyes when David sang Lonely Planet Boy & You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory. Tears for lost Dolls & lost youth. The '70's Dolls were something to see. If you saw them in their hey day you know they were touched by greatness. Like the early Rolling Stones. Gonna be bigger than the Beatles! The rest, as they say, is history.
I avoided buying this disc, and owned it for a week before I played it. How can just David and Syl recreate the mayhem and music in the new millenium? Somehow, they do. The first 4 songs on the CD - from We're all in Love, Runnin' Around, Plenty of Music, Dance Like a Monkey -the reconstituted NY Dolls take control. It's a blast of attitude, witty lyrics, and solid fun. Several reviewers have slagged the ballads & slower tunes, but I think songs like Maimed Happiness, Punishing World, and especially I Ain't Got Nothin' are spot on. There are flashes of regret, bitterness, introspection that were unthinkable 30+ years ago. It's appropriate for men in their '50's to look back & ponder. I Ain't Got Nothin', in the hands of anybody else but David Johansen would be an excuse for a pity party. But long after it finished playing, I could hear the heartfelt and plaintive delivery. For me the lone clinker is Gotta Get Away From Tommy. Won't be listening to that too many times.
Highlights for me are "Fishnets & Cigarettes" - managing to create the atmosphere and the energy of '70's New York club scenes where band and after band, led by the Dolls, created a new rock benchmark. "Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano" is evocative & magic. "Gimme Love & Turn on the Light" replaces teenage lust with grown up sex with an old fashioned blues churned up & spat out. A bow to Iggy, it smacks of a marriage between the Stooges & the Dolls.
Syl's signature harmonies and tunesmithery is consistent throughout. Despite other reviewers comparisons to David Johansens solo turns, I beg to differ - this is a Dolls album. David, older, wiser, gruffer, is channeling the spirit from within to earmark his lyrics with the droll, snotty, whimsical self he first displayed in 1972. He's still good/bad, but he's not evil.
There's a lot about One Day... that intentionally harkens back to the beginning - the monkey noises on Dance Like a Monkey, lyrics, song structure, arrangements. It raises the spectre of who's not there. Sam Conte attempts some signature Thunders riffing, but it just reminds me that no matter how people have tried, & many have again & again throughout the years,no one has mastered Johnny's lurching, buzzsaw solos & phrasing. The drummer is very good, but he just reminds me how Jerry Nolan hammered home the back beat. Jerry was under rated as a drummer. He was the key to the Dolls sound. Sami Yaffa's definitely a better bass player than Arthur, but all it does is remind me of that big lovable lug standing on stage in his torn fishnets & beatup yellow platform boots attempting to figure out how to breath and play at the same time. It's bittersweat. But I smile at the memory. You CAN put your arms around a memory.
One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This Poster
Now in 2006, The NEW YORK DOLLS return with the follow-up to 1974's Too Much Too Soon that proves that the band hasn?t lost a step and that they are ready to show the world what they've been missing. The new studio album "One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This" captures the spirit of a band that had disappeared long before rock n roll became about big business, and presents the essence of fun, revelatory Rock N Roll in its purest form.Three decades-and-change since they disintegrated in a burst of self-abuse and self-fulfilling prophecy, the darlings of '70s proto-punk/glam stage a return to the recording studio that's as unlikely as it is good-natured. The opening triptych of "We're All in Love," "Runnin' Around," and the downright nostalgic "Plenty of Music" argues that remaining band members David Johanson and Syl Sylvain are more interested in celebrating their survival with a little sass than rehashing the sonic anarchy that made them. Yet veteran producer Jack Douglas never lets the band (now featuring Hanoi Rocks bassist Sammi Yaffa, guitarist Steve Conte, Brian Koonin on keyboards, and drummer Brian Delaney) become too absorbed in more focused songcraft here, injecting the same edgy, pop-buzz he imparted to Cheap Trick and Aerosmith on the infectious soul-punk single "Dance Like a Monkey" and elsewhere. Helping celebrate the Dolls revival in fine fashion are guest turns by Iggy Pop (the frantic "Gimme Luv & Turn On the Light") and Michael Stipe (who harmonizes on the ballad "Dancing on the Lip of the Volcano"), as well as Against Mel's Tom Gabel on the trademark rave-up "Punishing World." The Dolls have always been a triumph of attitude over art; ultimately little has changed here other than the bracing exuberance they bring with them this time 'round. First pressings of the release contain a 45-minute "making of" featurette as well as the bonus track "17," a lugubrious workout featuring Dolls inspiration/rock progenitor Bo Diddley. --Jerry McCulley
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