| Oh my God, The New York Dolls are back! I can't tell | | | | transvestite chic. Upon asking people if they had heard |
| you how exciting it is to hear some new music from | | | | about them I was stunned that they were so little |
| the kings (maybe queens is a better word!) of | | | | known. You have to remember that this was the early |
| glamorous, punk-n-roll giddiness. 'One Day..." is | | | | 1980's. No internet, no much cable tv and no |
| something truly unique. It's not so much a return to | | | | independent music distribution.I'd heard of the New |
| form but a one upping of the old form. It's the old form | | | | York Dolls before but only as a reference in articles |
| revived and added to with experience, craft and | | | | about British Punk and the influence they had had on it. |
| enthusiasm.I vividly remember the 1st time I saw the | | | | THis was also just before the wave of Dolls inspired |
| New York Dolls. I say saw because the visuals of their | | | | "Hair-Metal" bands like Poison, Cinderella and Rat. Once |
| two albums (New York Dolls and In Too Much Too | | | | those bands broke, the name New York Dolls became |
| Soon) were what hit me like a ton of bricks. Being a | | | | a bit more well known. But while those bands might |
| music obsessive from a very young age I'd managed | | | | have aped the freaky-styley of the Dolls, they didn't |
| to weasel my way into a summer radio show on | | | | come close to the music. Where as the Dolls rocked, |
| WRBC (Radio Bates College) in my hometown of | | | | these imitators simply sucked! That what is come back |
| Lewiston, Maine. Here I was 13-14 years old and I was | | | | ot with the New York Dolls.They Always were, and |
| on the radio! The stacks and stacks of records were | | | | still are, a great band. This rebirth began a few years |
| a treasure trove and I dove right in. One day while | | | | ago when former Smith's front man Morrisey got the |
| flipping through the N section I saw it."It" was the | | | | remaining Dolls to reunite for a few gigs at a British |
| wonderfully lurid and bizarre album cover of the New | | | | festival called the Meltdown. This process and the |
| York Dolls debut release. It was so strange looking I | | | | shows are show in wonderful detail in the |
| couldn't take my eyes off it. Here were these grown | | | | documentary, "New York Doll". After the shows they |
| men dressed up and made up in the trashiest hooker | | | | knew that they had to do something more.Their new |
| like get ups imaginable. They appeared to be uniformly | | | | album, "One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even |
| wasted and as they preened in handheld mirrors or | | | | This" (Roadrunner Records) returns to some of their |
| pouted into the camera something in the pose seemed | | | | trademark themes and sounds but manages to sound |
| to say, 'Bet you wish you could do this!". The logo | | | | punchy and current. The production on this disc is |
| furthered the package. It was done in a pink bubbly | | | | perfect. It's not too digitally glossy and the mix sounds |
| cursive style that ended in the lipstick that had just | | | | warm and growling. |
| written the words. The whole image was so trashy | | | | Given that 3 of the original members have passed on |
| and defiant I had to get it on the turntable as soon as | | | | we're really talking about David Johansen and Sylvain |
| possible. That day I ended up playing most of the | | | | Sylvain. This is actually fine because they were |
| album and went back to the stacks to find their 2nd | | | | always the pumping heart of the NYD's and they |
| disc, "In Too Much Too Soon". This was a true music | | | | reinvest their band with surprising energy, depth and |
| discovery. In their tunes were echoes of so many | | | | glamorous flair. Stand out tracks include, "We're All In |
| things. I would describe it as equal parts Rolling Stones, | | | | Love", 'Dance Like A Monkey" and 'Fishnets and |
| 60's girl groups, Rockabilly and Garage rock.It was a bit | | | | Cigarettes" but the whole thing is just a lot of fun and |
| of all of these things writ large with attitude and | | | | sounds great. I'm so happy that the New York Dolls |
| constantly on the brink of melting down. The Dolls | | | | are back. They are just the antidote for these bland |
| seemed to have absorbed a variety of influences and | | | | times.Step into their shocking pink universe for awhile |
| then wrapped them all in their own tuff-guy | | | | and have some fun. |