NY Dolls – One Day It Will Please us to Remember Even This (2006)
I couldn’t think of a better way to finish up Glam Month without mentioning the New York Dolls reunion disc from 2006, “One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This”.
Surviving New York Dolls members, David Johansen, and Sylvain Sylvain, were joined by bassist Sami Yaffa (Hanoi Rocks), guitarist Steve Conte (Crown Jewels), drummer Brian Delaney and keyboardist Brian Koonin.
Usually reunion records scare me off, but I couldn’t pass up on checking out the latest disc by a band that I consider the godfathers of glam. Amazingly, this record does not disappoint. It is one solid record from beginning to end. This disc has a big classic rock sound, with upbeat songs that are pleasingly good.
The band even released a couple of videos for this record, which I doubt you ever got to see, if you live in the United States.
Dance Like a Monkey
Get Away from Tommy
This record will please all New York Dolls fans, and quite a few people that are interested in checking out this band for the first time. This isn’t a hard rock record by any means, but it is a very good rock and roll record, and deserves to be heard by all glam fans!
For more information on the New York Dolls, check them out on their website here!
Rating: Out of 10
Track Listing:
1. We’re All in Love
2. Runnin’ Around
3. Plenty of Music
4. Dance Like a Monkey
5. Punishing World
6. Maimed Happiness
7. Fishnets and Cigarettes
8. Gotta Get Away from Tommy
9. Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano
10. I Ain’t Got Nothin’
11. Rainbow Store
12. Gimme Luv and Turn on the Light
13. Take a Good Look at my Good Looks
Buy the Arthur Kane DVD; “NY Doll” instead.
It’s so F***king cool (period), because it shows that those/these guys (at least those still living) are “real” human beings. Exhibiting emotions like brotherly love in off-hand moments, to self-doubt and fear /// while living less than the “rock star” eventuality.
What David J. merely mentioned to Arthur near the end of the story, blew my mind with the enomity of the statement which was not lost on Arthur K. at all !!!
(let alone that early on even from a rebellious teen-age stand point, they referred to Arthur by his whole first name with normalcy and coolness, which many a psuedo-punk or proto-punk would think was stupid or dumb. Check back…the first two albums, and you will realize the genius aspect that no two songs even remotely started with the same “feel” or cliche’d intro.
This will probably surprise you, but I didn’t like this album. I know a lot of people felt that it was a worthy reunion, but I thought they sounded like old guys trying to sound young (rather than old guys who were in a sense still actually young). There were a couple solid tracks as I recall, but this never felt worthy of their legacy to me.
It’s cool that you include the Dolls though, because their influence certainly extended over glam as much as it did punk. The late 60s/early 70s had to be such a weird time as rock tried to find new directions. SO many bands from that time never found any real commercial success, yet influenced the next several generations of rock musicians. Some things were getting big and bloated (like prog rock) while others were stripping everything down to very essence of what makes the music great (like punk). You had Zappa applying classical elements to pop. The VU mixing it all up with the art scene. The Dolls and Slade and T Rex and even Queen bringing a flamboyance to the table. So many other things were going on. Interesting times.