New York Dolls - Rock N Roll
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Artist: New York DollsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1994-10-18
Music Label: Ume Imports
Soundtracks:
- Courageous Cat Theme
- Trash
- Personality Crisis
- Babylon
- Looking For A Kiss
- Lone Star Queen
- Vietnamese Baby
- Lonely Planet Boy
- Frankenstein
- Private World
- Chatterbox
- Bad Girl
- Don't Mess With Cupid
- Subway Train
- Who Are The Mystery Girls?
- Stranded In The Jungle
- It's Too Late
- Puss ' N' Boots
- Jet Boy
- Human Being
- Bonus Track
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Music Review: Urban Squawkers Amongst the Squalor
Rating: 5 Stars
This album is both an excellent introduction and retrospective, since they only had two actual albums, from this noisy, garish quintet of smart-alecks. There is the added bonus of some previously unreleased cuts. I'm a huge fan, so I had to have all three. Emerging from the glittery Manhattan sixties hangover, they were the court jesters of the sleaziest sections of N.Y.C. Their fashion faux pas went into some uncharted territory beyond transvestitism and looked as if they shopped in the most disreputable thrift stores. They accesorized with hand bags, glad rags, and trash bags. Apart from this, and a large part of their appeal over many later punk/metal outfits, was that they were bi-: half contemptuous sneer, half goofy smirk. They immediately became a love `em or hate `em band and managed to simultaneously win both "Best New Band of the Year", and "Worst New Band of the Year" in Creem Magazine's Reader Poll. Some denigrated them as a grotesque garage band parody of the Rolling Stones, but if the originals were more and more becoming boring professional millionaires, well than why not? Supposedly they weren't musicians, couldn't play, but if they lacked a certain, shall we say finesse, they made up for it tenfold in brute power, raw exuberance, and unbridled passion, which many at the time were forgetting that's what rock `n' roll is all about. Guitarist Johnny Thunders high speed whiplash playing may have slid past the notes and chords, but he landed in the general vicinity, so why quibble? Besides there was always so much distortion, who could ever tell anyway? (Thunders later went on to a successful career as a professional corpse imitator). Other guitarist Sylvain Sylvain provided both bridge and anchor to the rhythm section for Thunder's thunder. Meanwhile, guy with the microphone, David Johansen, snarled, yelled, bitched, and generally preened and posed. Beneath all the bluster and blurry noise, they were true to their roots and influences: sixties soul "Don't Mess With Cupid", kitsch, the Cadet's "Stranded In The Jungle", and great girl group harmonies in "Trash" (well sorta' harmonies. General vicinity, general vicinity). Oh yeah, and cartoons, "Courageous Cat Theme". The Dolls made (endless) party music for the latter 20th Century's accelerated, fractured, and fragmented world. In "Frankenstein" they tell you how they know they're bits and pieces thrown together from the cultural trash heap, and they're none to pleased about it: "Oww, these shoes are too big! Oww, this jacket's too small!" In their classic "Personality Crisis" they are even sympathetic. Play it for your best burned out neurotic friends, it will cheer `em up. But what of this bizarre sartorial statement, what really was their sexual orientation? "I'm trisexual, I'll try anything", quipped Johansen. Naw, beneath all the mascara and pancake, they were just your average horny males, out on the prowl, "Looking For A Kiss" as the song stated, or perhaps a "Bad Girl". After all there was nothing else to do. In the end ("Human Being"), both the last song on this album and the last song of their second album, they justify their outlandish obstreperous behavior. They may all have looked like Frankenstein's monster, but if they were acting like kings, or wanted too many things, they knew they had to dream, and if it got a bit obscene ("whoopee!"), it's just `cause they were human beings.
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