New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
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Artist: New York DollsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
Published: 2005
CD Release Date: 2006-08-01
Music Label: Hip-O Select
Soundtracks:
- Babylon
- Stranded in the Jungle - New York Dolls, Johnson, James [11]
- Who Are the Mystery Girls?
- (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown - New York Dolls, Gamble, Kenneth
- It's Too Late
- Puss 'N' Boots
- Chatterbox - New York Dolls, Thunders, Johnny
- Bad Detective - New York Dolls, Lewis, K.
- Don't Start Me Talkin' - New York Dolls, Williamson, Sonny B
- Human Being
Music reviews of Too Much Too Soon
Music Review: New York Dolls 2nd Album rocks!
Rating: 5 Stars
I'd heard talk about a band from the 70's named New York Dolls, referred to as the seminal punk glam band, also credited as a major influence for Slash and Izzy of Guns N' Roses, one of my favorite bands. I ordered this CD having never heard any of their music, only knowing of David Johansen as the 80's Buster Poindexter and the cab driver in the movie Scrooged.
This music rocks! It's easy to see where the glam hair bands of the 80's got their roots listening to New York Dolls, but it's so much more than that. New York Dolls were doing something completely new at the time. The music is raw, and somewhat rough, but full of energy. There's plenty of self-deprecating humor in their music, refreshing in a world where a lot of bands take themselves way too seriously.
After listening to this for a few days I ordered their first album, New York Dolls, and their live/studio album, Hard Nights Day. This is a great place to discover the influences that helped form the 80's and 90's rock/punk/glam scene.
Description of Too Much Too Soon
The New York Dolls didnt look punk. And when they were busy inventing the American version of what would eventually get called punk, it really didnt have a name. Despite being championed by critics from coast to coast, the Dolls had more of a critical than commercial impact. Too Much Too Soon is the bands second album, produced by Shadow Morton, who had the distinction of having worked with both the Shangri-Las and Vanilla Fudge. In some ways, it could be said that this album splits the difference between those two bands, plenty heavy, but with a melodic undercurrent. The Dolls were not only talented writers, they were skilled musical interpreters, covering not only the Cadets 1956 hit Stranded In The Jungle, but Gamble & Huffs more contemporary (Theres Gonna Be A) Showdown, which had been a hit for Archie Bell& The Drells in 1968. At thirty years remove, the album sounds a lot less radical than it did in 1974, but with the thigh-high boots and platform heels, the lipstick, the poodle-on-steroids hair, the snarling vocals, and the slashing guitars, they didnt just push the envelope; the Dolls threw the envelope in a wood chipper and peed on the shreds. This album has just plain been out of print too long. Happy to fax that up for you. Incidentally, a reformed version of the band (only 40% of the lineup on Too Much Too Soon is alive today, and neither of them are original Dolls) is out on tour and is planning a new album, so you may get to hear David Johansen (a/k/a Buster Pointdexter) perform some of these songs live in the not-too-distant future.The louder, clearer sound afforded by producer Shadow Morton makes the Dolls come on even brasher on their second and last album. In Too Much Too Soon finds their mix of aggression and humor intact--not just "in spite of" an increased reliance on covers, either, because David Johansen's taste in remakes expresses a lot about this music nut's crazed, loving worldview. Who else in '70s rock could make a wacked-out doo wop novelty like "Stranded in the Jungle" into an important personal statement? The Stones' late-'74 slopbucket take on "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" suggests that they'd heard the Dolls rewire the Philly-soul "Showdown." And while few of the punks who followed were to make as deep as claim on reality as the buzzsawing "Human Being" does, though many were to chip off pieces of the manic "Who Are the Mystery Girls?" --Rickey Wright
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