The "New York Dolls" Reunion Album

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Has anybody but me heard it? It's called One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This, it's on Roadrunner, and it's staggeringly awful. It sounds like a cross between Buckcherry and the Georgia Satellites, with Leo Gorcey on vocals. Except both Buckcherry and the Georgia Satellites wrote better songs than this. Okay, maybe a guy who made four Buster Poindexter albums has already established he has no idea how to identify a dry well, but this thing is really misbegotten.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

They were great at Avalon!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't seen it, but is the documentary New York Doll good?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Documentary is great, and very sad.

The new record can't be worse than the Big Star reunion album. Can it?

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

"It sounds like a cross between Buckcherry and the Georgia Satellites, with Leo Gorcey on vocals."

hmmm...I was prepared to ignore the record, but now...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

i really dug that first georgia satellites record. battleship chains was such an ace tom petty stylee jam.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, maybe a guy who made four Buster Poindexter albums has already established he has no idea how to identify a dry well

The two Harry Smiths albums were fantastic! M@tt OTM about the GA Satellites. Would it be a good album in any sense if it didn't have the words "new york dolls" on it?

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

>Would it be a good album in any sense if it didn't have the words "new york dolls" on it?

Not to my ear. When it's not (poorly) aping the Satellites (who I liked a lot at the time, too, and should probably revisit, and the same goes for Buckcherry), it's a platform for Johansen to do poor man's Asylum-era Tom Waits balladry. He's using the name to get folks' money, then fobbing off substandard product. I can't wait to read David Fricke's 5-star Rolling Stone review.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

haha yeah fricke's wee-wee must be engorged with anticipation!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

btw despite what i was saying abt. liking the GA Satellites, i have absolutely no trouble believing pdf that a new new york dolls record is mediocre....i can't imagine it being otherwise...

this will be fricke's godess in the doorway.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

watched 'new york doll' a few days ago, awesome movie, very sweet/touching. the performance after the credits was a really nice touch, too

― 6335, Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

the first DJ solo album was mainly Johansen/Sylvain (and plenty balladful!), it's a shame he didn't market it as a throwback to that (not that the $ is obviously more potentialful for a Dolls album).

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

that it isn't, I mean

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Love that Leo Gorcey reference in relation to a New York Doll. After all, The Dead End Kids were American pop culture's non-musical proto-punks and there is a similarity in the accents and the trash talk. So who is the Huntz Hall Doll? Arthur?

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Thursday, 18 May 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think so. It doesn't really seem like any of them were Huntz Hall.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

well, Iggy

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Too depressing.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

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