Music Review
New York Dolls: One Day It Will Please Us To Remember This
The debauchery continues for the ’70s glam rockers.
July 5th, 2006 • 9:12 PM
Tags for this article: 70s, glam, New York Dolls, reviews
The infamous too-much, too-soon attitude of 1970s glam godfathers the New York Dolls certainly didn’t point to a reunion some 30 years later. That “die young” credo has left only two original Dolls still breathing: singer David Johansen and guitarist Syl Sylvain. Some cynical punks are sure to equate the band’s first new material in three decades with a Stones album performed by only Mick Jagger and Ron Wood, but the Dolls’ gung-ho good-time attitude is what saves One Day. Never a band to let critics and skeptics ruin their revelry, the Dolls arrive in all of their overblown glory like the seven-day weekend never stopped. Johansen, Sylvain and the new members (guitarist Steve Conte, bassist Sami Yaffa, drummer Brian Delaney and keyboardist Brian Koonin) have dropped the band’s signature glittery rock & roll to reveal what always lay underneath: foot-stomping blues and raunchy R&B. It’s a welcome reinvention rather than a nostalgic revisiting.