NEW YORK DOLLS - IN TOO MUCH TOO SOON - PUNK / GLAM ROCK - NEW / SEALED
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NEW YORK DOLLS - IN TOO MUCH TOO SOON - PUNK / GLAM ROCK - NEW / SEALED
Babylon 3:31 Stranded In The Jungle 3:46 Who Are The Mystery Girls? 3:08 (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown 3:38 It's Too Late 4:40 Puss 'N' Boots 3:06 Chatterbox 2:25 Bad Detective 3:39 Don't Start Me Talkin' 3:13 Human Being 5:45
The New York Dolls precocious first album justifiably gets all the credit as the groundbreaker, but their second (and last) album _Too Much Too Soon_, might be a truer picture of an oft-misunderstood band. For one, the deep rhythm'n'blues roots of the Dolls are laid bare here in the covers of "Don't Start Me Talkin'", "(There's Gonna Be a) Showdown", and "Stranded in the Jungle". That love of old Stax/Volt r'n'b suggests that maybe the Dolls weren't so much a second generation threat to the status quo of the rock industry as they were merely a hormone'n'drug-fueled white boy version of Wilson Pickett (or Otis Redding).
The r'n'b roots also display what a great band they were. Their covers didn't come across as bar band bland, nor did they sound like overly reverent studies in musical theory. The Dolls made them their own, rebuilt them from the ground up starting with the drumming perfection of Jerry Nolan and the guitar and bass rhythm section of Sylvain Sylvain and Arther Kane, respectively. The icing on the cake was the lead guitar insanity of Johnny Thunders, whose guitar tone alone launched a thousand punk bands.
The original songs on this album are equal to those on the debut, so the main difference between the two is in the approaches to production (the debut has more of a conceptual sheen, whereas _Too Much Too Soon_ is much closer to a "live" sound). And while there may be nothing here as immediately striking as the debut's "Personality Crisis", in "Human Being" the Dolls muster up a genuine anthem, an apology for weakness of character that is belied by David Johansen's sneering, insolent vocals and by the frenzied stomp of the band. It's five minutes of glorious rock'n'roll transcendence, bolstered by their utter belief in the power of the music and proof positive that, while the Dolls may say they're sorry for their sins, they certainly don't mean it.
A perfect encapsulation of rock'n'roll attitude, if ever there was one.
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