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Although both David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain are now the wrong side of 60, they remain in louche and lascivious form. Sylvain’s way with a shimmying Stones-y riff is regularly in evidence here, but your attention on the opening track, Streetcake, is initially grabbed by Johansen’s entertainingly barking lyrics. "Let me be your streetcake ‘til the breadman come," he begs. "I’ll give you more sugar than the breadman done."
The extended cuisine-related metaphor, always a potential minefield for any lyricist, is negotiated with the platform hobnail boots of a man who never cared too greatly for offending any laws of poetry. And helpfully, his intended is assured, "Ain’t gonna be Marie Antoinette. I love you better than that old baguette." Well, it’s always a relief for any girl to know that a potential suitor bears no relation to a semi-mythical 18th century symbol of uncaring aristocratic decadence.
Like the best of rock’s older generations – Weller, Cave, Young, etc – they’re still creative because they still have axes to grind. Take I’m So Fabulous, in which our heroes sneeringly dismiss out-of-towners who try to bring their street-cleaning, smart-dressing ways to the Dolls’ beloved bohemia. It’s the kind of petty sentiment you would expect to hear from snotty teenagers. The glam-punk stomp of that number might be broadly what you’d expect, but elsewhere they diversify with equal élan.
The Spector-esque shimmy of I Sold My Soul to the Junkman rubs shoulders with the Stooges-try-soul sway of Kids Like You and the clap-along fifties strut of Round and Round She Goes. All the while, sax, harmonica and guitar compete to out-squawk and out-squeal each other on the breaks, yet Johansen still owns the joint thanks to the formidable battered charisma of his tobacco-scorched vocal cords.
All told, then, another quality release from perfect role models for the 21st century SAGA lout.
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A David Jo solo album is no bad thing, but it is a separate thing from a dolls album.
The dolls were a collaboration of individuals who made something special - even the comeback album was an amalgamation of the people involved in making it, this just seems like David & a pick up band (no offence to Syl and Frank)
It is Fabulous....
I think we've got to accept that the Dolls have grown up a bit now and have the wisdom of age!??? They aint gonna sound like they did in 1973 again! The New York Dolls have evolved a little more, it's dissapointing that there's no Steve Conte or Sam Yaffa either, however, Backwards in High Heels may make me shake my ass rather than stomp my feet, but you best believe I luv it L-U-V!
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