New York Dolls-Cause I Sez So-2009-FNT

Artist: New York Dolls

Album: Cause I Sez So

Label: Atco

Playtime: 41:33 min

Genre: Punk

URL:

Rip date: 2009-04-28

Street date: 2009-05-05

Size: 65.35 MB

Type: Normal

Quality: 209 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo



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The big news regarding the New York Dolls’ second album since their

reactivation five years ago is the return of Todd Rundgren as producer.

Rundgren was behind the boards for their paradigm-shifting New York Dolls ’73

debut, and the group — whose sole still-breathing members from that first run

are singer David Johansen and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain — were wise to offer

him a rematch. Unlike 2006’s uneven One Day It Will Please Us To Remember

Even This, ’Cause I Sez So (only the Dolls’ fourth studio album) is not faux

retro, and neither does it overreach in order to speak to 2009. It’s just

solid, classic Dolls, with all the swagger, muscle, righteous kitsch, and

ballsy defiance you expect, plus some new twists.



Those would include a non-joky, quite charming, reggae — yes, reggae — remake

of “Trash,” one of the centerpieces of that debut. And, to a lesser extent,

“This Is Ridiculous,” as close to straight-ahead blues as this bunch have

come (though Bo Diddley’s “Pills,” on the ’73 record, came pretty close too).



Popmeister Rundgren earns his paycheck just for “Better Than You”; it

revisits Johansen’s affection for Brill Building pop, and so does the closing

track, “Exorcism of Despair,” whose zippy “yeah, oh yeah, ah-hah” chorus

cozies up to the screaming guitars of Sylvain and Steve Conte like lovers.

Whatever reluctance the band may have felt about going back to the era of

glam, they’re over it.



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01. Cause I Sez So ( 3:07)

02. Muddy Bones ( 3:00)

03. Better Than ( 3:22)

04. Lonely So Long ( 4:05)

05. My World ( 3:26)

06. Ridiculous ( 3:15)

07. Temptation To Exist ( 4:03)

08. Making Rain ( 4:06)

09. Drowning ( 3:32)

10. Nobody Got No Bizness ( 3:00)

11. Trash ( 3:52)

12. Exorcism Of Despair ( 2:45)



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