One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This

One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
One Day It Will Please
Us to Remember Even This
Studio album by New York Dolls
Released July 25, 2006
Genre Glam punk
Label Roadrunner
Producer Jack Douglas
New York Dolls chronology
Too Much Too Soon
(1974)		 One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
(2006)		 Cause I Sez So
(2009)

One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This is the third studio album by American glam punk band New York Dolls, released July 25, 2006 on Roadrunner Records. It is the band's first release of original material since Too Much Too Soon (1974) and their highest-charting album to date. The album's title is a reference to Virgil's Aeneid, 1.203: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. Guest artists on the album include Michael Stipe, Tom Gabel, and Iggy Pop. A special limited edition version of the album was released with the bonus track "Seventeen" featuring blues musician Bo Diddley and a making-of-the-album DVD entitled On the Lip. The album cover was featured in the iPod nano 4th generation poster.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
Blender 4/5 stars[2]
Entertainment Weekly (B+)[1]
The Observer 5/5 stars[3]
Pitchfork Media (6.0/10)[4]
PopMatters (4/10)[5]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[6]
Spin 4/5 stars[7]
USA Today 3.5/4 stars[8]
The Village Voice (favorable)[9]

The album charted at number 129 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.[10] Upon its release, One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75 based on 25 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[11] Allmusic writer Mark Deming gave it 4 out of 5 stars and complimented the songs' "frequent philosophical musings and multisyllabic constructions", stating "this is heady stuff coming from what was once was a band of decadent street punk fashion mavens".[1] Entertainment Weekly's Tom Sinclair noted that the album is characterized by the "rowdy professionalism" of lead singer David Johansen's early solo work.[12] Andrew Perry of The Observer wrote that "Rather than try to replicate Thunders's edge-of-collapse riffage, they simply try to imagine how great they would have sounded if they had actually had their shit together back in the day".[3] Doug Brod of Spin gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and called it "a striking return to form".[7]

In contrast, Pitchfork Media's Stuart Berman expressed a mixed response towards the band's less provocative style on the album and stated "In a sense, the Dolls personify the changes their hometown has undergone in the past three decades; the streets still bustle with tension and excitement, but the fear of getting mugged has subsided considerably".[4] NME gave the album a 4/10 rating and stated "What's left of the genius glam-punksters has returned in the guise of an above-average pub-rock band".[11] Chicago Tribune writer perceived a "lack of personality" from the band's new members.[13] Charlotte Robinson of PopMatters cited its songwriting as "the real head-scratcher" and described the album as "an odd little number perched somewhere between being embarrassing Dolls-by-numbers and true to the original band’s memory".[5] Leonie Cooper of The Guardian gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and noted its "beefed-up production and Johansen's more gravelly voice" as a "giveaway", but noted that band's lyrics "have matured".[14]

Q called it "a career highlight", while Mojo noted "What's most remarkable is just how like the old Dolls this new record sounds".[11] Eylsa Gardner of USA Today described the album as "a swaggering, nostalgia-free blast of blues-drenched R&B raunch".[8] Rolling Stone writer David Fricke viewed that the band "have honed the legendary mania of the early records into a tightened combustion that is part 'Personality Crisis' but also packs the matured anxiety and tattered-Sixties classicism of Johansen's 1978 solo debut".[6] Writing for Blender, critic Robert Christgau called Johansen "far more practiced and studied" and commended his songwriting.[2] In his review for The Village Voice, Christgau viewed that Johansen's lyrics incorporate "religious feelings" and stated "He has internalized his mortality so thoroughly that he realizes he won't be 56 forever. This is a true Dolls album ... But it also expresses the worldview of a lean, strong-piped guy who understands what makeup is for and knows that he may not be pretty in pink forever".[9]

Track listing

All lyrics were written by David Johansen and all music by Sylvain Sylvain, except where noted.

  1. "We're All in Love" (Johansen/Sami Yaffa) – 4:38
  2. "Runnin' Around" – 4:11
  3. "Plenty of Music" – 4:00
  4. "Dance Like a Monkey" – 3:38
  5. "Punishing World" (Johansen/Steve Conte) – 2:37
  6. "Maimed Happiness" – 3:01
  7. "Fishnets and Cigarettes" – 3:13
  8. "Gotta Get Away from Tommy" (Johansen/Conte) – 2:27
  9. "Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano" – 4:18
  10. "I Ain't Got Nothing" (Johansen/Brian Koonin) – 4:27
  11. "Rainbow Store" (Johansen/Conte) – 2:57
  12. "Gimme Luv and Turn on the Light" – 3:18
  13. "Take a Good Look at My Good Looks" (Johansen/Sylvain/Conte) – 5:00
  14. "Beauty School" (Japanese bonus track)
  15. "Seventeen" (bonus track)

Personnel

Charts

Year Chart Position
2006 Billboard 200[10] 129

References

  1. ^ a b c Deming, Mark. Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  2. ^ a b Christgau, Robert. Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. Blender. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  3. ^ a b Perry, Andrew. Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. The Observer. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  4. ^ a b Berman, Stuart. Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  5. ^ a b Robinson, Charlotte. Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. PopMatters. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  6. ^ a b Fricke, David. One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This by New York Dolls | Rolling Stone Music | Music Reviews. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  7. ^ a b Brod, Doug. "Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This". Spin: 82. August 2006.
  8. ^ a b Gardner, Elysa. "Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This". USA Today: D.8. July 25, 2006.
  9. ^ a b Christgau, Robert. Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. The Village Voice. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  10. ^ a b "Billboard album chart history-New York Dolls". http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=5301&model.vnuAlbumId=1147757. Retrieved March 10, 2009. 
  11. ^ a b c One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (2006). Metacritic. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  12. ^ Sinclair, Tom. Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  13. ^ Kot, Greg. Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.
  14. ^ Cooper, Leonie. Review: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2010-08-09.

External links

v · d · eNew York Dolls
David Johansen · Sylvain Sylvain · Earl Slick · Jason Hill · Brian Delaney
Steve Conte · Sami Yaffa · Johnny Thunders · Jerry Nolan · Arthur "Killer" Kane · Billy Murcia · Gary Powell · Peter Jordan · Chris Robison · Bobby Blaine · Tony Machine · Brian Koonin ·
Albums
New York Dolls (1973) · Too Much Too Soon (1974) · One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (2006) · Cause I Sez So (2009) · Dancing Backward in High Heels (2011)
Live albums
Red Patent Leather (1984) · Seven Day Weekend (1992) · Paris Le Trash (1993) · From Paris With Love (L.U.V.) (2002) · Manhattan Mayhem (2003)
Other releases
Lipstick Killers - The Mercer Street Sessions 1972 (1982) · Seven Day Weekend (1992) · Rock'n Roll (1994)
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