One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (album)
Encyclopedia
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.
chart. 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". 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". Entertainment Weekly
s Tom Sinclair noted that the album is characterized by the "rowdy professionalism" of lead singer David Johansen
's early solo work. 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". Doug Brod of Spin
gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and called it "a striking return to form".
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". 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". Chicago Tribune
writer perceived a "lack of personality" from the band's new members. 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". 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".
Q
called it "a career highlight", while Mojo
noted "What's most remarkable is just how like the old Dolls this new record sounds". Eylsa Gardner of USA Today
described the album as "a swaggering, nostalgia-free blast of blues-drenched R&B raunch". 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
". Writing for Blender
, critic Robert Christgau
called Johansen "far more practiced and studied" and commended his songwriting. 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".
and all music by Sylvain Sylvain
, except where noted.
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by American glam punk
Glam punk
Glam Punk is a music genre that mixes elements of glam rock with protopunk or punk rock ....
band New York Dolls
New York Dolls
The New York Dolls is an American rock band, formed in New York in 1971. The band's protopunk sound prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era; their visual style influenced the look of many new wave and 1980s-era glam metal groups, and they began the local New York scene that later...
, released July 25, 2006 on Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records is an American record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal bands. It is currently a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.-History:...
. It is the band's first release of original material since Too Much Too Soon
Too Much Too Soon (album)
Too Much Too Soon, also known as New York Dolls in Too Much Too Soon, is the second album by New York Dolls and the last studio album by the original recording line-up. The album was produced by Shadow Morton, a songwriter and record producer closely associated with the Shangri-Las...
(1974) and their highest-charting album to date. The album's title is a reference to Virgil
Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...
's Aeneid
Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter...
, 1.203: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. Guest artists on the album include Michael Stipe
Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe is an American singer and lyricist. He was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.Stipe is noted and occasionally parodied for the "mumbling" style of his early career as well as his social and political activism. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual image; often...
, Tom Gabel
Tom Gabel
Thomas James "Tom" Gabel is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and a guitarist for Gainesville, Florida punk rock band Against Me!, as well as a solo artist. He was born on Fort Benning, Georgia a US Army post, where his father was stationed. At age 17, he dropped out of high school and formed Against...
, and Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
. A special limited edition version of the album was released with the bonus track "Seventeen" featuring blues musician Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley
Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
and a making-of-the-album DVD entitled On the Lip. The album cover was featured in the iPod nano 4th generation poster.
Reception
The album charted at number 129 on the U.S. Billboard 200Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
chart. Upon its release, One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic
Metacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
, which assigns a normalised
Standard score
In statistics, a standard score indicates how many standard deviations an observation or datum is above or below the mean. It is a dimensionless quantity derived by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and then dividing the difference by the population standard deviation...
rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average
Weighted mean
The weighted mean is similar to an arithmetic mean , where instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others...
score of 75 based on 25 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". 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". Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
s Tom Sinclair noted that the album is characterized by the "rowdy professionalism" of lead singer David Johansen
David Johansen
David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...
's early solo work. Andrew Perry of The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
wrote that "Rather than try to replicate Thunders
Johnny Thunders
Johnny Thunders, born John Anthony Genzale, Jr. , was an American protopunk guitarist, singer and songwriter.He came to prominence in the early '70s as a member of the New York Dolls...
'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". Doug Brod of Spin
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...
gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and called it "a striking return to form".
In contrast, Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
'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". NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
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". Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
writer perceived a "lack of personality" from the band's new members. Charlotte Robinson of PopMatters
PopMatters
PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...
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". Leonie Cooper of The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
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".
Q
Q (magazine)
Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...
called it "a career highlight", while Mojo
Mojo (magazine)
MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...
noted "What's most remarkable is just how like the old Dolls this new record sounds". Eylsa Gardner of USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
described the album as "a swaggering, nostalgia-free blast of blues-drenched R&B raunch". Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
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
David Johansen (album)
David Johansen is a 1978 album by the rock musician David Johansen and his first solo album following his tenure as lead singer of the New York Dolls. The album was released on Blue Sky Records, a sub-label of Columbia Records that was associated with Johnny and Edgar Winter...
". Writing for Blender
Blender (magazine)
Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....
, critic Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics".One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns...
called Johansen "far more practiced and studied" and commended his songwriting. In his review for The Village Voice
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
, 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".
Track listing
All lyrics were written by David JohansenDavid Johansen
David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...
and all music by Sylvain Sylvain
Sylvain Sylvain
Sylvain Sylvain is an American rock guitarist, most notable for being a member of the New York Dolls.-Early years:...
, except where noted.
- "We're All in Love" (Johansen/Sami YaffaSami YaffaSami Yaffa is a bass guitarist best known for his time in Hanoi Rocks during the 1980s. He is currently the bassist for the New York Dolls and the Michael Monroe band. He also plays guitar in his own band "Mad Juana".-Biography:Yaffa first began playing music when only fourteen years old in 1977...
) – 4:38 - "Runnin' Around" – 4:11
- "Plenty of Music" – 4:00
- "Dance Like a Monkey" – 3:38
- "Punishing World" (Johansen/Steve ConteSteve ConteSteve Conte is an American singer and rock musician and lead singer of the band The Contes, along with his brother John Conte, both formerly members of the band Crown Jewels. He is perhaps more popularly known for his collaborations with composer Yoko Kanno, as well as being former lead guitarist...
) – 2:37 - "Maimed Happiness" – 3:01
- "Fishnets and Cigarettes" – 3:13
- "Gotta Get Away from Tommy" (Johansen/Conte) – 2:27
- "Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano" – 4:18
- "I Ain't Got Nothing" (Johansen/Brian Koonin) – 4:27
- "Rainbow Store" (Johansen/Conte) – 2:57
- "Gimme Luv and Turn on the Light" – 3:18
- "Take a Good Look at My Good Looks" (Johansen/Sylvain/Conte) – 5:00
- "Beauty School" (Japanese bonus track)
- "Seventeen" (bonus track)
Personnel
- David JohansenDavid JohansenDavid Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...
- vocals - Sylvain SylvainSylvain SylvainSylvain Sylvain is an American rock guitarist, most notable for being a member of the New York Dolls.-Early years:...
- guitar - Steve ConteSteve ConteSteve Conte is an American singer and rock musician and lead singer of the band The Contes, along with his brother John Conte, both formerly members of the band Crown Jewels. He is perhaps more popularly known for his collaborations with composer Yoko Kanno, as well as being former lead guitarist...
- guitar - Sami YaffaSami YaffaSami Yaffa is a bass guitarist best known for his time in Hanoi Rocks during the 1980s. He is currently the bassist for the New York Dolls and the Michael Monroe band. He also plays guitar in his own band "Mad Juana".-Biography:Yaffa first began playing music when only fourteen years old in 1977...
- bass - Brian DelaneyBrian DelaneyBrian Delaney may refer to:* Brian Delaney, drummer for the New York Dolls since 2005* Brian Manning Delaney, philosopher and writer...
- drums - Brian Koonin - piano
- Bo DiddleyBo DiddleyEllas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
- guitar on "Seventeen" - Colin Douglas - percussion, congas on "Dance Like a Monkey"
- Andy Snitzer - saxophone on "Maimed Happiness"
- Iggy PopIggy PopIggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
- vocals on "Gimme Luv and Turn on the Light" - Michael StipeMichael StipeJohn Michael Stipe is an American singer and lyricist. He was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.Stipe is noted and occasionally parodied for the "mumbling" style of his early career as well as his social and political activism. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual image; often...
- vocals on "Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano" - Tom GabelTom GabelThomas James "Tom" Gabel is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and a guitarist for Gainesville, Florida punk rock band Against Me!, as well as a solo artist. He was born on Fort Benning, Georgia a US Army post, where his father was stationed. At age 17, he dropped out of high school and formed Against...
- vocals on "Punishing World"
Charts
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
129 |
External links
- One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This at MetacriticMetacriticMetacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
- DVD Probes Dolls Comeback at BillboardBillboard (magazine)Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...