One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This by New York Dolls

One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, the New York Dolls' third studio album, landed on Roadrunner Records in July 2006, and it was their first batch of new songs since Too Much Too Soon in 1974. Three decades is a long time between drinks, and the reunited band that made it had already lost bassist Arthur Kane, with Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan long gone.

That leaves David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, who wrote most of the songs, fronting a new crew with guitarist Steve Conte, Sami Yaffa and drummer Brian Delaney, and Jack Douglas producing. What's amazing is how much of the old swagger survives: Johansen still sings like a wisecracking barroom lounge lizard, the guitars still strut in heels, and "Dance Like a Monkey" is pure trash-glam fun. Most critics were won over, and it's hard to argue.

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