![]() Jetboys of Babylon: A Tribute to the New York Dolls by Kevin Wierzbicki
Jetboys
of Babylon: A Tribute to the New York Dolls
They only put out two albums in the �70s before they imploded, but the New York Dolls created more than simple music; they created a scene. Long credited as being the inspiration for the Sex Pistols (and indeed, being managed at one point by Malcolm McLaren, who went on to handle the Pistols), the Dolls planted a revolutionary seed that would grow into a harvest of punk, crossbreed with glam, and eventually give birth to a bastard known as hair metal. Thirty-some odd years later the music community has not forgotten, and those paying homage here clearly know their history. David Johansen is the only surviving member
of the Dolls to participate in the project, offering a guttural vocal on
the opening track, �Babylon.� Guitarist Steve Jones (Sex Pistols)
sits in with rawkers Flipp for a cover of �Personality Crisis,� but most
of the names here are relative unknowns. The Napoleon Blownaparts offer
�Puss �n Boots,� the Taste delves into �It�s Too Late� and Coyote Shivers
bust apart �Chatterbox.� Simply put, everyone here does a superlative job;
this is one of the best tribute records I have ever heard. Not only that,
this is one of the best releases of the genre to come along in a long time,
period. Those who don�t have the Dolls in their collections will no doubt
want to go back and check out the originals after hearing Jetboys of
Babylon---that�ll be easy. The hard part will be tracking down records
by all the other participants here, all of whom are worthy.
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