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Lipstick Powder & Paint! The New York Dolls Heard Them Here First
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Album: Lipstick Powder & Paint! The New York Dolls Heard Them Here First
# Song Title   Time
1)    Seven Day Weekend - Gary (Us) Bonds More Info...
2)    Pills - Bo Diddley More Info...
3)    Don't Mess with Cupid - Otis Redding More Info...
4)    Don't Start Me Talkin' - "Sonny Boy" Williamson More Info...
5)    Bad Detective - the Coasters More Info...
6)    I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters More Info...
7)    "There's Gonna Be A" Showdown - Archie Bell & the Drells More Info...
8)    Stranded in the Jungle - the Jayhawks More Info...
9)    Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochran More Info...
10)    Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops More Info...
11)    (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone - Paul Revere & the Raiders More Info...
12)    Too Much Monkey Business - Chuck Berry More Info...
13)    Are You Lonely for Me - Freddie Scott More Info...
14)    Crawfish - Elvis Presley More Info...
15)    Uptown to Harlem - the Chambers Brothers More Info...
16)    She Wants to Mambo - the Chanters More Info...
17)    International Playboy - Wilson Pickett More Info...
18)    Alcohol - the Kinks More Info...
19)    Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style Again - Bull Moose Jackson More Info...
20)    Who Drank My Beer While I Was in the Rear? - Dave Bartholomew More Info...
21)    Out in the Streets - the Shangri-Las More Info...
22)    Piece of My Heart - Erma Franklin More Info...
23)    I Sold My Heart to the Junkman - the Basin Street Boys More Info...
24)    Lipstick, Powder and Paint - Joe Turner More Info...
 
Album: Lipstick Powder & Paint! The New York Dolls Heard Them Here First
# Song Title   Time
1)    Seven Day Weekend - Gary (Us) Bonds More Info...
2)    Pills - Bo Diddley More Info...
3)    Don't Mess with Cupid - Otis Redding More Info...
4)    Don't Start Me Talkin' - "Sonny Boy" Williamson More Info...
5)    Bad Detective - the Coasters More Info...
6)    I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters More Info...
7)    "There's Gonna Be A" Showdown - Archie Bell & the Drells More Info...
8)    Stranded in the Jungle - the Jayhawks More Info...
9)    Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochran More Info...
10)    Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops More Info...
11)    (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone - Paul Revere & the Raiders More Info...
12)    Too Much Monkey Business - Chuck Berry More Info...
13)    Are You Lonely for Me - Freddie Scott More Info...
14)    Crawfish - Elvis Presley More Info...
15)    Uptown to Harlem - the Chambers Brothers More Info...
16)    She Wants to Mambo - the Chanters More Info...
17)    International Playboy - Wilson Pickett More Info...
18)    Alcohol - the Kinks More Info...
19)    Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style Again - Bull Moose Jackson More Info...
20)    Who Drank My Beer While I Was in the Rear? - Dave Bartholomew More Info...
21)    Out in the Streets - the Shangri-Las More Info...
22)    Piece of My Heart - Erma Franklin More Info...
23)    I Sold My Heart to the Junkman - the Basin Street Boys More Info...
24)    Lipstick, Powder and Paint - Joe Turner More Info...
 
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  • Tributee: New York Dolls.
  • Liner Note Author: Ian Johnston.
  • Photographer: Bob Gruen.
  • Unlike other artists in Ace's ongoing, excellent Heard Them Here First series, the New York Dolls do not have an extensive catalog. They released only two albums while they were active, and this paltry discography forces compilers Ian Johnston and Mick Patrick to widen their overview to include early demos and live recordings from when the band started to fray but even that expanded overview accounts for nine tracks, hardly enough for a sizeable compilation. So, Johnston and Patrick do the smart thing: they add in cuts that were in the repertoire of Johnny Thunders, David Johansen and his swinging alter ego Buster Poindexter, plus songs the reunited Dolls performed in the new millennium. This isn't everything these post-Dolls offshoots covered, of course -- notably, nothing from Johansen's hit Animals medley is here -- but the compilers sharply sculpt Lipstick, Powder & Paint! to reflect the aesthetic of the New York Dolls, trading heavily on the trashiest, funniest R&B, pop, blues, rock & roll, and soul from the days before the Beatles. Unsurprisingly, the songs here are usually big and bawdy, flirting with vaudeville -- in this context, the boasts of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Don't Start Me Talking" don't seem threatening, they seem almost camp -- and that's the pleasure of the whole thing. The New York Dolls had a very specific aesthetic, one that worshipped the past while simultaneously satirizing it, and Lipstick, Powder & Paint! captures that delicate balance not through performance but through selection, which is something of a wondrous thing to behold. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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