- Record Label: Roadrunner
- Release Date: Jul 25, 2006
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If it's not quite a triumph, it's challenging and ambitious stuff that rocks on out and doesn't tarnish the memory of what Johansen and Sylvain accomplished so many years ago.
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So no shocker then that One Day sounds less the work of punk provocateurs than a Keith Richards solo album: grizzled rock vets backed by a nominally gritty if too-well-rehearsed troupe of young(er) hired guns.
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UncutIt kicks ass. [Aug 2006, p.99]
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A band that is only one-third New York Dolls--no matter how good their intentions--still sounds like it.
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MojoWhat's most remarkable is just how like the old Dolls this new record sounds. [Aug 2006, p.92]
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Q MagazineA career highlight. [Sep 2006, p.109]
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New Musical Express (NME)What's left of the genius glam-punksters has returned in the guise of an above-average pub-rock band. [22 Jul 2006, p.31]
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Rolling Stone[They] 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. [24 Aug 2006, p.90]
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The Dolls' capacity for romance and nostalgia has matured - even if they haven't.
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Spin[A] striking return to form. [Aug 2006, p.82]
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Paste MagazineWhile One Day is a passable throwback rock recrod, it doesn't rise to the level of a true celebration of the Doll's legacy. [Sep 2006, p.80]
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If you're heavily invested in the Dolls mythos... you'll be disappointed.... Still, One Day pleases us, especially since Johansen, Syl, and the new Dollettes don't try to replicate the old sound but opt for the rowdy professionalism of Johansen's '70s/'80s solo efforts.
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Alternative PressRemember's strength is in its time-warp atmosphere. [Sep 2006, p.228]
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All the reckless abandon the New York Dolls name conjures, the spontaneous handclaps, sloppy guitar-slashing and youthful over-indulgence that made those early Dolls recordings such a kick are sadly nowhere to be found here.
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One Day is a rollicking carnival ride that turns its off-the-cuff attitude into something approaching transcendence.
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BlenderFrom the orgiastic "We're All In Love" to the painfully mortal "Take a Good Look at My Good Looks," they're all clearly Dolls for life. [Aug 2006, p.113]
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FilterFans will love it; hipster kids can hear what the Strokes would sound like if they suddenly had the subtlety bludgeoned out of them. [#21, p.100]
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This first new Dolls album in 32 years is not just a legitimate entry in their catalog, it's a great one.
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It has fire in its belly and an admirable abandon and as a whirlwind tour of rock'n'roll decadence it makes, say, Jet look like the fey, foppish tourists they are.
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Let's hope we don't have to wait until 2040 for something else this good.
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It's the kind of rollicking, party-rockin' fandango which, genuinely, nobody has the spirit or wit to put together these days.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 22
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Mixed: 2 out of 22
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Negative: 3 out of 22
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WilsonSSep 30, 2006This is astonishingly good, an amazing accomplishment.
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ToddWSep 27, 2006
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poisonoSep 17, 2006