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At the recommendation of Leiber and Stoller, frontman [[David Johansen]] asked veteran producer [[Shadow Morton]] to work on ''Too Much Too Soon''.<ref>{{harvnb|Fletcher|2009|p=322}}; {{harvnb|Lake|2003|p=723}}.</ref> Morton was best known for his work with [[the Shangri-Las]], of whom the New York Dolls were fans, and had also been Johansen's original choice to produce their debut album.{{sfn|Lake|2003|p=723}} Morton had become disenchanted with the music industry and wanted to challenge himself by producing the band's second album: "The Dolls had energy, sort of a disciplined weirdness. I took them into the room as a challenge. I was bored with the music and the business. The Dolls can certainly snap you out of boredom."{{sfn|Creswell|2005|p=41}} |
At the recommendation of Leiber and Stoller, frontman [[David Johansen]] asked veteran producer [[Shadow Morton]] to work on ''Too Much Too Soon''.<ref>{{harvnb|Fletcher|2009|p=322}}; {{harvnb|Lake|2003|p=723}}.</ref> Morton was best known for his work with [[the Shangri-Las]], of whom the New York Dolls were fans, and had also been Johansen's original choice to produce their debut album.{{sfn|Lake|2003|p=723}} Morton had become disenchanted with the music industry and wanted to challenge himself by producing the band's second album: "The Dolls had energy, sort of a disciplined weirdness. I took them into the room as a challenge. I was bored with the music and the business. The Dolls can certainly snap you out of boredom."{{sfn|Creswell|2005|p=41}} |
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Too Much Too Soon is the second studio album by American hard rock band the New York Dolls, released on May 10, 1974, by Mercury Records. The group was dissatisfied with the sound of their 1973 self-titled debut album, so frontman David Johansen enlisted veteran producer Shadow Morton for Too Much Too Soon. Morton had become disenchanted by the music industry, but was motivated by the New York Dolls' energy and agreed to work with them as a challenge. They recorded the album at A&R Studios in New York City.
Although the New York Dolls shared an affinity for Morton, they produced little original material with him and had to record both cover songs and their past demos to complete Too Much Too Soon. Johansen impersonated different characters on some of the novelty covers, while Morton incorporated many studio sound effects and female backing vocals in his production. For the album, lead guitarist Johnny Thunders wrote and recorded "Chatterbox", his first lead vocal track.
Too Much Too Soon was released to poor sales and only charted at number 167 on the Billboard 200. After a problem-ridden national tour, the New York Dolls were dropped by Mercury and disbanded in 1975. The album received positive reviews from critics, who felt Morton's production highlighted the group's raw sound and made it a better record than their first. Like their debut album, Too Much Too Soon became one of the most popular cult records in rock music and has since been viewed by music journalists as a predecessor to punk rock.
Background
After being signed by Mercury Records, the New York Dolls released their self-titled debut album in 1973 to poor sales.[1] Although it was praised by critics, the band members were not satisfied with producer Todd Rundgren's sound for the album and had disagreements with him before recording Too Much Too Soon. Songwriting and production partners Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were originally enlisted to produce their second album, while the band's guitarist Johnny Thunders wanted to produce it himself. However, Leiber and Stoller withdrew shortly before recording was to begin.[2] The New York Dolls held a single session with Mercury A&R executive Paul Nelson at Media Sound Recording Studios, where they recorded 14 songs, most of which were cover songs.[3]
At the recommendation of Leiber and Stoller, frontman David Johansen asked veteran producer Shadow Morton to work on Too Much Too Soon.[4] Morton was best known for his work with the Shangri-Las, of whom the New York Dolls were fans, and had also been Johansen's original choice to produce their debut album.[5] Morton had become disenchanted with the music industry and wanted to challenge himself by producing the band's second album: "The Dolls had energy, sort of a disciplined weirdness. I took them into the room as a challenge. I was bored with the music and the business. The Dolls can certainly snap you out of boredom."[6]
Recording and production
We were pushing it. We were running twenty-six hours each day. They had an incredible amount of energy. God, I remember the scenes in the studio ... the word intense is not intense enough! I let them do what they naturally did and merely tried to catch some of it on tape.
— Shadow Morton, on the New York Dolls in the studio[6]
With Morton, the New York Dolls recorded Too Much Too Soon in 1974 at A&R Studios in New York City.[7] The album was later mastered at Sterling Sound and Masterdisk.[8] During the sessions, Morton had Johansen record his vocals several times and incorporated sounds effects such as gongs, gunshots, and feminine choruses.[9] In a report on the album's progress for Melody Maker, journalist Lenny Kaye wrote that they were taking more time than they had on their first record, "bringing in occasional strings and horns, following Shadow's advice not 'to settle'."[10] Morton and the New York Dolls shared an affinity for each other, as he found the group's energy in the studio refreshing, while Johansen was fond of Morton and the "looser" feel he provided for their music: "That man is completely unpretentious. He doesn't think he ever did a marvellous thing in his life."[11]
Ultimately, however, the New York Dolls and Morton produced little original material together and had to record both cover songs and some of the band's earlier demos to complete Too Much Too Soon; "Babylon", "Who Are the Mystery Girls?", "It's Too Late", and "Human Being" had been recorded by the band in March 1973 as demos for Mercury before the label signed them.[3] They had also recorded demos of two songs written by guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, "Teenage News" and "Too Much Too Soon", before working with Morton, but neither were considered for the album. Sylvain recalled confronting a hasty Morton about this decision: "He was too quick with me and said that he'd been told only to listen to David Johansen and Johnny Thunders. He didn't want to tell me who had told him that but obviously it was the managers. I just walked out, it was all driving me nuts."[12]
According to journalist Tony Fletcher, Morton would have been more productive on Too Much Too Soon had it not been for his alcoholism and the lifestyles of the band members—bassist Arthur Kane was also an alcoholic, while Thunders and drummer Jerry Nolan had heroin addictions.[13] Robert Christgau believed that the New York Dolls relied more on cover songs for the album because, "like so many cocky songwriters, David Johansen overloaded his debut with originals and then found that record promotion wasn't a life activity that inspired new ones."[9] English writer Clinton Heylin said their inability to sell enough records before may have discouraged them from writing original songs.[3]
Music and lyrics
According to Billboard magazine, Too Much Too Soon was another hard rock record by the New York Dolls but with a more "sophisticated" production.[14] Music journalist Nina Antonia wrote that because of the group's "untamable wildness", the record still sounded eccentric despite attempts by Morton to "polish" their sound, such as by subduing their otherwise unrefined guitar playing.[15] The album features covers of the Cadets' 1956 hit "Stranded in the Jungle", Archie Bell's 1969 hit "There's Gonna Be a Showdown", and Sonny Boy Williamson's "Don't Start Me Talkin'".[16] On the novelty cover songs, Johansen impersonates characters such as the high-stepper in "(There's Gonna Be A) Showdown" and Charlie Chan in "Bad Detective", whose nonsensical narrative is set in China.[17] On "Stranded in the Jungle", he alternates between a comical reject and a lecherous man at lover's lane.[18] Journalist Ellen Willis remarked that, like the band's 1973 song "Personality Crisis", "Stranded in the Jungle" suggests a theme of "clashing cultures and the dilemma of preserving one's uniqueness while reaching out to others".[19]
For "Babylon", Johansen wrote the lyrics as a tribute to the New York Dolls' following from outside New York City: "[The song] is about people who live in Babylon, Long Island, New York, who go into the city every night dressed to kill. These people have to get home before sun-up, you know, like vampires that can't get caught by the sun."[20] By contrast, Spin magazine's Eric Weisbard and Craig Marks interpreted "Babylon" as a reference to the Biblical city of the same name because of how the song portrays "the symbol of decadence as a sanctuary".[21] The song's subject leaves Babylon for Manhattan, where she is then hired to work in a massage parlour.[20]
"It's Too Late" is a commentary on nostalgic fashions and makes reference to actress Diana Dors in a lyric rebuking drug use.[22] According to Antonia, the song criticizes indifferent, decadent people who cannot, as Johansen sings, "parlez New York français".[23] On "Who Are the Mystery Girls?", he scolds those who abuse love, wanting to "kick it on the floor" and "beat it like a scatter rug".[24] "Puss 'n' Boots" was titled after an illustrated, podoerotic magazine sold in adult book stores.[10] Johansen said the song is about shoe fetishism, "or as Arthur [Kane] observed, it's about 'the woofers in relationship with the woofee'."[25] Its lyrics depict adversities faced by the protagonist, "Little Rhinestone Target", as he tries to change his name in pursuit of his shoe fetish before the music ends with a gunshot, a sound effect inspired by The Olympics' 1958 song "Western Movies".[10] Willis interpreted a feminist subtext in the song, citing the lyrics "sometimes you gotta get away someway / and now you're walkin' just like you're ten feet tall ... I hope you don't get shot for tryin'."[19]
"Chatterbox" was written and sung by Thunders, whom Willis felt "uses his voice as a wailing instrument" similarly to rock singer Robert Plant.[26] The song was Thunders' first time singing lead.[21] His lyrics describe the narrator's growing frustration over a crossed-wire phone connection with a female subject.[27] On "Human Being", an ode to self-respect and personal liberty, Thunders introduced his guitar playing with a roughly performed variation on Bill Doggett's 1956 song "Honky Tonk".[28] Johansen addressed critics of the band in the song, telling them if they find him objectionable they should instead find themselves "a saint", "a boy who's gonna be what I ain't", and a "plastic doll with a fresh coast of paint who's gonna sit through the madness and always act so quaint".[29]
Release and promotion
Too Much Too Soon was titled after the biography of the same name on actress Diana Barrymore. According to music journalist Jon Savage, the title was "more than applicable to the Dolls themselves" because of alcoholism and other issues among the band members, including Thunders' heroin use and Nolan's contraction of hepatitis.[31] A dedication to Barrymore was printed in the album's gatefold LP.[8] For its front cover, the group eschewed the drag image that their first album had presented and they had developed a reputation for in favor of a fake concert shot. Thunders held a doll in his arm as if to strike it against his guitar to add shock value.[16]
Released on May 10, 1974, Too Much Too Soon was another commercial failure for the New York Dolls, as it only charted at number 167 on the Billboard 200.[32] It performed well below Mercury's expectations and sold less than 100,000 copies.[33] Two double A-sided, 7" singles were released to promote the album—"Stranded in the Jungle" / "Who Are the Mystery Girls?" in July and "(There's Gonna Be A) Showdown" / "Puss 'n' Boots" in September 1974—but neither charted.[34] According to Antonia, the selected singles demonstrated how "the Dolls were in need of a hit single and their current producer wanted to see them attain it" by accommodating radio audiences with toned-down studio versions of songs the band had performed more rowdily in concert.[15] Joe Gross wrote in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) that the band's attempt to garner more airplay by enlisting Morton did not work because, "with a slicker sound, background choruses, and cleaner riffs, the Dolls just sounded skankier".[35]
When Too Much Too Soon was released in Europe in July, the New York Dolls performed at the Buxton Festival in Derbyshire and the Rock Prom Festival at Olympia in London.[36] They also embarked on their second tour of the United States, which lasted only a few months. It was marred by cancelled shows and conflicts between the band members stemming from their escalating addictions to alcohol and other drugs. Because of their alcoholism, they failed to set up a recording session for a scheduled third album after the tour had ended, and by 1975, they were dropped by Mercury and disbanded.[37]
Critical reception
Too Much Too Soon received positive reviews from critics.[38] In a review of the album for Rolling Stone, Dave Marsh hailed the New York Dolls as the leading hard rock band in the US and noted what he felt was Nolan's competent drumming, Johansen's ability to add depth to his characters, and Thunders' innovative guitar playing. Marsh especially praised Thunders' playing on "Chatterbox", calling it "a classic", and believed even the most brazen songs sound successful because Morton's production highlights the group's more unrefined musical qualities.[39] Writing for Creem magazine, Christgau said the polished sound reproduction preserves the New York Dolls' raw qualities, especially in the case of Johansen's vocals and Nolan's drumming, and remarked that Rundgren "should be ashamed—Shadow Morton has gotten more out of the Dolls than they can give us live on any but their best nights."[40] Robert Hilburn from the Los Angeles Times felt Too Much Too Soon is a better-produced album that proves the New York Dolls are "the real thing", calling it the best record of derisive punk rock since Exile on Main St. (1972) by the Rolling Stones.[41] In The New Yorker, Ellen Willis wrote that she learned to appreciate Too Much Too Soon more than New York Dolls after having seen the band perform songs from the former album in concert, particularly "Human Being" and "Puss 'n' Boots", while Ron Ross from Phonograph Record magazine said the group's "easy going ironic sensibility" is expressed "far more amusingly and accessibly" here than on their debut album.[42]
Some reviewers were critical of Too Much Too Soon for what they felt was a poorly recorded and overproduced sound.[43] In a negative review for NME, Nick Kent said it sounded cluttered and "shot through with unfulfilled potential", while Circus magazine panned the record as "cut after cut of annoying screeching".[44] Nonetheless, it was voted the tenth best album of 1974 in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of critics run by The Village Voice.[45] Willis, one of the critics polled, listed it as her fifth favorite album of the year.[46] Christgau, the poll's creator and supervisor, named it third best in his own list, and in a decade-end list for The Village Voice, he named it the fourth best album of the 1970s.[47] Richard Cromelin of the Los Angeles Times included Too Much Too Soon in his list of favorite records from the decade and wrote that Morton's production made it slightly better than New York Dolls.[48]
Legacy and influence
Retrospective reviews | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [49] |
Blender | [50] |
Chicago Sun-Times | [51] |
Robert Christgau | A+[9] |
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [52] |
The Rolling Stone Record Guide | [53] |
Along with New York Dolls, Too Much Too Soon became one of the most popular cult albums in rock music.[54] According to AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the group predated punk rock with their "gleeful sleaziness and reckless sound" on the album, which was embellished by Morton's production details and exemplified by "musically visceral and dangerous" songs such as "Human Being".[49] In 1985, Sounds magazine ranked it sixtieth on its list of the 100 best albums of all time.[55] When it was reissued by Mercury in 1987, Don McLeese of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that Morton's production highlighted the New York Dolls' sense of humor and was rendered vividly by the CD remaster. However, he felt Too Much Too Soon was marred by inconsistent material and rated it lower than their first record.[51] In a review of the reissue, Don Waller of the Los Angeles Times said the underappreciated album was just as much an "instant classic" as New York Dolls.[56]
In 2005, Too Much Too Soon was remastered and reissued by Hip-O Select and Mercury, after which Christgau wrote in Blender that both it and New York Dolls make up "a priceless proto-punk legacy". He wrote that although Johansen's best original songs are on the first record, Too Much Too Soon has consistent hooks, clever lyrics, and exceptional cover songs, including "two R&B novelties whose theatrical potential was barely noticed until the Dolls penetrated their holy essence".[50] That year, rock journalist Toby Creswell named "Babylon" as one of the greatest songs of all time in his book 1001 Songs.[6]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Babylon" | David Johansen, Johnny Thunders | 3:31 |
2. | "Stranded in the Jungle" | James Johnson, Ernestine Smith | 3:49 |
3. | "Who Are the Mystery Girls?" | Johansen, Thunders | 3:07 |
4. | "(There's Gonna Be A) Showdown" | Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff | 3:37 |
5. | "It's Too Late" | Johansen, Thunders | 4:35 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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6. | "Puss 'n' Boots" | Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain | 3:06 |
7. | "Chatterbox" | Thunders | 2:26 |
8. | "Bad Detective" | Keni St. Lewis | 3:37 |
9. | "Don't Start Me Talkin'" | Sonny Boy Williamson II | 3:12 |
10. | "Human Being" | Johansen, Thunders | 5:44 |
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[8]
- New York Dolls
- David Johansen – vocals, gong
- Arthur "Killer" Kane – bass
- Jerry Nolan – drums, percussion
- Sylvain Sylvain – guitar, piano, vocals
- Johnny Thunders – guitar, vocals
- Additional personnel
- Album Graphics – graphic supervision
- Dennis Druzbik – engineering
- Bob Gruen – photography
- Gilbert Kong – mastering
- Hans G. Lehmann – photography
- Pieter Mazel – photography
- Shadow Morton – production
- Paul Nelson – A&R
- Dixon Van Winkle – engineering
Release history
Information is adapted from Nina Antonia's Too Much Too Soon: The New York Dolls (2006).[57]
Year | Region | Format | Catalog | |||
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1974 | Australia | LP | 6338 498 1 | |||
France | 9 100 002 | |||||
Japan | RJ-5135 | |||||
Netherlands | 6 463 064 | |||||
Spain | 63 38 498 | |||||
United Kingdom | 6 338 498 | |||||
United States | 8-track tape | MC-8-1-1001 | ||||
cassette | MCR-4-1-1001 | |||||
LP | SRM-1-1001 | |||||
1977 | United Kingdom | double LP* | 6641631 | |||
1986 | cassette* | PRIDC 12 | ||||
double LP* | PRID 12 | |||||
Australia | LP | 6 463 029 | ||||
1987 | Japan | CD* | 33PD-422 | |||
United States | CD | 834 230-2 | ||||
1989 | Japan | 23PD111 | ||||
1991 | PHCR-6044 | |||||
1994 | PHCR-4241 | |||||
2005[58] | United States | B00005027-02 | ||||
(*) packaged with New York Dolls. |
See also
- Lipstick Killers – The Mercer Street Sessions 1972 (album featuring demos re-recorded for Too Much Too Soon)
- Timeline of punk rock (list of records such as Too Much Too Soon and events important in punk rock)
References
- ^ Knowles 2010, p. 160.
- ^ Fletcher 2009, p. 322; Lake 2003, p. 723.
- ^ a b c Heylin 2005, p. 83.
- ^ Fletcher 2009, p. 322; Lake 2003, p. 723.
- ^ Lake 2003, p. 723.
- ^ a b c Creswell 2005, p. 41.
- ^ Anon. n.d.; Anon. 1974c.
- ^ a b c Anon. 1974c.
- ^ a b c Christgau 1981, p. 279.
- ^ a b c Antonia 2006, p. 123.
- ^ Creswell 2005, p. 41; Antonia 2006, p. 123.
- ^ Antonia 2006, p. 129.
- ^ Fletcher 2009, pp. 322–23.
- ^ Anon. 1974a, p. 78.
- ^ a b Antonia 2006, p. 130.
- ^ a b Gimarc 2005, p. 12.
- ^ Christgau 1998, p. 195; Antonia 2006, p. 124.
- ^ Christgau 1998, p. 195.
- ^ a b Willis 1974, p. 145.
- ^ a b Antonia 2006, p. 82.
- ^ a b Weisbard & Marks 1995, p. 269.
- ^ Christgau 1998, p. 197.
- ^ Antonia 2006, p. 122.
- ^ Antonia 2006, p. 85.
- ^ Kent 2007, p. 173.
- ^ Gimarc 2005, p. 12; Willis 1974, p. 145.
- ^ Antonia 2006, p. 124.
- ^ Weisbard & Marks 1995, p. 269; Christgau 1998, p. 191.
- ^ Christgau 1998, p. 198.
- ^ Antonia 2006, p. 130; Christgau 1998, p. 194; Talevski 2010, p. 466.
- ^ Savage 2002, p. 86.
- ^ Gimarc 2005, p. 12; Erlewine & n.d.(a).
- ^ Hermes 2012, p. 112; Christgau 1998, p. 200.
- ^ Strong 2002, p. 126.
- ^ Gross 2004, p. 584.
- ^ Anon. 1974b, p. 53.
- ^ Hermes 2012, p. 112; Pilchak 2005, p. 106.
- ^ Leszczak 2014, p. 268.
- ^ Marsh 1974.
- ^ Christgau 1974.
- ^ Hilburn 1974, p. C12.
- ^ Willis 1974, p. 145; Pilchak 2005, p. 106.
- ^ Pilchak 2005, p. 106.
- ^ Hermes 2012, p. 92.
- ^ Anon. 1975.
- ^ Willis 2011, p. 47.
- ^ Christgau 1975; Christgau 1979.
- ^ Cromelin 1979, p. J86.
- ^ a b Erlewine & n.d.(b).
- ^ a b Christgau 2005.
- ^ a b McLeese 1988, p. 31.
- ^ Gross 2004, p. 583.
- ^ Milward 1979, p. 360.
- ^ Erlewine & n.d.(a).
- ^ Anon. 1985.
- ^ Waller 1986, p. 65.
- ^ Antonia 2006, pp. 214–17.
- ^ Anon. 2005.
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(help) (subscription required) - Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
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(help) - Willis, Ellen (1974). "Rock, Etc". The New Yorker. 50 (April 1).
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(help) - Willis, Ellen (2011). Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-7282-2.
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External links
- Too Much Too Soon at Discogs (list of releases)