Tynan's Anger

Dance Like a Monkey - New York...

If only all culture warriors could turn political within the confines of what made them famous in the first place. In their heyday, the New York Dolls embraced every vice of 60s while letting their music point a path to the 70s, and the combination of anti-rock femme fatality and Jagger idolatry didn't wane ever after the band returned to the studio over 30 years later with just two surviving original band members. At the end, they produced one of the pop music's greatest expressions of political camp, one that made the creationists seem more silly than evil, and pointed out that even if we were to come from monkeys, how much would that change things, really? The song's childlike innocence is actually rather incendiary, as creationist parents across the country won't believe what such a fun song has in tow if they actually listened to the lyrics. That's a rather pronounced effect for a band whose milieu long ago declared that Satan is Boring.