From Here to Eternity: The Live Box Set

From Here to Eternity: The Live Box Set Artist: New York Dolls
Label: Castle
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3
EAN: 5050749410399
ASIN: B0007W0KJW


Release Date: 2006-04-17

From Here to Eternity: The Live Box Set


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Tracks:

  1. Trash
  2. Milk Man
  3. Puss 'N' Boots
  4. Intro/Personality Crisis
  5. Bad Girl
  6. Looking for a Kiss
  7. Who Are the Mystery Girls
  8. Stranded in the Jungle
  9. Human Being
  10. Pills
  11. Trash
  12. Milk Man
  13. Puss 'N' Boots
  14. Babylon
  15. Lone Star Queen
  16. Don't Start Me Talking
  17. Puss 'N' Boots
  18. Looking for a Kiss
  19. Trash
  20. Stranded in the Jungle
  21. Personality Crisis
  22. Bad Girl
  23. Pills

Tracks:

  1. Hoochie Coochie Man
  2. It's Too Late [False Start][Version]
  3. Chatterbox
  4. Human Being
  5. Hoochie Coochie Man
  6. Great Big Kiss
  7. Dont Mess with Cupid
  8. Chatterbox
  9. Babylon Tell Me Your Name
  10. Showdown
  11. Mystery Girls
  12. Jet Boy
  13. Human Being
  14. Intro/Personality Crisis
  15. Vietnamese Baby
  16. Bad Girl
  17. Great Big Kiss

Tracks:

  1. Pills
  2. Frankenstein
  3. Lone Star Queen
  4. Don't Start Me Talking
  5. Red Patent Leather
  6. On Fire
  7. Something Else
  8. Daddy Rolling Stone
  9. Ain't Got No Home/Dizzy Miss Lizzy
  10. Girls Girls Girls
  11. Down, Down Downtown
  12. Pirate Love
  13. Pills
  14. Teenage News
  15. Personality Crisis/Looking for a Kiss
  16. Stranded in the Jungle
  17. Personality Crisis
  18. Don't Mess with Cupid
  19. Great Big Kiss

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Album Description

3 CD set. Combining both studio demos and live recordings, this three CD box set defines the early history of the the New York Dolls' recorded output by offering a near complete document of their '73 studio sessions. The live recordings are taken from shows recorded in Paris in December '73, Vancouver in '74 and New York City in '75. Some hardened fans consider the demo recordings superior to the subsequent Mercury albums. Castle Music. 2005.

Album Details

Triple CD Box Set that Assembles Live Recordings that Define the Early History of this Ground Breaking Punk Group that Could Invariably Only Come from New York. The Live Tracks in the Set were Recorded at Shows in Paris in December '73, Vancouver in '74 and New York City in '75.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Ahead of their Time.......2006-12-17

As a Dolls fan, I bought this item as soon as I saw it. The song selection
is excellent, and is an amazing career overview. The only down side(although
not for me) is the sound quality. If that would deter one from buying this,
your not as big a Dolls fan as you may have thought you were. A must have for any serious fan of The New York Dolls.

3 out of 5 stars Clearing The Vaults.......2006-06-26

According to the placemat on my table at Lim's last night, 2006 is the Year of the Dog. Well, at least they got the first two letters right because even though we're only about halfway in, it appears Year of the DOLL may be closer to the truth. Based on all of the Stooges swag dusted off and cleaned up for consumption by the great unwashed masses last year though, the Chinese nailed it when they christened 2005 the Year of the Cock.

Early track listings for this swanky mini box trumpeted the inclusion of studio demos allegedly superior to those versions ultimately released on the two much-maligned albums which make up the Dolls official discography but like Jimmy Hoffa back in 1975, they've gone missing somewhere between concept and reality. Has anyone checked the Meadowlands?

What we get instead are three discs worth of shows which, with the possible exception of Vancouver (1974), have all been available on various boots and dodgy, semi-official releases over the past 30 years, packaged a hundred different ways under wrappers like "Panic In Detroit," "Paris Le Trash," "Dolls Live: Dallas '74," "Live At My Father's Place," "Hootchie Cootchie Dolls," "Seven Day Weekend," and "Red Patent Leather." For what it's worth - perhaps an afterthought - Castle even throws in three songs from a 1984 Heartbreakers gig in Sweden with Sylvain Sylvain masquerading as Walter Lure, previously available on Receiver Records' "Sad Vacation."

Extra credit to whoever untangled the snarl of licensing rights as well as to whoever has to figure out the distribution of royalties.

True believers in the healing powers of digital technology will be dismayed to learn that it has proved worthless in cleaning up the sound of those dusty old vinyl sides they may have laying around the basement. It's all as boomy, flat, and muffled as ever, even the Detroit show, culled from a WABX-FM simulcast, but it will do in a pinch. Hand-held cassette recorders held high above a sea of tottering, jean-jacketed chunderheads fortified on Quaaludes and cheap wine were never meant to take the place of a soundboard.

But the performances shine BRIGHTLY nonetheless, like the best night of your life crammed into 60-minute blocks of the sound of five guys, with not inconsiderable chemical assistance, not so much reinventing the wheel as fitting it with shiny chrome mags and raised white lettering. Set lists will read like the back of the hand to the faithful aside from the occasional non-LP track and cover like "Lone Star Queen," "Great Big Kiss," "Don't Mess With Cupid," and "Daddy Rolling Stone." Nice to have all of this in one spot, thereby freeing up the vinyl versions for sale on ebay.

Frankly - and I never thought I'd say this - I'm tapped out of adjectives for the New York Dolls, much as I was in 2005 with The Stooges. Reviewing albums by either band without using words like "raw," "fuzz," "proto," "primal," "punk," "drugs," "crash," or "burn" - ad nauseum - is no longer within my wheelhouse.

"From Here To Eternity" clears the Dolls' plate just in time to welcome the dawning of a new epoch. Bring on the new album! I'll meet you there, alright?

2 out of 5 stars Where are the demos?.......2006-06-14

First of all, the track listing is wrong from what appears on the Amazon site as of 6-14-2006. It's not even close. Second, there are no demos on this. Am I missing something?? I preordered this to get the demos and all we have are live recordings. The sound on this is awful, very similar to the Stooges live recordings. If your familar with those, you know what I mean. I would have given it one star, but it is still a interesting listen, as I love The New York Dolls. I'm shocked they would release this the way it sounds. It appears to be a attempt to make money without putting a dime in cleaning up the sound on this. The Vancouver show is the only decent recording on this release.

2 out of 5 stars Same Old, Same Old.......2006-06-14

Nice packaging and liner notes but this is mostly the same old stuff that has been floating around on boots or semi-legitimate releases for years.

Unfortunately there was no magic remastering applied so the crummy sounding stuff still sounds crummy.

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  3. Wrap It Up ~ The Fabulous Thunderbirds
  4. In Hearing of Atomic Rooster ~ Atomic Rooster
  5. The Californian ~ Sunday's Best
  6. Systems Officer ~ Systems Officer
  7. Oora ~ Edgar Broughton Band
  8. Aliens ~ Horslips
  9. Extended Play Two ~ Broadcast
  10. Spoor ~ Thin White Rope

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