New York Dolls - Trash

Sunday, time for a classic.

"Trash" is the debut single by American hard rock band the NEW YORK DOLLS. It was recorded for their 1973 self-titled album and released as a double A-side with the song "Personality Crisis" in July 1973. "Trash" did not chart upon its release, but has since been hailed by music critics as an anthemic glam rock and proto-punk song. In 2009, the band recorded a reggae-styled remake of the song for their album Cause I Sez So.

"Trash" begins immediately with its chorus, in which lead vocalist David Johansen sings dramatically and implores the song's subject—"my sweet baby"—to not throw her "life away." Journalist and author Phil Strongman interpreted the singer's appeal to his subject as being in the context of a socially deviant New York City: "in under four minutes, it tells a bittersweet'n'sour low-life love story – how does the girl call her lover-boy? 'Trash!' – in majestic trash-Glam style. These people might be hookers, rent boys, junkies, sneak thieves – or so the lyrics imply – but they're still human beings and their subject matter is still tragedy." Johansen quotes the lyric "how do you call your lover boy" from Mickey & Sylvia's 1956 song "Love Is Strange".

According to music critic Robert Christgau, Johansen used ambiguity as a lyrical mode on the song, particularly when the lyric "please don't you ask me if I love you" is followed by "if you don't know what I do", and later by "'Cause I don't know why I do". He replaces the phrase "life" in "Don't take my life away" with "knife", "night", and "lights" when singing the lyric at different times throughout the song. Both Strongman and rock photographer Bob Gruen felt that the other chorus about needing to "pick up" trash gave the song an ecological theme: "Trash, pick it up, don't throw my life away."

"Trash" concludes with a double-beat ending that producer Todd Rundgren embellished with high-pitched background vocals, which were inspired by The Herd's 1968 song "From the Underworld". According to Strongman, "The song's soaring finale suggests that all these problems – chemical, emotional, environmental – might just be overcome by the sheer power of love'n'lust – young rock'n'roll romance, by the passion of young people."

According to Strongman, "Trash" may have been the most "passionate" of all the NEW YORK DOLLS' songs. Music journalist Tony Fletcher later said that, as with "Personality Crisis" and "Jet Boy", the addition of background vocals and piano helped make "Trash" into an anthemic glitter rock song, while Kirk Lake cited it as a proto-punk classic in The Rough Guide to Rock (2003).

Anyway, enjoy today's tune where the clip is Performed live on television 1973.



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Best Of 2015

Time to sum up the year 2015.

It’s been one amazing musical year and let’s be honest, far too many good releases, the pile of records have grown alot! Sharing most of them has been a really fun. 

Regarding the growth of the record collection have this year been monitored, I have started to use Discogs ;) an excellent product to keep track of all the records. As during the years I lost the control of what I have, haha I guess that I starting to get senil :).
So from time to time I buy the same record that I already have, kind annoying. So Discogs is my best friend atm :) But so far I only have added the records that have been purchased under 2015, can announce that at first sight I started sweating heavily when I saw the number of all the records. It's more than last year, oops! Well all the records aren't brand new, many of them have been found on second hand shops etc if that's a relief :) Yeah for me it is. Think what a bunch of cash I would have if no records was bought, think what I could do with it. Wishful thinking indeed, but then, what a boring life it would be, no new music, no new records that I could sink into and feel that I'm alive.

2015 have been pretty good and not so messy on the personal level, the creativity have raised but not as much as planned, things in life have started to get in place. Work wise it have been as busy as always but the focus have been on other things that on single events. Some new employers has appeared and that I'm thankful for.

Did a fast look thru the Calender for 2015 and after a few pages I Lost the count of the gigs, haha. Anyway here is a picture to show a few of them.

2015 have been the festival year! I think if I count on top of my head I have visit +20 festivals all around Europe this year, fun oh yes. I won't list every single one and won't mention any artists this time, I guess the picture well say it all this time. (Ask if you have any questions in the comments.)

2016 looks like it could be an awesome year, the requests starting to come in already.

So let's wrap this up with list of the list, best of the best and so on. Here we go!

First the Top 50 of the best albums of 2015 at Tune Of The Day! 

50. Imperial State Electric - Honk Machine

49. Thunder - Wonder Days

48. Refused – Freedom

47. Blackberry Smoke - Holding all the Roses

46. Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird is Home

45. Vidunder - Oracles and Prophets

44. Enslaved - In Times

43. Danko Jones - Fire Music

42. Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

41. Beardfish - +4626 – Comfortzone

40. Saxon - Battering Ram

39. The Night Flight Orchestra - Skyline Whispers

38. Uncle Acid - The Night Creeper

37. Black Vulpine - Hidden Places

36. Tau Cross - Tau Cross

35. Lik - Mass Funeral Evocation

34. Jess and the Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes

33. Thåström - Den Morronen

32. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

31. Avatarium - The Girl With The Raven Mask

30. Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence

29. Sorcerer - In The Shadow Of The Inverted Cross

28.Intronaut - The Direction of Last Things

27.The Exploding Eyes Orchestra – I

26.Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors

25.Planet of Zeus – Vigilante

24.Skraeckoedlan – Sagor

23.Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic

22. Elder – Lore

21. Motörhead - Bad Magic

20. Draconian – Sovran

19. Anna Ternheim - For The Young

18. Year of the Goat - The Unspeakable

17. Behold! The Monolith - Architects of the Void

16 . High on Fire – Luminiferous

15. Faith No More - Sol Invictus

14. Kadavar – Berlin

13. Rivers of Nihil – Monarchy

12. Luna Sol - Blood Moon

11. Luciferian Light Orchestra - Luciferian Light Orchestra

10. Hong Faux - A Message from Dystopia

9. Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower

8. Clutch - Psychic Warfare

7. Leprous - The Congregation

6. Baroness – Purple

5. Monolord – Vænir

4. Ghost – Meliora

3. We Hunt Buffalo - Living Ghosts

2. Khemmis – Absolution

1. Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

Honourable mentions:

Kult Of The Wizard - The White Wizard, Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed, Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic, Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers, Torche - Restarter,  Europe - War Of Kings, Lamb Of God - VII: Strum Und Drang, Soilwork - The Ride Majestic, Symphony - X Underworld, Mammoth Storm - Fornjot, Slayer - Repentless, Deafheaven - New Bermuda, Melechesh - Enki, Colossus - The Breathing World, Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud, Palace Of The King - White Bird/Burn The Sky, Raised Fist - From The North, Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine .

Best Cover Album - PRONG - Songs from the black hole

Best Foreign Rock- CLUTCH

Best Foreign Metal - RIVERS OF NIHIL

Best Swedish Metal - TRIBULATION

Best Swedish Rock - GHOST

Best tune - GHOST - "He Is"

Best Swedish Stoner rock - SKRAECKOEDLAN - Sagor

Best foreign Sludge/Stoner - KHEMMIS

Best Swedish Doom - MONOLORD

Best foreign Doom - WINDHAND

Best Debut & Biggest Suprise

Best Live Album - FLYING COLORS - Second Flight

Best Festival - Wacken 2015

Best Support Act Live - BOMBUS live in Frankfurt!

Best Festival Act - PATTI SMITH live at WAY OUT WEST

Best Concert - SAVATAGE and TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA at Wacken

2015 years sleeping pill, what happend with THE SWORD???

Best Cover Art

Best Tour Poster Art - Faith No More

Best Art - Mara Piccione

Best T-Shirt - BARONESS

Best Hoddie of 2015 - HONG FAUX

Best Christmas Gift, Thanks Thetania!

Best Movie

Best Whiskey - Highland Park - Einar

Best Beer - Ballast Point

Best non Alcoholic Beer - Mikkeller Drink'in the Sun

This years best blogg - A FAIR JUDGEMENT

This Year's most active concert-goer: LG-Petrov (Same procedure as last year)

This year instruments effort: Melancholia - TRIBULATION, whoa what a tune, what joy of playing.

 

Best Musical Country of 2015 - SWEDEN

This year vocal performance:  Mlny Parsonz

Biggest loss 2015 - R.I.P. Lemmy

Tune Of The Day wish you all a Happy New Year!! Today's tune will be released a bit later on today!