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The
DOGS D’AMOUR (feat. Yella) "When Bastards Go To Hell"
CD
(GMR Music Group) (Official
Website)
Although Dogs D’Amour has always essentially been Tyla, I’m still having
trouble classifying this as a Dogs record, rather than just one of the
great man’s many solo efforts. Featuring no other original, or even
recent members, expect for Darrell Bath, who makes a quick cameo on
the title track, while others are credited as just being the work of
Tyla and a drum machine, its more of a memoir to the time he spent touring
Russia, with blond backing vocals beauty - Yella. As such its one of
the highlights of Mr. T’s something rather patchy solo back catalogue,
‘No One But You’ is acoustic old Dogs territory in the vein of
‘Princess Valium’, along with ‘Waiting For The Next’ and
a couple other numbers which deliver what you want from a Dogs record.
Elsewhere ‘Barbed Wire Ball’ adds a touch of old Quireboys in
their more bluesy moments, but the distorted electro-rock of ‘Doomsday
Times’ would have been far more at home on recent industrial-shocker
‘Fakin’ Kant’.
/Alison
The
DOGS D’AMOUR "The State We’re in" CD
(GMR
Music Group) (Official Website)
Finally
gaining a release 10 years after it was first recorded this infamous,
lost first album is everything you could want from a Dogs D’Amour album.
The fact the 3rd generation tapes this was taken from sound like they’ve
their fair share of whisky spilt on them in their years in a Wolverhampton
basement only enhances the record. While always something of a designer
mess you really can believe this is the Dogs in a true state, rough,
raw and authentic the cigarettes and sincerity fair drip from Tyla voice.
‘State We’re In’ is all clattering punk guitars, taking after
the Pistols on ‘Dole Hero’ or tourmate Johnny Thunders on ‘Wired
and Awake’, and classic Glam sparkle on the T-Rex-tasy of ‘Don’t
Ask Me To Say I Love You’ or ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’, which
is Hanoi Rocks in full blues-explosion mode. The original ‘Heroine’
is a hundred times for heart-breaking than is scrubbed-up younger sisters
there after, while the scrapbook like sleeve and 2 CD-ROM videos remind
of some heartbreaking haircuts and er, naked Tyla! Almost certainly
worth the wait.
/Alison
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