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Side One: Personality Crisis/Looking For A Kiss/ Vietnamese Baby/Lonely Planet Boy/Frankenstein/ Side Two: Trash/Bad Girl/Subway Train/Pills/ Private World/Jet Boy. |
And it's simple: 'I'm just-ah-lookin-for-a-reel-hot-kissss', which sounds fair enough, but coping with stuffy restrictions isn't easy, 'you think it's BAD but you know it's TRUE!'. The Dolls play with perverse joviality, and again, Johansen's words have America's teenage wasteland sussed: 'everyone's going to your house to shoot up in your room/most of them are beautiful but so obsessed with gloom'. The only real medicine is in the title. 'I mean a fix ain't a KISSS.' The Dolls only political gesture came in the dramatic "VIETNAMESE BABY", which is also inarguably one of their finest moments. The Vietnam war is over but the bitterness remains. The pointless violence, the systematic abuse of women, the unquestionable disinterest of politicians who are 'so sorry, busy sorry' and apologise is all they'll do. The ending is perhaps the most pronounced as Thunders beautifully captures the sound of a gunshot, and Nolan's military beat was the move to defend the Dolls on musical terms. |
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