The second album was generally thought to be less credible than the first.  That it was different, being less 'angry', and perhaps more commercial, would be accurate.  And of course given the unquestionable faultlessness of the first LP, to improve upon it must surely have been impossible.  Johansen decided to recruit Shadow Morton as the producer.  Morton, after all, had nurtured The Shangri-Las, one of David's biggest influences.  'TOO MUCH, TOO SOON' hosted four non-originals, hand-picked once again by Johansen.  The opening track 'BABYLON' was intended for the first album but somehow didn't make it. 

"BABYLON is about people who live in Babylon,  Long Island, New York, who go into the city every night dressed to kill.  These people have to get home before sun-up, you know, like vampires that can't get caught by the sun.  This girl finally splits Babylon and moves to Manhatten where she gets a job in a massage parlour," explained David being deliberately evasive.  In the song itself he suggests 'let's go to Babylon, boys/two girls for every boy' which is perhaps the entire storyline.  New York Dolls songs are much better when there is no storyline. 

STRANDED IN THE JUNGLE emphasises the Dolls' legit abilities; they really were versatile, and grappled adventurously with a genuinely difficult Cadets number.  The song is divided into jungle and urban proportions, heavily congested with various noises