‘delia’ (2000)
While he was running in his career as Poindexter, Johansen regained his name on two albums of pre-war American folk music. Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Pat Boone cover the 1900 murder of an African-American teenage girl. At this stage of his career, Johnson sometimes crawled to Minstrelsy’s doorstep, but the topic needed to be restrained, and he turned “Delia” into a six and a half minute reflection.
New York doll, “We’re all in love” (2006)
Morrissey is a giant doll fan who curated the 2004 Crash Festival in England and asked about the reunion of three surviving dolls (guitarist, guitarist Sylvain Sylvain and bassist Arthur Kane, known as the Killer). They also played several shows, but by the time they were about to make their first album in 32 years, “we’re going to remember that one day, too,” Kane died of leukemia. “We Are All in Love” is the most eye-catching song on a keen, quoted album. Johansen celebrates the band’s return: “Like a teenage girl/Castin jumping on the stage like a pig in front of the pearl,” he sang, and “was expelled, then approved.”
New York doll, “Disabled Happiness” (2006)
Aside from the fanaticism, the full-grown doll version of the doll reflects, “The Day” includes Johnson’s best ballad: The Break and the Loneliness Farewell “I Have Nothing, Nothing” and “The Cold Bliss” and “The Happy 1950s”, which is known as Waltz of the 1950s, the strings of Waltz and the hard Johansen’s pain, and it is well known that it is a painful man and declares life and life.
New York doll, “It’s ridiculous” (2009)
Johansen hasn’t been caught in the past – in “Because I’m Soz,” he sang about government surveillance, endless religious fanatics and drug wars, and he was disgusted with all of this. The doll’s sound expanded to include reggae, country twang and spaghetti western guitar, as well as the back blues on “It’s ridiculous” Johansen Bemoans’ miserable poverty and thought jumping out of the window.
New York doll, “I’m great” (2011)
The last comeback from the Doll’s last three comeback albums sounded more reflective than ecstasy, “Dancing on Heels”, which is a clearer feeling, and for idealists like Johnson, the world has proven to be a faint tear. On the rhythm of “I’m so awesome”, he mocks most New Yorkers’ dull outfits, embraces his own sense of style, rhymes “Arriviste” and “Nebulululy” and proves that the right way to express disgust is to laugh and toss.
Gary Lucas, gods and monsters, including Gary Lucas and David Johansen, The Meat of One (2021)
In one of his last recorded performances, Johnson sums up his Buddhist philosophy through a series of riddles and paradoxes that send a staggering speed on Gary Lucas’ guitar. He mentioned the Bible, dragon, Hinduism, sex and small villages and said more than any biographer could: “Try to be straightforward, Lord, I tried to adapt/can’t stop, I can’t win.”
