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"Personality Crisis" is the lead track from the New York Dolls' self-titled debut album. It was written by Dolls lead singer David Johansen and guitarist Johnny Thunders.[3] An early demo version of it appears on the 1981 collection Lipstick Killers – The Mercer Street Sessions 1972.

"Personality Crisis"
Single by New York Dolls
from the album New York Dolls
A-side	"Trash"
Released	August 1973
Recorded	The Record Plant, New York City
Genre	Glam rock[1] proto-punk[2]
Length	3:41
Label	Mercury Records
Songwriter(s)	David Johansen, Johnny Thunders
Producer(s)	Todd Rundgren
New York Dolls singles chronology
"Trash" / "Personality Crisis" (1973) "Jet Boy" / "Vietnamese Baby" (1973)
Music video
"Personality Crisis" on YouTube

Release

Mercury Records originally released "Personality Crisis" in 1973 as a double A-side single with "Trash" to coincide with the album's release. Promo singles of "Personality Crisis" were also distributed to radio stations. Following the band's break-up, it was rereleased by Bellaphon Records as a double A-side with "Looking for a Kiss" in 1978. In 1982, a 12" single of "Personality Crisis" & "Looking For A Kiss" b/w "Subway Train" & "Bad Girl" was released by Kamera Records. The same track listing appeared on the See For Miles Records CD single released in 1990.[4]

Reception

Jack Douglas, who engineered New York Dolls, named "Personality Crisis" as his favorite song on the album.[5] Music journalist Tony Fletcher called it an "instant glitter rock anthem",[6] while writer and historian David Szatmary called it an anthemic and dynamic protopunk song.[7] In Rolling Stone magazine, Tony Glover wrote that "Personality Crisis" serves as "a jumping companion piece to classics" such as The Doors' "Twentieth Century Fox" and "Cool, Calm & Collected" by the Rolling Stones.[8] It is number 267 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (#271 on the 2010 list).[9]

Covers

• "Personality Crisis" is the closing track on David Johansen's 1982 live album, Live It Up. It is the only New York Dolls original on the album.
• Sonic Youth recorded "Personality Crisis" with Kim Gordon on lead vocals in July 1990. It was first released as a write-in offer promo 7" single in the November 1990 issue of Sassy Magazine,[10] then included on the 1993 Whores Moaning e.p. and later added to the Deluxe Edition bonus disc of Dirty.
• Teenage Fanclub featuring Donna Matthews of Elastica cover the song for the soundtrack to the 1998 Todd Haynes ode to glam rock, Velvet Goldmine.
• Scott Weiland included it on his 2011 album A Compilation of Scott Weiland Cover Songs
• Todd Rundgren included "Personality Crisis" in a 2011 collection of covers of songs that he'd produced, entitled (re)Production
• Rockhead covers it on the various artist collection, Sin City: Dirty Rock Anthems inspired by the Sin City comic books.

References

На других языках

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[ru] Personality Crisis

«Personality Crisis» (рус. Кризис личности) — песня американской группы New York Dolls с их дебютного альбома New York Dolls (1973). Вскоре после выхода альбома была издана на отдельном сингле (вместе с песней «Trash»).

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