Daniel Johnston Thread

He has a lot of shit songs but when he hits his stride there's not an artist on earth better for pouring emotion into lyrics

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>>70597659
Great stuff. His piano songs are underrated.

Songs of Pain is his best album
my favorite one at least

>>70597659
I was just about to make a thread about him. I had just posted one on /b/. I love his music. Yip Jump is his best album.

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>>70600355
Hey cool! I got dubs. My girlfriend told me before she left for work today that i can't listen to Daniel Johnston because we don't have enough data. If i could i would listen to Casper the friendly ghost fist.

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>>70600404
I'm the only Daniel Johnston fan on the planet. It fucking sucks :(

He incites a lot of feels, although most of his stuff just isn't good enough to be made up for by his (genuine) endearing charm.

I don't think he's a genius, but his empathy and direct-ness make him very...necessary

>>70600531
>i am the only Daniel Johnston fan
Cringe
He's great but he's kind of popular with alternative tumblr types so you aren't the only one

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if there's one thing to take away from Johnston is that his style and shit recording quality have greatly obscured the fact that he was beyond gifted at creating soulful and brilliant melodies

through the eighties he recorded so many songs that you'd think he was making them up as he went along, but listen closely to those melodies and that composition, and imagine a larger, more musical ensemble performing arrangements of his tunes

troubled misunderstood musical genius like him are few and far in between
syd barrett is another example of a composer too skilled for his own musicality

also there's a poster that he drew for a local music festival many years back that sits above a lonely corner table at a sandwich shop, it was near my high school and I used to go there and sit beneath it all the time

wonder if it's still there

>>70601787
Absolutely true

What are some of your favorite underrated Johnston tracks, anons? Some that come to mind for me:

Fighting With Myself
Lonely Orphan On the Run
I'm a Song
Strange Boy
You Put my Love Out the Door
Too Young to Die

>>70601899
I haven't talked with enough Dan Johnston fans to know what's under/overrated :(

I fucking love some songs like Follow that Dream, The Sun Shines Down on Me, and pretty much all of Songs of Pain

songs like these, man songs like these.. nothing quite like it you'd expect from a man with a situation like Johnston's otherwise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw3pmIRiZU