Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston ‎– "Jad Fair And Daniel Johnston( Its Spooky )" (50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts Records ‎– JAD9-2) 1989

Here they are, the Outsider music dreamteam. All that is missing to make the perfect Outsider power trio would be Jandek on guitar.

You thought you knew everything about music, well it turns out you were wrong.They told us there were twelve notes,they were wrong, they told us about time signatures....they were wrong, syncopation ,forget it.In fact everything they would force down a young person's throat in music school, and now rock school, is total bollocks!

A music class by Jad Fair would last maybe five minutes....."Just go and do it", would be the essence of this masterclass. Its a year zero,back to nature approach that we all would benefit from, without any need for Pol pot.

There's no need to 'Unlearn' anything if you don't learn it in the first place.

This is the CD version by the way...its got more on it.

Tracklist:

1 It's Spooky
2 Summer Time
3 I Met Roky Erickson
4 Happy Talk
5 McDonalds On The Brain
6 I Did Acid With Caroline
7 If I'd Only Known
8 Tongues Wag In This Town
9 Tomorrow Never Knows
10 Oh Honey
11 A Vow Of Love
12 When Love Calls
13 Frankenstein Vs. The World
14 Hands Of Love
15 Kicking The Dog
16 What I've Seen
17 Something's Got A Hold On Me
18 Villian
19 Chords Of Fame
20 Ostrich
21 Casper The Friendly Ghost
22 First Day At Work
23 Fun And Games
24 Nothing Left
25 Memphis Tenn.
26 Come Back
27 Tears Stupid Tears
28 The Making Of The Album
29 Get Yourself Together
30 What The World Needs Now
31 Sweet Loafed

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Daniel Johnston - " Hi,How Are You? (The Unfinished Album) " - (Self Released Cassette) 1983

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'Hi,How Are You' is Johnston's sixth self-released album, recorded in September 1983. It is arguably his most popular album. Johnston claims he almost had a nervous breakdown recording it and calls this his "unfinished album." Wether the breakdown is unfinished he declined to expand upon.
The album is one of the most sonically varied of Johnston's early output. While earlier records found him focusing on piano or organ songs almost exclusively, this album blends both approaches along with experiments in tape and noise collage, and some tentative guitar playing. Two songs feature Johnston singing along with an Johnny Dankworth LP,thankfully sans Cleo Laine,and this is the best record that Dankworth has appeared on.(I've seen these pair of showroom dummies at the Royal Albert Hall,supporting Sinatra; it was painful,my brain left my body and refused to return for quite some time).Hearing Dan singing "There ain't no spunk left in me", along to the Johnny Dankworth Big Band, in 'Desperate Man Blues', is indeed a sublime moment.
The cover was made 'infamous' by frequent appearances of Corporate Rock Whore Cobain wearing the album image on a t-shirt.This increased sales of Johnston's records, bizarrely, rather than destroying his career, which is what you'd expect normally. I don't get the cult of Cobain one iota, what is it with dead pop stars that makes the human throng so moist? If some hero shot Bono or Chris Martin, we'd see those numpty's blazoned across the chests of a billion teenagers too; now that is a deeply disturbing thought.

Track Listing:

1. Poor You
2. Big Business Monkey
3. Walking the Cow
4. I Picture Myself With a Guitar
5. Despair Came Knocking
6. I Am A Baby (In My Universe)
7. Nervous Love
8. I'll Never Marry
9. Get Yourself Together
10. Running Water
11. Desperate Man Blues
12. Hey Joe
13. She Called Pest Control
14. Keep Punching Joe
15. No More Pushing Joe Around

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Daniel Johnston - "Songs Of Pain 1980-81" - (self-released cassette) 1981

World famous Outsider,Manic depressive,and Schizophrenic loser, Daniel Johnston, was also a shiny star of DIY cassette culture. His childlike songs are quite addictive,and are like open emotional wounds for everyone to peer inside, all sung in a nasally whine that makes you wanna punch somebody.
Songs Of Pain was his first release back in '81, and contains 20 songs bashed out on his mom's piano recorded on a mono cassette recorder in the basement. A damaged but unique talent was just emerging from a cloud of mental illness, and he was soon to be seen hob-nobbing with the glitterati of american Alt-Rock. (Thurston) Moore and Cobain (Kurt) virtually fighting over who heard him first, and who was gonna do a collaboration with little Danny boy. At least he choose relatively well in collaborations, the like minded Jad Fair and Kramer were wise decisions, No-sell out.

Track Listing:

A1		Grievances
A2		A Little Story
A3		Joy Without Pleasure
A4		Never Relaxed
A5		Brainwash
A6		Pothead
A7		Wicked World
A8		Lazy
A9		I Save Cigarette Butts
B1		Like A Monkey In A Zoo
B2		Wicked Will
B3		An Idiot's End
B4		Wild West Virginia
B5		Since I Lost My Tooth
B6		Urge
B7		Living Life
B8		Tuna Ketchup
B9		Premarital Sex
B10		Don't Act Nice
B11		Hate Song

DOWNLOAD these Songs Of PAAAAIIIIINNNNN! HERE!

Daniel Johnston - " Don't Be Scared " (self released Cassette) 1982

Songs of Pain continued, with more charmingly insular Outsider DIY from Mom's basement, hammered out on an old upright piano. There's a Daniel Johnston in all of us,and his work can be a portal for that.Purge yourself of all self-pity, and ask yourself why you don't lock yourself in a basement churning out endless hours of naively self-analytical ditties. Maybe its because you are 'Normal' and not a bi-polar schizophrenic, so pull yourself together and thank Satan you're not Daniel Johnston.

Side one:

1. "Going Down" – 2:57
2. "Lost Without a Dame" – 2:58
3. "Harley Man" – 2:03
4. "Something More" – 3:23
5. "Evening Stars" – 2:04
6. "Cold Hard World" – 3:10
7. "I Had a Dream" – 2:40
8. "The Story of an Artist" – 5:08
9. "My Yoke Is Heavy" – 5:53

Side two:

1. "Stars on Parade" – 2:42
2. "And You Love It" – 4:01
3. "I Had Lost My Mind" – 1:46
4. "The Sun Shines Down on Me" – 2:50
5. "Loner" – 4:09
6. "Don't Be Scared" – 3:20
7. "Lullaby" – 3:12
8. "I Was Alone" – 4:44
9. "Mother Mom Said" – 3:37

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Daniel Johnston - " The What Of Whom " (Self Released Cassette) 1982

Daniel Johnston's third self-released cassette is more of the same, honest cathartic cry’s for help from everybody's favourite basement dwelling outsider this side of Syd Barratt. Johnston lives on, and continues to crank out a humongous volume of work/therapy. The songs have a charming innocence, but uniquely have an attractive dark element. This is no happy clappy sing along, be prepared for trauma in the form of an anti-matter Elton John.


Track Listing:

1. "Man Obsessed" – 1:28
2. "Peek A Boo" – 4:50
3. "Never Before, Never Again" – 1:48
4. "The Goldfish & The Frog" – 2:20
5. "Scuttle-Butt" – 2:10
6. "Heart, Mind and Soul" – 5:22
7. "Blue Clouds" – 5:34
8. "Surely You Don't Work All Night" – 4:11
9. "I Can't Think Anymore" – 2:21
10. "Excuse Me" – 0:17
11. "Polka Dot Rag" – 5:28
12. "Why, Without You" – 3:23
13. "An Incoherent Speech" – 1:28
14. "Wicked World" – 4:16
15. "To Go Home" – 4:30
16. "Scrambled Eggs" – 5:02
17. "Peace & Tranquillity" – 2:47
18. "When You're Pretty" – 2:54

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Daniel Johnston - " More Songs Of Pain 1982-83 " (Self-Released cassette) 1983

Yes, the title of this cassette sums it all up. More songs of pain from Daniel Johnston, or as it seems 'Dan'. He must have been feeling less disconnected from society in 1983, although the song subject matter is still in the 'Glass Half Empty' category; or is that half full with emptiness?

Track Listing:

A1		Phantom Of My Own Opera
A2		Man At War
A3		Only Missing You
A4		More Dead Than Alive
A5		I Will
A6		Poptunes
A7		You Put My Love Out The Door
A8		You're Gonna Make It, Joe
B1		Never Get To Heaven
B2		Follow That Dream
B3		POW
B4		For The Love Of Pete
B5		Blue Clud
B6		Grievances Revisited
B7		True Grief
B8		My Baby Cares For The Dead
B9		Mabel's Grievances

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Daniel Johnston - " Yip/Jump Music " (Self Released Cassette) 1983

Yip/Jump Music is the first album to feature Johnston on the chord organ. It was recorded in his brother's garage in Texas, somewhat of a promotion from Mom's basement.
Kurt Cobain listed this at number 35 in his top fifty albums; if that's a recommendation?
I know where he's coming from though,one much prefers the more ethereal quality of the organ over the plinky clunky of the piano in the preceding four albums.It seems to suit the atmosphere of the songs much better. Johnstons best so far.

Track Listing:

1. Chord Organ Blues
2. The Beatles
3. Sorry Entertainer
4. Speeding Motorcycle
5. Casper The Friendly Ghost
6. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances
7. Danny Don't Rapp
8. Sweetheart
9. King Kong
10. The Creature / Third Chair
11. I Live For Love
12. Almost Got Hit By A Truck
13. Worried Shoes
14. Dead Lover's Twisted Heart
15. Rocket Ship
16. God
17. Love Defined (the Bible)
18. Museum Of Love
19. Rarely
20. I Remember Painfully

DOWNLOAD some Yip/Jump Music HERE!

Daniel Johnston - "Retired Boxer" (Self-Released Cassette) 1984

More of the same lo-fidelity insular innocence,which sounds like the cassette mike was wrapped up in a wet flannel; except for the last track,which sounds like it was recorded in a professional studio.Reverb makes an unwelcome appearance on "True Love Will find You In The end", accompanied by an 'on medication' style sloppy strumming of an acoustic guitar.It sounds like a bonus track that wasn't part of the original album. What makes this worse,is that this is the track that coffee table legends, Beck and (yawn) Wilco, chose to cover (yawn), on their incredibly tediously generic records (yaaaaaaaaaaawn). I love the way these self-important bank manager entertainers, patronize honest loners like Dan Johnston and Jandek, attempting to raise their own 'cred' by associating themselves with the latest 'hip' dysfunctional discovery. Beck has never wrote an original tune in his life,just chopping up his vast 'eclectic' (I hate that word),record collection,shitting it out onto a CD,and selling it back to us. As for Wilco, I.....(Zzzzzzzzzz author falls asleep).

Track Listing:

1. "I'll Do Anything but Break Dance for Ya, Darling" - 6:02
2. "Bye Bye Barbie" - 1:18
3. "Fighting with Myself" - 2:28
4. "Too Young to Die" - 3:47
5. "This Song" - 1:19
6. "Feels Good" - 4:18
7. "Oh No" - 3:58
8. "Strange Boy" - 5:01
9. "True Love Will Find You in the End" - 1:54

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Daniel Johnston - " Respect " (Self-Released Cassette) 1985

Insular,Delicate,Earnest,Innocent,Plaintive,Playful,Poignant,Naive,Damaged,Childlike,Dysfunctional,....there are bucket loads of adjectives to describe the muffled, honest peon's to the mental torture that is life. Nothing is changing much on Johnstons' eighth self-produced album,but thats how to get into the public's psyche,you gotta hammer that nail 'til its stuck in the wood.
soon Daniel was to be brought into the sunlight by such hideous systems of oppression like Record Labels, and even worse, the patronage of 'pop stars'.(Why don't those cunts just Fuck Off?).
Outsider Music svengali's? It makes you wanna slice Simon Cowell's smug face off with a Susan Boyle CD. In fact just seeing Cowells smug face makes me wanna slice it off ,and feed it to Susan Boyle, flambé stylee........"I Dreamed a Dream" sings Boyle,as she sinks her newly whitened nashers into the former Muzak Svengali's sizzling fizzogg.(Another cunt that should just FUCK OFF!!!!).
As I was saying....another good album from Daniel Johnston........RESPECT!

Track Listing:

1. "No Love in Town" – 1:00
2. "An Angel Cry" – 2:11
3. "Have Respect" – 2:46
4. "Dream" – 1:05
5. "I Know What I Want" – 2:09
6. "Merry-Go-Round" – 1:58
7. "A Little Bit of Soap" – 2:26
8. "Loneliness" – 1:41
9. "Good Morning You" – 1:13
10. "Go" – 4:22
11. "Fast Go" – 1:25
12. "Car Crash" – 0:24
13. "Just Like a Widow" – 1:46
14. "Heartbreak Hotel" – 2:15
15. "You Killed My Baby" – 1:50
16. "You Are a Writer" – 0:26
17. "Go Some More" – 0:14
18. "Theme from Respect" – 1:17

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Daniel Johnston - " Continued Story " (Self Released Cassette) 1985

This was recorded around about the time Daniels star was rising due to some exposure on the unforgivably evil MTV! Convinced he was on the verge of mega-stardom he started dropping Acid and turned into an emotional Yo-Yo, and was admitted to Austin state Hospital a year later at xmas 1986. Dosed up with anti-psychotic druggage,the music naturally stopped for about three years, and tragically when his moods stabilized he decamped to New York in search of his due fame; this turned in to a disastrous trip.
Bouyed by the slated release of 'Hi, How Are You' on Blast First in 1988, he arrived in the big apple, spent all his money and stopped taking his medication!His behaviour became completely irrational,which culminated in his beating up of steve Shelley of Sonic Youth,who had even been providing him with accommodation and money. he ended up roaming the streets, camping in homeless shelters,and being arrested for vandalising the Statue of Liberty with anti-satanist graffitti. After alienating the entire alternative arts scene in NYC,he returned to his parents,and resumed his medication...briefly; and many more bouts of anti-social behaviour resulted.
Basically,he should have stayed in the basement, doing what he does best; churning out psychologically revealing homemade cassettes. Don't get involved with those evil corporations,corrupters of great art that they are!
This album is a great swan song for Daniels' early career,if you can call it a career.He was never quite as innocent again; corrupted by ego expanding fame and exposure to unnecessary influences like Sonic Youth.

Track Listing:

1. "It's Over" (with Rick Morgan)
2. "Ain't No Woman Gonna Make A George Jones Outta Me" (with Bill Anderson)
3. "Dead Dog Laughing in the Cloud" (with The Texas Instruments)
4. "Funeral Home" (with The Texas Instruments)
5. "Her Blues" (with The Texas Instrument)
6. "Running Water Revisited"
7. "I saw her Standing There"
   
8. "Casper" (with Bill Anderson)
9. "Ghost of Our Love" (with Texas Instruments)
10. "Fly Eye"
11. "Etiquette"
12. "Walk in the Wind"
13. "Dem Blues"
14. "Girls"

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