by Irene
Posted on 29-11-2020 05:30 PM
Daniel johnston "story of an artist" one of my favorites from mr. Johnston, this sounds good if you strum the chord where its and let it ring to the next chord.
Daniel's early albums are very hard to find in a complete package like this with great artwork and music is legendary and incredible obviously. Its worth every penny. You get more value for your buck to purchase the individual reissues of "yip jump music, 1990, artistic vice, hi how you/continued story" though on high wire music or from daniel's website or amazon which has them for a steal. Those reissues were from 2006 or that time period. All are incredible in their own way and have superb and in some cases better packaging and sound quality overall then this box set due to them to recreating the original cassettes with other goodies like posters with complete lyrics. Try to get this box set in the 60-70$ range i think it way overpriced even for the scarcity of these titles in the box.
One of my favorites from mr. Johnston, this sounds good if you strum the chord where its listen up and i'll tell a story about an artist growing old some would try for fame and glory others aren't so bold everyone, and friends and family saying, "hey! get a job!" "why do you only do that only?.
I first discovered the music of daniel johnston when i saw a box of his cassettes at the counter of a record store in sydney back in the early 90s. There was something instantly intriguing and endearing about the artwork that had been photocopied and glued onto the cases. I asked the person behind the counter about them and they said “it’s hard to describe†and left it at that. I grabbed a cassette that day titled retired boxer and played it constantly in the years to follow (it contains 2 of my favourite recordings of daniel’s, “i’ll do anything but breakdance for you darling†and an early version of “true love will find you in the endâ€). From there i sought out every recording i could find and, with this being before the internet being the over abundance of information it has become, i would track down what little information i could find about daniel at every chance i had.
Daniel johnston greeted me (and tens of thousands of others) when i first moved to austin in the mid-’90s for college. Or rather, a grinning frog with extended alien eyes that johnston rendered in black spray paint on the side of the old sound exchange at 21st street and guadalupe beckoned to me: “hi, how are you. †texans can be known for their gentle friendliness, but something about johnston’s greeting felt different, unguarded and maybe even a little nervous. It wasn’t quite a question so much as an entreaty, a desire to reach out and find a connection with a stranger, from one of austin’s strangest, most endearing, and most misunderstood musical icons, daniel johnston, who died this week of natural causes at the age of 58.
Save west virginia native daniel johnston died at 58 at his home in waller, texas, on wednesday. Over the years, johnston has attained near folk-hero status in the world of music and art. The boy who grew up in new cumberland, west virginia, made his name in austin as an eccentric songwriter and performer who also sketched pictures of cartoonish but surreal characters that would one day be the focus of art shows. He was doing all of this while working at mcdonald’s, or, briefly, houston’s former amusement park astroworld.
Edited 11 months ago a truly great boxset made out of love of this curious artist. I picked this up after buying 1990 after hearing the passing johnston and was eager to check out his music in a more detailed listen. Although all of the songs are from tapes are quintessentially lo-fi an homemade, johnston sings with a beautiful honesty of his love, his religious views and how he views the world through 6 lps of his early work, to which is a slowly forming picture to show how musically talented he was at teenage age, before his eventual troubles with his ongoing mental illnesses. The packaging of this boxset is highly presentable too, daubed with johnston's artistic drawings and detailed descriptions of his visions on a poster also contained inside is a large book detailing every album in this set with interviews by his family/peers/friends accompanied by photos of johnston as a young man. There's no way of finding of this boxset at a nice price or complete now (i found a copy just before christmas for £90) but this is one definitely for lovers and appreciators of this late great musician's work. It may not be for everyone, but it is definitely for me.
"the sun shines down on me" ranks among the best material from daniel johnston's early homemade tapes. While the recording quality is almost as ragged as his voice, the low fidelity only adds to the song's mystery, melodic genius and charm.
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In the opening scene, daniel mentions working in a mcdonalds. This story about daniel was told to me by a friend who knew daniel as a customer of the coffee shop where he worked during this time. The coffee shop was either on or behind the drag and near the mcdonalds where daniel worked. Every day during his break, daniel would walk over to the coffee shop and sit down at the old, out of tune piano, place a tape recorder on the bench next to him, and bang out a couple of songs. Get up and go back to work only to repeat this every day. The piano was really only for decoration and no one except daniel ever played it. Daniel was starting to make a name for himself as a musician and songwriter at the time but was not making enough to quit mcdonalds yet. The coffee shop manager came up with the idea to ask the owners for money to get the piano tuned for daniel and the owners agreed. The tuner comes one afternoon and gets the piano sounding as good as it could given its condition. The next day daniel comes in, sits down at the piano, sets his tape recorder next to him and starts playing a song. All of the workers come to the front counter to see daniel’s surprised reaction to the improved piano. Daniel stops playing after about 30 seconds, slams the piano lid shut, kicks the bench out from under him and angrily demands to know, “who ruined my fucking piano?†and storms out.