Songs of Pain: Early Recordings Volume 1

Daniel Johnston - Songs of Pain: Early Recordings Volume 1

Songs of Pain: Early Recordings Volume 1
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Artist: Daniel Johnston
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Music Label: Dualtone Music Group
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Grievances
  2. A Little Story
  3. Joy Without Pleasure
  4. Never Relaxed
  5. Brainwash
  6. Pothead
  7. Wicked World
  8. Lazy
  9. I Save Cigarette Butts
  10. Like a Monkey in a Zoo
  11. Wicked Will
  12. An Idiot's End
  13. Wild West Virginia
  14. Since I Lost My Tooth
  15. Urge
  16. Living Life
  17. Tuna Ketchup
  18. Premarital Sex
  19. Don't Act Nice
  20. Hate Song
Music CD 2
  1. Phantom of My Own Opera
  2. Man at War
  3. Only Missing You
  4. More Dead Than Alive
  5. I Will
  6. Poptunes
  7. You Put My Love Out the Door
  8. You're Gonna Make It, Joe
  9. Never Get to Heaven
  10. Follow That Dream
  11. Pow
  12. For the Love of Pete
  13. Blue Cloud
  14. Grievances Revisited
  15. True Grief
  16. My Baby Cares for the Dead
  17. Mabel's Grievances

Free Music Notes for Songs of Pain: Early Recordings Volume 1

Free Music Review: Unbelievably great
Hit: 5 Stars

Daniel Johnston is one of the world's undiscovered treasures. If things were perfect, his songs would be as widely covered, his life would be as intensely studied, and his work would be as revered and celebrated as the songs and albums of Bob Dylan.
Seriously.
Bob Dylan's voice isn't exactly conventionally good, but people have slobbered over him for decades. And Daniel Johnston's voice...well..you could say it's not conventionally "good" either, in the same way that Dylan's isn't, but like Dylan's, it gets better with every listen, and like Dylan's, it contains more real emotion, more real humanity, and earns more feelings of sympathy and love than any of the lame, slick, polished Michael Bolton-type voices that can hit every note exactly as their voice instructors taught them to.
At times, I've sworn off all music but Daniel Johnston. Nothing has seemed good enough in comparison. His piano is inventive and rockin'. It's a heckuvalotta fun. His use of television as an instrument, his sampling of TV evangelists ("This is an ELECTRIFYING(!) time...for believers!") and of his mother yelling at him, his occasional spooky organ, his blithely unconventional rhyme schemes, his wide (yet obsessively focused) range of topics, his whining and cracked little voice, and above all his lyrics, his lyrics, his lyrics, make him, and these two CDs in particular, classics for all time and space, for all humanity everywhere.
Daniel Johnston is a diagnosed manic-depressive with delusions of grandeur, and his highs and his lows show in these songs. He's also spent much of his life obsessed with a girl who could have cared less about him and who later married a prosperous undertaker and (I've heard) filed a restraining order against Daniel Johnston despite all the great songs he had written about her.
In one song he tells the girl that he'd die without her love, and she says "Too bad about that."
In another, the terrifying "My Baby Cares for the Dead," he sings about the girl marrying the undertaker and about the only way she'll ever care for him (Daniel Johnston) again.
"I know someday my baby
Will care for me.
She'll bleed and dress me, Momma,
Real fancy....
And she'll lay me
In a coffin,
Put marbles in my eyes...
Eyes!
I know someday my baby
Will care for me.
I know someday my baby
Will care for me.
I know someday my baby
Will care for me.
My baby...cares...for...the...dead."
These songs are absolutely genius. They're funny, dark, sad, twisted, happy, joyous, and wonderfully human. You will feel that Daniel Johnston is your friend, as if he's opened himself completely to you, and he has. The recordings are lo-fi, but at times that lo-fi quality even accents and helps the songs: high piano notes are transformed into a different instrument entirely just by the recorder being placed right next to the keys. The barely noticeable background hiss (and the genuiness of the songs themselves) gives the music an old-time folk feel. And Daniel's mother occasionally bursting in while he's playing...well, that's just hilarious.
If you like music, you will probably like this album. This is music for people who love music, who love the way that music sometimes skips the brain completely and goes right to the heart, right to the soul. This is what music was supposed to be: unique, heartfelt, real, and exciting.
Daniel's influence on modern music--on Nirvana, The Flaming Lips, Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Tom Waits, The Butthole Surfers, Beck, and others--is immeasurable, and he could have an immeasurable influence on you as well.
If you let him.
You should let him.

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