Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered [Enhanced]

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Here we have a flawed but interesting introduction to the songs and recordings of one of the twentieth century’s great, maudlin pop musicians, Texas-based Daniel Johnston. This double CD has a pack of alt-rock superstars--among them Beck, Tom Waits, Vic Chesnutt, Bright Eyes and Calvin Johnson--tackling Johnston’s idiosyncratic and visionary songs, while the other disc has the originals, in the same order. With the exception of TV on the Radio’s Ubu-ish take on "Walking the Cow" and Waits' over the top version of "King Kong," there’s not much to say about the covers CD. Sincere indie-rock takes on Johnston's amazingly strong, emotionally intimate songs? How obvious and boring is that? Why have the work of one vocally eccentric artist interpreted by a bunch of wimpy dudes? However, as a sampler of his work, disc two is exemplary, focusing primarily as it does on his '80s home recordings. If you look at this as a great mixtape that comes with some silly covers, you’ll enjoy it plenty. --Mike McGonigal

Product Description
This stunning collection of DANIEL JOHNSTON songs recorded by some of his biggest fans should prove to awaken the music world to just how special (and actually alive) he is - contributors include TEENAGE FANCLUB w/ JAD FAIR, EELS, TV ON THE RADIO, BRIGHT EYES, BECK, SPARKLEHORSE, FLAMING LIPS, TOM WAITS, CALVIN JOHNSTON, and more!

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Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered [Enhanced]

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Discovered, Covered: Late Great Daniel Johnston Manufacturer: P-Vine ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Lo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002B58CM Release Date: 2004-08-06

Tracks:

1. My Life Is Starting Over
2. Impossible Love
3. Blue Clouds
4. Story Of An Artist
5. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievance
6. Sun Shines Down On Me
7. Go
8. King Kong
9. Sorry Entertainer
10. True Love Will Find You In The End
11. Devil Town
12. Good Morning You
13. Like A Monkey In The Zoo
14. Love Not Dead
15. Dead Lovers Twisted Heart
16. Living Life
17. Walking The Cow
18. Dream Scream
19. My Life Is Starting Over Again
20. Impossible Love
21. Blue Clouds
22. Story Of An Artist
23. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievance
24. Sun Shines Down On Me
25. Go
26. King Kong
27. Sorry Entertainer
28. True Love Will Find You In The End
29. Devil Town
30. Good Morning You
31. Like A Monkey In The Zoo
32. Love Not Dead
33. Dead Lovers Twisted Heart
34. Living Life
35. Walking The Cow
36. Dream Scream
37. Rock This Town (New Song)

Album Description

Japanese pressing of the singer/songwriter's 2004 two CD compilation is scheduled for earliest release. Disc one is a compilation of 19 covers by Teenage Fanclub w/Jad Fair, Gordon Gano, Mercury Rev, Death Cab For Cutie, Vic Chesnutt, Tom Waits, M. Ward, Thrisle, Beck, Sparkle horse w/The Flaming Lips and more. CD 2 is the original versions of all the songs on disc one. P-Vine.

Average customer rating: Unexpectedly loving it Buy this CD! Five stars for the disc of originals; two stars and a raised eyebrow for the disc of covers Daniel lives!!!! Simply Honest Simplt Outstanding

Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered Various Artists Manufacturer: Gammon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Songs of Pain: Early Recordings Volume 1 Welcome To My World Fun Continued Story/Hi, How Are You The Devil and Daniel Johnston ASIN: B0002MH3KQ Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

1. My Life Is Starting Over Again/Teenage Fanclub with Jad Fair
2. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievience/Clem Snide
3. Impossible Love/Gordon Gano
4. Living Life/Eels
5. Walking The Cow/T.V. On The Radio
6. Good Morning You/The Rabbit
7. Sorry Entertainer/Calvin Johnson
8. Devil Town/Bright Eyes
9. Dream Scream/Death Cab For Cutie
10. True Love Will Find You In The End/Beck
11. Go/Sparklehorse w/ Flaming Lips
12. Blue Clouds/Mercury Rev
13. Love Not Dead/Thistle
14. Like A Monkey In The Zoo/Vic Chesnutt
15. Dead Lovers Twisted Heart/Starlight Mints
16. Story Of An Artist/M. Ward
17. The Sun Shines Down On Me/Guster
18. King Kong/Tom Waits

Tracks:

1. My Life Is Starting Over Again
2. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievience
3. Impossible Love
4. Living Life
5. Walking The Cow
6. Good Morning You
7. Sorry Entertainer
8. Devil Town
9. Dream Scream
10. True Love Will Find You In The End
11. Go
12. Blue Clouds
13. Love Not Dead
14. Like A Monkey In The Zoo
15. Dead Lovers Twisted Heart
16. Story Of An Artist
17. The Sun Shines Down On Me
18. King Kong

Amazon.com

Here we have a flawed but interesting introduction to the songs and recordings of one of the twentieth century's great, maudlin pop musicians, Texas-based Daniel Johnston. This double CD has a pack of alt-rock superstars--among them Beck, Tom Waits, Vic Chesnutt, Bright Eyes and Calvin Johnson--tackling Johnston's idiosyncratic and visionary songs, while the other disc has the originals, in the same order. With the exception of TV on the Radio's Ubu-ish take on "Walking the Cow" and Waits' over the top version of "King Kong," there's not much to say about the covers CD. Sincere indie-rock takes on Johnston's amazingly strong, emotionally intimate songs? How obvious and boring is that? Why have the work of one vocally eccentric artist interpreted by a bunch of wimpy dudes? However, as a sampler of his work, disc two is exemplary, focusing primarily as it does on his '80s home recordings. If you look at this as a great mixtape that comes with some silly covers, you'll enjoy it plenty. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description

This stunning collection of DANIEL JOHNSTON songs recorded by some of his biggest fans should prove to awaken the music world to just how special (and actually alive) he is - contributors include TEENAGE FANCLUB w/ JAD FAIR, EELS, TV ON THE RADIO, BRIGHT EYES, BECK, SPARKLEHORSE, FLAMING LIPS, TOM WAITS, CALVIN JOHNSTON, and more!

Customer Reviews:

Unexpectedly loving it.......2006-08-16

This is the first review I ever write and what better way to start than with an unrecognized artist. I first heard of Daniel Johnson a couple of months ago when the trailer for the documentary "The Devil and Daniel Johnson" appeared on apple's website. I since then had probably seen that trailer at least 20 times and after all that those views it stills brakes me down and puts me emotional. I have not seen the documentary yet but I ordered this CD a couple of weeks ago and boy was I shocked. The feelings I achieve from hearing his humble recordings are far greater than I expected, it is very hard for me to cry when watching a movie or even hearing a song, but I couldn't hold it with him and I have to admit I cry more than once while going through these songs. If you carefully listen to "Dream Scream" you can hear Daniel breathing so fast that it makes you feel as if he is going to break down in any second.
"Story of an Artist" and "The sun Shines down on me" are simply beautiful lyrically and melodically and my personal favorites, but all the songs are great except "King Kong" which in my mind can not even be called a song.
Many people would say that he is not a great singer or a good musician and they would be right, but let me tell you this, very few musicians can transmit the type of emotion Daniel can deliver, and that is his true gift.

Buy this CD!.......2006-04-19

Open it up, take the 1st CD of covers, open the window, and fling it ouside like a frisbee (watch out for neighbors and pets, though.)

I agree with others; the originals are great, the covers are lame. Daniel Johnston sings with such honesty and raw, unpolished emotion that hearing a bunch of overproduced rock stars trying to cover them is ridiculous. It's like having a 2-CD set of early, acoustic Dylan and then a bunch of Phil-Specterish producers adding unnecessary and redundant sounds to a CD of covers.

Go with the original. (And when I say original, I mean ORIGINAL!)

Five stars for the disc of originals; two stars and a raised eyebrow for the disc of covers.......2005-10-18

Daniel Johnston is one of the greatest musicians and songwriters ever. Ever. That he remains relatively anonymous, celebrated only by a very fortunate niche audience, is a sad testament to the lameness of modern day Clear Channel-owned radio and the closed-mindedness of the majority of today's music fans. In a perfect world, everyone would know and love and recognize these songs for the masterpieces they are.
Disc Two of this compilation is a good mix of Daniel Johnston's own work: him alone acapella, alone on a piano, alone on a guitar, alone with an accordion, together with a band, young in 1980, older in the 1990s, happy, grieving, lo-fi, and slick. The songs are all amazing: the rockin' "My Life Is Starting Over Again" with its hopeful hopefulness and its excited joy and its wild crashing drums, the beautiful and accepting "Living Life," the spooky "True Love Will Find You In The End" that seems to almost suggest that True Love is some sort of malicious stalker, and "Go," which should haunt the radio with every other classic anthem of hopeful restlessness.
Disc One features all the exact same songs (except one) but covered by modern indie musicians. NONE of the covers are half as good as Daniel's originals. None of them capture as much emotion and love and sadness as Daniel's originals do; none of them evoke half as much feeling. Disc One feels very superfluous, and you're bound to listen to it only a fraction as much as you'll listen to the originals. Beck makes a disappointing appearance, Tom Waits screws up Daniel's gorgeous acapella telling of the story of King Kong, and Guster sucks as bad as Guster ALWAYS sucks. (Someone needs to stop them...in a very violent way. They sounds like the worst of Phil Collins, but with bongo drums.) The Eels do a nice cover of "Living Life" that helps show that beneath Daniel's lo-fi recording techniques his songs really are beautiful and melodic, and a few other songs are all right as well. I view Disc One as a nice token effort of these musicians to spotlight Daniel Johnston's music, but Daniel is just not someone that can be covered and done justice to. He already got his songs perfect! They don't need to be redone. You can only make them worse.
But I do recommend these CDs. The mix disc of Daniel Johnston's originals is a great introduction to his work or a good collection of some of his best songs (including a presently unreleased track), and the covers CD is a nice novelty that's way less cool than it could have been.
(Daniel Johnston's music influenced Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Yo La Tengo--yet music by these bands or by members of these bands is noticeably absent from this collection. Even the Flaming Lips only back up Sparklehorse on a song: why not cover a whole song by yourselves, you guys? And wouldn't it have been cool to have heard Wilco covering "True Grief," with Jeff Tweedy singing about the unbelievably honest musician that everyone loves, singing, "Everyone's shouting he's so sincere! I can't believe he's here"? Yes, it would have.)
But buy this CD anyway. Even if the whole covers CD sucked without any redeeding qualities whatsoever it wouldn't be enough to take this collection down a notch from a five star rating.
Daniel Johnston is just that good.
Daniel Johnston is as good as music gets.

Daniel lives!!!!.......2005-05-05

Wow, I thought from the title of this that Daniel had passed away. Glad to discover that that is not the case. I really enjoyed most of the covers but I still prefer the originals myself. They have that Nebraska (Bruce Springstein)intimacy to them which I love. For anyone who likes Daniel Johnston I recommend you go looking for a version of Speeding Motorcyle with Yo La Tengo. (It's on Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo) It is probably my favorite thing he has ever done. Brilliant.

Simply Honest Simplt Outstanding.......2005-03-27

Tracks 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 will blow you mind. The rest of the album will leave you speechless. Honest songwriting that hits home.

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