Daniel Johnston SUCKS thread

[Kentucky_Josh]

Paid 10 bucks once to see this freak show and the over-weight penguin lookalike only played 2 effin' tunes!! TWO!! He's over-rated, 99% percent of his songs are garbage, and the only reason he is famous is because of Kurt Cobain and that stupid documentary on him.

[Wabash Trash]

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[NATE K]

I'll bite.

DJ certainly isn't everyone's cup of tea, but his cult fame way predates Kurt Cobain and, even more so, the documentary.

He was a darling in the indie world for a long, long time prior to Nirvana. WFMU championed him seemingly from the get go, he was buddy-buddy with Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo (who covered Speeding Motorcycle over twenty years ago), Jad Fair, etc.

I think he has some truly beautiful songs. But he is of course mentally ill, and because he produces so much stuff as a mechanism to deal with his illness, not everything is going to be brilliant all of the time or even most of the time.

I can certainly imagine him giving awaful performances, though.

[NATE K]

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I really should have just written this and saved myself the trouble.

[cracker]

Better than The Raincoats

[Sunshine]

better then shannon and the clams

[P-TNT]

I think he has some truly beautiful songs. But he is of course mentally ill, and because he produces so much stuff as a mechanism to deal with his illness, not everything is going to be brilliant all of the time or even most of the time.

Yup.

[bradx]

he has a cool story but yeah. most of his music does suck.  the stuff that is good is magnified by all the shit that sucks so hard. 

[rutabowa]

i saw him play for about an hour in a tiny venue in london a couple of years ago with a little group backing him up and it was one of the best things i've ever seen. i don't think big concert halls do him any favours

[hugebomber]

he punched bobby abshire in the nose at the old whole foods on guadalupe. 

[roadkill33]

i like this guy. i like a lot of his stuff. a lot of the quality on the early cassette stuff obviously sucks, which kind of distracts from the songs when they are good. oh well. i don't think he's really overrated, someone made a documentary about him and kurt kobain couldn't be seen without his DJ shirt on for a while it's not like he is at the top of the what's hot in underground music charts or anything and he may play higher-capacity venues, but he isn't selling out arena shows or anything

[bruce]

get stuffed, all his cassettes from when he worked at mcd's were awesome

[bradx]

ten bucks for two songs at an oversized venue is horseshit.

[roadkill33]

get stuffed, all his cassettes from when he worked at mcd's were awesome

don't get me wrong i like a lot of that stuff better than most f the more polished studio stuff i have heard. too much fuzz to listen to sometimes though. i know some people like that.n i do sometimes but not too much

[Maltodextrin]

I know he's all, like mentally ill and disturbed or whatever, but I mean gawd, you know? I paid $10, he should act normal long enough to deliver a professional performance for the gawkers paying to see the weirdo sing.