Daniel Johnston
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Sep 9, 2026
Lauren TagliaferroHOST
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Neal E. FischerHOST
It's, it's interesting 'cause it's reminding me of, um, I don't know if you've ever seen the documentary, The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
Lauren TagliaferroHOST
I have not, no.
Neal E. FischerHOST
Um, but it, it, this was, it was a composer musician, um, who had bipolar and-
Keith Lowell JensenGUEST
...
Keith Lowell JensenGUEST
I'm, I'm, I'm thinking about Daniel Johnston.
Keith Lowell JensenGUEST
Daniel Johnston as well.
RalphHOST
Yeah.
Keith Lowell JensenGUEST
But then there's, there, there are people that, where I'm the asshole in your example, there are people that cross-
RalphHOST
Yeah
Keith Lowell JensenGUEST
... for me, I feel like people are ironically enjoying someone with deep mental illness, and I d- I have trouble hearing the genius in it, and I have trouble hearing the, the part that he's sharing through the disability or through the, you know, suffering.
Keith Lowell JensenGUEST
Uh, with, with Shane, Daniel Johnston, even Sid Barrett, I, I hear it.
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Emil AmosHOST
There's some sort of parallel with Daniel Johnston where in that documentary, you learn that he basically tries to like force the plane down with his dad in it and they miraculously survive.
Emil AmosHOST
And there's some sort of intense parallel with Adrian Borland because he also tries to kill his parents.
Emil AmosHOST
Which, you know, you can tell from how loving they are, pretty much in both scenarios, that it really is proof of the total psychosis that's now taking over because this person doesn't probably want to do this, but now they're being commanded to do it by some other entity inside of them.
Adrian BorlandSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yes.
Emil AmosHOST
And so there's a sort of weird parallel there because when Daniel Johnston went on a major label, there was a similar feeling of like, oh, these people are gonna kinda cart him around and they're gonna make money off of him.
Emil AmosHOST
And I remember kids telling me that Daniel Johnston was like, gonna be a thing and i just just feeling really just shut up it was very confusing for me you know there's a moment where things just get a little bit too visible and it makes you uncomfortable because you know the thing doesn't belong in that world yeah And even though that might keep him alive, it's going to be a gross scenario.
Emil AmosHOST
Even
Alex SteedHOST
So one of the most bittersweet, amazing music moments in that show, I think is in season one.
Alex SteedHOST
Is it when they, they use devil town, but it is not Daniel Johnston.
Alex SteedHOST
It is.
Niko StratisHOST
Or the bright eyes cover from the, from the Daniel Johnston.
Alex SteedHOST
Yeah.
Alex SteedHOST
It is a guy.
SteveHOST
And I just love the physical feeling of it.
SteveHOST
It reminds me of Daniel Johnston's early music that he used to put out on tapes.
SteveHOST
And it's got...
SteveHOST
Each episode has its own unique inlay.
RachelHOST
Welcome back to...
RachelHOST
Hi, how are you? Hi, how are you? Oh, that's very Daniel Johnson of you.
RachelHOST
God, I haven't watched that documentary in
JakeGUEST
ages.
StevenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You
RachelHOST
don't throw plane keys out of the plane in the middle of the air because you think you're Casper.
RachelHOST
There's something very wrong with Daniel Johnson.
JakeGUEST
Oh, I thought it was because he was having a hissy fit.
Kristy GrahamHOST
How have you come about learning that
Idge HehirGUEST
stuff? I've never had a proper singing lesson, which is obvious, but I kind of like singers that are all broken anyway, like Daniel Johnson or...
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No heaven above That's what you told me then.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You're long since gone.
Jeffrey LewisGUEST
That I had just never heard before.
Jeffrey LewisGUEST
Music that was so powerful and so simple and that just opened the whole door for me like oh, that's something I could do I I really my whole life is kind of like before Daniel Johnston and after Daniel Johnston and that was just the most it's absurd how transformative that was.
Jeffrey LewisGUEST
That gave me my entire life.
Jeffrey LewisGUEST
That was like, Oh, I can make songs.
Jeffrey LewisGUEST
It was very personal.
Jeffrey LewisGUEST
It was just hard to listen to, but I kind of got more and more hooked into it.
Jeffrey LewisGUEST
And then one day I saw a magazine article that there was this guy named Daniel Johnston.
Jeffrey LewisGUEST
And the magazine article was like, he's sort of like an American Sid Barrett.
AngusGUEST
It's kind of like drill music done in a very sort of, um, amateurish way.
AngusGUEST
I almost go, you know like sort of outsider music like Daniel Johnston or something like really, just like where it's obviously somebody who's like not, you know...
AngusGUEST
Something's going on, but the music's really strange and it's kind of fascinating and, and, and, and brilliant.
AngusGUEST
Um, that's how I view it at least.
RossyHOST
And I do recommend it's all the way back in 2012 that this was recorded.
RossyHOST
But it's Daniel Johnston, again, very much like Nick Drake, a very complex person and soothing music.
RossyHOST
But again, you know, complexities, difficulties going on.
Abigail HopkinsGUEST
Yeah, so I tend to listen to a lot.
Abigail HopkinsGUEST
And that's fine.
Abigail HopkinsGUEST
That's OK.
RossyHOST
And again, very much like Nick Drake, Daniel Johnston is one of those artists that when you hear the recordings, their vocals are really much at the forefront.
RossyHOST
So, you know, you do hear the emotion in the voice and the lyrics in the recordings.
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