What was your first exposure to Daniel's Music?

[stareyedsquirrel]

Wow, that looks like a great buy - the music from both films is amazing, especially the Julie Delpy and Kath Bloom songs. (And 'Living Life', of course, but that goes without saying!) The best soundtracks are those that can't really be separated from moments within the film, and vice versa, and that's definitely the case here.

Come to think of it, wonder if Daniel will see many $$$$ for this...?

[dbeefy]

I hope so, it's obviously been licenced properly, the credit on the cd is to 'Eternal Yip Eye music' , so fingers crossed!

[favorhouseatlantic]

well, i just heard daniel about 1 month ago so it's not hard to say which song i heard first.
This is odd, but the first song I heard is called Dairy Queen, but I don't know what cassette or cd it's from. It's very odd.

[dejected]

This song is seemingly popular, but it isn't on any album (that I know of).   Daniel sings it very frequently at live shows, and so there are many live recordings that have it.

You can find at least one recording in the MEMBERS ONLY section under one of the LIVE shows.

[favorhouseatlantic]

This song is seemingly popular, but it isn't on any album (that I know of).   Daniel sings it very frequently at live shows, and so there are many live recordings that have it.

You can find at least one recording in the MEMBERS ONLY section under one of the LIVE shows.

yeah, he does play it a lot. maybe a song that'll go on the new album?

[Stress Records]

yeah, he does play it a lot. maybe a song that'll go on the new album?

I've heard the "new album" and it doesn't contain Dairy Queen. I also hear that what's left of Gammon Records won't be releasing this new album until next September.  

[FatPatty]

jesus that SUCKS! whats up with that? someone needs to do something about that...

[billanderson]

i was in an austin band, poison 13, and daniel, who was a simultaneously shy and hyper-outgoing funny guy, if that makes sense,  used to come see us every time we played, and gave us his tape, "hi how are you?"  it sat around at our bass player's house for a while, then one day when i went over to his house, he said, "you have to hear this tape from that guy daniel."  i remember the first song i heard was "i am a baby in my universe."  i was blown away.  we all thought that of course he was a genius but i never really thought he would ever become well-known...now i realize that he only needed to be heard to have a big following.  i became his good friend around that period and he never ceased to amaze me with his songwriting, his mental quickness, and his encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture--and his way of incorporating different aspects of it into his own worldview.

[sympathy3021]

I first heard about Johnston by doing the groupie thing. Just hanging out one night  after a Lips/sparklehourse performance hoping to meet some of them. Met a few of the diffrent members. Linkus went into his bus with a headache and i sat out and talked with Scott and he recomended him. Couldn't actually find the album he recomended, but i did find Fun. At first i was like this is really weird. But then it grew on me, and now i would give up my right arm before i gave up Johnston!

[Zack]

I was at the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles down the street from my house.  A friend of mine was a having a collection of his comedy sketches shown at an independant film night.  The guy who was running the event was playing "Rejected Unknown" while people were waiting for the first film.  I distinctly remember hearing "Party" and loving the chords.

[fibrace]

I heard for the first ime DJ by Why me - live in Berlin - in a music store, I've been touched then i bought Fun and Rejected Unknow, it's hard to fnd DJ disc, so i'm happy to have 2 vinyl(sp) of DJ !!

I'm actually waiting for yip jump music ..... never heard it

For me Dj is a pure songwritter, an amazing artist !

scuse for my english.....

[Henry Long]

fibrace-

Waiting for Yip/Jump? It's gonna blow your mind. The day you get it, don't make any plans. Heh heh.

[fibrace]

I hope, it's been a long time i haven't heard something ineteresting, personnal, poetic , true....

scuse for my english  

[Not Daniel]

I hope, it's been a long time i haven't heard something ineteresting, personnal, poetic , true....

scuse for my english  

Your English is quite good enough for this place.

On the other hand,

Meine Deutsch ist sehr grosse, Ich night kann sprechen, ist mich krank aber ist mich blau?

(Man, that's gotta translate REALLY BAD!!!)

Hey, maybe if any non-USA visitors here can translate a Daniel song to your native tongue, that would be cool. Someone else could even retranslate it back like in that old game Johnny Carson used to play on his TV show. You know, where you see how much the words change in the process?

Or perhaps, next time I go to visit Daniel (or even if he's got some downtime during SXSW this year, though that's doubtful), I could get him to sing the song in (phonetic) German. All it would take is reminding of the Beatles doing "Sie Liebe Dich"! (I think the only German word he knows right now is "heil").

 - Not Dan

[Anonymous]

yes ! - Not Dan -

The one i like particulary this moment is Love Enchanted.