It's Spooky (Bonus Tracks) (1989) (Enhanced Cd)

Artist: Fair/Johnston
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Product Summary
Label: Jagjaguwar
UPC: 00656605203324
Release Date: 6/18/2001
Buy.com Sku: 60489415
Item#: MPPWFT
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. It's Spooky ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
2. Summer Time ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
3. I Met Roky Erickson ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
4. Happy Talk ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
5. McDonalds On The Brain ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
6. I Did Acid With Caroline ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
7. If I'd Only Know ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
8. Tongues Wag In This Town ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
9. Tomorrow Never Knows ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
10. Oh Honey ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
11. Vow Of Love, A ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
12. When Love Calls ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
13. Frankenstein Vs. The World ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
14. Hands Of Love ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
15. Kicking The Dog ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
16. What I've Seen ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
17. Something's Got A Hold On Me ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
18. Villian ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
19. Chords Of Fame ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
20. Ostrich ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
21. Casper The Friendly Ghost ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
22. First Day At Work ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
23. Fan And Games ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
24. Nothing Left ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
25. Memphis Tennessee ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
26. Come Back ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
27. Tears Stupid Tears ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
28. Making Of The Album, The ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
29. Get Yourself Together ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
30. What The World Needs Now ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston
31. Sweet Loafed ~ Jad Fair/Daniel Johnston



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Daniel Johnston (vocals).
Audio Mixer: Jad Fair.
Photographer: MC Kostek.
Originally released in 1989, this collaboration between the two songwriters is about as ramshackle as you can get. Drumbeats are notably out of step, vocals creak, and melodies lurch and stop. Not that this should come as any surprise to anyone with any familiarity with the two, as amateurishness is often the name of the game. This record originally came out on Jad Fair's label and is reissued here with six extra tracks. Covers include "Happy Talk," Phil Och's "Chords of Fame," Glass Eye's "Kicking the Dog," a deconstructed "Tomorrow Never Knows," and the Butthole Surfers' "Sweet Loaf," here retitled "Sweet Loafed." This might be the best representation of the two musicians, with the give and take occasionally resembling a kind of stumbling electric jug band on songs like "Something's Got a Hold of Me." The most impressive thing about the disc is the sheer exuberance for music that is felt every step of the way. The simple expressions and blunt descriptions are often charming and beautiful in their out-of-step way, especially during "I Did Acid With Caroline." It's one of the many moments where you realize that -- at the core -- this is wonderful, stripped-down-to-the-core indie pop with a huge heart. Whether or not this is a lost masterpiece is not quite etched in stone, but it is indeed an excellent portrait of obvious fan-boy eagerness and musical joy. Musical joy that -- at over 70 minutes -- might need to be spaced out accordingly. ~ Jon Pruett

Engineer: Jad Fair

 
Compilation Appearances
Kill Rock Stars
Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish
Not Alone (box)
Caroline Now The Music Of Brian Wilson / Vari
I Killed Monster: 21 Artists Performing Songs

 
Associated Artists and Works
DQE
Words Of Wisdom And Hope ~ Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 10/01/2005
Original Release Date : 1989
Catalog ID : 33
Label : Jagjaguwar
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00656605203324

 
Professional Reviews
Alternative Press (11/01, p.86)
- "...An opus of spindly, ramshackle pop with whiny uber-nerd vocals..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(9/01, p.93)
- "...Naive, primitive pop in all its glory..."

  
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