Melancholy Chesterman (Held The Hand by Daniel Johnston)

[grassh0pperunit]

Great video. Simple is best.

[Hogweedd]

The devil knows my name. 

[logician360]

I love this song, and I love the way he says "Satan" :D

[bgallasch]

The motion picture completely fits to the song, the empty chors, the monotone voice, the much resticted vocabluary. They both are just great. Please don't add anything to it. It's in perfect harmony. Adding a single hick could destroy it. I love and appreciate it as it is.

[MicahBuzan]

i dig it

[Some1No1Sees]

Not long enough.....

[RayCharles444]

Every time I hear this song I think of Neil Young's "hey hey my my"

[metamorfosis84]

esta es increible ,,y solo con un organo..

[uhohthebooshisloose]

my name is laura, this song is the best song to have your name in. its beautiful, the animation too

[coffeescup]

this song is epic.

[troyhampson]

beautiful i swear.

[nlabll]

big dan!

[AustinJohnson07]

I love this song

but this dude in the video needs some weed bad, ASAP

Fu** booze

Fu** pills

Pharmacy corpation like it when doctors over dignose certain disorders and give out Proz like its water. The pharmacy makes biliions and billions of money by selling pills that certain people do not really need. Like ADHD is way over diagnosed to children and doctors think pills are the answer to depression.

LEGALIZE POT. If you like my view add me as a friend on Youtube. Thanks

[LukeShetler]

Hey, I'm for the legalization of marijuana as much as the next guy, but you don't have to go to extremes. Medication has helped a lot of people, and it is the only treatment for unipolar depression. Big pharma is a double-edged sword.

[litenogsot]

I love this!

The song is heartbraking and you did a wonderful job. :)

[Paracelsus23]

you stayed true to the simple straightforward style of DJs music, Thanks.

[nicolasghion]

What do you use to do this flash movie ? It's really great. I would like to do a flash movie like this one but I have no idee how to do. Can you help me ?

[awh06]

love daniel johnston

and loves this animation!

[marcusandtron]

beautiful.

[archibaldh]

such a great video (:

[DanPotato]

One of my favourite Daniel Jonston songs and I really loved the video you made to go with it.

[bobzillagrr]

realy good !

[sydbarrett5]

That part with the devil freaked me out a bit.

[TheSeptembrist]

some of this guys music is so great... I love how he did it himself.. always had a thing for them types of artists.. R stevie moore.. guided by voices... meh nice vid

[KoolBand]

We played this, along with Bloody Rainbow, it's on my channel if you wanna watch it. We added a marimba to Bloody Rainbow which sounds kool.

[SStockstill]

looks like a commercial for an antidepressant

[danielperish]

Haha it does. Like zoloft or something.

[AustinJohnson07]

@SStockstill I thought it was the Zoloft dude the little cartoon. LOL

[katiemurphy1111]

Shit video.

[imsleepyish]

whats depressing about a little piece of toast singing daniel johnston? it's fantastic!

[texturjunkie]

this cheers me up, thanks

[gdziejestgryzak]

great...

[cloudkill4]

Good one, first time I've seen it. If you like D. Johnston run a search for Casper the friendly ghost. It's an infectious little tune.

[hoowoo246]

This is wonderful pop music. I just started listening to this guy the past hour. I had heard of him since i went to school in Austin. Last year on NPR they talked about him constantly for a while.

I walked past his giant "Hi, How Are You" drawing on a wall every day for 5 years, had no idea who did it. I probably pondered it a dozen times, figured some random dude did it.

This is my favotite song of his so far. Kind of reminds me of The Band.

[samsonlovesyou]

You know, with a little more going on in the animation, like the little bird sort of thing, I could picture that video being used for this song on music channels today. Nice job man.

[danielperish]

yeah, i agree with you. I've always wanted to work on this more but it's buried somewhere in my hard drive.

[SmoshFreakinRulez]

@samsonlovesyou i actually thought that this was the actual video for this song ><

[moonpirate]

awesome!^^

[poddel]

A great song pure genius in its simplicity...

[pintandoelmono]

Hermoso

[OmonsterhunterO]

very nice

[NormanSweetcream]

21,000th view!? Love it. 5 stars.

[elrublaki]

Who made the vid? I guess who made the vid, if is not the same Daniel, did capture the sense of Daniel self.

[squarepox]

The flash movie works well w/ the song...

they remind me of me...

[lsd4uandme]

Oooooooooooooo Laura...

[12knicks12]

gotta hear lennnon man

[PANZYUTUBEIS]

cool man i like it

[overbassbyparadox]

divine...

[giocenn]

i know johnston influenced a huge part of the 90´s music movement. People compare him with Dylan, although he didnt help spark a revolution like Dylan, but maybe his disease held him back, or maybe it´s what made him great.

[slackmaster2000]

This is from the album '1990', I like it but wish it were longer, b/c the chord progression is good enough to add more onto it.

[danielperish]

yeah. i never actually finished it fully. someday i'd like to work on it again.

[idthatisnottaken]

yeah I definately hear lennon in it to

[chestertouristcom]

thanks for posting, cool low-fi effects on the animation.

the song sound like something off the imagine album by john lennon

[tuckedinred]

i love this flash animation. good job, brother.

[rabbitbrick]

I LOVE DANIEL JOHNSTON!!!

[breeeegs]

Me too. He's a cool cat.

[breeeegs]

one of his most beautiful songs. The melancholy in the title is palpable

[GroundZero3333]

He wasn't talking about the devil.

He is just heart broken.

[breeeegs]

nonetheless, Daniel Johnston is known to have an obsession with the devil, and believes all human life to be a struggle between the forces of G-d and Satan.

Its all a part of his mental illness. Still, a great, original, truly visionary artist, in my humble opinion. God bless you, DJ.

[breeeegs]

how do you know it isn't both?

[breeeegs]

Wow...what a powerful and melancholy song. Long live Daniel Johnson! we feel your pain

[ninjackie]

I love this. Thank you so much for making it.

[breeeegs]

i also held the hand of Satan, and we skipped through the park picking daisies and singing of blue-birds in the spring. Then he asked me, "do you love me?" and i was like, "whaaa?" and then he tried to touch me and i started crying. Then he bit me, and mama was screaming. I spent some time in a hospital where nice doctors tried to help me get better.

I love this song.

[sevenjokingbite]

This is really good.

[flemboay]

Amazing video. The song is absolute class too, there's a Youtube vid of DJ dancing passionately with Held the hand playing in the background.

[danielperish]

yeah, that's a scene from The Devil and Daniel Johnston. A great movie : )

[WheresPoochie]

This is awesome.

[cheese102]

Ow my lord

i am so bored

held the hand of satan

oh laura

what has happened to you

held the hand of the devil

i was on mtv

everybody was looking at me

held the hand of the devil

[cheese102]

Buying the album 1990 now

[Alfrunk]

This is a spring of hope for me.

[jhiken]

Holy mother of god!!!! this is sooo incredible. Thank you so much for putting this up. What an anthem. Great animation for it too. Really fitting.

[cheaprelative]

good stuff man////I liked it alot

[IrishmanMan]

does anyone know which casette this was from?

[danielperish]

It's from "1990"

[ThPatientST]

is this the whole song?...yeah i kno alot of em were short but this is shortr that i remember

[danielperish]

yes it's the whole song.

[txdunn]

oughta be on the favorites page... catches the mood and DJ would probably appreciate the artwork. Keep'em coming, he's got a bunch more songs.

[Safranski]

I love it. thanks.

[radiowerkshop]

i love this so much it is a perfect video for this song

i loved the song going in and love it twice as much now!!! seriously this is great. funny touching and strange all at the same time. hands down my favorite thing on you tube.

[nowhereman1124]

Daniel Johnston is the best. Great work.

[saraobermeier]

HOORAY! YIPPY!