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  • Not everyone is gonna get his music. Shit flavored lollipops hmm.

  • sorry i think hes as generic as a bag of shit flavored lollypops

  • @edwoodjr999 lovely and insightful here is your attention you wanted

  • what do you get when you put together a brown chicken and a brown cow?

  • He looks high as fuck

  • Whos dis spa

  • I cry to watch this. The world needs this kind of honesty and love through art.

    -Marco in HCMC, Vietnam

  • @Marcsince79 Have you seen " The Devil in Daniel Johnston " That movie will move you just as much as this video.

  • the best song writer ever. Daniel has the ability to show the worl that art is not a physical form but an emotional method of letting your self go.

  • there's something about this song and a lot of daniel johnston songs that confuses me. my ears hear sloppy guitar playing and a voice that is not much better than most regular people but his sincerity makes up for all of that. He doesn't even have to try to make you believe every single lyric he sings because he sounds so genuine, which is so hard to find in musicians these days.

  • my sister met him at ATP and he said 'hi, how are you?' as he walked past! how cool is that?

  • Fuckin' raw.

  • I remember seeing this on MTV some 25 years ago. It was from "The Cutting Edge", a music show that did an episode in Texas, featuring Timbuk 3, Brave Combo, Joe King Carasco, True Believers and this guy. For some reason, Daniel Johnston struck me more than anyone else. Was it the quivering voice? Was it the simple lyrics? Or was it the fact that Daniel was just so unique and talented? Maybe it was all three.

  • se parece a F.♥

  • This guy is unbelievable... It's like there's absolutely no buffer zone between the audience and his naked soul... There's something so ultimately genuine and honest about his song writing and performances it's hard to put into words. I can't even imagine what it would have been like to see this live.

  • @Draekkus unprofessionalism and no formal training will create the illusion of honesty and genuineness...lets not elevate mediocrity to angel songs

  • hi, how are you?

    

  • @FurryBabySeal

    Hello, I am fine...thanks.

  • Daniel is an amazing soul. Although he's been labeled as "mentally imbalanced" he has the unique ability to describe his journey in song. This to me makes Daniel more "balanced" than most people labeled "normal". If you want to experience what Daniel (and one of his greatest songs) can sound like with a full music arrangement check out the video - Daniel Johnston and The Swell Season - Life in Vain. A truly memorable Austin City Limits moment.

  • @XxDopethronexX This.

  • Fuck you, Bob Dylan...

    Just kidding.

  • @spicyMcHAGGIS9green and not kidding too :)

  • When I first heard this and I had lost my mind I was blown away Ive tried to write songs like his but my lyrics dont compare

  • wow...

    amazing.

    Daniel Johnston <3

  • so good... damn it.

  • a feel good song from a feel good artist

  • why are the clapping at the tears in his eyes?

  • makes me feel all gushy inside

  • I love how he keeps looking at the camera.

  • Does anyone know on which album this is? 

  • @Stabbyperson it isn't on any album. this is the only known place in which he played the song.

  • 1000th like.  ;)

  • Right now I'm taking off my clothes and going to run around in the yard

  • amazing guy. amazing song. wow?

  • Lots of Love for Daniel. We are living in the wrong world, he is in the right one!

  • Gives me chills man

  • @gibbonsandtheslut Hipster...shut up. D Johnston is awful

  • @surfbum5412 ha i love how people automatically associate this kind of music with hipsters... that's probably why you don't like him.. scared of being called a hipster?!! what the fuck is a hipster even?!?!? someone tell me!!! god damn I'm losin it

  • @gibbonsandtheslut Basically, a hipster is a term used by insecure dolts who view someone's like of something as inferior to their's because they themselves don't like it & because they don't like it, they think nobody else does either so therefor the person has to only be trying to look hip by showing interest in something that doesn't appeal to them. Yeah, I know its a pretty narrow minded & ignorant way of thinking but then again, those are the type of people that use the term "hipster" :)

  • @AUSROTTENY2K or in short the people who call people hipsters are hipsters. lols oh well Daniel Johnston is an amazing musician

  • sooooo folk punk!!!!!

  • Daniel Johnston, watching your story and hearing your music stopped me from killing myself last night. I'm 23 and just the summer before my father, my only guiding light in this life left this earth. I fell into a deep depression , distanced myself from my family to the point that they don't even acknowledge me anymore, and I've been abusing sleeping pills on a daily basis in which I sleep for 17 hours at a time. Until hearing your story last night I was convinced life couldn't hold any beauty.

  • @goodbye41 I'm so very sorry for your loss. If my father would have passed away I wouldn't know what to do. You're a strong person who has made it so far, and you can make it even more far. Life has it's downs, but eventually it'll have its ups.

    Please don't end yourself or even think of it. One day you'll end up becoming something great, you'll have a family and friends who love you. Things will get better. They always do. Just wait and see..

    Glad to hear Daniels music is keeping you from it

  • @goodbye41 I would have thought listening to D Johnston would have made you kill yourself. Now go away hipster...go grab your shotgun and fixie bike and ride off into the night.

  • Stop posting links on chat sites?!"R?!?"R

    "honest opinion of this strong artist"? stfu

  • loved it

  • still crap

  • bollocks

  • shit

  • His smile is darling.

    Ke$ha gets her rubbish on the Billboard charts.

    Well, at least we get Daniel to ourselves.

  • It is amazing to me how people who have the urge to create will do so, no matter what.

  • this dude is so raw and honest. i think his popularity stems from that being a rarity in most commercialized music these days and his newfound exposure to a younger generation. its not hipsters. its real shit from a real guy for real people.

  • he has the look of "HOLY SHIT, what have i gotten myself into? " LOL

  • one of this mans few listenable songs.

  • I love this song so much. My heart leaps whenever I hear it.

  • heartbreakingly beautiful

  • when he says "scattered" look at his eyes. The man is telling a true story.

  • And now I'm here

    And here I stand

    With a sweet angel holding my hand

    I lived my broken dreams...

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  • I'm bipolar, since like forever, and last night THIS saved my fucking ass.

  • @WhatILeaveBehind Hey me too bud :) glad it saved your ass you don't want to lose it.  Manic depression is a blessing and a curse all at once but music is always good, peace

  • @WhatILeaveBehind I'm sorry, but that is just idiotic.

  • @WhatILeaveBehind

    me too.

    

  • @WhatILeaveBehind Music is the greatest healer. Music will make everything allright.

  • That hit me right in the solar plexus. I'm actually crying. I've never heard this man's music before now. I have catching up to do.

  • @TwoSkirts watch the movie 'The devil and daniel johnston'. If you have only watched this video and enjoyed it, you are in for quite a ride when you learn about the rest of his life. Tip of the iceberg.

  • Yeah...he's really talented...you fucking hipsters are such assholes.

  • The 80s american version of the 60s british syd barrett

  • @plpicher exactly my thought!!!!

  • fuck. his soul is just. amazing. you can actually see it.

  • @TheSmutchypuss I think the reason he loves Casper so much, is because he sees a lot of himself in him : )

  • Bipolar schizophrenia and he still writes better than most of the crap I've heard over the last thirty years. Someone said it best. God bless this man, c'mon, guy took the keys out of his parents airplane mid-flight and threw them out the window.

  • @really1234testtest Actually people with schizophrenia are extremely creative.

  • I didnt know nothing about him until i watched the documentary awhile back an now i find my self at work every now then singing or humming his music just to keep the time passing...Daniel thank you for your music

  • Man, just thinking about the documentary about him, and it's such a fuckin shame. His parents can't stand his musical aspirations, and nobody gives a fuck about him anymore.

    Except for me, and others like me, who understand the musical genius that is Daniel Johnston. God bless him.

  • Bob Dylan and Jonathon Richman had a baby. That baby was Daniel Johnston.

  • saw him live two days ago, damm good show

  • is this a true story of him?

  • HI HOW ARE YOU

  • that was at my moms show way back when

    

  • Yo vivia en mi sueño roto, ahora yo estoy viviendo en mi sueño roto Daniel.

  • fucking killin it!

    fuck ya daniel!

  • I love you Daniel Johnston and everything you've done - but this song is when I fell in love with you. The fact you went from this video to where you are today is triumphantly beautiful. Just know there are two kids in NJ who appreciate you deeply.

  • he shu hav played more stuff on the piano,,he done some great stuff in ireland, the crowd just fell in luv with him

  • For those of you not from Texas - San Marcos is a small town outside Austin. When he wrote this in the early 80's it was a quiet, pretty and fun place to go to spend a long afternoon with friends. You could drive back to Austin before dinnertime so it was conveniently close but far enough away that you could do what you wanted and not get caught (pot, beer). 

  • ya! wat album?

  • Did he ever record a studio version? If so, on which album? Hell, was this version ever released on CD?

  • He has so interesting voice.

    Great...nothing else I can say.

  • Howard stern should interview him and let him perform. It would be EPIC!!!!

  • @kidbarrio hey fuck howard stern

  • @kidbarrio sterns a has been kike

  • @RE8978RETURN "Better to be a has been than to be a never was"-Dave Berman (Silver Jews)

  • He is truely one of my heros.I would like to just sit down and have a conversation with him

  • is this a hole cover?

  • @veverzay lol shoot yourself....

  • I don't know how anyone could watch this and not get choked up at least a little. Songwriting seemed to be Daniel Johnston's only effective medicine for the pain in his life.

  • ah, beautiful... He is amazing...

  • Epic performance. If Daniel J was in his prime today, he'd be performing choreographed dance routines whilst miming his latest hit, " Baby i live my broken dreams, baby" probably featuring Kanye West or some other talentless fuck stain of an excuse for an artist.

  • @Akidcalledgrim

    What?

    Why would he be doing that now?

    If that was the case he would of been acting like The new kids on the block or Milli Vanilli or some crap back then...or glam rock...I don't think your comment is valid, good day Sir

  • @Akidcalledgrim I like to believe he wouldn't sell himself out like that.

  • love you daniel.

  • Ha ha. Classic!

  • Just imagine.. MTV used to give people like Daniel a stage. Imagine that now..

  • @qinella Seriously.

  • @qinella

    It wasn't actually MTV who gave him the time; it was a local show in Texas, I believe, that Johnston just happened to be performing at, and MTV just happened to be covering.

  • @qinella it was almost certainly because Kurt Cobain championed him by wearing his 'hi how are you?' t shirt and saying how great he was. Nirvana also got the Melvins worldwide exposure, Krist wearing their t shirt on saturday night live.

  • @qinella Do you mean J0ws took over?

  • @qinella They still would but the show would be called Wacky Retard Sing Song and the cameras would follow him around everywhere

  • this is quite possibly the most heart wrenching and still awe inspiring thing i've ever seen. thank god for Daniel Johnston.

  • 0:53 you can see his pain in his eyes

  • vincent van gogh, oliverio Girondo, Antonin Artaud & Daniel.

  • 4 people have no soul.

  • Great song cone and listen to our unique sound too

  • This makes me cry every fucking time.

  • @skoi87 Who says heaven does not exist.

    Have you been reading Richard Dawkin's books?

  • I bet the Angels will want to hang out with Daniel when he arrives - "a broken and a contrite heart" are the very keys to Heaven. (Psalm 34:18) 

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  • the guy is great

  • WALKING THE COW!!!

  • I watched the documentary "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" and apart from it being frightening and heartbreaking, in it there's certain things he said that epitomise what this record means to me. "I'm ok coz I know where ever i go I have music in my heart." His childlike purity stills me. Such a stunning song. Andrea x

    Andrea covers 'Some Things Last A Long Time' on her new album 'Lifelines' due out on 30 May 2011.

  • he means it

  • fuck ya!

  • does anyone know the chords

  • @BrothersRifle nope dont worry ive got it, c g

  • @BrothersRifle

    G C G D

  • Is this from the concert right before the Plane crash or was this from the MTV show in Austin?

  • @Chadr1107 the mtv show.

  • Great song.

  • Unfortunately, I have only known of Daniel Johnston for a short time. I feel like this is the music I've been needing and wanting to hear for my whole life. He made such an impact on me the first time I heard him, and he continues to with every listen, picture, piece of art, or just thought of him. Thank you Daniel Johnston.

  • alucinante!!! sus ojos reflejan el hecho de q recorrio ese otro mundo desconocido para tantos

    Casper viviente

    living casper!!!

  • alucinante!!! sus ojos reflejan el hecho de q recorrio ese otro mundo desconocido para tantos

    Casper viviente

  • this made me cry... a lot. ;-;

  • @btabtabtabta: you're ignorant and deaf.

  • he looks like he is tweeking

  • @PangPang21 Just so you know I am a recovering addict that struggles with bipolar disorder and anxiety/panic attacks. I am also a musician, what you describe as "tweaking" is prob just severe anxiety. I can only speak from my own experience.

  • @btabtabtabta FUCK U just say that its not ur kind of music asshole

  • He literally just stepped on the stage that day.

    He wasn't even on the bill.

  • Looking at him here you'd have guessed he'd look young forever. He looked so adorable.

  • @btabtabtabta look up Devil town, true love will find you in the end, Grievances etc

  • he looks terrified

  • He seems really nervous

  • love this video

  • 509 vs. 3. Not bad, Daniel.

  • Incredible. Was this concert ever released on video??

  • this really gets me i get a lump in the throat

  • The greatest live performance of his entire career...he would never again play to a crowd with such clarity and confidence.

  • Oh, Dios... La frágilidad de su mirada...

    Oh, God... the fragility in the way he looks.

  • this song gives me new power for the sick world out there!

  • @carbonclockmusic im high right now : )

  • @carbonclockmusic

    I watched this when I was sober and it made me cry.

  • dan is the man!

  • hes fucking mental ! but a genius

  • i wish this song was like 10 minutes long!!!!!

  • 2 people deserve to be shot

  • hands down favorite daniel johnston song and video.

  • WOW!! I was just lead to here from an eels cover of livin life, and never even knew about this guy! Ive just found myself listening to all of daniel johnston's songs, and this bloke is amazing and inspiring! anyway....im off to listen to abit more! :)

  • @carbonclockmusic im sooo high and I need tissues

  • on the last " i live my broken dreams" who doesn't get goosebumps from the pure emotion in his voice? awesome video!

  • You know Daniel Johnston is going to heaven cuz he's already been to hell. Daniel you are an amazing person.

  • i love this song ....honest raw and passionate

  • holy shit, he was skinny

  • at his finest.

  • @carbonclockmusic

    Me too.

  • i love when danny looks at the camera for the first time around 0:19. its so perfectly awkward and innocent. dan, you are my hero.

  • Kurt Cobain was a big fan of this guy :O

  • YESSS!!! ythe FULL VERSION!!!! I wanted to see this so long ago!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!

  • dude has touched me in a way no mainstream artist ever did in my childhood. I could never connect until I saw this dude.. makes me smile

  • @38robtime Press charges man, there are places for people who have been touched like you

  • Were you molested by the mainstream?

  • after i saw the devil and daniel johnston, i smoked a pack of cigarettes, and played the piano until 6 in the morning. this guy is to incredible for words to describe. and lets not forget his amazing characters. hail cartoons and god bless daniel johnston!

  • @blackdiceguy awh, you smoke mate?

  • @JuracidFive 'fraid so man, nasty habit to kick