More Songs of Pain

by Dan Johnston

More Songs of Pain cover art

Continuing his prolific streak of highly confessional, self-recorded cassette tapes, this incredibly raw release further chronicles the outsider artist's intense emotional struggles. 'More Songs of Pain' relies almost entirely on out-of-tune chord organs and frantically pounded piano chords to accompany his wavering, fiercely honest vocals concerning unrequited love and severe depression. The unvarnished, deeply intimate recordings cemented Johnston's reputation as a vital, profoundly unique voice within the American lo-fi underground.

Genres

  • Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist

  1. Phantom of My Own Opera
  2. Man at War
  3. Only Missing You
  4. More Dead Than Alive
  5. I Will
  6. Poptunes
  7. You Put My Love out the Door
  8. You're Gonna Make It, Joe
  9. Grievances
  10. Never Get to Heaven
  11. Follow That Dream
  12. Pow
  13. For the Love of Pete
  14. Blue Cloud
  15. Grievances Revisited
  16. True Grief
  17. My Baby Cares for the Dead
  18. Mabel's Grievances