Album · Daniel Johnston
Rejected Unknown by Daniel Johnston
Rejected Unknown is an album by Daniel Johnston, released in 1999. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Dream Scream”, on 1 list with a best position of #12.
Daniel Johnston named Rejected Unknown after the brush-off. Atlantic Records had cut him loose once Fun, his only major-label album, flopped in 1994, and here he turns the insult into a title and carries on regardless. Austin producer Brian Beattie, formerly of Glass Eye, ran the sessions, and the songs still sound like Johnston: fragile, lopsided, painfully sincere, the work of a man who never learned to hide anything.
By now his reputation rested on the cassettes he'd recorded alone at home and handed out around Austin, and on Kurt Cobain turning up in a T-shirt bearing one of his drawings. "Dream Scream" got out ahead of the album, pressed in 1998 on a limited-edition 7-inch EP for Pickled Egg Records, paired with "Funeral Girl".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Rejected Unknown on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dream Scream | 1 | #12 | – | 1998 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.