Song · Daniel Johnston
“Dream Scream” by Daniel Johnston
From the album Rejected Unknown (1999)
“Dream Scream” by Daniel Johnston appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1998. It was first released in 1999 on the album Rejected Unknown. Its best result is #12 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #186 alternative song of 1998.
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"Dream Scream" first surfaced in 1998 as the title song of a limited-edition seven-inch EP on Pickled Egg Records, alongside "Funeral Girl", before it found a home on Daniel Johnston's Rejected Unknown. That album's name is aimed squarely at Atlantic Records, which dropped him after his only major-label record, 1994's Fun, failed to sell.
Brian Beattie, the Austin producer and former Glass Eye member, runs the show here: he produced and engineered the track and plays guitar and bass, with John Paul Keenan on drums and Johnston at the piano, singing his own song. Their partnership went back to 1995, when the two cut "Casper" for the Larry Clark film Kids, the start of a fruitful working relationship.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 12 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1998 | 50 |
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