“Speeding Motorcycle” by Daniel Johnston

"Speeding Motorcycle" is one of Daniel Johnston's own songs from Yip/Jump Music, the fifth cassette album he put out himself, taped over the summer of 1983. That tape came out of a move: with his family growing worried about his mental and emotional health, Johnston went to stay with his brother in Houston, Texas, leaving behind the piano at his parents' West Virginia home that runs through his earlier tapes. In its place he bought a chord organ and made a studio out of the garage, so Yip/Jump Music became the first of his albums built on that organ.

The tape kept finding new homes: Stress reissued it on cassette in 1986, Homestead Records put it out on CD and double LP in 1988, and Eternal Yip Eye Music brought it back in 2003 and again in 2007.

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