"Angry Johnny" is a song by Poe

Ann Danielewski

Anne "Annie" Decatur Danielewski , professionally known as Poe, is an American singer and songwriter. She first hit the modern rock charts in the mid-1990s. Poe is the daughter of Polish film director Tad Danielewski and his second wife, Priscilla Machold. She is the sister of author Mark Z....

, released as a single from her debut album Hello. The song received heavy radio airplay, and an accompanying music video was shown frequently on television. Despite its success and positive critical review the only commercial single released was in Australia

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; however, a variety of promotional singles were released across the world. These included a "Full Band Version" of the song that was more acoustic than the album version and heavily featured cello

Cello

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The song was also included on the 1996 album Big Shiny Tunes

Big Shiny Tunes

Big Shiny Tunes is a series of rock albums featuring Various Artists compiled and released by the Canadian music television station MuchMusic, beginning in 1996. The best-selling album of the series was Big Shiny Tunes 2, which was certified Diamond in Canada by the CRIA on March 25, 1998...

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Poe mentions Johnny again in her second album, Haunted, on the song "Dear Johnny". The Johnny in Dear Johnny is the character from the book House of Leaves

House of Leaves

House of Leaves is the debut novel by the American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published by Pantheon Books. The novel quickly became a bestseller following its March 7, 2000 release. It was followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters...

 and the song is a musical representation of the letters his mother sends him from a mental institution.

Australian CD single track listing

Length: 12 min

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 51 sec

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Track	Title	Length	Lyrics	Audio clips
01	Angry Johnny	04:16	[ link]	-
02	Dolphin	03:55	[ link]	-
03	Angry Johnny (Band Version)	04:50	[ link]	-

Personnel

1. Lyrics: Poe. Production: RJ Rice.
2. Lyrics: Poe. Production: RJ Rice & Poe (co-producer).

Charts

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1996	Angry Johnny	Modern Rock Tracks	7

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