Glasgow Monday is surprisingly good....some nice (dare I say pretty?) piano playing by Jandek, creepy bowed bass and percussion work for that "signature" skeletal Jandek sound
only record of his I find enjoyable to listen to, at least in certain contexts
― Malcolm Money, Saturday, 9 February 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Choice quotes from a recent Jandek concert review (appearing in full at http://blogs.denverpost.com/reverb/2008/07/29/jandek-the-bug-theatre/)
"He didn't seem like someone who enjoys humanity buzzing in his ear. When performing, it seemed as though he was unaware that he was standing in a roomful of people."
"The formula, if there was one, reminded me of childhood, when I would make up a tune with friends and we'd sing along in sentences, giggling because we weren't rhyming and weren't trying to. This was adult playtime, and with feeling: the scatterbrain rhythms and breathy backing vocals didn't make much sense, but they held a world-weariness that children can't fake."
"You should have seen the veins bulge and quiver in that skinny man's neck every time he prolonged a note. But the voice was just a voice, neither husky nor high, and the words hung dead in the air, chilly and flat against the fuss in the background. Suddenly, he began to smile and move in the direction of Ms. Gould, who I could see was also smiling. The two smiles became grins; they held for a moment, and dissolved as the slim figure slunk back to his post."
― zero of the signified, Thursday, 14 August 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the "jandek vs. mariah" comment below the article.
― get bent, Thursday, 14 August 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
jandek is awful. what is this guy's appeal? you know, beyond the 'mystery'
― res, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
some of the best depression music i have ever heard!
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Well he's not exactly a mystery anymore...
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
lol that comment should have ended with "you never her."
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
eh?
In a gray, discordant, and broken sort of way there's a lotta feeling here. If you're into gray, discordant, and broken music. There are times and places where I really enjoy that. Sometimes he reminds me of very early Fall, like some of the murkier bits on Dragnet, taken several steps farther.
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
this thread is helpful
anyone out there familiar w/ jandek?
― Edward III, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i meant the mariah comment on the article page, not yours.
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2384/2447563431_0548976d42.jpg?v=0
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link
miniature family anecdotes
― HOOS wearing bitchmade sweaters and steendriving (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:26 (fifteen years ago) link
hoos how is that applicable here
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:39 (fifteen years ago) link
twas a mere lol mam
― HOOS wearing bitchmade sweaters and steendriving (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:46 (fifteen years ago) link
ready for the butt
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 14 December 2008 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Butts For Jandek
― krakow, Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tisue.net/jandek/images/covers/0790.jpg
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tisue.net/jandek/images/covers/0790.jpghttp://tisue.net/jandek/images/covers/0790.jpghttp://tisue.net/jandek/images/covers/0790.jpg
how is that btw
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
if i ever see jandek in person, i will likely beat him with a 2x4.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw him in a pub wearing his Jandek hat. I didn't beat him.
― Glansel & Gretel (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link
xposts. pretty good, although I find it hard to rate Jandek albums because I'm thrown when trying to find a criteria to judge them by. Except that I prefer the ones like this that are just him on acoustic guitar and vocals. also because i never listen to any of his albums extensively because i need to be in the right mood or it just jars.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
that cover is really something tho.
He's an absolute genius with album covers-- such a singular, evocative aesthetic. He's never made a bad one in 40 or however the hell many releases.
― Mark, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
yes. i particularly like the one that shows the side of his house. oh yeah, and the one with dingy old furniture.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Agreed.
― Mark, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Jandek = Boo Radley
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:01 (fifteen years ago) link
did Jandek go to prison recently? because the covers to "Raining Down Diamonds" and "Khartoum" suggest that he has converted to Islam.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
those albums came out in '05 but the pictures are a lot older, from the 80s or early 90s.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
his recent photos kind of make him look like a cancer patient or something.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 03:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yes and there was speculation that he may have been suffering from sort of illness and that that may have been the catalyst by him playing his first live show in 2004.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm, maybe he would have been a good death pool pick, it would have been another idol to condemn.
― krakow, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link
That is another classic cover for sure.
Saw him in Portland a couple years back with my nurse girlfriend who said he sure looked like a cancer survivor. To me he looked almost like a ghost, appropriately.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Seems as if Mandy Moore has become taken with Jandek. From her Twitter:
"jandek?? who are you?? i'm utterly fascinated. this grey sunday am isfitting for a bit of his dissonance. off to find out more....7:59 AMAug 16th from web "
Guide to Jandek swami Seth Tisue found this possible connection:
"In addition to countless projects on his own Slang Sanctuary label,[Brian Jones] played drums on Mandy Moore’s latest album and sat in withobscure outsider musician Jandek for a show back in March."
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
also Ryan Adams, prolly.
Jandek getting love from Hollywood Disney (probably confusing her here with some other Herbie babe) chicks. this is going too far.
i bet Mandy didn't make it trough the end of the Ruins of Adventure (one of his recent outings, i hardly didn't and i heard his fkn entire oeuvre)
was liking Manhattan Tuesday and Brooklyn Wednesday on a Jandek marathon last weekend.
― Ludo, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
from up threadHe's an absolute genius with album covers-- such a singular, evocative aesthetic. He's never made a bad one in 40 or however the hell many releases.
actually hating the cover of Ruins of Adventure as WELL (it's just a zoom in, how uninspirational is that)
also, i can't be the only Jandek fan who thinks he should not have played Glasgow on Friday again, since he then had to put out a Glasgow Friday 2005 cd, which is stupid, should've just played on thursday.
― Ludo, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
So I've heard this guy's name mentioned over the years, yeah okay, dude releases a ton of albums, I never really investigated. I've been playing a ton of Keiji Haino and Loren Connors and Christina Carter and such lately, and I've heard the guy's name in the same circles enough now that I finally decided, what the hell, and picked up two albums -- Ready for the House, and Chair Beside a Window. Please tell me about these. How does the rest of his catalog compare? Do all the records sound like this? Or does his sound vary a bunch more than I am anticipating? I've heard talk of an electric Jandek, an acapella Jandek, etc. -- what's worth looking into if these first two stick (and so far, I'm not really sure)?
Thanks all.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 22 August 2009 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
It does vary and if you get into him hardcore you will never come back. (Says the guy who has close to fifty CDs...)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 August 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost Late-eighties/early-nineties are possibly the best. Yes, the sound varies, but Chair Beside a Window comes close to the blueprint for what people have thought of as a Jandek album. Faves:
On the WayOne Foot in the NorthLost Cause
I haven't heard most latter period Jandek (mid-nineties and on, which encompasses a capella and I think piano instrumentals), although I've heard enough to know that his voice deepens noticeably.
I don't know if he's still doing the $80 for 20 CDs thing (which included shipping). Has anyone seen the catalog lately? Seth Tisue's site probably says something. Used to be the only resource for news on him.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 22 August 2009 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Mandy Moore! I <3 her.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 22 August 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Cool, thanks for the recommendations, bamcquern.
Ned, which albums are your favs?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 22 August 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
we had a Jandek poll, but too bored to look it up.
anyway Chair Beside a Window is a classic, lots of variation.
Ready for the House is like the archetype.
Jandek had a bluesy band middle-period: Blue Corpse and You Walk Alone* are highly recommended as well.
*The Cat That Walked From Shelbyville is probably my favourite Jandek track ever.
― Ludo, Saturday, 22 August 2009 07:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Much appreciated!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Ready for the House and Chair Beside a Window are both very early Jandek, so you could check out a few more from that period before investigating other periods further.
I personally like The Rocks Crumble, Blue Corpse, One Foot In The North and Six And Six
Lots of guidance here (as mentioned before): http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html
― Duke, Saturday, 22 August 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
cd disc $8.00* 2 disc cd $12.00** dvd disc $16.00 *** box set $20.0020 or more any mix 50% discountinternational orders add $1.00 per itemprepaid onlyshipping paid by corwood
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I ordered the discography for 100 or so dollars a few years ago.came loosely tossed with a few sytrofoam chips in a half-empty box.one of the greatest american novels ever written
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Saturday, 22 August 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
the acapella albums are fucking amazing stuff.
― ian, Saturday, 22 August 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Ned, which albums are your favs?― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor)
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor)
Thanks to everyone else as well, btw. This has been really helpful!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 23 August 2009 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I was going to say, I didn't actually much about favorite albums! (I don't know if I have one -- it's all part of a great continuum.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 August 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
In Septembber he's playing in Europe! http://incubate.org/2009/act/115
― joost666, Monday, 24 August 2009 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link