Which are your favorites, or which would you recommend to a Jandek n00b?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I second the recommendation for 'You Walk Alone' ... fairly accessible, bluesy, it sounds kinda like early Royal Trux
― Plunge Protection Team, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
some other fave tracks of mine so far not noted:
"Governor Rhodes" from Telegraph Melts (this is a good album as a whole)"Jessica" from Later On"This Is A Death Dream" from Nine-Thirty
but like Ned said these albums are best thought of as a continuum or narrative arc, they are pieces of a whole.
I would also put in another vote for the acapella Put My Dream On This Planet, that was my pick in the poll.
POLL Beside A Window: The Best Jandek Album poll!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm assuming this is fake. But hilarious nonetheless. Anyone here speak Portuguese?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGpqac9n0K8
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
What's the name of the first album by the North American musician Jandek.
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol um yeah I figured that part out...
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
He's sold out:
http://www.corwoodindustries.com
― margana (anagram), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
That site's been around for eons.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry but you're wrong, it's new and it's his own site.
― margana (anagram), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, his music has gotten so commercial lately.
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey at least somebody's pushing Bruno Mars and Katy Perry off the top of the charts...
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
xxpost Oh right. I was thinking of jandek.com. Still, that one has been around for years and that's his site too.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
lol imagine losing the million dollar question on Jandek and when back home checking some mp3's! (RIP contestant)
― Ludo, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
my wife's thoughts:
"this person always comes up on shuffle...... FUCK this person's terrible.... i recognize it, but it's terrible, it sounds like this guitar is terribly out of tune, and secondly, the production on this is very bad... UGH jandek..... terrible"
― the new mordant & zingy ilxor persona (ilxor), Saturday, 29 January 2011 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
she should hear this recent one Toronto Sunday - Duality of Self, Jandek does new age synth meditations. first disc is chill, second is dark, it's quite astounding.
― herbal bert (herb albert), Saturday, 19 February 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
thankfully a company has repressed a few of his early records, this should continue, more power to them
― Doggie Diner, Friday, 25 February 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i52.tinypic.com/n6osg7.jpg
plus all new #0759 JANDEK EMOTICON for all your IM needs
http://i53.tinypic.com/5zfbq9.png
(credit to me)
― jumpskins, Monday, 28 February 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Guessing the the idea that all shows will eventually been issued has been abandoned? Did I remember that right?
― Mark, Monday, 28 February 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
No he's still putting them out. The last one came out in December. The wait time is about four years though.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Monday, 28 February 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&ID=723
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― am0n, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
This thread revival inspired me to pull out the copy of Portland Thursday I had fished out of the dollar bin but had yet to listen to. This is weird but strangely appealing.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
with all this the best thing about that Wilson guy is that he made like 68 folk albums of his own atonal music. As well.
― Ludo, Saturday, 19 May 2012 06:53 (twelve years ago) link
with those sealed vinyl records I tend to wonder, does he know if the proper lp is inside? They might be Herb Alpert lp's
will spin Your Turn To Fall this morning (no pun intended) in honor of Naythen
― Ludo, Saturday, 19 May 2012 06:59 (twelve years ago) link
Jandek goes beard rock
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/assets_c/2012/07/Jandek%20July%2013%208-thumb-560x373.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
new theory -- garth hudson is jandekhttp://www.richarddowdy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Garth-Hudson-The-Band1.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
has Jandek become a band with somebody else singing? I just picked up a live set from last week that has a female singer. & presumably the individual who I thought was called Jandek on guitar under the name Coorwood Rep.I'm not that familiar with his previous work but I thought the Jandek ouevre was put out by an individual called Jandek with occasional augmentation by other players. & maybe occasional chord changes.
what's next the Jandek franchise?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
well prior to the live shows everyone assumed that the guy on the covers was Jandek. it was a natural assumption to make but he never actually stated outright that he was Jandek. And since the live shows started happening he has never referred to himself by that name and neither have any of the promoters and whatnot who have been involved. he is "a representative of corwood industries". In theory Jandek is the name of the project. When the live CDs are released he stipulates no credits to individual musicians. In practice many people still refer to the person as Jandek and that's fine as well.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 09:28 (eleven years ago) link
Jandek has had the odd collaborator in the past, perhaps most famously the classic Nancy Sings, one of the most beautiful Corwood songs.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
his Country & Western Revue show in Easthampton, MA last year had a female singer who was great. duets w/ Jandek is a pretty awesome task
― llurk, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
he played bass for that show, accompanied by full band w/ slide quitar.
― llurk, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
New album Mazes Of The Phantom has become my new "background music to program to." A review out there references early-70s Euro-free-jazz and that's not too far off of a description. Can't wait for his Krautrock phase.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 30 September 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
Happy 67th birthday to Sterling R. Smith!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 October 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
super excited for this! jandek documentary about a show he played in minnesota, old friend of mine plays drums at the show being documented:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu_BbUk5uiY
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 March 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
obligatory RSD release:
http://www.jackpotrecords.com/events/2013/02/18/jandek-rsd-2013-box-set/
― my cat is an eliane radigue (get bent), Friday, 15 March 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I wish he'd get faster at releasing the live shows. I'd kill to hear that Davis or Irvine show again.
I particularly love the songs from the Irvine show that sounded like fucked up Minutemen, where he'd say something serial killer-y like "I'm coming after you. Coming to get you. You can't get away" and then let Mike Watt do his thing.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Friday, 15 March 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
It did nothing for me when he joined Kan Mikami & Alex Neilson on Friday night (except cause wishes that he'd not bothered), but the set as the original Glasgow live trio of Jandek with Alex Neilson and Richard Youngs last night was killer in a noisy, discordant, free-rock kind of way - I loved it! Some choice lyrics, especially the cupcakes song (seriously).
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8099/8626590915_79f2045f4e_z.jpgJandek with Alex Neilson and Richard Youngs at Counterflows 2013 by Crimson Glow Photography, on Flickr
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 7 April 2013 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
it was good to see jandek getting down on the dance floor after the gig. he had some good moves.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 7 April 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
I was sorry to have to leave straight after the set, but I was completely exhausted. Would have loved to have taken part in that.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 7 April 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently Jandek's new album is a 9CD set (only $32!) - each disc is a single hour-long track.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
This must be the "piano suites" there was talk about last fall...
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
who wants to do an ilx pre-cover of this album
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
As seen on Twitter http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNs6AhWCUAAku1v.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
^^^ best party music
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
early word is it sounds exactly like bruce hornsby
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
I liked "The Beginning" (16-or so minute solo piano piece from the CD of the same name) but I don't need 9 hours' worth, thanks.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
I do.
― Romantic style in da world (crüt), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
http://i.prs.to/t_200/ecm8430282.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
nocturne one is about morgan fairchildnocturne two is about morgan spurlock
― paula deezen (get bent), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
nocturne 6 is about captain morgannocturne 9 is about morgan freeman
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link