Jandek is a box of smoke. Open it and...*poof*.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
did you call me a poof?
― electricsound, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Twenty years ago I came across Jandek records and was naturally pretty miffed. Then I read some short article in Option, I believe. Seemed like an interesting oddity. Then lost touch with it. Then ran across that Jandek on Corwood film, which I thought managed to express both a sincere appreciation and still keep its wits about the situation. I thought Doug Wolk did a very good job balancing his analysis, as opposed to the Half Japanese movie The Band That Would Be King where Cosloy and Coley came off like pompous assclowns (OK, Byron you don't own any Beatle records, you're really cool) and Half Japanese sounded like a bad joke.
But then I read that Jandek was out performing and it seemed so wrong. As if the concept finally ran its course and was now something else that didn't quite work. I dunno. I'd be curious how others see it.
That's my longwinded way of asking: how do you feel about Jandek in 2007?
― smurfherder, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw a show, it was fair, but ultimately kind of boring (though I am very glad I went). But I have been listening to Manhattan Tuesday though and it sounds pretty nice.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
McJandek.
― Gorge, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm fucking greater than Jandek, and I can't play much either. Here's a whole album on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVfydUa-I78
I don't get Jandek.
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 9 February 2008 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I agree, it would've been much cooler if the man just had quit at some point and enter total obscurity (again) (not even reprinting sold out records)
― Ludo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"cooler"
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
surely you are also greater than jackson pollock and william carlos williams
don't sell yourself short
xxp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
:)
― Ludo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm humble by nature.
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 9 February 2008 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
so much depends on my wallowing in internal whimsy I again
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 9 February 2008 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
is this ilm jandek street team day or somethuing?
― Crackle Box, Saturday, 9 February 2008 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
there are jandeks in my area. my favourite jandek lives in a house in the middle of nowhere with all the windows boarded up. there are rusty old instruments everwhere, red lights, the place stinks of chai tea. 100s (maybe 1000s?) of cassettes of stuff he's recorded. lovely guy. listens to a love supreme a lot.
― Crackle Box, Saturday, 9 February 2008 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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