― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:58 (9 years ago) Permalink
I'll have to set aside some time to read your stuff, Ned...
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:47 (9 years ago) Permalink
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― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:44 (7 years ago) Permalink
Jandek is a box of smoke. Open it and...*poof*.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
did you call me a poof?
― electricsound, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
McJandek.
― Gorge, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
"cooler"
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 9 February 2008 09:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
:)
― Ludo, Saturday, 9 February 2008 11:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm humble by nature.
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 9 February 2008 11:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
so much depends on my wallowing in internal whimsy I again
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 9 February 2008 11:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
is this ilm jandek street team day or somethuing?
― Crackle Box, Saturday, 9 February 2008 13:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
i like the "jandek vs. mariah" comment below the article.
― get bent, Thursday, 14 August 2008 04:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
jandek is awful. what is this guy's appeal? you know, beyond the 'mystery'
― res, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
some of the best depression music i have ever heard!
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
Well he's not exactly a mystery anymore...
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol that comment should have ended with "you never her."
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
this thread is helpful
anyone out there familiar w/ jandek?
― Edward III, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
i meant the mariah comment on the article page, not yours.
― tehresa, Thursday, 14 August 2008 14:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
miniature family anecdotes
― HOOS wearing bitchmade sweaters and steendriving (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
hoos how is that applicable here
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
twas a mere lol mam
― HOOS wearing bitchmade sweaters and steendriving (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
ready for the butt
― that karate douche (â•“abies), Sunday, 14 December 2008 10:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (10 months ago) Permalink
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 (10 months ago) Permalink
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 (10 months ago) Permalink
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 (10 months ago) Permalink
he played bass for that show, accompanied by full band w/ slide quitar.
― llurk, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
Happy 67th birthday to Sterling R. Smith!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 October 2012 16:43 (6 months ago) Permalink
super excited for this! jandek documentary about a show he played in minnesota, old friend of mine plays drums at the show being documented:
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 March 2013 19:03 (2 months ago) Permalink
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 (2 months ago) Permalink
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 (2 months ago) Permalink
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).
Jandek with Alex Neilson and Richard Youngs at Counterflows 2013 by Crimson Glow Photography, on Flickr
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 7 April 2013 11:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
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 (1 month ago) Permalink
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 (1 month ago) Permalink