Jandek goes electroclash...

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...with the cover art to his latest album, "The Place":

http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~tisue/jandek-scans/covers/0772.jpg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)

best....cover...ever

― roger adultery, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

holy Jesus.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

that really is a good cover.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I do love that man. Time for me to order! And just in time for a certain project too...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, that is great...

― disco stu (disco stu), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

What a great shot, it seems totally untreated, it's really nice.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 7 August 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It probably IS totally untreated, knowing how Jandek does his cover art.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

So great.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 7 August 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

imagine if he had photoshop

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 7 August 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

thank god he doesnt use photoshop (on this evidence) - MAGNIFICENT!

― jed-e-3, Friday, 8 August 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The station wagon in the window's reflection is the really neat subtle part.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 8 August 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure he made this shot on purpose as a great deal of his album covers look like they were pooled from bad photos

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 8 August 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

This would have been a great cover to Luomo's The Present Lover

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 8 August 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

omg, mark otm

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 8 August 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

they are "bad" photos that happen to be beautifully composed but not in the way that would be deemed "successful" by the standards of typical vacation/leisure photos. overall the jandek cover-art aesthetic reminds me of the aesthetic of "found" magazine...there's a kind of sadness, a sense of a privileged moment passed, and a striking sense of color, shape, etc. in the case of "found" its the aesthetic of the editors as culled from other people's throwaways but in jandek's case i can't help but think it's not an "accident." i wish i liked his music as much as his album art!

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 8 August 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The majority of his covers are very good and excellently taken and pretty much everything you described, amateurist (White Box Requiem looks like something out of a dream).. but I was talking about covers like The Beginning.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 8 August 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I should have been clearer, what I meant to say is that there is a deliberate and wonderful aesthetic at work in those covers. You're probably dead-on that they were culled, like the photos in "Found" magazine, from "mistakes" of one kind or another, but the selection overall illustrates his good taste. The cover you just linked to is eerily beautiful.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 8 August 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, one can easily imagine less lovely and evocative "rejects" being used for album covers.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 8 August 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly. By "bad photos" I meant photos that didn't turn out, not bad-quality ones--I should have been clearer myself.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 8 August 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Still, this new album cover mesmerizes me. It's certainly the brightest Jandek cover I've ever seen; I wonder what this implies about the music (if anything).

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 8 August 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i gather not a lot - it's another in the back-to-Six and Six-ish vein..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 8 August 2003 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I havent heard the album yet, have it on order, but the cover does look good and a radical departure. I have only got into jandek in the past year and really think that he is a genius. Forget most of the crap on the Chusid compilitations, this is true 'Outsider Music' in the sense of its parent genre of 'Outsider Art', ie the production of a monumental, truly original, self contained body of work almost untouched by ourside cultural influences. Really looking forward to the doccumentary too. long may he riegn, and how great would be a piano/vocal only album? I can but dream!

― tony green, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/uploads/jandekBOX35.jpg

― homer, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

that cover for "the place" really does look look one of those storefronts in downtown houston that survived right up until superbowl preparation time. they built a little toy train on Main, right around where this pic would have been a reality not so long ago.
and maybe janet's boob killed the vibe too

― duke jaxxon, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Image broken (at least it is for me), so here's the cover for The Place again, and also the album after that, The Gone Wait:

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/tisue/jandek-scans/covers/thumb-0772.jpg http://ccl.northwestern.edu/tisue/jandek-scans/covers/thumb-0773.jpg

Meanwhile, the film Jandek on Corwood is being shown at our local art cinema in May, so maybe the print is doing the rounds of UK cinemas at the moment (if that's how these things work(?)).

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

stares down again:
http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/uploads/jandekBOX35.jpg
Box arrived from Corwood Industries. 35 cds casually dumped into a small box inside a larger box, sprinkled with assorted foam peanuts and bubble wrap. Zip code crossed out and only half re-written. One third of the cds smashed. One dark night of the soul later, I'm half way through "The Rocks Crumble." What have I gotten myself into?

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

"One third of the cds smashed."

When you say "smashed", do you mean the cases or were the CDs themselves smashed and unplayable? If so, will Jandek replace those if you send them back to him? Now that a month has gone by and you've had time to listen to all the CDs, are you happy with your Jandek collection? I'd like to know before I send off my $140 for the big box of Jandek. Anyone else's experiences dealing with Corwood would be appreciated, as it's still the the cheapest way to my knowledge to get everything at once.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sexyDancer's friend and no one ever sees him anymore. he's apparently been fully drawn into a jandekworld...so beware

― duke alone, Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

send off for the box. it has to be done

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoah hey, I'm back. They're only smashed in a charming, old sweater kind of way (the cds all work.) Worth it? It's as solid a body of work as anyone's ever created. Listening to them in order creates a certain narrative tension. By the time of the spoken-word cds you've arrived in a situation not unlike the end of Apocalypse Now. Poetic blackness. Ok, I've said enough (draws curtains)

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

jandek is the new emo.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

you sick fucks.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

voyeurs

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

jandek is not crazy, he's just in houston.

― duke 610, Thursday, 27 May 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

HEY DAN GET ME A JOB AT OTHER MUSIC WHEN I MOVE BACK TO NYC OK?

THANKS!

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 27 May 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

just for the record i have no ability to do this, and really urge those of you who are in school to finish (unlike myself).

― duke graduate, Thursday, 27 May 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually found some Jandek albms at my college radio station and played "Grandeur"!

Would have never guessed Jandek stuff got sent out to radio stations.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

He used to send us two copies of stuff!

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so frighteningly into Jandek now and I think all the "he's crazy" stuff is nonsense, dude knows exactly what he's doing. The opening track on "The Gone Wait" is so good. And the orcestration - voice & stand-up bass - oh MAN it's like all I can listen to right now except for the new Jungle Rot

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've never really bought that Jandek was insane. I think he's led an honestly troubled life, but I've always maintained that he's perfectly sane.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

j0hn, I was trying my best to explain Jandek to someone yesterdday and they said, 'Sounds like the Mountain Goats"!

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Rah! (Should I mention my Jandek-inspired story again?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there may be some secret personal connection between Mountain Goats and Jandek

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

now to start spreading rumors..

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard that if you play "Palmcorder Yajna" at loud volumes you can hear Jandek saying "aww man, this Jell-O is the shit, dude" in the background

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the voice and stand up bass thing is definitely a good sound. plus the fidelity of the recording has shot through the roof, maybe janky bought a digital 4-track?

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Thursday, 3 June 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

He seems to enjoy pure, digital silence quite a bit. Listen to the gaps!

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

That "stand-up bass" is a cheap amplified acoustic bass guitar, or so it sounds to me.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I hadn't thought of an acoustic bass guitar! they're rather more obscure than double-basses but cheapers, so maybe you're right.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

it sounds like a standup bass to me

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it's a softsynth stand-up bass patch

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

uhm seems kinda unlikely but when it comes to sterling smith who's to say?

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I love Jankek.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

haha

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

I love Jankek.

Tim, I'd JANDEK -- get it right or PAY THE PRICE, OKAY?

― Herbie Reality, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Last two covers also great:

ihttp://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0781
http://tisue.net/jandek/images/covers/thumb-0780.jpg

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

hazzard to guess when those were taken?

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

You wonder why there were all of those snapshot portraits taken of Jandek, but they all seem to date from before he started releasing records. They've always looked they were from the sixties - maybe some early '70s - to me.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Some of Seth's album synopses are enjoyable:

>Jandek plays bass again, claims to “no longer exist,” sings about drinking “mechanically produced beverages,” and announces plans to “think about breathing.” Recently he took a walk. The music seems improvised but is satisfyingly varied and tracks the varying moods of the vocals closely. During the long piece, moments of abjection or desperation occur, but they pass; mostly the voice we hear is lucid. He’s leveling with us. When he sings “I won’t drive my car for the rest of the day,” it’s a fact.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://tisue.net/jandek/images/covers/0777.jpg

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

jandek goes re-edit.........

― grady (grady), Sunday, 3 September 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

i would like to have bought it but turntable lab can bash their $20 shipping up their fucking arses

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Sunday, 3 September 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

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