Post Tagged with: "Jandek"

WTF?! Wednesdays: Jandek, "Bring It In A Manger" (1990)

WTF?! Wednesdays: Jandek, “Bring It In A Manger” (1990)

It is Christmas day and what better way to celebrate than to give a listen to the only Christmas song ever recorded with the word “genitals” in it. You May Also Like: How Dave Matthews Got His Groove Back on ‘Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King’ Dan Markell, “Carnival Game”Read More

WTF?! Wednesdays: Jandek, "One Last Chance" (2001)

WTF?! Wednesdays: Jandek, “One Last Chance” (2001)

Longtime readers of SER, if such an animal even exists, know that some of us like to indulge in noisy, nonsensical and just plain weird-assed music. Once in a while, we’ll encounter something from the margins that’s so beyond the pale it makes even hardened avantists like us do aRead More

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Half Notes: Jandek – Glasgow Monday DVD (2007)

by Mark Saleski Blame this one on Irwin Chusid and his book Songs in the Key of Z. His chapter on Jandek drove me to seek out Jandek’s CDs — much to the displeasure of TheWife™. I’ve been hooked ever since. Don’t let the fact that the man can’t eitherRead More

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Jandek – Chair Beside A Window (1982)

By Mark Saleski This story travels a bizarre triangle from Portland, Maine to San Diego, California to Houston, Texas. To be honest, there’s nothing particularly exciting about either the story or the music, but it illustrates just how big the world of art is…and that there are plenty of waysRead More