Favorite Jandek song?

[RandomKoolzip]

Mine is either "Sailors," "Message to the Clerk" or "Nancy Sings."

Everybody's got one; what's yours?

http://tisue.net/jandek/

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. He's the ultimate outsider artist.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Yeah, but have you ever heard his music?

I have a bunch of his records and I like them unironically.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. Nope. He's the guy people mention when they talk about

'ultimate outsider artist'.
I got lost past Wesley Willis, myself.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. I'm a big fan of "outsider music."

www.incorrectmusic.com

I'll take Y. Bhekhirst or Jandek over Franz Ferdinand anyday of the week.

[quispquake]

5. I just saw the movie "Jandek on Corwood" a coupla weeks back...

They showed it at the Maine Int'l Film Festival at the Opera House (holds 900 people...maybe 25 showed up).

It was very good, although Jandek himself wasn't interviewed...an interesting synopsis of someone that the filmmakers couldn't get a handle on...

[RandomKoolzip]

7. Yeah, it played at the Chicago Underground Film Fest a week ago....

And I couldn't see it because of my goddamaned job.

Jandek is a guy named Sterling Smith, who lives in Houston....all other information is speculation. (He could be a Bush relative, for all we know...)

[asthmaticeog]

6. From the "On The Way" LP

"I'll Sit Alone and Think a Lot About You." Lovely.

"The Electric End" (the INSANE noise jam that takes up all of side 2 of "Lost Cause") is pretty amazing, too.

On Edit: Byron, I'm genuinely surprised that you don't know Jandek's work. He's on a far higher eschelon than Wesley, really. If you want me to send you some tapes, PM me.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. "On the Way" is really good.

but I think my favorite stuff is the early, solo stuff, like "Sailors" and "Telegraph Melts." I heard that recently he got into a capella music. Haven't heard it, but I'm sure it horrifies the right people.

He's no joke. Wesley Willis, you could say, kinda was, even though he was also pretty amazing in his own right. Jandek is the real deal.

[asthmaticeog]

9. Yes, I guess there are three

a capella records by now. I haven't heard them, either. Frankly, I'm kind of scared.

Did you ever see the one known Jandek interview? Some Texas journo ran him down and spoke with him at length an a variety of subjects. When she brought up the Jandek records, he declined to speak any further and asked that the reporter please not contact him again. I saw it online a few years ago, but furious Googling hasn't turned it up for me again, so sorry no link.

It was really sad that Wesley Willis was never in a position to understand that he'd become a joke. I enjoyed his performances (I even recieved a coveted head-butt once!), but mostly, audiences gathered for the spectacle and to poke fun, which is a shame, because I consider "Cut the Mullet" to be one of the best songs ever.

On edit: I found the interview! I got the above story a bit wrong, but anyway: http://www.geocities.com/bradleybee/jiview.html