Dunno if Jandeks father ever existed, but if he did , and advised his son to make some 'Hits', this is what it would sound like.It seems that Jandek doesn't want to walk alone after all?
Lyrically and vocally, its still the same old Jandek, so its not all bad; as is the music therapy Beefheartian drumming. Its just the conventional sounding songcraft, the tunefull guitar, and there even appears to be a few melodies lurking menacingly.
Don't get me wrong, this would still have your nearest normal screaming for you to turn it off.
Tracklist:
| A1 | Lavender | 3:37 |
| A2 | Time And Space | 7:15 |
| A3 | The Cat That Walked From Shelbyville | 6:23 |
| A4 | Quinn Boys II | 4:00 |
| B1 | The Way That You Act | 4:25 |
| B2 | I Know The Times | 3:11 |
| B3 | When The Telephone Melts | 9:09 |
| B4 | War Dance | 4:05 |
DOWNLOAD this walk alone HERE!
2 comments:
So on one hand you compare Jandek's most dissonant material with highly regarded musicians like Arto Lindsay and Lee Renaldo and then when he makes an album that has tighter playing than many punk bands and is certainly more traditional than a lot of the music by the aforementioned guitarists, it's considered as having no musical ability whatsoever? So it's both too conventional and also too devoid of musical ability and all of this adds up to mean.......? Do you actually see some sort of sensible logic path in that? It sure whizzes the fuck past me!
I had this album playing when a nearby Normal shouted, "What the fuck is this shit? Turn it off!" & I replied, "It's Jandek you dick-fuck!" so then they went over to the stereo & smashed it up into little bits & pieces.
"Not anymore!" said the Normal.
The end.
Post a Comment