I listened to this record last night and it reminded me of an entertaining,but deranged, version of Crosby,Stills,and Yaaaawwwn!? The night before, it suggested the Eagles on Angel Dust, as heard by a paranoid schizophrenic on 'The Chemical Cosh' medication.
Tonight, it sounds like a pretty sophisticated Jandek record, with a bunch of excellent,but casually stapled together, distintegrating country rock tunes. If only country music was this affecting, instead of being the most pointless drivel still floating in the toilet of Pop.
We get Nancy's sister,Pat, back for another stab at being Jandek's lead singer for a few tracks. She ain't too bad at it either;though she isn’t as strong a singer as her sister, may I add?
The acappella track “Om” sticks out, with its 'Rosemary's baby' vibe, and “Bring It In a Manger”, is definitely one of the best Christmas songs ever, and certainly the only one with the word “genitals” in it.
A very consistent and listenable Jandek album to kick off the Nineties.
Tracklist:
A1 Tell Me Who You Are 3:48
A2 Come Through With A Smile 5:52
A3 I May Not Be Around 2:03
A4 Pastimes 3:15
A5 Om 2:27
A6 Bring It In A Manger 2:17
B1 Walking Around 2:48
B2 Sense Of Reason 2:00
B3 Remind You 2:32
B4 Corner Of The Street 2:51
B5 Stick With Me 2:42
B6 What You Give Me 3:05
B7 You Sing A Song 1:33
B8 Walking Home 2:03
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3 comments:
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Nice review, OM is truly amazing...
I realize you don't really 'check in' here these days, but just want to leave an all purpose 'thank you thank you thank you' for the many tapes and records I would never have heard without your efforts. This comment isn't actually about 'Somebody in the Snow' by Jandek, as unlike so many recordings --- Door and Window and Here and Now and Chorchazade and 'Vibing Up The Senile Man' --- I actually owned most of the pre-LIVE Jandek era records before the 'Blogging Era', but then it IS about this particular Jandek LP because, as I often do, I was listening to this particularly good record and wondered what you had written about it, and as usual, I found your mini-review to be on point and interesting: in other words, it's not only the free downloads that make dieordiy2 such a great resource, but your words so I'm glad you decided to leave the blog up even after transferring the links to archive dot org, after all, the historical information and scans and opinions took a lot of work to pull together and it remains a terrific reference source. So thanks again!
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