This post is part of the corrupted archives restoration and includes the old comments as text at the bottom of the post. Sorry if this is confusing.
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I’m so very pleased, as I always am when I “find” a site again I haven’t visited in a long time. I found the link to Incorrect Music [dead link] again while visiting Empty-Handed.
I’d forgotten how cool this site is. Allow me to steal their “about” blurb as a method of enticing you to visit them:
The Incorrect Music Hour, hosted by Irwin Chusid and Michelle Boulé, airs every Wednesday on WFMU from 3 to 4 p.m. We present an asylum of crackpot and visionary music, covering sounds that are atrocious, outsider, blasphemous, or just plain WRONG, from the Shaggs and Shooby Taylor to Shatner.
It’s every bit as cool as it sounds.
This site also reminded me how jealous I am that a coworker just scored a slew of Jandek LPs for next to nothing. (In fact, it may have been nothing. I was never clear on whether they were giving them away or if they were just dirt cheap). I’m quite jealous, regardless.
For those too lazy to click the link, Jandek is this mysterious fellow in Texas who’s put out 28 albums but never performs in public. His music is so, well, unusual, that many people think it’s an elaborate hoax. Admittedly, this stuff is pretty hard to listen to. It can be a little, well, monotonous.
I love this description from an article in the Phoenix:
The rewards of obsession with Jandek are discovering the variations in his oeuvre’s gray expanses that become, by comparison, as spectacular as cherry blossoms. On a few albums, a woman who might be named Nancy sings a bit (song title: “Nancy Sings”); occasionally, people wander in and play drums or another guitar, instruments that they don’t seem to have encountered before. Sometimes Jandek plays mostly electric rather than acoustic guitar; 1992’s Lost Cause includes a couple of pieces that are almost conventionally songlike, plus a 20-minute screeching blowout called “The Electric End.”
If you actually wish to track some of his work down, Forced Exposure (a company that gets way too much of our money), carries a fair amount of Jandek’s output.
A documentary is also allegedly in the works. If it’s anything like this Texas Monthly interview, in which Katy Vine tracks Jandek down and has a beer and talks allergies with the man, I can’t wait. [sadly, that link is dead]
Posted by skarlet at September 25, 2002 08:30 AM | TrackBack
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omg!!!!! Well first off, WFMU kicks ass. I am a devout fan of Fool’s Paradise and of Incorrect Music. Secondly, I can not believe that another human being on the planet aside from me and my boyfriend know who is, and like Jandek. And Thirdly, I am glad that another human tithes about 10% of their monthly paycheck to Forced Exposure, just as my father and I do.
Posted by: Mary Carmen at September 25, 2002 09:31 AM
bunny is also a enticed by mysterious Jandek. We saw a Jandek tribute CD while we were CD shopping in NJ about two years ago. We should have bought it then, since we haven’t seen it again.
I just checked on eBay and there is a copy. It featues Thurston Moore, Low and Retsin
Posted by: tom at September 25, 2002 09:36 AM
BTW, FMU is a great station. In college, I DJed at WRSU-Rutgers for 5 years and we all wanted to emulate WFMU. They played my favorite Christmas song that I am still trying to find:
“Mrs. Claus has Menopause” – Sterriles
Posted by: tom at September 25, 2002 09:40 AM
Yes, it’s true. I passed up the tribute. But I do have three Jandek albums. :)
Posted by: bunny at September 25, 2002 07:00 PM
Oh wow – I was just stopping in to say – Jandek – hey! I remember the Bunny being into Jandek when we were in college.
Hmmm. I keep forgetting he’s n Texas. I suppose I could track him down – I’ve heard several other people have found him – besides reporters, that is…
Posted by: batgrl at September 26, 2002 06:14 PM
I forgot all about that Jandek tribute album.
It would be fun to have a Jandek listening party, but I think we’d need to have a lot of liquer on hand…
Posted by: skarlet at September 27, 2002 05:32 PM
Thank you for the kind words.
Posted by: Jandek at September 27, 2002 07:42 PM
“Jandek on Corwood” film trailer is available at…
www.jandekoncorwood.com
Posted by: kisseverycomma at January 30, 2003 06:10 PM
A nice blog.
Posted by: zip codes at September 6, 2003 04:20 AM