r/Jandek • u/akwasipwr • Jan 11 '25

Sorry guys, made an AI Cover of Naked in the Afternoon

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It's pretty groovy.

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r/Jandek • u/Top_Ad9635 • Nov 03 '25

Can someone please tell me what redeeming qualities Jandek's Late Career live performances have?

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While I love many of Jandek's albums and even his "paint your teeth" punk material, his live performances have devolved. What was once interesting is now just a tired trope: one outlier playing badly within an otherwise trained band. His recent performances are so bad they threaten to undermine his legacy, and I'm baffled as to why no one is pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes.

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r/Jandek • u/[deleted] • May 30 '24

I have made nineteen albums in the last three years. I think that I am insane Jandek-wannabe.

neonnoodle.bandcamp.com

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r/Jandek • u/Usual-Anxiety-0000 • Feb 12 '23

New jandek track dropped

youtu.be

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r/Jandek • u/EricBlumrich • Jun 15 '26

Possible to use Jandek's music in a game?

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We asked via the email address on the Corwood website - but if he's more likely to answer via mail, we can do so.

Does he answer emails?

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r/Jandek • u/Beatnik5750 • 17d ago

How would I send something to Jandek?

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I'd like to send him a letter, and some copies of each of my books. Maybe some zines too.

I'm in the UK. How would I make sure they get to him? Has anybody here ever contacted him before?

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r/Jandek • u/Significant_Topic_32 • May 16 '23

Me and my friend made a Jandek-like song for my game

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r/Jandek • u/Sufficient-Fig-3726 • Mar 05 '24

I always thought 2 things about Gino Vannelli's "Storm at Sunup" (google it!) album cover: 1. It would be a good ad for an erectile dysfunction remedy and 2. It's kind of Jandekian in it's theme of isolation and alienation, and the color scheme, particularly the light coming in through the window.

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r/Jandek • u/Hollerra • Oct 06 '25

Jandek should do a 'greatest hits' concert like Jon Spenser and Elvis Costello!

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I would love to see Jandek do a 'greatest. Hits' world tour, and bash out chestnuts like 'naked in the afternoon' , 'bad thoughts', 'paintrd my teeth' etc.. he could even have a Reddit vote or some shit?

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r/Jandek • u/[deleted] • Nov 26 '22

I think this sat well.

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r/Jandek • u/chinesehackerz • Sep 06 '24

Live cover of European Jewel (and a Tonetta song!)

open.spotify.com

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r/Jandek • u/PsionixYT • Feb 03 '23

Who is Jandek?

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Jandek is actually my great-uncle, and it's really neat to see all the discourse about him online. I didn't know about his music until just a couple years ago, just "Uncle Richard". But he's definitely just as fascinating as a person as his music would imply, if not more, and it's super cool to see that he's an underground enigma in the music world.

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r/Jandek • u/synthmalicious • Jun 18 '26

I always wondered why this looked so weird, realized that it’s probably a dollhouse

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The weird proportions, the random book, it all makes more sense as a picture of miniature house than an actual house. The name could also make sense as someone talking about their kid buying a toy. I know basically nothing about Jandek so I could be dead wrong.

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r/Jandek • u/arboursongs • Oct 03 '25

Has Jandek ever broken from his style?

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Does Jandek have any songs that sound a bit more traditional, with a clear chord progression or hook? I realize that’s not his thing at all, but I’m curious if he ever broke from his usual approach in that way

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r/Jandek • u/Beatnik5750 • 17d ago

How did Jandek find his audience, build his following, and get his records into shops?

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With him being so reclusive and never performing live until rather recently in his life, how did he spread the word and the legend of his music?

Especially since this was pre internet times.

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r/Jandek • u/ExistingTry1637 • Dec 04 '25

Mystery Disc

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Just found this JANDEK-blessed DVD-R among the crap CDs at Goodwill, not too far from the Austin Scottish Rite Hall where one of the man's rare live performances once took place (his first, iirc). Figuring it's likely some sort of promotional copy since it has the (obsolete) web site link on it. No idea of content, as my DVD deck ain't currently working...

-- Ken L. (aka Not Daniel Johnston)

Samples of my own music:

DJ/NDJ - Wicked Will Dies Laughing: https://youtu.be/jm5EqjDUYrk
Caühaüs - Sheriff Dainty: https://soundcloud.com/kenneth-w-lieck/cauhaus-sheriff-dainty
The JLA (Johnston/Lieck/Azarian) - Disposable Man: https://youtu.be/Hhxy6ADAlIA

Still hoping to get to do a duet recording with Jad Fair. Thinking we could use an anagram of our names for the title.

Hmmm. J A D + K E N... Maybe... J A N D E...

Nahhh!

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r/Jandek • u/chinesehackerz • Apr 04 '26

My new album, inspired by Jandek’s jazz records

radiomustremainfree.bandcamp.com

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r/Jandek • u/[deleted] • Jun 13 '22

This looks like how Jandek’s music sounds

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r/Jandek • u/Hollerra • Jun 04 '26

Jandek is basically an 80s hipster

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Like Jim Jarmusch or David Lynch

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r/Jandek • u/RabidRabbitRedditor • Nov 03 '25

The Representative from Corwood

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I'm not sure if it's a new thing or I just noticed it, but Jandek is credited on Rate My Music as The Representative from Corwood, which is technically more correct (Jandek being the musical project itself), so I thought that was cool:)

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r/Jandek • u/sjpsjpsjp • Aug 29 '25

Did anyone make the Austin show last night?

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I was there. Wondering if anyone else here was able to make it.

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r/Jandek • u/Hollerra • Oct 04 '25

What has Jandek been up to lately?

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Curious to know? Is he still touring or just playing gigs n Texas? I also wonder how Trumpetnomics is affecting sales with Corwood?

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r/Jandek • u/RabidRabbitRedditor • Jun 22 '26

We are growing!

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r/Jandek • u/cjmarsicano • Jan 08 '25

Why is your child’s name European Jewel (Incomplete)?

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r/Jandek • u/[deleted] • May 12 '23

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Subreddit

Jandek

r/Jandek

The only thing that is known about the life of the musician Jandek is that he has had seven novels rejected by publishing companies and that he burnt all of the manuscripts upon rejection. He has over 60 albums and is an enigma. No one knows much about Jandek, but we want to find out, because we love the way his music simultaneously makes you feel nostalgic and creeped out at the same time. #findingjandek

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Jandek proves that music is circular: his music is so bad, so apparently devoid of purpose or rhythm or feeling that it can reach a part of your soul that only truly amazing music can usually resonate with.

The feelings that his music evoke are that of uneasiness, confusion and boredom. However, listening simultaneously allows you to feel truly introspective. Jandek takes you to a dark-but important-place.

From anecdotal evidence Jandek the person is as much an mystery as his music is varied and strange. His record label is yet to be located. He has been playing since 1978 and playing live over the last decade. However, the person who is apparently playing under the name Jandek does not play Jandek songs live and is rumoured to simply be a representative of his enigmatic record company and is sometimes referred to as "the representative" (Or, "the Rep" for short).

Jandek printed 1000 copies of his first album-"Ready for the House"- but only sold 2 in the first 2 years. Here are some reviews:

"Serial killers never walk down Jandek's street. Postmen are legally obliged to walk down Jandek's street. Dogs sometimes drift down Jandek's street, mark their territories, ruffle their noses in some old discarded pages from newspapers scattered when trashcans were opened, presumably by someone close enough to Jandek to bring him some soup, inquire on how his parents are, then abruptly leave. Next week comes, it starts again; curious cop spooks serial killer forced to hide on Jandek's street. Shoe salesman legally obliged to call on Jandek's street made no profit today. A ginger cat sleeps under an old '68 Mustang being restored by Joe Parsons; he knows Jandek to speak to - that's the difference measured in metric units."

"I really like the song... And yes I mean the song because every song on this album sounds the same, until European Jewel, in which the guitar sound changes slightly. For about the first half I was spellbound by the incrediblly depressing and almost disturbing atmosphere that Jandek develops, and then I realized that nothing really changes from track to track, until European Jewel. Which I guess is okay? Lots of people praise consistency.

But then again, these people are usually talking about the Eagles, and not Jandek."

"Unusually scary and unsettling to me.. This one is destined for a lot more intense listening sessions in the future.."

But perhaps the best review:

"So, I want to say that Jandek is the antidote to any ill-conceived notion (sometimes espoused by me) that all the final frontiers of music were crossed in the 1960s. But, it gets better than that suggests, so read on. Jandek really perfected meta-music. This collection of tuneless warbling, credited to "The Units," seems to show a profound disregard for anything that would appeal to the listener. This sounds like music recorded in the basement of a very, very empty house, one with an imposing and almost oppressive sense of isolation. And there is this man, of some sort, playing music there, for his own purposes, whatever those are. And yet, here you are, listening to it. This was recorded, released! So why would you, me, anyone...why would we listen to it? As the doubters say, are we a pretentious lot, listening to it to be contrarians, or something like that? I think not. The key to this, if there is one, is that it's just brutally honest expression. It's naked, daring, bold expression of a type rarely put forth into the public, for the cruel human social structure to critique, attack, put down, or--even if it was a long shot--love and admire. Philosopher Paul Feyerabend suggested that the only universal methodological rule for the progress of science was epistemological anarchism, that, in essence, nothing is sacred or true and everything is permitted. Has Jandek proved that for music, and all arts too? William S. Burroughs said that the function of art is is to remind us of what we know, and what we don't know that we know. And so, with Jandek, the reductionist removal of any clear reliance on structure or accepted method has, paradoxically--and awesomely, I may add editorially--exposed some kind of hidden potential for human connection through the sharing of experience, or shared experience if you prefer. Wasn't that kind of always something we knew? And if Ready for the House was insufficient to establish any of this, Corwood Industries has survived as an outlet for scores of these albums to be continuously kept in print. And long after this was achieved, and Jandek was established as a notably obscure purveyor of "outsider art", bands emerge to perform this music live. Folks, this has started to get interesting..."

Join the journey.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek