1986: JANDEK- "FOLLOW YOUR FOOTSTEPS", LP 1ST PRESS NM
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Dec 28, 2009
Sold Date
Dec 21, 2009
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1986: JANDEK - "FOLLOW YOUR FOOTSTEPS"; 1ST EDITION PRESSING! NM LP! ULTRA RARE! (CORWOOD ENTERPRISES)
This is a NM LP (actually, it's never been played, I opened the cellophane on it) in a cover with some water damage in the lower corners (front and back). It's fairly noticeable on the front, less so on the back, bringing this otherwise clean and firm cover down to a VG. But, this is an ultra rare original pressing, and highly sought after, by collectors! The longest-running, weirdest, loneliest enigma in popular music is a guy from Texas who calls himself Jandek. He has never performed in public. He has never willingly given an interview, though a reporter from Texas Monthly tracked him down a few months ago (they chatted about allergies and gardening, and he politely told her that he never wanted to be contacted in person about Jandek by anybody again). All his albums have a fuzzy photograph on the front cover, of a man or part of a house or some curtains. The back covers have his name, the album title, the track titles and times, and Corwood's address, all typeset in the same nondescript font -- except for 1991's "One Foot in the North", which uses a sort of Chinese-restaurant font. That's it: that's all anyone knows.
And what does his music sound like? Like pure desolation. Jandek is not just solo but profoundly alone on most of his recordings, picking distractedly at a guitar tuned to no particular notes, moaning in no particular key about thinking and love and wandering around and staying in the same place and God. Beyond that, there's just emptiness -- each off-key ping floats out separately into black space. Sometimes Jandek sounds as if he'd internalized the grimmest death-letter blues of the '20s and is pulling them back out of himself, thoroughly dismembered, hair by hair. His songs have no choruses, no hooks, no melodies, no rhythms, no internal progression, nothing but the inexorable Chinese-water- torture plod of Samuel Beckett's The Unnameable: "I can't go on, I'll go on."
Some people who hear Jandek think it's some kind of put-on -- but it's hard to imagine a joke's being maintained so scrupulously for more than 20 years of recording and releasing and the same post-office box. Most people simply find it unbearable: it's certainly monotonous and deeply unpretty and (for the most part) uncathartic and all but completely structureless. And then there are the people who can hardly stand to listen to anything else for days or weeks on end, who obsess over the mystery of Jandek. (I find myself sometimes in the second category and sometimes in the third.)
On this particular LP, the solo numbers with acoustic 12-string and intense vocals are hard to top, but the drum-guitar duo that starts the first side has its own kind of ambience that is also priceless. What we have here is a record but more than that, part of a career that comes to us almost rolled up in a time capsule. It is about only itself and makes everything else irrelevant.
The most song-oriented Jandek yet, with genuine rhythms & strums, percussion so minimal as to be near nonexistent, a rare second guitar or vocals. Sorta like Phil Spector’s worst nightmare.
The tracks:
Side 1:
1. Honey
2. What Do You Want to Sing
3. Jaws of Murmur
4. Preacher
5. Didn’t Ask Why
6. Leave All You Have
Side 2:
1. I Know You Well
2. Dearly Need Some Words
3. Straight Thirty Seconds
4. Bring on Fatima
5. For Today
6. Collection
7. We’re All Through
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