Jandek On Corwood - Jandek Songs in The Film

Jandek Songs in The Film

• 1) "Ghost Town By The Sea" from Graven Image
• 2) "Naked In The Afternoon" from Ready for the House (Sample lyric: "I got a vision of a teenage daughter who's growing up naked in the afternoon")
• 3) "What Did I Hear?" from "Later On (played during spinning record visual, spiraling into center hole; snippet from printed review describing music as "suicidal void". Sample lyric: "you deceived me mister, it sure seems that way...I guess you knew that wasn't possible..I guess there's no such thing as today")
• 4) "You're The Best One" from Six and Six (Sample lyric: "you're the last one I want to see...you're one in a million")
• 5) "Niagara Blues" from The Living End (Sample lyric: "Sometimes I go to Niagara, sometimes I go to the grave")
• 6) "The Beginning" from The Beginning (solo piano, played over album cover discussion)
• 7) "They Told Me About You" from Ready for the House (discussing the Jandek on Corwood print ad)
• 8) "Om" from Somebody in the Snow (Wordless chant/cry with multiple overdubbed vocalizations, discussing theories of his mental health and reclusiveness)
• 9) "Nancy Sings" from Chair Beside a Window (discussing first use of outside musicians)
• 10) “John Plays Drums” from Your Turn to Fall
• 11) Down In A Mirror from Chair Beside a Window (discussing the way to listen to Jandek—“having a few glasses of wine and sitting down with Jandek and just listening”. Sample lyric: “we can’t deny there’s spirits in this house you shut the door the wind closes two more”)
• 12) "Upon The Grandeur" from One Foot in the North (electric guitar)
• 13) "Point Judith" from Six and Six (Representative of “1st period”. Sample lyric: “settle back easy and make up your mind to stay”)
• 14) "Governor Rhodes" from "Telegraph Melts" (Representative of “2nd period”. Sample lyric: We are here in earth in life in sky in magic in rain in love in fire in celebration)
• 15) “I Passed By The Building” from Blue Corpse (Representative of “3rd Period”)
• 16) “Rain In Madison” from Glad to Get Away (Representative of “3rd Period”.)
• 17) "I Need Your Life" from Put My Dream on This Planet (Representative of Spoken Word/A Cappella album trilogy)
• 18) "You Didn't Lie" from Nine-Thirty (Discussing mystery of Jandek as being part of the appreciation of the music. Sample lyric: “I got someplace that was very hard to get out of Didn’t get too close Wouldn’t get too close”)
• 19) "I'm Ready" from On The Way (More standard acoustic strumming and chords than typical of Jandek style.)
• 20) “Pending Doom” from I Woke Up (Texas Monthly interview. Percussion and voice only.)
• 21) "Walking In The Meadow" from White Box Requiem (Texas Monthly interview continued. Staccato plucking on acoustic guitar, no vocals.
• 22) “The Electric End” from Lost Cause
• (Another excerpt of "The Beginning" from The Beginning appears again.)
• 23) “I Went Outside” from Put My Dream on This Planet
• 24) “New Town” from New Town (Dr. Demento discussing how the Jandek story will end. Sample lyric: “I thought I would send you the last song I wrote”)
• 25) “Only Lover” from Blue Corpse (Discussing fame and the dashing of your expectations about an enigmatic person. Sample lyric: “worst I had to tell you was I followed you here”)
• 26) “I Knew You Would Leave” from Six and Six (Jandek says this is “the one that I think had the most impact out of everything so far, the one that I thought had the best poetry” in 1985 telephone interview.)