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The Strange Case of Jandek: Analysis of 'Naked in the Afternoon'
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2018
- Composer Samuel Andreyev analyzes the song 'Naked in the Afternoon' from Jandek's first album, Ready for the House.
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I knew that if there was anyone who could explain Jandek to me, it would be Special Agent Dale Cooper.
I do love coffee.
I wonder how Gordon Cole would react to hearing Jandek 🧐
this album could definitely exist in a david lynch universe
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Bullshit.
Total. Fucking. Bullshit.
@@obamastrollaccount4359 he sounds like Lynch. if you haven't, listen to Lynch's vocals on songs such as Ghost Of Love.
I wasn't ready for the house
That was fun. Some fallible memories it jogged:
Robert Wyatt commenting on punkrockers using detuned guitars. Something like "I think its a great way of experimenting on the cheap. The notes between the notes - we're hitting them!"
Mark E Smith: "Rock & roll isn’t even music really. It’s a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over."
The anonymity/obscurity thing made me think of The Residents. Everyone should hear The Third Reich 'n Roll at least once.
you're a hercules of music criticism for successfully lifting this one. i've always liked the urban myth/outsider art aspect of jandek but seeing someone actually dig the meat out of the music was amazing. i wouldn't have bet on any odds that jandek's guitar had an actual tuning.
I feel like jandek is standing just off frame with a gun pointed at you
naked
if you decipher his eye blinks using morse code he's saying help me i'm being held hostage by jandek. send three and fourpence we're going to a dance. (not sure i got the last bit right! )
I had the pleasure of getting hired by him to film his performance at El Club in Detroit last year. Him and his wife (or partner?) were so pleasant and chill, really enjoyed that experience. I had no clue who he was prior to that date really.
Lucky you. I would be thrilled to meet Jandek. I'm grateful to him for having sent me all those amazing CDs.
Unrelated side note, I ended up on this vid because Jordan P just shared it on Facebook!
Glad you found your way here.
@@samuel_andreyev I was on Jandek concert in Dublin, Ireland in 2008. It was the third or so of his live performances.
Daniel Gruszka seriously ? via jp ?
Listening to his music is like watching a David Lynch movie
Precisely
Lynch’s music isn’t all that dissimilar to this stuff.
Hi everyone. I recently purchased a much better camera but have not quite perfected my set up yet. I'm working on it -- the next videos should look and sound better than this one. Thanks for all your comments, suggestions and requests.
Samuel Andreyev have you done any Scott Walker?
Jandek is bizarre but i like people who do exactly what they want despite other people
This is why I love him too. I bought a buncha albums from Corwood. He's a nice guy
Jandek is my favorite artist, and I'm almost always displeased by the approach people take when writing/filming about the project. Thank you for not only a well balanced approach, but a dense and insightful look.
What a pleasant surprise! I adore Jandek and his first album is unsettlingly hypnotic. Thanks for analyzing this song of his, great choice.
unsettlingly hypnotic is a good description. To me (as a musician) it's inspiring to hear someone using music in such an original way.
my man be blinking (great vid Jandek is incredibly interesting)
he do be blinking
i feel like jandek took acid, went on a bad trip, and came up with the entire album in like 3 hours.
Check out the documentary "Jandek on Corwood." It's incredible.
Jandek is like a 5,000 piece jig saw puzzle. There only 300 known pieces scattered throughout the U.S. We are not even sure if these 300 pieces fit together with each other.
Gosh you are the greatest youtuber on TH-cam. Jandek interests me tremendously. Thank you so much for your videos
I first heard of Jandek (several tracks from "You Walk Alone") listening to WFMU in New Jersey over thirty years ago. Weeks later, I was at a record store in Montclair, NJ. Although I had no idea what he looked like, I instanly recognized the clerk as R. Stevie Moore when he began talking. We talked about music for a while. I picked out a few LP's and was thrilled to find a copy of "You Walk Alone" in the bins so of course I bought it.
Thank you so much for the insightful and interesting video!
not only blues, but when i listened to some of jandek's early stuff. oddly enough the guitar reminded me of japanese kabuki music stuff as well.
Whoa i didn't expect this at all, but am extremely happy to see it.
I first learned of Jandek when my favorite musician, Emil Amos, described what playing drums with the man was like during a live show in portland.
10111269 I'm full of surprises. Thanks for watching.
"I'm full of surprises." Haha, clearly. I'm going to listen to that Jandek interview that you linked. Thank you.
Oh, if you're interested in how a musician gets recruited to play with Jandek, here is the interview with Emil Amos's account (it's the second topic addressed):
www.westword.com/music/emil-amos-of-holy-sons-on-his-stint-with-jandek-lee-hazelwood-and-j-mascis-5683746
10111269 Thank you, this looks very interesting.
great video as always, following your channel has certainly opened my music listening to a much wider range of options I had always been craving.
Jandek released a book. You should order it, and give your thoughts.
Never heard of Jandek before! Thank you for making me discover, and in the best possible way!
Very high quality analysis, thank you for this!
I really like how you read the lyrics. They work quite well as poetry.
Interesting to learn that a lot of Jandek albums were shipped to college radio stations. That was where I discovered him, around 1987. I had a radio show, and one of the other DJs told me about the Jandek albums in the station's record library. There were probably more than 10. Neither of us knew anything about where they had come from. Now you can do an internet search and at least turn up something, but back then they just seemed completely, totally mysterious. I thought about writing to the address on the back, and kind of wish I had. I listened to parts of several different records, maybe about an hour of music total. What Mr. Andreyev says is true: it sticks with you forever. He is also right about it being conceptual art.
Great to see the quality of your videos increasing
Serfer325 Thanks. An increase in Patreon support has allowed me to invest in a much better camera.
Really great video - a powerful and thorough defence of a challenging and brilliant record- thank you.
The first album sounded like he did it himself, I am thinking in motel rooms as he traveled because you see many places from around the world in his leaflets of his albums.
I don’t think Jandex was suppose to be a critically acclaimed success it was more of a self driven project as I think it would be hard to recapture the music present in his albums live.
But whoever he is and whatever the nature of his music project is part of the enigma that is Jandex.
This video is incredible, thank you! As impenetrably bizarre as this music seems, you basically left no stones unturned.
I'm just beginning to dip my toe into the Jandek swamp. I've listened to Ready For The House, plus peeked into some live footage and The Living End, and I'm already endlessly fascinated by this project, I feel like I'm gonna listen to many of his other albums in the upcoming weeks.
Also, I love the story of him sending you his entire catalog free of charge, just because you asked for it. How cool is that?
I didn't think that it would be possible to analyze Jandek's music and keep a straight face, but this is a fascinating and insightful study. Well done!
Just waking up this morning checking e-mail. Received a notification from Mr. Andreyev. Still sleepy-eyed I thought I read "Janáček" and said "cool, I'll watch it during lunch". I settled in with my burrito, and saw a photo of Jandek with the notification and said "Wow, this is really cool!". Love both, and any Jandek album is a good one. Thanks (but no pressure to analyze Mr. Janáček).
You are very funny :) I will get to Janáček soon!
I first heard of Jandek in Irwin Chusid's book Songs In The Key Of Z (which I highly recommend), and became captivated by the whole project. This is the best introduction / overview I've seen, and how fab was it that you actually wrote to Corwood and got that box of CDs (I wish I'd done that too!). I've watched many of your videos now and you're doing a tremendous service to music and culture, so thanks Sam! Cheers, Ian
I love the way you dress for these videos! It's cool. And your face is just far enough away to not be unsettling, haha.
I love your analysis of these gems. It would be interesting to see you analyze Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun. There are intricacies in its structure, but I'm not musically literate enough to decipher what they are.
You're showing me so much great music. This channel is the best.
Evan Bilsbury Thanks, Evan. Glad to hear it.
I enjoyed your video. Thank you for helping to show the complexity of this music and to spread it's influence.
Hi Taylor, My pleasure. Thanks for writing.
keep it up samuel!!! love your videos
Jandek is the David Lynch of underground alternative music.
He would've fit right in at the Roadhouse.
I met Sterling at a show in ohio last year and he was very kind though pretty quiet. it was he and his wife and a backing band made up of ohio locals all chosen a few months before and performing largely improvised pieces. amazing show! and yes, the man on the jandek album covers is certainly he.
I really want to catch him live, he is playing in a mine somewhere in the state of New York at the end of July 2024. I saw a video on youtube of him playing a show with Mike Watt of The Minutemen, Firehose and Iggy Pop & The Stooges on bass!
My My that tuning is really strange. Thanks so much for this video! Ive always wanted to get into Jandek now I know where to start
You are the man. Thanks for this, keep doing what you do. You are def. providing a great service sir!
Oh btw, what do you think of the bands Mr. Bungle and The Dilinger Escape Plan?
Thanks so much- finally someone that appreciates this kind of music.
I found your channel after listening to Down in a mirror. New subscriber, great upload 🖤
Brilliant analysis, indeed! Every time I think about Jandek's pulse and minimalism, I keep myself thinking about how his music is linked to the old Delta blues music of Son House, but without the slide playing. You hit the very point of it. Somehow, Jandek's music is the bastardized and microtonal suburban version of the rural blues. I think the Jandek's innovation in his guitar is indeed on its stasis of the detuning and, later on, unusual chord shapes and soloing of notes in order to achieve an unique dissonant textural noise. He's indeed much more into achieving a sense of impressionistic playing, even without being a more trained musician. It's important to mention that he's a storyteller, but somebody with a deep understanding of surrealism and cut-up poetry, in order to create a fragmented reality that's reflected in his music. I think he, Sterling Smith (or Corwood Representative), is a genius and a very unique artist, and thanks for assessing such important features that are a tonic of his style.
Really enjoyed your brilliant analysis. I, too, am one of those fascinated by Jandek. I just have digital copies at the moment but want to order some albums from Corwood, if only for the wonderful covers. I think they'd look good on the wall.
Thank you for the useful information..
Excellent. A very well researched watch about an unusual and fascinating individual.
Oh man, I did not expect this
Nice! I KNEW there was some reason I like Jandek music other than that it sounds like nothing else - turns out it's a conceptual art project. Thanks very much for the analysis! Looking forward to watching some more of your videos.
Very insightful. Thank you!
Thanks for yet another great video! It would be very interesting if you analyzed This Night This Song by The Tony Williams Lifetime, or one of the tracks off Scott Walker's Climate of Hunter, Tilt or The Drift.
I have never seen anyone blink so much in my life. But guy has done his research.
Those two things are perhaps not unrelated
I love this video. What makes it work as such a compelling defense of Jandek is that it's not approached as a defense at all, but instead as an explanation. Andreyev put his personal opinions aside when he actually started breaking down what he was hearing and why he was hearing it. Analysis like this is really rare in general, and it's what earned my subscription.
Proved to me that, despite the popular saying, not all Jandek fans are pretentious, and that you actually can put into words what makes Jandek so compelling as an outsider musician.
I'm happy to hear that, thank you for taking the time to write your thoughts (from a fellow Jandek fan).
this was really fascinating. had listened to jandek before and couldnt really put my finger on why i found it so compelling
a lot of thanks for your job here on youtube, your analysis are great and very professional. what a surprise see an analisys of Jandek's songs, thank you!
for the next analysis i suggest something by Olivier Messiaen or John Cage if it possible. i love this two composers. i hope that can you considering my suggestion.
Dear Jacopo, thank you for your kind comments. Jandek is such an important and unique figure: everyone should know about him! I am planning a video on John Cage. Keep in touch.
great analysis.
Love your videos
Oh boy. This is great.
This is my first exposure to Jandek and this song in particular. It makes me feel like a voyeur like I’m seeing something I shouldn’t. It gives me that feeling of being malicious but not in a harmful way and I like it
This was really interesting, thank you for this. If you see this + take requests I'd love to hear you speak on Diamanda Galas :)
holy shoot best channel ever
Nice review and video, Samuel.
Jandek is god.
My pleasure.
Really cool man, thanks. Andreyev.... ever heard of Leonid Andreyev? Great Russian writer from the early twentieth century, also worked with early color photography, wonderful photographs of pre-revolutionary Russia.
I noticed that at about 6:30 in the video there is a record album back that has the notation "Exclusive licensee, Jackpot Records, Inc. [etc]"
Jackpot Records is a recording studio in Portland, Oregon, as noted on the album cover. It is run by Larry Crane, a recording engineer who also publishes the magazine "Tape Op." It would be interesting to write to Mr. Crane and see what knowledge or insight he has on this Jandek person. And in fact, that is what I will try to do in the next few days.
Would love to hear your analysis of John Cage 4' 33".... piece
I don't know if you're joking, but there is in fact a lot of interesting stuff to talk about When looking at the piece: Cage's Motivation for writing the piece, performances, Intentions, etc.
I’ll link you to a fabulous journal article. It’s an incredibly interesting piece, does he intend total silence or does he intend for spontaneous external noises from the audience and outside world to make up the piece?
What an brave choice to go for Jandek's music! You can hear his influence on some of the more low-profile Sonic Youth songs. Specially this track, sometimes it feels like Thurston Moore is singing.
amazing video
Viewed this for a second time and am very intrigued, I also would like to put forth the idea of looking into the the dissonant works of John Fahey , the music is compelling and so is his life.
Jandek is always there, always watching
saw him play in 2006; pretty compelling
This song to me just evoked my perception of the soul of the lead character in Midnight Cowboy. It also reminds me of Don Van Vliet with his Trout Mask album wherein the notion of breaking free from the prison of the 4 4 beat was well expressed except in this case the urge seemed more to break the boundaries or prison of tonal music and using this freedom like s painter would use brush and paint to express nuances.
I think one major aspect to Jandek is the fact he rarely repeats notes or has verbal consistency there is no attempt to create repetitive characteristics to his music.
This was a great video. Have you ever heard the work or Leyland Kirby/the caretaker? I would really like to see your style of analysis talking about his work.
I'm a year late, but this was a great video.
Good point about the Conceptual Art
One of my favourite records ever
i'd find it interesting if you would do an analysis of one of jandek's somewhat more recent live performances. i think the song "only twenty two" from the live album "bristol wednesday" would be a fantastic piece for analysis.
Thnaks Sam U L! More Jandek !!!
Yeah ! More Jandek 🖤
Fantastic video! Please consider analysing "Original" by Unkle Adams next. Thank you.
What connection are you making to Jandek?
"Stasis- oppressive monotony.".. In a few words..Yep..
At moments this music reminds me of Alex Chilton's stranger outings.
Please talk about Ustvolskaya some day ,. I feel close to her ethos !
There are very, very few musicians who I genuinely think can be described as playing by their own rules, and Jandek is at the top of that list. Even most outsider art still adheres to at least a few conventions. This is like if an alien was handed a guitar and was told to do something that they thought sounded good.
My first reaction when hearing this was -If John Cale stayed in the Velvet Underground and performed on their Third album.
Are you familiar with Arthur Russell's work? An analysis would be awesome! Thanks for this one. Cheers from Argentina
Federico Bejarano Hi. I'm afraid not. Can you post a link? Thanks for writing, greetings from Alsace.
Samuel Andreyev sorry for the delay. Here you go!:
th-cam.com/video/j1aHltSpzys/w-d-xo.html
@@samuel_andreyev 2nd this request
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It's no life being into music for real and not knowing of Arthur Russell 😕
Hey Sam, if you are interested in Jandek you should check out Greaf. They are both very similar stylistically.
What a strange fella. But he is artistically honest, that much is true.
Although many discussion points are found, it's still great that Jandek is an artist which is so impervious against analysis, that you weren't able to keep your white-background analysis cards when discussing him 😶
la this The cards do sneak in towards the end of the video ;)
Visionary, not simply white
How come the reversed string numbering convention?
Great video - I'd never heard of him; so far ahead. Really interesting thanks.
hc earwicker My mistake. Thanks for pointing that out & for your kind words.
Could you do an analysis of a song by the Dillinger Escape Plan? They’re an insanely technical metalcore band that have been called one of the most influential and popular bands at the fringe of metal and hardcore in the 21st century. They are influenced by Slayer and Megadeth as well as Black Flag and Mike Patton and Nine Inch Nails, but also show direct influence from jazz fusion and progressive rock. They have lots of songs that are just straight metalcore but expand their songs into electronic and orchestral instrumentation. In recent years they have made more convential rock and even pop-oriented songs.
They utilize crazy shifting time signatures and chromaticism in the style of Beefheart of Zappa except far more technical and aggressive. Their songs are really dense and if you could analyze some work by them that would be amazing.
Their albums Calculating Infinity and Miss Machine have a wealth of cutting-edge songs that would be really interesting for you to analyze. It would be the first metal/hardcore analysis on this channel as far as I know.
Wow, really interesting! Have you considered analyzing "The Shaggs"?
Three girls whose father isolated them from music until the day he decided they should become a pop group.
Is this music interesting? I think European Jewel was interesting, from what I heard. The blues element seems obvious...The fact that the tuning choices are intentional does not settle whether these are strong or weak choices. It is suggestive, the strange unconnected lyrics that are variously juxtaposed...yes, surrealism comes to mind right away. It is raw, intentionally unrefined. To me the effect of this music is like one of those dreams where you can't really remember what happened, but you wake up only with a vague impression of having had a dream, not quite visual, but you have a slightly unresolved or disturbed feeling...You can't tell it, you can't say what it means and you can't even know what the dream was about. A good analysis. In the end it may be too vague to be of value...because in the end as your day goes on you forget about the dream because you've given up trying to remember it and you conclude for this reason--because it never really came to the surface ---that it wasn't important enough to remember. This of course being an actual sound that can be re-listened to would leave some kind of impression...but that impression might just be about the strangeness and novelty of it, not owing to any sense you can take from it.
Excellent analysis 👌🏻 you should do more vids on un-classical types 🙂
Thanks. Any suggestions?
@@samuel_andreyev It would definitely be interesting to hear your thoughts on something industrial or industrial related.
@@samuel_andreyev Scott Walker
Mr. Andreyev, I don't see you analyzing mainstream music, but I'd like to see what your thoughts are on a different musical timing.
Vojko Vrucina - Zovi Covika made in 7/8, haven't seen that before in hiphop and he refers to it in the song.
Understandanble if you haven't got any interest in this.
Best of luck!
Look in artistic parallels with photographer Vivien Meier from the 40s and 50s. The image you show of the "living" room with the window frame and the small volume of Marlow may itself be cryptic (the Marlow is actually Shakespear crowd) and is at least intriguing. Maybe a pseudonymous project of someone better known otherwise in Houston.
Thank you for doing the lords work here.
I suppose I should worry that Jandek makes perfect sense to me.
Have you listened to Richard Youngs ? He's somewhat similar but a little more listener friendly.
Adam Neely's latest video sent me here. What a fascinating character
what did Adam Neely say?
@@samuel_andreyev His latest video mentioned how Jandek sort of creates his own music theory, ignoring convention, and then he said you did a great video about it. He was right!
@@emrazum that's great, I haven't seen the video. Thanks for letting me know.
@@emrazum Thanks! Do you happen to remember the title of the video?
@@samuel_andreyev It's on his second channel around 10 minutes in th-cam.com/video/WwRxNJe4tIk/w-d-xo.html
you can rationalize anything post-composition
would love an analysis of the 2007 album "Drugs To The Dear Youth" by Tera Melos. it's an insanely musical but chaotic, piece of music and I'd love to hear your take on it.