Talk:Jandek
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is part of WikiProject Houston, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to the city of Houston. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. |
 |
|
| B | This article has been rated as B-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.) |
||
 |
This article is part of WikiProject Texas, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Texas. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. |
Your picture isn't showing up. -- Zoe
These Jandek album pages linked from here seem to be taken word for word from http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0770 Has permission been given to add to wikipedia? quercus robur 00:22 17 May 2003 (UTC)
- Vicki mentioned this to the author, and he replied on her talk page (it's right at the top at present): "Authors have been contacted, and have agreed." For what it's worth, I exchanged a couple of emails with the guy who wrote these articles, and I believe it's all legit, but we could always email the bloke whose webpage that is and get him to put it in writing so we can copy his permission here. --Camembert (who ordered a pile of Jandek albums the other day)
-
- Let me know what they are like- I was reading an article in a book recently which wasn't sure if Jandek was trully 'outsider music' or just a mentally unstable socail misfit who was being humoured and exploited for 'freak show' value, the article made the same case about the relationship between Frank Zappa and Wildman Fischer- I can't remember what the book was called, but it had Crass in it as well, and The Raincoats... quercus robur 10:11 17 May 2003 (UTC)
-
-
- The book you're thinking of is "Unknown Legends of Rock & Roll" by Richie Unterberger, who has also written liner notes for the Holy Modal Rounders, among others. (From a newbie who still doesn't know how to format his comments).
-
Contents |
[edit] Real name?
I have heard it is Sterling R. Smith, is this true?--130.65.240.14 06:40, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
- The first ever review of a Jandek album, for Ready For The House in Op magazine, identifies him as Sterling Smith. (See Seth Tisue's site for a copy of that review) So unless theres' evidence to the contrary, I'd say that Sterling R. Smith is about right. -- Cjmarsicano 06:43, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Corwood defunct? and Texas Monthly link
Why is Corwood's page in the defunct record label category? they just put out two new CDs this month. and the webarchive link to the interview is broken. 70.229.8.215 22:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
- That link to the TM article is iffy. I just removed the defunct record label category from the Corwood article. Thanks for bringing it up Cjmarsicano 05:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kurt Cobain
Minor point, but was Cobain really a fan? We all know his infamous quote on J-man, but I've never heard anything about him liking the music. He probably didn't mean himself when he called Jandek-fans 'pretentious', right? --Leo44 (talk) 23:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- The world may never know. Chris Berry 23:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] MySpace?
Is this[1] real, or a fan MySpace?--Fallout boy 23:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
- I really doubt that's for real.--Cúchullain t/c 01:20, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Loren Mazzacane Connors
Hi Jandek people - I'm trying to redo out the Connors page (it was mostly cut-and-paste from his website), and one of the things it says (and which I've currently left in the article) is that Jandek and Connors have collaborated. Can anyone confirm or deny? Cheers, Sam Clark 17:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, they've played live together three times. --SethTisue 02:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Origins of name
From the "Music" section: "Jandek's first album, Ready for the House, though obviously a solo work, was originally credited to a band called the Units. As explained in an interview in the first issue of Spin, Smith was forced to change the name by an identically named Californian group already in possession of a copyright. All reissues of this first album and all subsequent Corwood releases have been credited to "Jandek" (a name combining the month of January and the surname Decker)." There needs to be a citation about that, as I don't believe anyone knows where the name Jandek came from as of yet. Chris Berry 23:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
The name Jandek does come from a combination of the month January and the surname Decker (or Dekker). Jandek says so himself during the interview with Spin. See the documentary "Jandek on Corwood" for a reference. If you select the audio extras on the DVD of the documentary you can hear the interview in its entirety and Jandek clearly states how he came up with the name. - MW 13:04, 13 February 2007
