[Jandek] Jandek's Greatest Hits

[Chris Morten]

I did pretty much the same thing. I wanted to add when the Telephone Melts 
but thought it was too long for a mix CD. Upon the Grandeur gets a pass on 
that point for being pretty and I'll Sit Alone and Think a Lot about You 
for sounding to me to be the natural companion to I Passed by the Building. 
Also the selections are biased against the past 8 years. It's designed to 
start as gently as possible and then go to darker songs. Like a musical 
black hole slowly pulling unwitting listeners, who were really enjoying the 
ride at first, past the event horizon and down into inescapable 
fascination/mailing list subscription.

1 The Cat That Walked from Shelbyville
2 Babe I Love You
3 Alehouse Blues
4 License to Kill
5 What Do You Want to Sing?
6 Nancy Sings
7 Put It Away
8 European Jewel (incomplete)
9 I Passed by the Building
10 I'll Sit Alone and Think a Lot about You
11 Down in a Mirror
12 Delinquent Words
13 I'm Ready
14 Upon the Grandeur
15 This Is a Death Dream
16 Didn't Really Die

--On Wednesday, October 6, 2004 8:17 AM -0400 Chris Nelson 
<embassy_row at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I made a mix like this for a friend a while back.  It's called 'Jandek
> for Dummies.'
>
> 01 - They Told Me About You
> 02 - Your Condition
> 03 - European Jewel (Version #1)
> 04 - Nancy Sings
> 05 - John Plays Drums
> 06 - I Ain't Got None
> 07 - You
> 08 - You Painted Your Teeth
> 09 - Painted My Teeth
> 10 - I Passed by the Building
> 11 - Only Lover
> 12 - Niagra Blues
> 13 - Om
> 14 - Alehouse Blues
> 15 - Hey Mister Can You Tell Me
> 16 - The Clothes
> 17 - In the Cave
> 18 - I Want to Look In
> 19 - The Place
>
> To get it down to a CDr-able 80 minutes, I had to edit some of the
> silence out from the beginnings and ends of tracks.  And even though the
> friend it was for ended up not liking Janky very much, it's nice to have
> for my own listening purposes.
>
> -- Chris
>
>> From: "v c" <majestic12 at hotmail.com>
>> To: jandek at mylist.net
>> Subject: [Jandek] Jandek's Greatest Hits
>> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:23:53 -0400
>>
>>
>>
>> ok, so i'm sure this has been discussed here before. but if you were to
>> compile a single cd collection of janky's greatest, what would the
>> tracklist
>> be? obviously, it'd almost surely have to include european jewel (but
>> which version?), yellow pages, quinn boys, message to the clerk..
>>
>> i thought it would be interesting to see what people thought and plus, i
>> have been thinking about putting together a single cd of his best.
>>
>> v
>>
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