[Jandek] And the winner is......?!!?! (JANDEK TOP10 2005)

[Thierry Bissonnette]

Listening to 'When I took that train' and I'm just convinced that this whole
Top Ten thing is just incompatible with Jandek's creative process. Choosing
is killing the obsessive wholenesse diffused here, as different periods
reflect into each other and are part of a monist transformation. Late Jandek
seems an equally important part of the body of work as early or mid-period
for me, in fact, I feel this is one of the 'rules' of the game J.'s
directing in our listeners minds, and none of the arguments discrediting mid
or late recordings appears convincing to me. I just think people project
their listening history/context, and their Top Ten would probably change if
doing the same exercise in a year or two, even if limiting to the 43 first
discs.

Anyway, I just dig SHADOW OF LEAVES, WHEN I TOOK THAT TRAIN and other late
period albums as much as older discs, but above all I'm interested in the
whole thing as a holistic revery. Every album has its flaws that become
qualities when considering them in the jandekian system. One great
installation/composition, not singular albums.

      Thierry






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[Jandek] And the winner is......?!!?! (JANDEK TOP10 2005)
Yuval Legendtofski legendtofski at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 15:01:53 PST 2005


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Firstly thanks to the 17 Jandek fans that kindly gave me their top 10.

I used a preferential system based on the order of albums given.

This isn't a DEFINITIVE Top10, as people's tastes seem to change, but as you
can see some titles were way more 'popular'
than others. So, drum roll please.......

  Blue Corpse 15  Six & Six 12  You walk alone 12  Ready for the house
8  Intestellar
discussion 8  Glad to Get away 8  Telegraph Melts 7  Living in a moon
7  Whitebox
Requiem 7  Glasgow Sunday 7
A diverse voting spread: 38 out of a possible 42 albums recieved votes.
Hard-listening titles like the ACapella albums got votes, as did his latest
'Khartoum'!
Those that completely missed out were '
'The Rocks Crumble', 'the end of it all', 'the door behind', and when I took
that train'. But at least there is representation from each decade of the
man's great work.

Thanks to you all!
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