Jandek - " Interstellar Discussion " (Corwood 0747) 1984

Songs

Side 1: Starless (2:16) / Hey (3:13) / Why Did I Change a Word in the Last Song (3:05) / Waltz in Two-Fourths Time (3:01) / Call You the Sun (3:18) / I Ain’t Got None (3:18) / The Spirit (2:25); Side 2: Rifle in the Closet (3:52) / Sung (1:33) / Ha Ha (2:15) / Customary (2:54) / May 7, 9:15 A.M. (2:54) / Situations (2:31) / Couldn’t Be a Reader (2:25) / Kick (4:00)

Mostly electric. Jandek really cuts loose vocally on “I Ain’t Got None” (he is quite adamant about not having any whatsoever). “Hey” has two overdubbed {???} vocal tracks (both Jandek, I think) and the title is also the lyrics (like the Butthole Surfers song of the same name — it must be in the air in Texas). The name of the next song after “Hey” is “Why Did I Change a Word in the Last Song”. The lyrics of “Rifle in the Closet” have nothing to do with the title until the very end of the song, which runs, “‘The Rifle in the Closet’ is just the name of this song.” There is a phone number in this same song: “The theater’s been dripping/ The movie’s 3-D/ There’s two rides to Texas/ 547-3668/ Hey John...” “Kick” is about a junkie and is played all on one guitar string (well, maybe two a little towards the end), and mostly just the same note on that string. (Compare the beginning of the Velvet Underground’s “Heroin”.)
“Jandek sounds like he’s locked in a cellar with some musical instruments and he’s pissed off about it... There’s ‘drums’ of a sort, though a bit like Mo Tucker, they don’t so much keep the beat as corral it into a corner and whack it over the head with a lead pipe; it’s a bored three year old with a wooden spoon and a tumble dryer. His [guitar] playing — even over all these years — stubbornly refuses to improve... every so often, you need to be reminded of the depths of the human psyche, and listening to this racket affirms that.”

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