Jandek - " Telegraph Melts " (Corwood 0750) 1986

Songs

Side 1: You (1:33) / One the Planes (2:43) / Go to Bed (2:44) / Ace of Diamonds (4:45) / Twenty-Four (5:07) / No Slow Ones (3:16) / Telegraph Melts (4:10); Side 2: Governor Rhodes (5:17) / Star Up in the Sky (3:29) / You Painted Your Teeth (2:55) / Mothers Day Card (2:02) / The Fly (3:35) / House Up On the Hill (2:14)

Lyrics

In “You Painted Your Teeth”, Jandek frenziedly harangues an unknown second person: “Don’t paint your teeth! You painted your teeth! DON’T PAINT YOUR TEETH!” The title “Governor Rhodes” may refer to James A. Rhodes, the Ohio governor who ordered the National Guard into Kent State; the song itself is a sort of incantation with Jandek and “Nancy” repeating after each other “Celebrate our love, celebrate our magic, chant with love, chant always,” etc., in endless variations.
“Jandek lives next door to someone far away, someplace where ‘music’ is an expression of emotion and not a packaged entertainment; made for self, rather than for an audience... There’s some sorta feeling trapped in the sound that I like to bask in.”
“While firmly entrenched in the ‘classic’ Jandek sound of open-chord guitar pluckery and vocals that teeter on the brink of losing what little grip of sanity was there, this album stands out for a surprisingly consistent rhythmic attack on the first six tracks. Jandek hammers at his abused drumkit with locomotive rigor and intensity rarely heard in any of the previous recordings; of course, he inevitably loses control of the rhythm and sends it tumbling down the stairs. The rest of the tracks are far more loose in the rhythmic structure. Again, the woman who may be known as Nancy sings on a couple of tracks: one of which finds her sounding more like Jandek with a strained, atonal vibrato. Towards the end of the album, there are a couple of tracks in which a third male voice appears.”

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