Modern Dances

Modern Dances Jandek (1987). Corwood Industries release #0752.

Track Listing:

1. Painted My Teeth
2. Twelve Minutes Since February 32nd
3. Hand for Harry Idle
4. Number 512
5. Nothing is Better Than God
6. Spiritual Song
7. Spanish in Me 003
8. I Want to Know Why
9. Simple as That
10. Open E
11. Carnival Queen

Album Cover Description Shaggy haired and sinewy Jandek looks to our right in the right 1/4 of the frame. A featureless brick wall dominates the left 3/4.

To the right of Jandek is the glint of some sort of machine... (a tractor?). The lower part of the right side of the frame is a four-slat fence (very similar, possibly identical, to the fencing around the garden in the Telegraph Melts album cover. A large, featureless brick wall in Jandek's neighborhood? Where would that be? Perhaps related to the cement pediment in the lower right corner of Telegraph Melts.

Reviews It’s tempting to ‘genericize’ these reviews of Sir Jandek: LP #14, eleven songs, B&W cover (I think I’m up for another color job), etc., but there’s enough new excitement here to keep me going for a lifetime.

-- Jimmy Johnson Forced Exposure #12

Outside Links

• Seth Tisue's Modern Dances review (http://tisue.net/jandek/discog#0752)