THIS NARROW ROAD

The interesting thing about Jandek is that more people seem to have read about him than heard his music. In that respect, it makes total sense when Kurt Cobain (even if he was loaded to the eyeballs on smack) gave him his biggest endorsement by claiming that: "Jandek's not pretentious, but only pretentious people like his music." I usually passed over the gushing Jandek reviews in Forced Exposure in favour of those by truly pretentious acts I was into, like Spacemen3 or YoLaTengo. It wasn't until FE maestro Byron Coley wrote a piece on him as one of the '10 most interesting acts of the 80s' in Spin, that my curiosity was truly piqued. He made Jandek's music sound like a scene out of Edgar J. Ulmer's Detour or the climax of an EC mystery comic (which reminds me I gotta pull those old copies of Spin outta storage, they might be worth something to somebody..).  http://www.furious.com