Talk:Jandek

message: For those familiar with his collection and with some audio engineering knowledge, would you say the albums are professionally recorded and/or mixed and/or mastered?  I ask because most home pressings done by non-professionals tend to have a number of noticeable discrepancies between volume control and whatnot.   98.221.141.21 (talk) 23:28, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: His albums sound like they’re recorded in a studio and always seemed consistently mastered as they were packaged, but this is is just my opinion. In order for this info to be in the article, it must be sourced and cited. Morganfitzp (talk) 10:29, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Sound Quality

message: While extremely complete and informative, even including album art in most cases the writing style of most of the album articles is in need of serious revision. It is written in an extremely informal non encyclopedic tone, including tons of POV, and other things including words written entirely in caps for added emphasis, etc... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.200.104.60 (talk) 01:44, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Discography writing style

message: How was the public first made aware of Jandek back in 1978 if his records were only available through an obscure record label? How did the ball get rolling? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.149.203.252 (talk) 07:15, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Availability

message: Why was the Jandek photo removed? Please restore it.
* For some unfatomable reason, album covers are not considered "fair use" for artist articles. The nature of how he has chosen to operate means that there are no other public domain photos available. Ac@osr 11:30, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Jandek Photo

message: I have heard it is Sterling R. Smith, is this true?--130.65.240.14 06:40, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The first ever review of a Jandek album, for Ready For The House in Op magazine, identifies him as Sterling Smith. (See Seth Tisue's site for a copy of that review) So unless theres' evidence to the contrary, I'd say that Sterling R. Smith is about right. -- Cjmarsicano 06:43, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Real name?

message: Why is Corwood's page in the defunct record label category? they just put out two new CDs this month. and the webarchive link to the interview is broken. 70.229.8.215 22:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That link to the TM article is iffy. I just removed the defunct record label category from the Corwood article. Thanks for bringing it up Cjmarsicano 05:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corwood defunct? and Texas Monthly link 

message: Minor point, but was Cobain really a fan? We all know his infamous quote on J-man, but I've never heard anything about him liking the music. He probably didn't mean himself when he called Jandek-fans 'pretentious', right? --Leo44 (talk) 23:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The world may never know. Chris Berry 23:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That space in the article needs references.24.155.222.226 19:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and removed Cobain. The well known quote indicates nothing about whether he liked Jandek's music.--SethTisue 19:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kurt Cobain 

message: Is this real, or a fan MySpace?--Fallout boy 23:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I really doubt that's for real.--Cúchullain t/c 01:20, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: MySpace?

message: Hi Jandek people - I'm trying to redo out the Connors page (it was mostly cut-and-paste from his website), and one of the things it says (and which I've currently left in the article) is that Jandek and Connors have collaborated. Can anyone confirm or deny? Cheers, Sam Clark 17:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Loren Mazzacane Connors]]

message: From the "Music" section:
"Jandek's first album, Ready for the House, though obviously a solo work, was originally credited to a band called the Units. As explained in an interview in the first issue of Spin, Smith was forced to change the name by an identically named Californian group already in possession of a copyright. All reissues of this first album and all subsequent Corwood releases have been credited to "Jandek" (a name combining the month of January and the surname Decker)." There needs to be a citation about that, as I don't believe anyone knows where the name Jandek came from as of yet. Chris Berry 23:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins of name

message: Just a thought, but I think we've reached the end of any usefulness to listing jandek's concerts. It's pretty obvious he is going to continue performing publicly, so what's the point in listing every event? If he'd only performed 10 times such concerts would be noteworthy, but going beyond 30 (as we're about to do) seems absurd. Can't we just say that since October 2004, Jandek has begun to perform publicly? Pinkville 23:55, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. We don't need to list them any more, unless individual concerts were in some way important.--Cúchullain t/c 00:04, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I kind of agree but each performance so far has consisted of previously unheard material and has been performed with different collaborators (I think only his Glasgow and Portland groups have been reconvened). However, as it seems that all of these shows are going to be released on CD and/or DVD, the information can and doubtless will be posted on the album articles, rather than taking up space here. Ac@osr 11:43, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

text: A year later, I'm thinking a separate, more organized article might be a better idea. I still think it's valid as he has assembled a different band and played a totally different set at every gig (one correspondent of Corwood Industries has been told that a single song has been repeated) so it can't be compared to the normal touring activites of a normal band/artist. I'll pause for now for comments but I'd be looking at doing this in a month or so if my feelings haven't changed. Ac@osr (talk) 17:22, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It’s the Wikipedia play-by-play phenomenon: When something unusual happens that’s worthy of great anticipation from fans, editors will add in meticulous details that look laborious in hindsight. Condensing this section by saying when Jandek began playing live, where shows generally happened and who was backing him musically during various time periods would be enough and could be condensed to about four paragraphs. Morganfitzp (talk) 10:35, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Concerts

message: I was just reading through this article and I saw a mention that a certain magazine was the first to give Jandek national press. This is untrue, however, as Wire magazine has been reviewing his albums for as long as the publication has been in existence - far before anybody knew the man's name. 149.159.24.28 01:04, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: National Press

message: Should the article mention that Dr Demento has played selections from Jandek in his "Vault of Horror" segments?207.251.230.53 (talk) 23:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: no —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 18:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr Demento 

message: What is the source for this sentence:
:Some of Jandek's allure stems from his small but devoted fan base that includes Sonic Youth, Bill Callahan, Mike Watt, John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, Low, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam, Bright Eyes and K Records founder Calvin Johnson.
Is it from one of the references already given? Sonic Youth, Bright Eyes and The Mountain Goats can be deduced from the fact that they have covered Jandek on record (as have Jeff Tweedy and Okkervil River) but what about the rest? Lfh (talk) 16:08, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, thanks. We should try and reference each of them. It's an interesting list but these things tend to get out of control unless they're referenced. Lfh (talk) 12:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous fanbase 

message: What is the source of Sterling Smith's birth date?
64.242.9.98 (talk) 15:11, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth Date? 

message: Does anybody know anything about Jandek live performance in Moscow at The Sound & The Fury (Shum i Yarost) fest in June 2010? It isn't mentioned in "Live performances" section, but there are several reports about it in media (mostly in Russian, examples here and here), an announcement was posted on Last.fm in "Evemts" section, there also are some videos on YouTube. Nimbie95 (talk) 18:41, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: See comments on this talk page under “concerts.” You’re welcome to add to the section and support it with these sources. You’re also welcome to take a crack at condensing that section. Morganfitzp (talk) 10:38, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Moscow June 2010 performance

message: See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Corwood Industries. RadioKAOS  –  Talk to me, Billy  22:02, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: AFD you may wish to know about

message: This article is a feature-length novel of unsourced claims and needs to be blown up. I would do it myself but I don't want to bother with the inevitable edit wars. People close to the subject seem to be carefully watching this page like a hawk. ili (talk) 06:16, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking back at the 15 years I've been here, the project's biggest failure is abandoning any sort of real-world sense of what "the sum of all human knowledge" entails in favor of mindlessly repeating cherry-picked sources and attempting to use the mere presence or absence of such to define the knowledge base.  This goes far in explaining why "the sum of all human knowledge" has been quantified as containing 100-million-plus articles, while the project has only accomplished slightly more than five percent of that goal in 20+ years.  Looking at this through real-world eyes and existing sources, the utter mystery surrounding Jandek and these recordings constitutes a large part of why people would even care about this topic.  I'm not sure that turning this into yet another mindless exercise of statement-citation-statement-citation-statement-citation while failing to shine any light on the topic would do it justice.  I think the real problem is the intricate detail about live performances and other details of recent years. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  09:17, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll have to respectfully disagree with your pov. I enjoy using Wikipedia for the purposes that it was designed for, which is to gather a quick summary of what news media, books, and articles have published about a given subject. Just the facts, please. Geeky trivia, hearsay, rumors, and crowdsourced press releases is the domain of YouTube video essays, blogs, and "fandom" Wikis. Everything has its time and place. ili (talk) 21:07, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I just fixed it all up. RF23 (talk) 06:33, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: This article is beyond saving