Blue Corpse is the fifteenth album by Jandek

Jandek

Jandek is the musical project of an anonymous outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released over 60 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs without ever granting more than the occasional interview or providing any biographical...

, and his second for 1987. Essentially a duet album with "Eddie," it addresses heartbreak and is considered by many to be the easiest point of entry into the Corwood catalog.

Track listing

1. "I Passed by the Building" – 3:44
2. "C F" – 2:13
3. "Variant" – 1:52
4. "Part II" – 1:54
5. "Your Other Man" – 5:26
6. "Long Way" – 1:01
7. "Down at the Ball Park" – 2:31
8. "Harmonica" – 5:32
9. "House of the Rising Sun" – 4:34
10. "Only Lover" – 10:25
11. "Quinn Boys" – 2:03
12. "One Minute" – 1:15

Reviews

This newer album contains more folk sounds and less of the dissonance Jandek is so well known for... Jandek’s angst-ridden vocals... filled with trials and tribulations... -- Art Black Away From the Pulsebeat

External links

• Seth Tisue's Blue Corpse review