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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> |
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| Name = Worthless Recluse |
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| Cover = Jandek0769.jpg |
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| Type = [[Album]] |
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| Background = orange |
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| Released = 2001 |
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| Recorded = Unknown |
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| Genre = [[Acapella]]/[[Spoken word]]/[[Outsider Music]] |
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| Length = 47:03 |
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| Label = [[Corwood Industries]] |
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| Producer = Corwood Industries |
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| Reviews = |
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| Last album = ''[[This Narrow Road]]''<br />(2001) |
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| This album = ''Worthless Recluse''<br />(2001) |
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| Next album = ''[[I Threw You Away]]''<br />(2002) |
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'''''Worthless Recluse''''' is the thirty-first Jandek album and the second of two new albums released in (2001). Released as Corwood #0769, it is the third [[spoken word]] album and the last to date. |
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== Overview == |
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The third of the "sung recitation" albums, ''Worthless Recluse'' is actually quite a different creature from the two albums that preceded it. For one, it divides the album between descriptive scenes that may be reminscent of his life and bizarre, sometimes "sing-songy" quickies that leave one scratching the head. Examples of the former include "Into the Cave" and "Out of the Cave," connected narrative pieces that occasionally lapse into the surreal, yet contain concrete lines about an escape into the wild like, "Must have seen four people in three days/you had to protect your head at night from the mosquitoes." |
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As with the other two a capella albums, this one appears to have been recorded on a voice-activated tape recorder, not unlike what [[Captain Beefheart]] does at times on ''[[Trout Mask Replica]]''. In fact, some of these pieces are just strange enough for the good Captain, and the title track is a mixture of this avante-garde poetry and ornate descriptiveness. At one point the narrator says/sings, "The supermarkets are always jam packed, the acceptable way/I got a big frame, born with it, sure do need a side of beef/42 heads of lettuce, 888 potatoes/and all the apple pies my Mack truck can drive away with," but at other points in the near eighteen minutes the track talks about a new house with "cracks in the walls/wind whistling" and remembering better nights lying next to a loved one. The lack of repetition and the interesting lyrics give the track a surprising sense of motion. |
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The rest of the "songs" go by in a blur - some veering closer to the strange ("Oh you lofty rider/all peppery and gawk/you make me feel like mercury/out for a liquid walk" or "You wake up deadmen/with your loose sex/you shout at them, C’mon/and as they fumble in half-delirium/you smash them back down dead). At the end of the album the vocalist regains his strengths and swears he's gonna "knock you out." Angry at the object of his devotion? Hard to say, but it is the last note of a unique trilogy. From here the guitar and "sung" vocals would return, but they would be something quite different than what had come before. |
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==Track listing== |
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# The Clothes - 1:09 |
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# In the Cave - 5:53 |
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# Out of the Cave - 4:34 |
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# Stopped - 2:14 |
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# Interlude - 1:57 |
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# The Dunes - 1:29 |
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# Aimless Breeze - 2:00 |
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# You Wake Up Deadmen - 3:30 |
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# Worthless Recluse - 17:10 |
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# Lofty Rider - 1:25 |
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# The Stars Spell Your Name - 2:17 |
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# Your Turn - 1:31 |
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# You Won't Get Up - 1:12 |
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== Album cover description == |
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Similar to the cover for the previous album, but pulled back. The cat in front of the barn is the only other living creature besides the Corwood Representative to appear on a record cover to date. |
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== External links == |
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*[http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0769 Seth Tisue's ''Worthless Recluse'' review] |
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[[Category:Jandek albums]] |
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[[Category:2001 albums]] |
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