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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Staring at the Cellophane
| name = Staring at the Cellophane
| Type = [[Album]]
| type = studio
| Artist = [[Jandek]]
| artist = [[Jandek]]
| Cover = 0744aa.jpg
| cover = Staring at the Cellophane.jpg
| Released = 1982
| alt =
| Recorded = Unknown
| released = 1982
| recorded =
| Genre = [[Outsider Music]]/[[Folk Music]]/[[Blues]]
| Length = 41:24
| venue =
| Label = [[Corwood Industries]]
| studio =
| genre = [[Folk music|Folk]], [[blues]], [[outsider music|outsider]]
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| Producer = Corwood Industries
| length = 41:24
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| Reviews = *''[[Forced Exposure]]'' (very favorable) [http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0744 link]
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| label = Corwood Industries
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| Last album = ''[[Living in a Moon so Blue]]''<br />(1982)
| producer = Corwood Industries
| This album = ''Staring at the Cellophane''<br />(1982)
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| prev_title = [[Living in a Moon So Blue]]
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| Next album = ''[[Your Turn to Fall]]''<br />(1983)
| prev_year = 1982
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| next_title = [[Your Turn to Fall]]
| next_year = 1983
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
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'''''Staring at the Cellophane''''' is the sixth [[Jandek]] album, and his third of 1982. It was released as [[Corwood Industries|Corwood]] 0744. It was reissued on CD in 2001.
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r554970|pure_url=yes}} link]
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|rev2=''[[Forced Exposure]]'' |rev2Score=very favorable [http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0744 link]}}
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'''''Staring at the Cellophane''''' is the sixth [[Jandek]] album, and his third of 1982. It was released as Corwood 0744. It was reissued on CD in 2001.


The cover image appears to be the same picture taken for his previous album, ''[[Living in a Moon So Blue]]'', only from a different angle.
== Overview ==


This album finds the artist using the technique of repeated lyrics more frequently than before, with songs like "Sand I" ("You're stuck in the sand/Go home"), "I See Lights" ("I see red lights/I see green lights"), and "Michael", whose lyrics "Michael, Michael, where are you now" would be copped by the band [[Red House Painters]] ten years later in their song of the same name.
''Staring at the Cellophane'' holds many similarities with its predecessor, ''[[Living in a Moon so Blue]]'', starting with the aesthetics of the cover. Here we find the same black and white parlor guitar as the prior album, only we're now pulled back from it, and we see a clothes rack like one might find in a motel. A travelling minstrel, then?


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==Track listing==
The contents aren't telling. As, again, with the previous album these are short blasts of often angular, polytonal blues. Also, as with the last album, this one begins with a proper name, "Michael," whose lyrical contents consist of "Michael, Michael, where are you now" repeated over and again. This is pretty standard of the songs here - others include "You're stuck in the sand/go home" ("Sand I") and "I see red lights/I see green lights" ("I See Lights") - in all cases the lyrics are repeated a few times, sometimes in slightly different order, while the strings pluck around them. But the songs don't seem to be so much about standing alone as forming a cohesive whole. One bleeds right into the next, changing the tempo up or down a bit, pausing for a history lesson with the curious "Nepoleon (sic) in Russia," (which tells the dictator to "fall out a window") and ending with the creepy "Blood and Bone." "His skin is stretched tight across his bones/blood running down his cheeks/children gazing at his feet/ladies he’d like to meet/lonely in that ancient street/hanging for somebody else/or everybody else," the song says - what it all means seems impossible to discern.
{{Track list
|title1 = Michael
|length1 = 2:57
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|title2 = This is for You
|length2 = 3:09
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|title3 = Riddles Riddling Me
|length3 = 2:47
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|title4 = Basic Themes
|length4 = 2:50
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|title5 = I See Lights
|length5 = 2:31
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|title6 = Rather Be Blind
|length6 = 1:51
|title7 = Away
|length7 = 2:18
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|title8 = Don't Get Too Upset
|length8 = 2:30
|title9 = A Letter
|length9 = 2:21
|title10 = Nevermore
|length10 = 3:01
|title11 = Sand I
|length11 = 2:14
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|title12 = Nepoleon in Russia
|length12 = 3:07
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|title13 = Split to the East
|length13 = 2:55
|title14 = Number 14
|length14 = 2:52
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|title15 = Blood and Bone
|length15 = 3:15
|total_length = 41:24
}}


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==External links==
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== Track Listing: ==
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*[http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0744 Seth Tisue's ''Staring at the Cellophane'' review]
#Michael – 2:57
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#This is for You – 3:09
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#Riddles Riddling Me – 2:47
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#Basic Themes – 2:50
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#I See Lights – 2:31
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#Rather Be Blind – 1:51
#Away – 2:18
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#Don't Get Too Upset – 2:30
#A Letter – 2:21
#Nevermore – 3:01
#Sand I – 2:14
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#Nepoleon in Russia – 3:07
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#Split to the East – 2:55
#Number 14 – 2:52
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#Blood and Bone – 3:15


{{Jandek}}
== Album Cover Description ==
The same guitar from ''[[Living in a Moon so Blue]]'', poorly framed in the lower left corner.


{{Authority control}}
In the lower right corner, a cheap wardrobe (or perhaps a garment moving box) with a single coat of some sort hanging obliquely in it).

The guitar is sitting on a table... alluding to the possibility that the guitar from the previous album was also sitting on the same table.

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== External links ==
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*[http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0744 Seth Tisue's ''Staring at the Cellophane'' review]


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[[Category:1982 albums]]
[[Category:1982 albums]]
[[Category:Corwood Industries albums]]
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[[Category:Jandek albums]]

Latest revision as of 06:35, 8 May 2022

Staring at the Cellophane
Studio album by
Jandek
Released1982
GenreFolk, blues, outsider
Length41:24
LabelCorwood Industries
ProducerCorwood Industries
Jandek chronology
Living in a Moon So Blue
(1982) 		Staring at the Cellophane
(1982) 		Your Turn to Fall
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic link
Forced Exposurevery favorable link

Staring at the Cellophane is the sixth Jandek album, and his third of 1982. It was released as Corwood 0744. It was reissued on CD in 2001.

The cover image appears to be the same picture taken for his previous album, Living in a Moon So Blue, only from a different angle.

This album finds the artist using the technique of repeated lyrics more frequently than before, with songs like "Sand I" ("You're stuck in the sand/Go home"), "I See Lights" ("I see red lights/I see green lights"), and "Michael", whose lyrics "Michael, Michael, where are you now" would be copped by the band Red House Painters ten years later in their song of the same name.

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Michael"2:57
2."This is for You"3:09
3."Riddles Riddling Me"2:47
4."Basic Themes"2:50
5."I See Lights"2:31
6."Rather Be Blind"1:51
7."Away"2:18
8."Don't Get Too Upset"2:30
9."A Letter"2:21
10."Nevermore"3:01
11."Sand I"2:14
12."Nepoleon in Russia"3:07
13."Split to the East"2:55
14."Number 14"2:52
15."Blood and Bone"3:15
Total length:41:24
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