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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
I look at Jandek's music as some kind of weird personal journals from a disturbed individual. Obviously.. rather, hopefully, it's just a gimmick. I find his music extremely interesting though. One of my favorite artists. Brilliant. I only have 50 of his albums, guess I should get his live ones. Haha.
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You have way more than me, but you have way more music in general.
I don't find his lyrics particularly disturbed. If you compare them to, say, the Melvins, he doesn't come off as demented at all. It's just the delivery that people find so unnerving I guess. However, I've always just felt it was a very personal interpretation of folk and blues ideas codified in his own original language instead of relying on the traditions of those music forms. He's certainly got a darkness to his sound, but I always have felt it's more a matter of excorcising personal demons rather than stewing in them; thus his music very catharcic for me.