Blue Corpse

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1987 studio album by Jandek

Blue Corpse

Studio album by

Jandek

Released| 1987
Genre| Folk, blues, outsider
Length| 43:27
Label| Corwood Industries
Producer| Corwood Industries
Jandek chronology
| Modern Dances
(1987)  | Blue Corpse
(1987)  | You Walk Alone
(1988)

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Blue Corpse is the fifteenth album by Jandek, and his second for 1987. Primarily an all acoustic album with an unknown accompanist (identified only as "Eddie" during the instrumental break in "Down at the Ball Park"), it is considered by many to be one of the more accessible and cohesive albums in Jandek's oeuvre.

## Album cover

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The cover of Blue Corpse completes the series of images that began with Telegraph Melts (1986) and was continued with Modern Dances (1987). While the cover of Modern Dances shows the artist standing still and looking forward, the cover of Blue Corpse shows the artist in mid stride, producing a blurred image of the artist.

## Album information

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The tracks "I Passed by the Building" through "Variant" features an unknown man on lead vocals. The tracks "Part II" through "Only Lover" appear to switch up this arrangement and feature Jandek on lead vocals and the unknown accompanist playing blues guitar, with the except of "Harmonica" which features solo harmonica. "Quinn Boys" appears to be Jandek solo, while the closer "One Minute" features the unknown accompanist singing lead vocals and it is unknown who is playing drums.

## Track listing

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No.| Title| Length

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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
Total length:| 43:27

## Reviews

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Reflex 4/1988 link|
Away From The Pulsebeat, 1988 link| (favorable)
Option April 1988 link| (favorable)
AllMusic link|

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

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* Seth Tisue's Blue Corpse review

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Jandek

Studio albums|

* Ready for the House
* Six and Six
* Later On
* Chair Beside a Window
* Living in a Moon So Blue
* Staring at the Cellophane
* Your Turn to Fall
* The Rocks Crumble
* Interstellar Discussion
* Nine-Thirty
* Foreign Keys
* Telegraph Melts
* Follow Your Footsteps
* Modern Dances
* Blue Corpse
* You Walk Alone
* On the Way
* The Living End
* Somebody in the Snow
* One Foot in the North
* Lost Cause
* Twelfth Apostle
* Graven Image
* Glad to Get Away
* White Box Requiem
* I Woke Up
* New Town
* The Beginning
* Put My Dream on This Planet
* This Narrow Road
* Worthless Recluse
* I Threw You Away
* The Humility of Pain
* The Place
* The Gone Wait
* Shadow of Leaves
* The End of It All
* The Door Behind
* A Kingdom He Likes
* When I Took That Train
* Raining Down Diamonds
* Khartoum
* Khartoum Variations
* What Else Does the Time Mean?
* The Ruins of Adventure
* The Myth of Blue Icicles
* Skirting the Edge
* Not Hunting For Meaning
* What Was Out There Disappeared
* Canticle of Castaway
* Where Do You Go From Here
* Maze of the Phantom
* The Song of Morgan
* Ghost Passing
* London Residency
* Hamman Hall
* The Ray
* Rudyard's
* The Mountain Step
* Motion Energy
* Diverseworks
* The Wizard's Hour

Live albums|

* Glasgow Sunday
* Newcastle Sunday
* Glasgow Monday
* Austin Sunday
* Manhattan Tuesday
* Brooklyn Wednesday
* Glasgow Friday
* Glasgow Sunday 2005
* London Tuesday
* Hasselt Saturday
* Helsinki Saturday
* Portland Thursday
* Bristol Wednesday

Tribute albums|

* Naked in the Afternoon: A Tribute to Jandek
* Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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