Staring at the Cellophane

1982 studio album by Jandek

Staring at the Cellophane

Studio album by

Jandek

Released| 1982
Genre| Folk, blues, outsider
Length| 41:24
Label| Corwood Industries
Producer| Corwood Industries
Jandek chronology
| Living in a Moon So Blue
(1982)  | Staring at the Cellophane
(1982)  | Your Turn to Fall
(1983)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic|  link
Forced Exposure| very 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.| Title| Length

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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

## External links

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* Seth Tisue's Staring at the Cellophane 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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