Blue Corpse

      Blue Corpse
      Studio album by Jandek
      Released 1987
      Recorded unknown
      Genre Outsider Music / Folk music
      Length 43:27
      Label Corwood Industries
      Producer Corwood Industries
      Jandek chronology
      Modern Dances
      (1987)
      Blue Corpse
      (1987)
      You Walk Alone
      (1988)

      Blue Corpse is the fifteenth album by Jandek, and his second for 1987. Essentially a duet album with "Eddie," it addresses heartbreak and is considered by many to be the easiest point of entry into the Corwood catalog.


      Track listing

      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
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      Reviews

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      Source Rating
      Reflex 4/1988 link
      Away From The Pulsebeat, 1988 link (favorable)
      Option April 1988 link (favorable)
      Allmusic link 4/5 stars

      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

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