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Staring at the Cellophane

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Released
  
1982

Label
  
Corwood Industries

Release date
  
1982

Length
  
41:24

Artist
  
Jandek

Producer
  
Jandek

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Staring at the Cellophane (1982)
  
Your Turn to Fall (1983)

Genres
  
Blues, Outsider music, Folk music

Similar
  
Jandek albums, Outsider music albums

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.

Contents

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

  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

Songs

1Michael3:01
2This Is for You3:14
3Riddles Riddling Me2:51

References

Staring at the Cellophane Wikipedia