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Hector Gilbert:
--- Quote from: Hector Gilbert ---Jandek's Worthless Recluse album is entirely spoken word. As in, no music. I haven't heard it yet, but the lyrics are enough of a curiosity in themselves - I probably wouldn't do well with my friends if I got to play this for them!
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Having by now heard this album, I can confirm that this receives my own personal blessing. Jandek even puts on subtle tone-distortion effects to his voice every once in a while. Think of the end of Captain Beefheart's "Old Fart At Play", but with an ear for freaking the listener out rather than amusing him, and you've got the idea.
boeuf:
Midget Handjob....
they're crazy.
Psiogen:
THE LAST POETS.
(Early 70's spoken word band that laid the groundwork for rap.)
IcarusLotFF:
man, this was a while back.....
MWY's my favorite group, so I consider myself at least having some authority on this topic... much more than, say, a rock. So, they call themselves indie/post-hardcore. whatever. but it's not spoken word anything. it's called Sprechstimme. It's an old opera ploy that combines elements of song and speech. Weiss (lead singer) might not realize it, but that's the vocal form he's using.
Thus ends my first post ever, and I look like a smartass
Garcin:
I don't think you like a smartass (although if I did there would probably be some pot/kettle issues). I would be interested to know, however, what differentiates Sprechstimme from generic recitative, which is generally scored.
Re: spoken word, my favorite spoken word predominated track was on Jazzanova's "In Between" album, where Ursula Rucker contributed on "Keep Falling". Conversely, I thought that Dennis Hopper's spoken word performance in Fire Coming Out Of A Monkey's Head on Gorillaz - Demon Days was embarrassingly misjudged -- pedantic, pretentious, everything that people dislike about spoken word. Spoken word has to be poetic to work -- couldn't find any poetry there.
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