Modern Dances
title: "Modern Dances" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["jandek-albums", "corwood-industries-albums", "1987-albums"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Dances" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox album"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Modern Dances |
| type | studio |
| artist | Jandek |
| cover | Modern Dances.jpg |
| released | 1987 |
| genre | Rock, outsider |
| length | 43:29 |
| label | Corwood Industries |
| producer | Corwood Industries |
| prev_title | Follow Your Footsteps |
| prev_year | 1986 |
| next_title | Blue Corpse |
| next_year | 1987 |
| :: |
| name = Modern Dances | type = studio | artist = Jandek | cover = Modern Dances.jpg | alt = | released = 1987 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Rock, outsider | length = 43:29 | label = Corwood Industries | producer = Corwood Industries | prev_title = Follow Your Footsteps | prev_year = 1986 | next_title = Blue Corpse | next_year = 1987 | rev1 = Forced Exposure #12 | rev1Score = (favorable) link |rev2=Away From The Pulsebeat, 1988|rev2Score= (favorable) link |rev3=CMJ #125|rev3Score= (favorable) link}} Modern Dances is the fourteenth album by Jandek, released as Corwood #0752. It is the first of two releases from 1987, and marks the end of the original "garage" band (which would have a different incarnation starting a few albums later).
Track listing
|title1 = Painted My Teeth |length1 = 4:45 |title2 = Twelve Minutes Since February 32 |length2 = 4:05 |title3 = Hand for Harry Idle |length3 = 3:44 |title4 = Number 512 |length4 = 3:33 |title5 = Nothing Is Better Than God |length5 = 4:21 |title6 = Spiritual Song |length6 = 3:58 |title7 = Spanish In Me 003 |length7 = 4:22 |title8 = I Want To Know Why |length8 = 4:59 |title9 = Simple As That |length9 = 2:07 |title10 = Open E |length10 = 3:16 |title11 = Carnival Queen |length11 = 3:36 |total_length = 43:29
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