Jim O'Rourke

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jim always referred to b-g as being an homage to this heat, sometimes even as a "cover band," so originality isn't really the point.

hstencil, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

Well then I must hear Brise-Glace, and soon.

sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

who hates Indicate?

Jim, apparently! I recall someone telling me that he "disowned" it.

Brise-Glace definitely a bit of a This Heat tribute. but hey, why not. don't forget to seek out the Brice-Glace track from the AC/DC tribute on Skin Graft! Jim goes wild with a razor blade and reels of AC/DC lps .. awesome.

Jim's big, formal 'i am a composer. take me seriously' statement

I remember browsing the classical section at the Tower in Chicago on Clark in the early 90s, and bumping into copies of Scend that were marked as consignment. I found that kind of funny, the mental image of Jim walking in there clutching a bunch of the CD and sort of going "These belong in your classical section."

Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

that doesn't seem like his style. he was pretty contemptuous of people who "placed" themselves in a tradition, like george flynn and his timeline, much less a bin. heh.

hstencil, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

well right, I know .. but they had to get there somehow right? that's why it seemed funny to me. I've never heard that disc, btw ... I always regret not picking it up that time, I don't think i've seen it since.

Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

"scend" is really great, when i find it i'll up it for you in exchange for that paul rutherford.

hstencil, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

Stormy - I worked at the Clark St. Tower the first year it was open and I remember Dan and Rian coming in occasionally with at least some Drag City items for consignment - I remember singles specifically, but odds are that one of them suggested to file the O'Rourke in the classical room where it sold like wildfire no doubt.

dad a, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago)

"Please Note Our Failure" is a pretty interesting exercise in plunderphonic tape editing. But it's an ep, so probably isn't worth inclusion above. The best part is the Al Green sample.

Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Thursday, 9 August 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

avant jim gets no love

hstencil, Thursday, 9 August 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

when is he gonna get another album like the top 4 here?

CaptainLorax, Friday, 14 March 2008 04:35 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Wire Magazine just tweeted that he has a new album coming out on Drag City on August 31. Songs? Laptop experimentation? Which is it to be? That's what I'd like to know.

Wax Cat, Monday, 13 July 2009 13:23 (fifteen years ago)

!

matinee, Monday, 13 July 2009 13:28 (fifteen years ago)

Cool!

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 13 July 2009 13:45 (fifteen years ago)

Excellent news.

sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 13 July 2009 13:53 (fifteen years ago)

"The Visitor" it's called, but i haven't played it yet. mostly because it asks that it be played loud on speakers and i haven't been in front of my stereo long enough to make that happen.

beta blog, Monday, 13 July 2009 14:01 (fifteen years ago)

Wire Magazine just tweeted

Ugh.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 13 July 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago)

Oh, I'm not on Twitter and I don't read Wire. Someone told me about it.

Phew, escaped the net.

Wax Cat, Monday, 13 July 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

I guess The Visitor being a euphemism for The Man Who Fell to Earth. Sorta glad he went that route.

matinee, Monday, 13 July 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago)

i thought he quit music. anyway this is intriguing news.

sonderangerbot, Monday, 13 July 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago)

i guess around the time he was finishing this news stories started coming out about how it was a misunderstanding that he quit music, rumors of death greatly exaggerated, that he's been working on music the entire time, etc. makes sense since o'rourke never made a statement about it, it's just been coming from other people's mouths that he was more interested in films now and by extension not working on music anymore

matinee, Monday, 13 July 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago)

Where does this 'he's quit' thing even come from? He released an album with Loren Conners just this year (Two Nice Catholic Boys). Plus he released three (!) albums last year, one of them being a double album.

Anyway, so psyched for this! I hope it's following up 'Insignificance'.

young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 13 July 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago)

the "he quit" thing came out around the time he stopped playing with Sonic Youth, but seemed sort of like BS ... But I can understand wanting to take a break -- he had a pretty much nonstop 10 years or so there. But I'm glad there's a new record coming out! Will be interesting to see what direction he's taking.

tylerw, Monday, 13 July 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago)

all the other recent o'rourke output has been archival, including the connors, with the excellent touch 7" being the only exception i can think of

matinee, Monday, 13 July 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

i have a vague memory of O'Rourke saying he hadn't made a proper solo record in so long because his conception for it would be too pricey to actually record -- don't know if this record is what he had in mind, but it would be cool if someone kicked in the cash!

tylerw, Monday, 13 July 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago)

I guess The Visitor being a euphemism for The Man Who Fell to Earth.

No, I think he just really, really loved the Richard Jenkins movie. I'm expecting djembe on at least half the tracks.

sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 13 July 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago)

you think it's going to have the same cover as the prop used for the lp in the movie?

matinee, Monday, 13 July 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago)

i think that joke went over jaymc's head...

(*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・)   °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 July 2009 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

Does one need a $15,000 stereo to properly appreciate his more abstract stuff (Terminal Pharmacy, etc.)?

the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 July 2009 16:28 (fifteen years ago)

that, or $15,000 worth of primo weed

tylerw, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago)

i think that joke went over jaymc's head...

What makes you think that? Matinee thought that The Visitor was a reference to The Man Who Fell to Earth, presumably since O'Rourke's previous solo albums have all been named after Nicolas Roeg films. (Of course, it'd make more sense if it were called Castaway, since Bad Timing, Eureka, and Insignificance were all in chronological order, and Castaway follows in the Roeg filmography.)

sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 13 July 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago)

you think it's going to have the same cover as the prop used for the lp in the movie?

Unless you mean this joke, in which case you're right, I don't know what he's talking about.

sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 13 July 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago)

When is O'Rourke going to release "Full Body Massage"

tylerw, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago)

Bowie's character (Newton) in The Man Who Fell to Earth records an LP called The Visitor. I don't see why he'd need to follow Roeg's filmography chronologically starting from Bad Timing

matinee, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago)

and, ya, my comment about the prop is just an unfunny, dorky joke. the only way i have right now to vent my excitement for the lp.

matinee, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

also, i'm happy to hear that drag city has a convincing way of insinuating a hi-fi into their record's listening experience. i would like to see that copy :)

matinee, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:54 (fifteen years ago)

Oh OK, nice. I've never seen Man Who Fell to Earth (admission of which will probably be fodder for Steve Shasta to make some kind of derisive comment). Anyway, I thought I was the one making the unfunny joke by referencing the Jenkins film.

sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Monday, 13 July 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

i have a vague memory of O'Rourke saying he hadn't made a proper solo record in so long because his conception for it would be too pricey to actually record -- don't know if this record is what he had in mind, but it would be cool if someone kicked in the cash!

interesting if true. same thing happened with the second plush album

kamerad, Monday, 13 July 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago)

The rumor started because he moved to Tokyo and spent most of his time learning Japanese & obsessing over Kiyoshi Kurosawa and contemporary Jap cinema & expressed an interest in involving himself with film. He's always admitted that he's more passionate about movies than he is about music, though. Can't wait to hear the new release.

Turangalila, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

fed was released just in japan. hmmmm. . . .

kamerad, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:40 (fifteen years ago)

Apparently it's one long track called The Visitor.

He also said "pretty much everyone will be disappointed"

Touch of Death, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 13:22 (fifteen years ago)

Context for that quote (from an interview he gave last year):

this is def. “pt 4,” [after Bad Timing, Eureka and Insignificance] but it’s not going to be what people expect. pretty much everyone is going to be disappointed, and i think i avoided doing it for a while because of that. not because i care so much about it being “accepted,” but i couldn’t figure out how to get the right context for it. but, it’s def. connected, but it’s not linearly connected, it’s folding back, and very much with a purpose. the record i started 6 years ago is the next one, and makes more sense being after this one now. but it’s gonna take forever to record, if it is going to be at all possible. i’m gonna try. that is probably the one people will have been hoping for. oh well.

sad-ass Gen Y fantasist (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago)

P4K compares it to Bad Timing

baaderonixx, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 13:48 (fifteen years ago)

that interview is actually pretty great - thanks for the link

baaderonixx, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago)

http://givemetakeyou.com/thevisitor.jpg

matinee, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago)

it is one long track and i guess you can file me in the "disappointed" grouping. not that i was hoping for Eureka/ Bad Timing Mk. II or what have you, but it seemed a tad...aimless?

beta blog, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

are there vocals?

tylerw, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago)

ysi

(*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・)   °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago)

maybe more like a mirror record?

matinee, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago)

sweeeet, love that video and clip

five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Wednesday, 2 July 2025 01:18 (one week ago)

Hyped. I listen to “Shutting Down Here” at least twice a month, they’re a brilliant duo

thinking of you (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 2 July 2025 18:01 (one week ago)

I still need to finish my Steamroom cheat sheet! I got halfway through but I don’t have time these days and I am gonna have to do a second listen-through to make sure I got it all right

thinking of you (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 2 July 2025 18:03 (one week ago)


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