Whoa, acoustic album eh? Would not have thought that was coming. Nice.
― grandavis, Thursday, 1 October 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
Also, I am pretty sure that at this point I am not interested in hearing Jim talk about his own work. It just ... does not help.
― grandavis, Thursday, 1 October 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah... no idea what to expect about the solo acoustic thing. for some reason i kind of doubt it'll be along the lines of the solo playing on bad timing, but who knows?
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 October 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
he sounds like such a miserable bastard
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
he sounds happy :)
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
god this performance is amazing
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 October 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
Three recent collabs here: (oh this looks so tempting)
― EvR, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
oh holy SHIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xizxQ8L78T8
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 May 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
i cant believe these were just sitting on youtube for 9 months before i saw them. super raunchy version of halfway to a threeway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeKCOaRPflY
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 May 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
Never pegged him for a Dylan fan, but JO covers Sad Eyed Lady on this new Mojo giveaway CD:
http://www.mojo4music.com/23985/mojo-celebrates-bob-dylans-blonde-on-blonde/
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 13:21 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTDDdnKWxDcsynth patches by Jim O'Rourke
― EvR, Monday, 3 October 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
Cool retrospective review of Bad Timing by Mark Richardson: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22870-bad-timing/
This seesaw between mischievous subversion and slack-jawed beauty is the key to O’Rourke’s best music. His sense of humor is both generous and slightly dark; there’s irony in his touch, but it’s not a negating one. It’s more about being open to hearing every possibility in a given piece of music. In a 2001 interview O’Rourke was asked if Bad Timing had an element of parody. “Not a parody at all, or infatuation, it’s more like trying to reconcile what is imagined, learned, real, and imaginary.” And then he added, “Is it really that impossible to believe that something can be funny and sincere at the same time?”
― flappy bird, Monday, 13 February 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
UMMMM THIS IS NEW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vca6NLVKYrI
― flappy bird, Saturday, 11 March 2017 06:23 (seven years ago) link
^full band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGr-BadCPHQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llkXDZ4w3IM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kX4ivPin3U
― flappy bird, Saturday, 11 March 2017 06:25 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AO4OPCjTuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSdB29FlILc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4hNo1vKyOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg72sUd6w3I
― flappy bird, Saturday, 11 March 2017 06:26 (seven years ago) link
Woah!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 11 March 2017 12:01 (seven years ago) link
I was at that show! So great.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 11 March 2017 12:50 (seven years ago) link
Lots of video from this tour on youtube, this was uploaded 10 years ago:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2c2XblYcOc
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 11 March 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
Yeah those are the only live recordings I'd heard or seen before last year when a proshot video of full band Not Sport, Marital Art and Halfway to a Threeway showed up on YouTube. Having even more full band live versions of the Roeg records is blowing my mind.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 11 March 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
New album with Kassel Jaeger (sp?) on Mego is truly gorgeous and strange and one of my favorite things this year.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 12 March 2017 01:31 (seven years ago) link
already posted this in another thread but it needs to be seen - Jim singing karaoke of "Thanks But No Thanks" by Sparks in 2000. Thurston on Casio.
22:52https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_yuTYi4xpM
― flappy bird, Saturday, 29 April 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
I never got into the Sparks but that is a very good impression with showmanship
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Sunday, 30 April 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
Has to be "Halfway to a threeway". "Not Sport, Martial Art" is unfuckwithable
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 1 May 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
"Not Sport, Marital Art" is my favorite song of all time. I always thought the pun in the title was cool but confusing - so many people spell it "martial" despite the fact that every copy of the record spells it "marital." it's not a typo
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 May 2017 03:32 (seven years ago) link
but yeah i would've voted for Halfway to a Threeway - despite its length it has his best work on it. Insignificance is my favorite of the Roeg LP's - I think Eureka is massively overrated, maybe due to Women of the World.
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 May 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
Eureka presaged a whole era of epiphany-core ukulele and xylophone filled corporate commercials and movie trailers.
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 May 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
Behave - plenty of records can be accused of that, but how many people have actually heard Eureka? Anyway, it's long been my favourite (hence why I'm reacting so spikily!) but it's been overtaken by Bad Timing and Threeway in the last couple of years.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 1 May 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
i like eureka my favorite recent jim o'rourke is the soundtrack he did for The Creeping Garden, which i strongly recommend for the music as well as the film
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
yeah eureka is great, though i suppose sufjan took quite a bit from it ... i haven't heard creeping garden, I'll have to check it out!
― tylerw, Monday, 1 May 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
Sufjan is definitely guilty of swiping Stereolab songs... compare "The Free Design" and the title track on Illinois. it's just ridiculous
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 May 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
Me either. Is it readily available?
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 1 May 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
i know it's included with the UK release of the movie, but i don't have it either i asked (via twitter) the people who made the movie if it was going to be released separately and they just offered me that but maybe he will release a version? it's really slow and droney. the movie is about slime molds <3
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
you could probably email him, i think he gets back to fans p quickly
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 May 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyQqRBJngkY
do you know his email? i don't!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link
you can reach him thru the contact on the Steamroom page
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 May 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
https://steamroom.bandcamp.com
helpful, thank you
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
some of his soundtrack stuff shows up on steamroom, so it seems possible he'd put it out there ...
― tylerw, Monday, 1 May 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
hope so! i really liked it. he does whatever he wants. i admire that.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
The best concert I've ever attended was O'Rourke at the Empty Bottle just before Eureka came out circa 1998. He played one song: "Women of the World." For 50 minutes. Just him, a guitar and a drum machine. The same riff, the same vocal lines, repeated over and over and over. It was the most sublime musical experience I've ever had.
I'm a huge fan and would love for him to continue with music, but I understand that sometimes you have to move on for a while.
― Bill in Chicago, Tuesday, August 7, 2007 1:16 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 05:32 (seven years ago) link
Bandcamp interview from last year
― EvR, Thursday, 8 June 2017 07:46 (seven years ago) link
The same riff, the same vocal lines, repeated over and over and over. It was the most sublime musical experience I've ever had.
does... not... compute
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 8 June 2017 10:51 (seven years ago) link
Terje Rypdal-tribute with Jim contributing one track
― EvR, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
innnnteresting. did LL see that the Creeping Garden soundtrack she was asking about showed up on bandcamp? https://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-35
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
i bought the DVD which came with the soundtrack! It was like $16 and worth every penny! i was just talking about this movie/soundtrack with some strangers at a show and i got that sneaking feeling that they were like "will she ever stop talking about this...?" loli stopped! the performance i saw had a dance component and there were visual and sonic elements that reminded me of this movie.
anyway now everyone can listen to it
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
We caught him doing the "prelude" at the Fillmore West, in 1998. Went to see Sonic Youth on their ATL tour, first time in SF, didn't know Jim O'Rourke was opening. Just walking in, and hearing this pleasant drone going on (no vocals) in the main room (we were still out by the merch tables), "sublime" is a good word for it.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Can I just commend EvR for returning to this forum solely to update the Jim O'Rourke thread? Closest and most dedicated follower of all things O'Rourke imo, it's greatly appreciated Eric! :)
The soundtrack is great, I have to seek out the film.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
You're welcome Gerard :-)
Another find, this time on iTunes: Magnetic Reconnection, a 12-minute documentary with an O´Rourke soundtrack
― EvR, Thursday, 31 August 2017 14:44 (seven years ago) link
is there much jimbo discussion in leech's fearless?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 31 August 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
^would also like to know this
reminds me, i rented the Wilco doc I Am Trying to Break Your Heart a few months ago on amazon, mostly to see that one brief scene of JimO hysterically screaming "Everyone always says I ruin records!!!!!!! I come into mix a record, then everyone hates it!!!!!!!!!!!" but it wasn't in there... maybe the DVD i used to have was another cut.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link