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Not a straight-up masterpiece, but a thorough and thoughtful exploration of the possibilities of glitch music though the ears of a true sonic master.
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Jim O'Rourke: I’m Happy, and I’m Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 (Review)
Women of the world, someone has to do it
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I don't know what is going on in New Hampshire, but our plight called for some sage wisdom from Jim O'Rourke and company. I tend to lean toward the phenomenon named Barrack, not Clinton, but I really more than anything want to see a race decided on issues and not this fragile pretense that somehow if someone wins a poll in Iowa and New Hampshire that they have it all sewn up. Ridiculous, the media
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Jim O'Rourke.......to those who wanted more
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Apparantly calling me a slacker makes me step up and try harder.More Jim O'Rourke and another song from the Insignificance album.Okay....here goes. Jim is a major music-geek. I'm sure he won't deny this. There's this record store in Copenhagen where he likes to drop by when in town. In town might mean Paris. Once he called the shop and aked what time they would be closing.....then jumped on a p...
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I may be dressed as a doctor, dear
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I can't tell you how many times I've listened to Insignificance by Jim O'Rourke. I believe it came out in 2001. I'm not sure and I am too lazy to check. So many good songs and I felt that the album was mine alone since I didn't know a lot of people who listened to it. Sometimes that makes a great album greater.I like the lyrics........and since I am a sucker for first-liners the line "I may be ...
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Sinister Songs
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I've owned this album for a good few years and went on a voyage of rediscovery with it late last year and this song snuck up on me and has become a fixture on my MP3 player ever since. What I love is the way the song does a total lyrical u-turn midway through in many ways its the song equivalent of Psycho, starts off telling one story and then begins another and like Hitchcock this leaves images t
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White Out w/ Jim O’Rourke & Thurston Moore: Senso
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Our correspondent wades into the Avant Blancmange to deal an ineffective deathblow with the logic shield and the sword of meaning. Asyear end lists become a predominant concern I find myself wanting tochoose releases like this, if anything they at least illustrate thepersonal/musical chaos that $ tries to formulate into some cogent orderof lifestyle choices.
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