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Finally got my Jim O'Rourke cd's. Insignificance is anything but. What a fabulous record. Truthfully, it may as well be a Loose Fur record that Tweedy doesn't sing on. I also have Eureka but haven't digested it yet. Anyone that loves Loose Fur has to have it.

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Oh yeah!!

 

"Insignificance" is his best, I feel.

 

I sometimes think I like Loose Fur better than Wilco these days. I personally prefer the more experimental approach that O'Rourke brings to the table.

 

I've got nothing against Wilco's current line-up. Sky Blue Sky is a pretty good album, but I loved the line-up post YHF/around A A Ghost Is Born that included Jim and Leroy. Masses of space in the music (especially live) and Jeff on lead guitar.

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I've now listened to Eureka a few times and it's stellar (albeit quite different) than Insignificance. I was amazed (but probably shouldn't have been) at how much O'Rourke's "sound" comes through in the context of Loose Fur. From what I can tell, Tweedy isn't a contributor to Eureka.

 

As an aside, my rabidness for Wilco will finally be consummated by going to a show!! Austin 5/12. Can't wait!

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I've now listened to Eureka a few times and it's stellar (albeit quite different) than Insignificance. I was amazed (but probably shouldn't have been) at how much O'Rourke's "sound" comes through in the context of Loose Fur. From what I can tell, Tweedy isn't a contributor to Eureka.

 

As an aside, my rabidness for Wilco will finally be consummated by going to a show!! Austin 5/12. Can't wait!

 

No Tweedy does not contribute to Eureka, but Glenn Kotche does contribute to both Insignificance and Eureka, and the EP Halfway To A Threeway (which I strongly recommend getting if you like both of the albums mentioned). I am getting more into his earlier out there stuff, and also all of his other side projects. But while I do like all is albums, my favorite has to be Bad Timing. It's just pure genius.

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Jim O'Rourke is in my top 5. Every album he's released since the late 90's is amazing. And I'm pretty sure he's supposed to have a new one coming out sometime soon...ish...

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Yea, Jimmy O's solo stuff is pretty incredible. I actually got to meet him when he played with Sonic Youth in Northampton, MA a couple of years ago. He seemed...frightened to be approached by someone who knew who he was. His response to my complimenting his old solo stuff was something along the lines of 'Yea, I don't do that anymore.' What a champ!

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"pictures of adolf again" is a song i quickly recorded a few years

back with my friend glenn kotche. It was written by the brilliant

English songwriter Bill Fay, and recorded originally in 1971;

amazing how the sentiment is still so specific today.

 

if you feel, you're healed, jim.

 

download Pictures of Adolf

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Finally obtained this recently on CD and wasn't disappointed. However, my copy has absolutely no information in the booklet. This may be standard issue, but since both Tweedy and Kotche are on there, I was really looking forward to finding out who played what on each track. I really like the way the Loose Fur albums dealt with that.

 

I've looked around and not come up with anything. Does anyone have the knowledge?

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I'm pretty sure Jeff only plays on the first song, harmonica. I think Glen does drums on the whole album but don't quote me on that.

 

 

Jeff plays guitar on: "Therefore I Am", "Memory Lame", and "Get a Room"

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O'Rourke's career path kind of reminds me of Brian Eno's. Excellent solo albums, he produced some of the best records of the last decade, he was a great sideman in Sonic Youth and to a lesser extent Wilco, he's been involved in a ton of interesting side projects. Like Eno, I tend to prefer the work a band or artist does with O'Rourke to the work they do without.

 

As for this album, the song Insignifcance unfuckingbelievably good. I had this CD in my car the first month I was driving around St. Paul/Minneapolis getting acclimated with the city so a lot the songs kind of sync up with different areas for me in the cities.

 

--Mike

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