POLL: Jim O'Rourke's Roeg Records

each of them is fantastic in its own way. probably listen to The Visitor the most.

are there Roeg films called the Visitor or Halfway to a Threeway?

the visitor is a reference to man who fell to earth -- not sure about halfway?

it's definitely of a piece with the others though, I was going to call them his 70s homage pastiche records but not sure...

Voted for Eureka but it's a five way tie for best ever. These records are incomparable if you're on O'Rourke's wavelength.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTDkJ-bQqM‎

While each is perfect, I voted for Insignificance because I’ve listened to it the most.

Why did he deviate from this theme for his other principle album, I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4?

Halfway's my fave.

I'm Happy etc is lovely, as different as it is to this stuff.

not sure that he wld call the rock/pop records his 'principle' (sic) albs - things like 'terminal pharmacy' and 'happy days' are just as central to his aesthetic imho

bad timing is a beaut.

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I'd agree with that.

I've never got into Insignificance and find it the least interesting of these records.

My ranking: Eureka > Bad Timing > The Visitor > Halfway > Insignificance

I can't stop listening to these.

Bad Timing is one of my all-time favorite albums, but the rest of his catalogue just didn't have that same spark to me, not even The Visitor, which was heavily-hyped at the time as a Bad Timing sequel.

Is your smile so easily worn
Worn away?

The most devastating lyric in pop songs, imo.

I used to have none
Now with you, I've got one...

This is so clearly Eureka, ILM always brings the chuckles.

Eureka out-take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBlzkEzOZv8

would vote for Halfway to a Threeway now just for "Not Sport, Marital Art," my favorite song of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMxhanqvDKY