Prelude to 110 or 220/Women of the World (0:00) Ghost Ship in a Storm (8:46) Movie on the Way Down (12:41) Through the Night Softly (20:19) Please Patronize Our Sponsors (25:06) Something Big (28:11) Eureka (31:25) Happy Holidays (40:37)
Guys, if you liked this album, especially song 'Eureka', i strongly recommend watching by Aoyama Shinji. In interview, he actually wrote its screenplay after he listened to 'Eureka'. It's long film, about 3 hours and half, but seriously, it can change your entire life. I experienced that before, and if you're reading this, just write about this down somewhere and watch it if you somehow depressed or need something to encourage you. Long story short, it's a great movie.
@@user-zb3jc6zl6h This album's title was taken from Roeg's Eureka; Aoyama's film was inspired by this record. The latter also features a great scene featuring a listening session of Albert Ayler's "Ghosts".
Jim O'Rourke is one of those guy who's musically fluid. He can plant one foot in the pop musical landscape and with the other the uninhibited world of avant garde music. I call that genius and he has been on my musical radar for years and he's a fellow Chicagoan. Now in Japan.
This is fucking incredible. I'm crying tears of joy. This is already in my top 5 albums of all time. Jesus christ... I can't even express how amazing it is. Just listen to it and you'll see.
Wow. My favorite film of all time is shinji aoyoma's eureka. Hearing the song eureka in this made me tear up, I did not even know that this album and Aoyoma's eureka had any connection. The scene near the end of the movie that is on the beach where the song eureka plays is one of the most powerful and cathartic scenes of all time.
yes that scene is phenomenal, so simple in its presentation yet it holds such heavy feelings in the context of the film and what the characters went through
After listening to countless songs & experiencing numerous genres, a certain belief had precipitated that music may no longer befuddle me. And as they say, the only limitation is what we create, here is a beautiful album that has been reaching out to me since better part of last week. I am so glad for my crooked beliefs! (especially the songs - "Women of the World", "Something Big", "Eureka" ) As the album ends, I tear up again, as I remember how long it's gonna be till I come across something this pure. But I'm gonna hang around, if not for myself, at least for creations such as this where I discover myself much more than what I find when I look into the mirror.
"Eureka" inspired Shinij Aoyama to make his four-hour-long movie with the same title. It´s about three survivors of a massacre in a bus, who try to go on living after their traumatic experience. If you give it a chance, the film might really stick with you.
Weird, this album is already named after a movie. 'Eureka' by Nicolas Roeg. Incidentally, he's also made films named 'Insignificance' and 'Bad Timing'. ;-)
i saw it in a festival in the early 2000!!! great movie!!!! all other movies showing were out of tickets, so i went to see it. really liked it, and had never seen anyone mention it elsewhere.
This is fucking amazing.I have never found anything like this on the web. It is both pure and insane, it has as readings and feelings attached as souls on the planet.Great hugs to everyone. :)
sabía que debía escuchar este álbum desde hace tiempo pero la portada me creaba cierta perspectiva incómoda que ahora traduzco como ingresar visualmente a la parte más errática del consciente de jim o'rourke que me habla a la vez de la profundidad musical contenida en este álbum folk. así que agradezco haber aterrizado de una vez por todas !
Lovely. Everything. Arresting artwork, heartfelt music. Thank you. About twenty one point five minutes begins an Homage to Dark Side of the Moon (side 2, great gig in the sky). We all must brook the legacy of P. Floyd ( :-/ ) But this Album sounds as fresh now, as always.
Both his Floyd and Oldfield influences are highly evident throughout his previous, and IMHO best, release "Bad Timing". Noticeable particularly if you are familiar with Pink Floyd's embracingly pastoral "Zabriskie Point" sessions, and Oldfield's "Ommadawn" and "Hergest Ridge"
Ivor cutler wrote women of the world! Lennon admired Cutlers work and offered him a role in the Beatles film magical mystery tour. His screen name was buster blood vessel! 1980’s ska band “Bad manners “ frontman stole the stage name!
I don't get the salty comments here tbh. O'Rouke has earned his place in the musical landscape - his stuff with Bobby Conn alone is genius, the many productions, his influence on super furry animals (which is extremely evident and tbh the only reason I ever knew about this album at all!) his session work , he was integral to Sonic Youth becoming so huge. Could go on. It's not like he's blagged anything and it's not like he's over rated remotely. Salty muzos get on my goddamn nerves. If you don't like something jog on and let us enjoy it you petty nihilistic trolls. You call anything that obtains a shred of cult notoriety "hipster" because your own musical taste is likely so vanilla and beige. Good for you. Enjoy your noise and dribble. Lol but this is objectively gorgeous. It's a masterpiece of an album and comparable to Moondog at his most anthemic.
Well how about Van Dyke Parks? He played with the Mothers briefly in 1964 (and did some arrangements for him in 1973). This album can be compared to VDP's _Song Cycle_ (1968), which by a minor Conceptual Continuity hop in time leads back to Zappa. So if one can concede VDP's influence on Zappa, then one could say it is reminiscent of FZ's work, too.
he just said 'shut the $%# up', and 'shut the $%# up'........and 'shut the $%# up'....ba ba ba ba baaaaa!!!! perfect song, the best ever, I think Jim O'Rourke is just tryin to play music so we can all shut up. instead of shut up, let's just listen to......this
I can sense a subtle influence of Masayoshi Takanaka "Oh, tengo tengo Suerte" on the opening track of this album. Aww I love Jim, I'm a Japanaphile too.
Ghost Ship in a Storm's vibe sounds exactly like some of Superfluous Motor's songs. When I was listening to Superfluous Motor I suspected it was digitally made as some songs sounded identical, but now I hear the exact same timbres, I suspect Jim is using the same program.
@@coffeebeancoffeebean No, I don't think so, although I don't know all stuff from them, esp. the solo works of the group members. You are right, that aspect of O'Rourkes composition, which might be influenced by serial and minimal music composers like Steve Reich or P. Glass, is not what one would relate to Arcade Fire. (thank you for bringing up Jim O'Rourke to me on this sunny day..:)
@@benapfel8792 that's ok! wow, what an insightful and detailed answer! thanks, i was worried i was being a little proddy and was about to get into an internet fight (the steve reich comparison seems right to me personally)
@@coffeebeancoffeebean My Body is A Cage is repetitious while building on the theme and getting bigger like the first track. In the Backseat might also be a similar track? This is my first listen to Jim but I can hear the similarities to some early Arcade Fire.
I guess im one of those few weird people that actually find the album cover.. nice and pleasant? Looks like the guy is enjoying himself, warm feels. I find this more attractive than traditionally "pretty art" in some ways. Im an artist and while i love drawing nude men who are athletic/muscled, its fun to do illustrations of people outside the idealized form, fat, wrinkles and all and even make it erotic
thankyou in this life for macdonalds, i feel this organic food has been a benefit for my family and my child. please lord let my girlfriend turn into a hot steamy circle piece of meat and let me be her bread and lettuce also circular, i want this as a gift because i deserve it. i feel like a chicken nugget in a free range egg, i am the embryo brothers and sisters of this consuming world although i know that at the end and start of the day i can always rely on a circle meat in a bun to wake up next to.
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