Jim O'Rourke
Bad Timing (LP)
FormatLPLabelDrag CityGenreExperimental
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2024 Repress. LP version, originally released 1997, the first Jim O'Rourke album for Drag City. "Make no mistake, Bad Timing is not a pop album by any standards. But it is a musing on popular standards and uses much of the same instrumentation that many of our country's most popular records have. Yes, Bad Timing is a theme record, Jim O'Rourke's pop opera, just waiting for someone to come along and play with it. Based on John Fahey-esque 6-string acoustic guitar foundations, each of the three pieces expand to include other musical elements. Piano, organ, electric guitar, brass, strings -- everything, it seems, except vocals! Think of the impressionist Americana of Van Dyke Parks and the soundtracks of Jack Nitzsche."
Release notes
Comes in a single sleeve with a one-sided A5 insert (credits, acknowledgements, song titles). No printed track durations. ©&℗1997 Drag City ©1997 Field Code Music (BMI) Outside of USA/Canada ©1997 Rough Trade Publishing
| A1 | There's Hell In Hello But More In Goodbye | 9:38 | |
| A2 | 94 The Long Way | 13:57 | |
| B1 | Bad Timing | 10:00 | |
| B2 | Happy Trails | 10:35 |
- John Golden
- Lacquer Cut By
- Brian Calvin
- Painting [Cover Painting]
- Steve Keene
- Painting [Inside]
