Insignificance
by Jim O'Rourke
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Jim O'Rourke bestography
Insignificance is ranked 2nd best out of 28 albums by Jim O'Rourke on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jim O'Rourke is Eureka which is ranked number 1791 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 951.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Insignificance track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Insignificance rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/06/2026 08:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,463 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/11/2026 00:09 | blackflag29 | 2,763 | 88/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2026 18:31 | Vulgarplacards | 64 | 94/100 |
| ! | 01/07/2026 07:14 | UnliveableWilts | 1,015 | 69/100 |
| ! | 12/10/2025 13:26 | wyowy | 4 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.0/100, a mean average of 78.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.
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JoaoMoreira 04/06/2018 01:25 | #212368 | TOP COMMENT
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This guy's a great fuckin' musician.
The album is truly inventive and I never paid attention to it.
Love the way that its music's structures are vulnerable to the arrangements.
HoldenM 06/13/2015 08:08 | #143750 | TOP COMMENT
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This album is nonstop gorgeous. Amazing album. Will revisit soon.
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