Bad Timing (studio album)
by Jim O'Rourke

Bad Timing by Jim O'Rourke
Year: 1997
Overall rank: 6,701st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 41 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1997 (114th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,088th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,701st)

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Jim O'Rourke bestography

Bad Timing is ranked 4th best out of 27 albums by Jim O'Rourke on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Jim O'Rourke is Eureka which is ranked number 1720 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 985.

Jim O'Rourke album bestography « Higher ranked (6,551st)
Simple Songs
This album (6,701st)
Bad Timing
Lower ranked (9,192nd) »
Halfway To A Threeway

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78/100 (from 41 votes)
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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 78.0/100, a mean average of 78.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.

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From 10/04/2014 11:50
This album is humanity on a good day: little ado on variations of stuff, and then at the end they just throw a party with mariachi music and shit. Jim O'Rourke is a genius
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