Less Than Halfway to a Guide to Jim O'Rourke
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ForegroundNoise 
- Chart updated: 01/31/2026 21:15
- (Created: 03/18/2025 10:09).
- Chart size: 10 albums.
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8.5/10
[First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
Year of Release:
1999
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955
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8.5/10
The last (and best) album from O’Rourke’s Chicago experimental rock/folk group Gastr del Sol. Mix of beautiful folk, jazz, bossa nova, ambient. [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
The last (and best) album from O’Rourke’s Chicago experimental rock/folk group Gastr del Sol. Mix of beautiful folk, jazz, bossa nova, ambient. [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
8/10
Building off I’m Happy…, this was a collab project with Fennesz and Peter Rehberg, where the trio made some incredible ambient/noise music. Honestly Jim’s run from 1997-2002 is unbelievable [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
Building off I’m Happy…, this was a collab project with Fennesz and Peter Rehberg, where the trio made some incredible ambient/noise music. Honestly Jim’s run from 1997-2002 is unbelievable [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
8/10
The cover art suggests a connection to Eureka, but this is a more traditional take on folk rock, albeit with typical weird O’Rourke inflections (the beautiful final track fades out with the percussion becoming progressively more menacing and prominent). Think if Neil Young wanted to make something deliberately off-kilter. “Memory Lame” and “Get a Room” are particularly brilliant. [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
The cover art suggests a connection to Eureka, but this is a more traditional take on folk rock, albeit with typical weird O’Rourke inflections (the beautiful final track fades out with the percussion becoming progressively more menacing and prominent). Think if Neil Young wanted to make something deliberately off-kilter. “Memory Lame” and “Get a Room” are particularly brilliant. [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
8/10
Incredible ambient/noise album, that really shows off his versatility as an artist. This was released the same year as Insignificance! [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
Incredible ambient/noise album, that really shows off his versatility as an artist. This was released the same year as Insignificance! [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
8/10
Really haunting folk rock EP released the same year as Eureka. Finishes with the devastating title track which is ballad about loving someone who is in a vegetative state. [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
Really haunting folk rock EP released the same year as Eureka. Finishes with the devastating title track which is ballad about loving someone who is in a vegetative state. [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
7/10
Instrumental solo guitar album of four lengthy tracks, in the “American Primitivist” style of John Fahey, completely beautiful would def recommend working to. [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
Instrumental solo guitar album of four lengthy tracks, in the “American Primitivist” style of John Fahey, completely beautiful would def recommend working to. [First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
7/10
[First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
6/10
[First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
Year of Release:
2002
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595
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6/10
[First added to this chart: 01/31/2026]
Year of Release:
2016
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1
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Less Than Halfway to a Guide to Jim O'Rourke composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1980s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1990s | 4 | 40% | |
| 2000s | 5 | 50% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 10% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Jim O'Rourke | 6 | 60% | |
| Gastr Del Sol | 1 | 10% | |
| Fenn O'Berg | 1 | 10% | |
| Sonic Youth | 1 | 10% | |
| Christian Fennesz & Jim O'Rourke | 1 | 10% |
Less Than Halfway to a Guide to Jim O'Rourke chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 5 from 8th to 3rdThe Return Of Fenn O'Berg by Fenn O'Berg |
| Up 2 from 3rd to 1stEureka by Jim O'Rourke |
| Up 1 from 9th to 8thThe Visitor by Jim O'Rourke |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 6 from 1st to 7thBad Timing by Jim O'Rourke |
| Down 2 from 4th to 6thHalfway To A Threeway by Jim O'Rourke |
| Down 2 from 7th to 9thMurray Street by Sonic Youth |
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