Insignificance (Jim O'Rourke album)

Insignificance
Studio album by Jim O'Rourke
Released	November 19, 2001
Recorded	2001
Genre	Indie rock alt-country art rock
Length	38:25
Label	Drag City
Producer	Jim O'Rourke Jeremy Lemos Konrad Strauss
Jim O'Rourke chronology
Halfway to a Threeway (1999) Insignificance (2001) I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4 (2001)

Insignificance is the third Drag City album by American musician Jim O'Rourke. It was released in 2001. O'Rourke uses Drag City for his more conventional work. It is the third of three albums recorded by O'Rourke to be named after films by Nicolas Roeg, and features percussionist Tim Barnes, Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche of Wilco (both of whom O'Rourke would later collaborate with as Loose Fur).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
NME	8/10[2]
Pitchfork Media	8.0/10[3]
Spin	7/10[4]

The online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed Insignificance at number 166 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.^[5]

Track listing

All tracks written by Jim O'Rourke. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"All Downhill from Here"	4:59
2.	"Insignificance"	5:12
3.	"Therefore, I Am"	4:53
4.	"Memory Lame"	5:57
5.	"Good Times"	4:04
6.	"Get a Room"	6:58
7.	"Life Goes Off"	6:22
Total length:		38:25

Notes

1. Phares, Heather. "Insignificance – Jim O'Rourke". AllMusic. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
2. Wirth, Jim (January 19, 2002). "O'Rourke, Jim : Insignificance". NME. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
3. Pecoraro, David M. (November 27, 2001). "Jim O'Rourke: Insignificance". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
4. Gross, Joe (March 2002). "Jim O'Rourke: Insignificance". Spin. 18 (3): 137. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
5. Pitchfork staff (September 28, 2009). "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 200–151". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved October 1, 2009.