Bad Timing (album)

Bad Timing is the first conventional song-craft album by American musician Jim O'Rourke. Although O'Rourke releases experimental music nearly every year, this album marked the beginning of his series on Drag City Records which focuses on standard song structures. It is an instrumental album, consisting largely of Jim O'Rourke's acoustic guitar playing (much in the style of John Fahey), sometimes with additional instrumentation.

Bad Timing
Studio album by Jim O'Rourke
Released	August 25, 1997
Recorded	1997
Genre	American primitive guitar post-rock
Length	44:06
Label	Drag City
Producer	Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke chronology
Happy Days (1997) Bad Timing (1997) Eureka (1999)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Pitchfork Media	9.1/10[2]

The album is named after the 1980 film Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession, directed by Nicolas Roeg. It is one of a trio of O'Rourke albums, along with Eureka and Insignificance, to be named after Roeg films from the 1980s.

This album is a favorite of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jim O'Rourke.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"There's Hell in Hello But More in Goodbye"	9:37
2.	"94 the Long Way"	13:58
3.	"Bad Timing"	10:00
4.	"Happy Trails"	10:33
Total length:		44:06

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Richardson, Mark (February 12, 2017). "Jim O'Rourke: Bad Timing". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved February 12, 2017.