JIM O'ROURKE RECOMMENDS

We all like lists.  Here's one Jim O'Rourke made on japanese vinyl fetishist site I stumbled upon recently.  All cut-out classics, no doubt.

Andy Pratt- Self Titled (2nd album)
Billy Nicholls-Love Songs
The Humours of Lewis Furey
Billy Merrit-Special Delivery
David Ackles-Five and Dime
Rupert Holmes-Widescreen

Of these in the Cultureberg vault, the Lewis Furey album is to be discussed in my soon-come Lewis Furey opus.  I dug the vinyl out for research purposes and it only underlined what a work of under-rated genius it is.  I also was surprised that I paid £1.79 for it in 1978.  My student grant must have been overly generous.  Watch this space.
Ackles' Five and Dime never struck me like his first album or American Gothic, but, thanks for the prompt, I'll dig it out.
Rupert Holmes.  I've got Widescreen somewhere.  Never found it as cinematic as Partners In Crime,which is a record which forms a new genre, somewhere between Billy Joel and Robert Altman.   Anyone who can write songs as cringeworthy yet classy as Escape (The Pina Colada Song), Him or Parners In Crime desrves their place somewhere in the pantheon.  Slightly above Chris De Burgh and licking Warren Zevon's boots, maybe.
I've got another Andy Pratt album, Shiver In The Night.  His aesthetic seems close to the Jim O'Rourke of Bad Timing and the Loose Fur albums.  I'm sure this 2nd album is lying doggoe in some charity shop, it's corner snipped, it's vinyl crackly and a Help the Aged 99p sticker curling at the edges, waiting for a bloke of a certain vintage to take it home, place it on the overpriced turntable like some creaking priest and drop the needle to the vinyl, hoping for a half-hearted epiphany.