Eureka is an album

Album

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 by American

United States

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 musician Jim O'Rourke

Jim O'Rourke (musician)

Jim O'Rourke is an Irish-American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene...

. It was released on Drag City

Drag City (record label)

Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...

 in 1999. It is named after the 1984 Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg

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 film of the same name

Eureka (1984 film)

Eureka is a 1983 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg. It is the story of a Klondike prospector, Jack McCann who strikes it rich, yet ends up fearing that his daughter Tracy and his son-in-law are scheming to take his wealth and his soul; moreover, greedy investors are also hunting McCann's...

. It is one of three albums recorded by O'Rourke that are named after Roeg films.

"Women of the World" is an Ivor Cutler

Ivor Cutler

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 song and "Something Big" is by Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach

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. "Prelude To 110 Or 220", "Movie On The Way Down" and "Through The Night Softly" are named after Chris Burden

Chris Burden

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performance pieces.

Track listing

1. "Prelude to 110 or 220/Women of the World"
2. "Ghost Ship in a Storm"
3. "Movie on the Way Down"
4. "Through the Night Softly"
5. "Please Patronize Our Sponsors"
6. "Something Big"
7. "Eureka"
8. "Happy Holidays"
9. "Little Island Walking" (bonus track on the Japanese edition)