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Get November 13, 2004 Show Poster (Poster) with Illinois ([Vinyl] 2xLP) for $33.27.
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November 13, 2004 Show Poster Ampersand Illinois
2005, Asthmatic Kitty Records
VINYL FORMAT. Like the self-proclaimed "Spiderman" who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, Illinois, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. Stevens weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infamous, iconic and anonymous. Invoking the muse of poet Carl Sandburg, "Illinois" ushers in trumpets on parade, string quartets, female choruses and ambient piano scales arranged around Stevens' emerging falsetto.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
1 Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
2 Black Hawk War, Or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and ...
3 Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt. 1: The World's Columbian Exposition
4 John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
5 Jacksonville
6 Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good ...
7 Decatur, Or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
8 One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman
9 Chicago
10 Casimir Pulaski Day
11 To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea ...
12 Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
13 Prairie Fire That Wanders About
14 Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens ...
15 Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us!
16 They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from
17 Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It
18 In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
19 Seer's Tower
20 Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders: Pt. 1: The Great Frontier/Pt. ...
21 Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, ...
22 Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, And I Shake the ...

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2 reviews
Adam M
Arguably, one of the most influential albums in indie rock, ever! Sufjan uses very well-known to totally obscure references, people, places and events in Illinois to tell biographical, oft autobiographical tales of life. His Christian undertones aren't over-the-top and preachy, but still present in most of the songs on the album. Brilliant instrumentation, brilliant lyrics, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
nate m.
"Waiting For Guffman" instrumentation meets folk-pop wherein the protagonist cries during literally every song.
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