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Sufjan Stevens

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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 PLAY
2 Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Fe PLAY
3 Come On! Feel the Illinoise!: The World's Columbian Exposition/Carl San PLAY
4 John Wayne Gacy, Jr. PLAY
5 Jacksonville PLAY
6 Shirt Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, for Very Good Reasons PLAY
6 Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, for Very Good Reasons PLAY
7 Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! PLAY
8 One Last Whoo-Hoo! for the Pullman
9 Chicago PLAY
10 Casimir Pulaski Day PLAY
11 To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerni PLAY
12 Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts PLAY
13 Prairie Fire That Wanders About PLAY
14 Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an
15 Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! PLAY
16 They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from PLAY
17 Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It PLAY
18 In This Temple As in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth PLAY
19 Seer's Tower PLAY
20 Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders: The Great Frontier/Come to Me Only PLAY
21 Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis PLAY
22 Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt fro PLAY

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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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