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Sufjan Stevens List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.96
Audio CD - 05 July, 2005
Asthmatic Kitty
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CD Tracks:
Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
The Black Hawk War, Or, How To Demolish An Entire Civilization And Still Feel Good About Yourself In The Morning, Or, We Apologize For The Inconvenience But You're Gonna Have To Leave Now, Or, 'I Have Fought The Big Knives And Will Continue To Fight...
Come On! Feel The Illinoise!: Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition/Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Jacksonville
A Short Reprise For Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons
Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother!
One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' For The Pullman
Chicago
Casimir Pulaski Day
To The Workers Of The Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea Concerning Your Predicament
The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
Prairie Fire That Wanders About
A Conjunction Of Drones Simulating The Way In Which Sufjan Stevens Has An Existential Crisis In The Great Godfrey Maze
The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!
Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All The Way Out In Bushnell
In This Temple As In The Hearts Of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth
The Seer's Tower
The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders: Part I: The Great Frontier/Part II: Come To Me Only With Playthings Now
Riffs And Variations On A Single Note For Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, And The King Of Swing, To Name A Few
Out Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run
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Very poetic This is a really good album from a fairly new and interesting artist. The songs are very poetic. I have always been one of those people that really listened to the lyrics in a song. I find this a very unique type of album.Not only are the lyrics original, but so is the music. I like the softness of the songs here. I don't like albums where people yell at the top of their lungs, yet have nothing to say. I see Sufjan Stevens as a thinking person, who is in touch with the world around him. My three favorite songs are the silly "Night Zombies", the title track "Come On! Feel the Illinoise" and the most serious one "Casimir Pulaski Day". This is a really good and varied album.
Wonder Which State Is Next - Despair? Anyone who has the sheer courage to attempt an honest song about John Wayne Gacy, Jr. certainly deserves a second look, unfortunately, when you look again, it's still a train wreck. One cannot deny the touching sincerity exhibited by Sufjan Stevens in his ambitious work, which features highly original and entertaining titles if nothing else. However, the delivery, the voice, the style, and the overall sensibility are cloying, morbid, and dour, a quagmire oozing precious self-pity. Listen to it for a while, then pound nails through your hand for a while. See if you can tell the difference.
A Bright Collage of Musical Honesty In the 70's we had Cat Stevens and in this abstract and complex age we have Sufjan.Sufjan Stevens is one of the most interesting musical artists I have run into in a long time. What a myriad of instrumentation. He is not afraid to experiment with a variety of melodies either. The lyrics can be MOST profound as in "Oh god of progress, have you degraded or forgot us? Where have your walls gone? I think about it now." He has the courage to sing about John Gacy when commercial artists would not have the courage to even touch a subject like that.What you get with Sufjan is a collage of pure honesty. What does real honesty look like? A little like a Pollack painting, but with beautifully blended colors. Incredibly inventive use of the banjo...WOW!!!
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