0447 - Illinois

Je l’ai déjà dit, j’adore Sufjan Stevens - je suis d’ailleurs dégoûté que le vinyle en édition limitée qu’il propose sur son site internet, contenant un extrait de son prochain album et une face B hors-album soit déjà sold-out - mais des titres de chansons aussi longs, c’est vraiment épuisant à recopier (car oui, je recopie tous les titres à la main sans copier-coller) : je n’ai même plus la force ni le courage, après les avoir tous copiés, de dire à quel point Illinois, album avec lequel j’ai découvert Sufjan Stevens, est génial... il va vous falloir vous faire votre propre avis... vous ne regretterez pas d’avoir essayé.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

Asthmatic Kitty Records 2005

01 - Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland, Illinois

02 - 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 Going to Have to Leave Now, or, « I have fought the Big Knives and will continue to fight them until they are off our lands ! »

03 - COME ON ! FEEL THE ILLINOISE !

Part I : The World’s Columbian Exposition

Part II : Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream

04 - JOHN WAYNE GACY, JR.

05 - JACKSONVILLE

06 - A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane but for Very Good Reasons

07 - DECATUR, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother !

08 - One last « Whoo-hoo ! » for the Pullman

09 - CHICAGO

10 - CASIMIR PULASKI DAY

11 - To The Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning your Predicament

12 - The Man of METROPOLIS Steals Our Hearts

13 - PRAIRIE FIRE THAT WANDERS ABOUT

14 - A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in THE GREAT GODFREY MAZE

15 - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Us !

16 - They Are Night Zombies !! They Are Neighbors !! They Have Come Back from the Dead !! Ahhhh !

17 - Let’s hear that string part again, because I don’t think they heard it all the way out in Bushnell

18 - In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth

19 - THE SEER’S TOWER

20 - THE TALLEST MAN, THE BROADEST SHOULDERS

Part I : The Great Frontier

Part II : Come to Me Only with Playthings Now

21 - 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

22 - Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I shake the dirt from my sandals as I run