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Illinois

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Illinois
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Length
22 tracks, 76:37
Release Date
1 January 2005
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. An engrossing musical road trip, “Illinois” takes you through ghost towns, grain mills, hospital rooms, and the City of Broad Shoulders, with guest appearances by a poet, a president, a serial murderer, UFOs, Superman, the goat that cursed the Cubs, and Decatur’s famous Chickenmobile. Sufjan wea… read more
Like the self-proclaimed “Spiderman” who climbed Chicago’s Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and tw… read more
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 sec… read more

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Tracklist

Track number Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options Duration Listeners
1 Play track Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
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 2:09 332,346 listeners
2 The Black Hawk War, or, How to demolish an entire civilisation
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 2:14 2,476 listeners
3 Play track Come on! Feel the Illinoise!
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 6:45 179,712 listeners
4 Play track John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
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 3:21 375,947 listeners
5 Play track Jacksonville
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 5:24 391,110 listeners
6 A Short Reprise for Mary Todd
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 0:47 34,659 listeners
7 Play track Decatur
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 3:03 62,242 listeners
8 Play track One Last "Whoo-hoo!" for the Pullman
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 0:06 5,435 listeners
9 Play track Chicago
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 6:04 572,575 listeners
10 Play track Casimir Pulaski Day
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 5:54 472,355 listeners
11 Play track To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament
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 1:40 132,187 listeners
12 Play track The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
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 6:17 296,478 listeners
13 Play track Prairie Fire That Wanders About
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 2:11 259,836 listeners
14 A Conjunction of Drones
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 0:19 1,280 listeners
15 Play track The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
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 5:23 223,885 listeners
16 Play track They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!
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 5:09 185,964 listeners
17 Let's Hear That String Part Again Because I Don't Think They Heard It All The Way Out In Bushnell
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 0:40 709 listeners
18 Play track In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
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 0:35 130,366 listeners
19 Play track The Seer's Tower
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 3:54 275,389 listeners
20 Play track The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders
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 9:35 130,437 listeners
21 Play track Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll
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 0:46 5,947 listeners
22 Play track Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt From My Sandals as I Run
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 4:21 191,449 listeners

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Sufjan Stevens

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Sufjan Stevens (pronounced "SOOF-yahn"; born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, , and from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the revival through , but his influences are very broad, including , the of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Though Stevens had announced plans to m… read more
Sufjan Stevens (pronounced "SOOF-yahn"; born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, , and from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically fo… read more
Sufjan Stevens (pronounced "SOOF-yahn"; born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, , and from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often… read more

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