Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
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Illinois is a 2005 concept album by American songwriter Sufjan Stevens, with songs referencing places and people related to the U.S. state of Illinois. It is his second album based on a U.S. state, the first being his 2003 album Michigan.
Critics have widely acclaimed Illinois, and the album was included on many “Best of 2005” lists in the Internet and print media. The website Metacritic, which compiles reviews, ranks Illinois as the best-reviewed album of 2005. That year, it was ranked “Album of the Year” by Pitchfork, Amazon.com’s editors, Entertainment Weekly’s Chris Willman, and The Los Angeles Times’ Richard Cromelin, among others.
Critics have widely acclaimed Illinois, and the album was included on many “Best of 2005” lists in the Internet and print media. The website Metacritic, which compiles reviews, ranks Illinois as the best-reviewed album of 2005. That year, it was ranked “Album of the Year” by Pitchfork, Amazon.com’s editors, Entertainment Weekly’s Chris Willman, and The Los Angeles Times’ Richard Cromelin, among others.
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snewk wrote:
Anyone else still have the cover with superman on it?
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leozinho27 wrote:
Un génie ! un magicien des mélodies folk.....merci pour toute cette orchestration magique et pleine de naiveté .....this album is insdipensable for dream....
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Antonionii wrote:
Magical, beautiful and inspiring music. A masterpiece and one of the most profound and yet simple piece of recording I know, I LOVE THIS ALBUM...
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Valaheim wrote:
OMG the titles o_O
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TheHochhaus wrote:
fantastic
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rincewindsw wrote:
Whoa, that's actually uncanny.
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rincewindsw wrote:
On the spine, it's just Illinois; I'm sticking with that. The song titles are so long, that they crash Winamp when it tries to sync them to my mp3 player. AWESOME.
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janelesque wrote:
I still like Michigan better.
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WillFry wrote:
I'm fairly sure the album title is just "Illinois". It's listed as that on Sufjan's label's official website.
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i visited this because i wanted to see what the hell is up with the album title, and found it's not settled...
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callthisclarity wrote:
I don't think there is a clear consensus on the album title. When imported from the CD, the title is "Come on Feel the Illinoise!" but in the iTunes store the title is simply "Illinois"
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[deleted-user]
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...or "Come On! Feel the Illinoise"
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mplanck wrote:
Either you say 'Illinois' or 'Sufjan Stevens invites you to: Come on feel the Illinoise'.
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hollyfairy wrote:
chromechisel49, I think it's simply "Illinois" (no -e). That's what musicbrainz says.
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chromechisel49 wrote:
just curious, should the album scrobbling title be "come on feel the illinoise!" or just "illinoise"? no real answer, just wondering what you guys thought
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praisingfolly wrote:
#2 album of one of the best years this decade.
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andover wrote:
OH yeah, bought it on gatefold vinyl as well. tis nice.
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andover wrote:
I don't think he was taking your essay into consideration. what a dick.
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BlackAndrew wrote:
JESUS calm the titles down. Right, brilliant music, amazing concepts, stunning album in general, WHY repeat the whole song in a paragraph-long title. It's a novel idea at first but after 22 songs of typing out an essay for each title on my playlist, I start to want to die.
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denfitz wrote:
oh nice pun bowser
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