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Sufjan Stevens!
So, I am not completely sure what has compelled me to make this thread, as––from what I have gathered from a lot of the music posted on this site (e.g. black metal, punk, political rap, etc)––you all have terrible taste.
HOWEVER, this guy is my single favorite musician ever and has been for at least the past eight years. He plays a million different instruments, experiments with lots of different styles of music from folk to electronica to this weird orchestral shit. I have seen him live twice and his shows are completely mindblowing, just totally unlike anything else I have ever seen.
Oddly enough, a lot of his music is sort of religious themed (not in the sense of like 'praise and worship' music, but in a subtler kind of way; a lot of his lyrics are full of religious allegories), but his music is so amazing that the religious aspect has actually never bothered me.
Anyway, some examples
Discuss.
Sufjan Stevens is fucking amazing. Illinois is such a classic. You have good taste.
Also a couple of your links didn't work.
Yeah, thanks, they should work now.
You like The Tallest Man On Earth?
No idea. I wasnt familiar with him until I just looked him up on wikipedia.
I came to revleft expecting post-rock.
Yeah what Brospierre said Illinoise was pretty rad.
and you never got it?
FKA Vacant
"snook up behind him and took his koran, he said sumthin about burnin the koran. i was like DUDE YOU HAVE NO KORAN and ran off." - Jacob Isom, Amarillo Resident.
Sufjan Stevens owns but I feel like a big dummy for really expecting him to do an album about every state in the US.
I'm on some sickle-hammer shit
Collective Bruce Banner shit
FKA: #FF0000, AKA Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
I did not.
Totally disappointed.
There are so many terrible states
that would be a terrible idea
check my avatar breh.
FKA Vacant
"snook up behind him and took his koran, he said sumthin about burnin the koran. i was like DUDE YOU HAVE NO KORAN and ran off." - Jacob Isom, Amarillo Resident.
Yeah, I guess that was just some publicity stunt or something. I'm glad, tho, because honestly that would have been boring as hell.
Saw them with Russian Circles once. They were pretty cool. They were at least better than Russian Circles.
Illinoise might actually be my least favorite of his albums. Too much piano and orchestra or something.
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I think Michigan is my favourite album.
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I'm bound to stay
Where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
Yeah, Michigan is in the CD player in my car right now.
I put some videos in Spoiler tags here.
My favourite Sufjan album is Seven Swans, it's gorgeous.
Coalition of Resistance - Fight Back Against the Cuts!
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One of my favorites
Sufjan is definitely one of my favorite artists as well. I can't pick a favorite album. In my opinion it's a three way tie between Michigan, Illinois and Seven Swans. I still don't know what to say about Age of Adz. Some songs are amazing (Age of Adz, Vesuvius, Impossible Soul) and others just felt weak.
If you like Sufjan, you may like Bon Iver. Justin (Bon Iver) is also a great song writer.
雪山顶上也要发芽
~毛泽东
"The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music." - George Carlin
PS. It's pretty ridiculous to simply write off political art, whether it be music or another form.
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