Illinois (album)

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Illinois
Album studyjny Sufjana Stevensa
Wydany5 lipca 2005
GatunekMuzyka folk, eksperymentalny rock
Długość74:03
WydawnictwoAsthmatic Kitty, Rough Trade Records
Album po albumie

Illinois (stylizowane jako Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel the ILLINOISE na okładce albumu; czasami zapisywane jako Illinoise) – album koncepcyjny, wydany w 2005 roku przez amerykańskiego muzyka Sufjana Stevensa. Utwory określają miejsca i osoby związane z amerykańskim stanem Illinois. To drugi album, w oparciu o stan USA w planowanej części 50 stanów.

Lista utworów

  1. "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" – 2:09
  2. "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!'" – 2:14
  3. "Come On! Feel the Illinoise!" – 6:45
    1. "The World's Columbian Exposition"
    2. "Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream"
  4. "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." – 3:19
  5. "Jacksonville" – 5:24
  6. "A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons" – 0:47
  7. "Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!" – 3:03
  8. "One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' for the Pullman" – 0:06
  9. "Chicago" – 6:04
  10. "Casimir Pulaski Day" – 5:54
  11. "To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament" – 1:40
  12. "The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts" – 6:17
  13. "Prairie Fire That Wanders About" – 2:11
  14. "A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze" – 0:19
  15. "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!" – 5:23
  16. "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!" – 5:09
  17. "Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bushnell" – 0:40
  18. "In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth" – 0:35
  19. "The Seer's Tower" – 3:54
  20. "The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders" – 7:03
    1. "The Great Frontier"
    2. "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" – 0:46
  22. "Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run" – 4:21

Elementy tematyczne

Album jest pełen aluzji i odniesień. Poniżej lista aluzji i odniesień, która może być nie kompletna.

  1. "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois"
  2. "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!'"
  3. "Come On! Feel the Illinoise!"
  4. "John Wayne Gacy, Jr."
  5. "Jacksonville"
  6. "A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons"
  7. "Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!"
  8. "One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' for the Pullman"
    • Pullman Company
  9. "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. "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!"
  16. "Let's Hear that String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way out in Bushnell"
  17. "In this Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth"
  18. "The Seer's Tower"
  19. "The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders"
  20. "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"
  21. "Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run"