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| fourwindsbar (35 square miles surrounded by reality) | Posted: May 21, 2010 - 07:16 He's from there? Why would he whack half of Michigan, including Ypsilanti, from the cover? Wisconsin is what they got there. 3 for bad geography. (At least he got most of da UP in. Underappreciated.) |
| titanium667 (Oakmont, PA USA) | Posted: May 21, 2010 - 07:12 WonderLizard wrote: For the record, I think this guy's a stone genius, up there with Sam Beam and Elliot Smith for unique tunesmithing. However, if I recall correctly the "50 States" project proposed a "State" album on a fairly rigorous schedule—after all, even every two years meant that the 50th would be delivered in 2101—after my lifetime and maybe his. Still haven't seen the third. After he did the math, he gave it up. |
| Grammarcop (The gilt is gone) | Posted: May 21, 2010 - 07:10 I'm sure Sufjan's actually singing about Ypsilanti, North Dakota. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Apr 21, 2010 - 10:03 Darlington wrote: No. oh yes. . . |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Apr 19, 2010 - 13:36 For the record, I think this guy's a stone genius, up there with Sam Beam and Elliot Smith for unique tunesmithing. However, if I recall correctly the "50 States" project proposed a "State" album on a fairly rigorous schedule—after all, even every two years meant that the 50th would be delivered in 2101—after my lifetime and maybe his. Still haven't seen the third. |
| ckcotton | Posted: Apr 19, 2010 - 12:54 Got it.... you'd do anything for me.... loud and clear..... |
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: Dec 14, 2009 - 12:45 Sorcha wrote: OMG! I was *born* in Ypsilanti! I have certainly never heard that town used in a song title (or in any other way, for that matter!). And you probably won't hear it again. But that's one of the things that makes Stevens a unique talent. |
| jptl (Potomac, MD) | Posted: Dec 14, 2009 - 12:26 keemun wrote: It's difficult to separate this from his usual tripe, but I think it's much better. I was thinking 'dreck', but 'tripe' works. Another emasculating selection from Sufjan Stevens. Sounds like a soundtrack for a Hallmark commercial during Oprah. |
| Darlington (Columbia, South Carolina) | Posted: Dec 14, 2009 - 12:22 vandal wrote:  No. |
| jadewahoo (Beautiful Earth) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 09:33 Songs that are poignant and pointed... SS has a knack. I like it. |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 09:29 Two states down, 48 to go. I don't know if I'll be able to stand it. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 09:27 |
| crockydile (I miss Excelsior!) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 09:27 Pathetic. |
| Essbee (Big Bend Region, Texas) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 09:27 Who did he do everything for? I'm not clear. |
| ortallcowgirl (Globe, Arizona) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 09:25 love love love love love love |
| jakewhite77 (Los Angeles) | Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 14:50 Absolutely LOVE this album! |
| crockydile (The swamps of Houston) | Posted: Aug 10, 2009 - 13:53 spootwo wrote: I'm giving it high marks for the use of a banjo. It's nice to hear a variety of sounds coming out of my paradise. The exact reason that I give it low marks. Short of Béla Fleck, I think of the banjo as nothing but noise...  |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Apr 05, 2009 - 20:31 dboseman wrote: What an amazing talent! He's this first guy since Elton John in the 70's to consistently turn out beautiful songs. That is a very big statement. One which seems unsupported by almost three decades of musical history. I guess it depends on your definition of "consistent". Some would argue that Caribou, Rock of the Westies and just about everything Mr. Dwight did after Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is consistently awful. Mr. Stevens has potential but it drowns in his self-indulgence. Sort of like Mr. Dwight. |
| Sorcha (Providence, Rhode Island) | Posted: Mar 05, 2009 - 07:43 OMG! I was *born* in Ypsilanti! I have certainly never heard that town used in a song title (or in any other way, for that matter!). |
| hippiechick (Heaven, a place where nothing ever happens) | Posted: Mar 05, 2009 - 07:40 This song always makes me feel sad. Actually the whole album does; the songs are sad. |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Mar 05, 2009 - 07:38 ...hey, remember back when you could listen to radio paradise on any given day and hear sufjan stevens at least three times?.. |
| Derecho (A Land Without Traffic Lights) | Posted: Feb 01, 2009 - 18:17 I'm not a big fan of Sufjan. But turn it up, turn other things down, and pay attention to this track. If you do, you might quickly come to like it. I did. |
| dboseman | Posted: Feb 01, 2009 - 18:14 What an amazing talent! He's this first guy since Elton John in the 70's to consistently turn out beautiful songs. |
| bytheway | Posted: Aug 27, 2008 - 17:46 The way I look at it, his lyric narrative style is in the tradition of Carl Sandburg & Robert Frost, telling the stories of small towns, families, the American countryside. At the same time, many hipsters of their day thought they were hacks, but those hipsters are now dead & mostly forgotten. Do what you do best & let history sort it out. |
| eastcoast | Posted: Aug 27, 2008 - 17:37 Shufjerin Shuckotash Thish Shucks BIG TIME |
| meloman (Warsaw, Poland) | Posted: Jul 27, 2008 - 01:26 keemun wrote: It's difficult to separate this from his usual tripe, but I think it's much better.
However, better tripe is still tripe. |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Jun 25, 2008 - 12:33 Gryn wrote: This sounds like a poor bluegrass remake. It is a poor bluegrass remake. |
| ThePoose | Posted: Jun 25, 2008 - 12:31 netstv wrote: I completely agree. Everytime I hear this guy I keep thinking the same thing.. ugh. I'm sure some people like him and his songs mean something for them, but I just don't get him. I know.. I have a simple mind. Simple mind, eh? That would make a great name for a pop group. |
| Gryn (Oregon) | Posted: Mar 23, 2008 - 02:01 This sounds like a poor bluegrass remake. |
| danimal3114u (San Diego, CA) | Posted: Dec 19, 2007 - 17:07 I really don't like almost everything else he's done, but this track is put together extremelly well. I never really get tired of it. a 9 for me. |
| Kerly (Estonia) | Posted: Jun 14, 2007 - 03:42 wally42 wrote: I don't get why people hate this guy so much....
I really don't. So creative and different.   |
| crowhog2000 (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) | Posted: May 13, 2007 - 19:03 s  ufyawn |
| keemun (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: Mar 27, 2007 - 14:43 It's difficult to separate this from his usual tripe, but I think it's much better. |
| TimeWaster | Posted: Mar 27, 2007 - 14:42 People seem to either hate or love this stuff, I've definitely heard worse stuff. 6. |
| jncverhoef (Utrecht) | Posted: Feb 24, 2007 - 08:35 I always wondered who did this song. And hooray for banjos and horns in the same song! |
| Photo-John (Nor Cal) | Posted: Feb 08, 2007 - 20:04 Bizzarefall wrote: Becuae he is a hipster it seems to be hip to hate him.. I heart him too I hate everyone but Matlock and Slayer. And Sufjan. His work is all beautiful. So beautiful. So beautiful. |
| bokey (Filialville) | Posted: Feb 08, 2007 - 20:03 Waste of bits and bytes. |
| netstv (Martinez, CA) | Posted: Feb 08, 2007 - 20:03 vandal wrote:  I completely agree. Everytime I hear this guy I keep thinking the same thing.. ugh. I'm sure some people like him and his songs mean something for them, but I just don't get him. I know.. I have a simple mind. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Jan 26, 2007 - 12:38 |
| Bizzarefall (SoCal) | Posted: Jan 10, 2007 - 14:04 wally42 wrote: I don't get why people hate this guy so much....
I really don't. So creative and different. Becuae he is a hipster it seems to be hip to hate him.. I heart him too |
| wally42 (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) | Posted: Jan 10, 2007 - 14:02 I don't get why people hate this guy so much.... I really don't. So creative and different. |
| shakylegs (Montreal) | Posted: Jan 10, 2007 - 14:01 Only slightly less craptacular than his other dross. But only slightly. |
| spootwo | Posted: Jan 10, 2007 - 14:00 I'm giving it high marks for the use of a banjo. It's nice to hear a variety of sounds coming out of my paradise. |
| Frater_Kork (Uppsala, Sweden) | Posted: Nov 13, 2006 - 07:11 Wahey! another sufjan tune that sounds exactly like the last one. This is one of the few moments when I wield my executive control over the player and point it to other sources of great music for a while. |
| AlienRelic (east of Eden) | Posted: Nov 13, 2006 - 07:06 Just discovered that there is a Paradise, Michigan. It's on the UP, on the balmy shores of Lake Superior. Brrrr. |
| netstv (Martinez, CA) | Posted: Nov 13, 2006 - 07:06 jlind wrote: I'm really getting sick of this guy. Could his song be any more hacky, I mean seriously he's worse than Coldplay when it comes to making the same song over, and over, and over again.
and over and over and over... and then over and over and over again... ugh. |
| mattt (Undisclosed Location) | Posted: Nov 13, 2006 - 07:05 So they did everything for who again? |
| jlind (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Nov 13, 2006 - 07:03 I'm really getting sick of this guy. Could his song be any more hacky, I mean seriously he's worse than Coldplay when it comes to making the same song over, and over, and over again. |
| Orson (Brussels, BE) | Posted: Oct 29, 2006 - 15:13 I usually hate the sound of banjo... except here... well done!  |
| vandal (the 'couve) | Posted: Sep 30, 2006 - 08:36 its craptastic :puke: |
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