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fireflyavenue

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« Reply #50 on: 15 Jul 2006, 13:07 »
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I haven't heard Michigan or Seven Swans yet.)


Oh gosh. Seven Swans...that entire album is just a collaboration of sad. I mean, some of the lyrics are more pointless than they are in Illinois, but a lot of those songs are gorgeously heartbreaking. The Dress Looks Nice On You is a personal tear-jerker favorite. But the whole album has that kind of softer, melancholy sound.

I do love Casimir Pulaski Day, though. Sufjan Stevens has a gift for making me incredibly sad/happy whenever he wants. Stupid him.
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Mikendher

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« Reply #51 on: 15 Jul 2006, 13:19 »
Elliott Smith - Twilight
Iron & Wine - Upward Over the Mountain

Those are the only two that ever get me.
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« Reply #52 on: 15 Jul 2006, 13:53 »
So what do you guys think of "Enjoy your Rabbit"?
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« Reply #53 on: 15 Jul 2006, 14:03 »
I got the Sufjan Stevens album before reading this article and was like "Shoot, this thing is going to make me cry and stuff."

Strangely enough, none of the songs caused me to shed a tear, not even "Casimir Pulaski Day."

I guess that means I have no soul...
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« Reply #54 on: 15 Jul 2006, 18:12 »
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So what do you guys think of "Enjoy your Rabbit"?


I've heard that. Holy crap. I was NOT expecting...whatever the hell that was.
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« Reply #55 on: 16 Jul 2006, 00:42 »
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Gacy Jr is more chilling than sad.

"Chilling" is pretty much the best word to describe that song. Way to hit that nail's head.
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« Reply #56 on: 16 Jul 2006, 01:17 »
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I've heard that. Holy crap. I was NOT expecting...whatever the hell that was.


Sufjan's second album.  Contrary to popular belief, he didn't spring from the womb fully formed.  In fact, he dabbled in electronica.
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« Reply #57 on: 16 Jul 2006, 04:15 »
A Sun Came(his debut) has some great tracks though. Demetrius is even more spooky than Seven Swans and A Winner Needs A Wand has this middle eastern folk feel.
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« Reply #58 on: 17 Jul 2006, 21:58 »
Fond Farewell by Elliott Smith is definately a tear jerker, as is Tommorrow tomorrow; also by Elliott.

As for Casimir Pulaski Day, I get choked up now and then when i hear it, but it almost always brings a tear to my eye when I play it on the guitar and sing the words myself.
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« Reply #59 on: 17 Jul 2006, 23:22 »
Sufjan Stevens...though I generally like his music...he's totally the kid who needed to get beaten up in high school...and not just by the typical jock bullies...I'm talking random d & d geeks looked at sufjan and said...dude..you seriously need a beatdown
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« Reply #60 on: 18 Jul 2006, 00:30 »
That is my absolute least favourite type of post.

"Hey kids, senseless violence!  YEAH!!"
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« Reply #61 on: 18 Jul 2006, 01:00 »
I hate this thread.  

Everynight I come home after a nice evening and feel the urge to download any song here that I haven't heard or relisten to the ones I have heard and I end up crying.

People on the interenet are making me cry.
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The Eyeball Kid

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« Reply #62 on: 18 Jul 2006, 02:41 »
Don't care how overplayed its gettting; the first few times i heard Augie March's 'One Crowded Hour' i teared up
Once while he was in a studio next to me singing it I think i almost cried
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« Reply #63 on: 18 Jul 2006, 02:57 »
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As for Casimir Pulaski Day, I get choked up now and then when i hear it, but it almost always brings a tear to my eye when I play it on the guitar and sing the words myself.

Replace "guitar" with "banjo" and voila, you have me.
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« Reply #64 on: 18 Jul 2006, 05:23 »
Sufjan Stevens songs played on the banjo? And just when I thought that mans music couldn't get any whiter.

Seriously though, I agree with the Elliott Smith songs that have been listed. Not so sure about Sufjan, I think I could probably be more moved by the Illinoise album if there wasn't that feeling of affectation surrounding it. I find the songs on Seven Swans much more powerful.

Oh, and ditto on "Good Woman" by Cat Power.

EDIT: And I just noticed firefly made that point about Seven Swans earlier. My bad. :-/
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« Reply #65 on: 18 Jul 2006, 06:03 »
"Feeling of affectation?" What does that mean? Just curious.
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« Reply #66 on: 18 Jul 2006, 06:24 »
The sense that it's all show, that Sufjan is adopting a particular attitude in order to convey a false or heightened impression, rather than providing an honest and genuine account of himself.  Don't necessarily agree with it, but that's basically what it means.

Like if you go to a party full of posh people, and you start acting posh too even though you're not.
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« Reply #67 on: 18 Jul 2006, 07:49 »
Right.

Essentially what I'm saying is - unlike with Seven Swans where one got the feeling Sufjan was writing songs from the heart (like with subject material that dealt very closely with his faith etc.) with Illinoise, though his choice of subject material was both unique and clever, it (to me at least) didn't feel as genuinely empassioned.

Not that I think it's a bad album. Not at all. In fact as a piece of art, I think it transcends Seven Swans in a number of respects. But if we're talking emotion and the ability to move me... I prefer Seven Swans.
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