Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

Release Year: 2005

Label: Asthmatic Kitty

Tracks:
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
3) The World's Columbian Exposition
3) 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
20) The Great Frontier
20) 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

Other Releases by Sufjan Stevens

Convocations (2021)

The Ascension (2020)

Aporia (2020)

The Decalogue (soundtrack) (2019)

The Greatest Gift (mixtape) (2017)

Planetarium (2017)

Carrie and Lowell Live (2017)

Carrie and Lowell (2014)

Silver and Gold (2012)

The Age Of Adz (2010)

The BQE (2009)

Peace: Songs for Christmas, Vol. V (2006)

The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album (2006)

Joy: Songs for Christmas - Vol. IV (2005)

The Dress Looks Nice on You (2004)

Seven Swans (2004)

Ding! Dong!: Songs for Christmas, Vol. III (2003)

Michigan (2003)

Hark!: Songs for Christmas, Vol. II (2002)

Noel: Songs for Christmas, Vol. I (2001)

Enjoy Your Rabbit (2001)

A Sun Came (2000)