Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
| Label: | Asthmatic Kitty Records – AKR 014, Sounds Familyre – AKR 014 |
|---|---|
| Format: | 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Balloon Sticker Over Superman |
| Country: | US |
| Released: | |
| Genre: | Rock, Pop, Stage & Screen |
| Style: | Folk Rock, Indie Pop, Theme |
Tracklist
| A1 | Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois | ||
| A2 | 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!" | ||
| Come On! Feel The Illinoise! | |||
| A3.1 | Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition | ||
| A3.2 | Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream | ||
| A4 | John Wayne Gacy, Jr. | ||
| A5 | Jacksonville | ||
| A6 | A Short Reprise For Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons | ||
| B7 | Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Step Mother! | ||
| B8 | One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" For The Pullman!! | ||
| B9 | Go! Chicago! Go! Yeah! | ||
| B10 | Casimir Pulaski Day | ||
| B11 | To The Workers Of The Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea Concerning Your Predicament, And It Involves Tube Socks, A Paper Airplane, And Twenty-Two Able-Bodied Men. | ||
| C12 | The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts | ||
| C13 | Prairie Fire That Wanders About | ||
| C14 | A Conjunction Of Drones Simulating The Way In Which Sufjan Stevens Has An Existential Crisis In The Great Godfrey Maze | ||
| C15 | The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us! | ||
| C16 | They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh! | ||
| C17 | Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All The Way Out In Bloomington-Normal | ||
| C18 | In This Temple As In The Hearts Of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth | ||
| D19 | The Seer's Tower | ||
| The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders | |||
| D20.1 | Part I: The Great Frontier | ||
| D20.2 | Part II: Come To Me Only With Playthings Now | ||
| D21 | 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 | ||
| D22 | Out Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run | ||
| D23 | The Avalanche |
Companies, etc.
- Distributed By – Sounds Familyre
- Copyright © – Asthmatic Kitty Records
- Copyright © – New Jerusalem Music
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Asthmatic Kitty Records
- Recorded At – The Buddy Project
- Recorded At – St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn
- Recorded At – The New Jerusalem Recreational Room, Clarksboro, NJ
- Recorded At – Carroll Music Studios, NY
- Mastered At – West West Side Music
- Lacquer Cut At – AcousTech Mastering
- Pressed By – United Record Pressing
Credits
- Accordion, Vibraphone, Vocals – Sufjan Stevens
- Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Banjo – Sufjan Stevens
- Artwork – Divya Srinivasan
- Drums [Drum Kit], Glockenspiel, Tambourine, Triangle, Shaker, Bells [Sleigh] – Sufjan Stevens
- Drums [Sophisticated Drum Parts], Engineer [Drum Mics] – James McAlister
- Ensemble [The String Quartet], Cello – Maria Bella Jeffers
- Ensemble [The String Quartet], Viola – Marla Hansen
- Ensemble [The String Quartet], Violin – Julianne Carney, Rob Moose
- Lacquer Cut By – KPG*
- Layout, Design – Sufjan Stevens
- Mastered By – Alan Douches
- Oboe, Flute, Alto Saxophone, Alto Recorder, Soprano Recorder, Sopranino Recorder, Tenor Recorder – Sufjan Stevens
- Performer [The Illinoisemaker Choir] – Beccy Lock, Jennifer Hoover, Katrina Kerns, Tara McDonnell, Tom Eaton
- Photography By – Denny Renshaw
- Piano, Electric Piano [Wurlitzer], Synthesizer [Casiotone MT-70], Electric Organ [Baldwin] – Sufjan Stevens
- Recorded By, Engineer, Producer – Sufjan Stevens
- Songwriter [All Songs By], Arranged By, Composed By – Sufjan Stevens
- Trumpet – Craig Montoro
Notes
Tracks are numbered consecutively regardless of sides (as they appear on the release)
Full-length titles from back cover are used
Abbreviated titles are given on the vinyl labels and the insert
D23 is a vinyl bonus track
©℗ 2005 Asthmatic Kitty Records
© 2005 New Jerusalem Music / ASCAP
Asthmatic Kitty is distributed by arrangement with Sounds Familyre
All songs recorded/engineered/produced by Sufjan Stevens (Fall 2004 - Winter 2005)
James McAlister had a lot to do with the way the drums sound because he set up the microphones
All arrangements (painstakingly composed) by Sufjan Stevens
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, Tenafly, NJ
AcousTech Mastering and United Record Pressing credits taken from runouts
• Most of the songs were recorded at The Buddy Project (Astoria, Queens) with gratefulness to Kieran Kelly
• Many of the quiet parts were recorded at Sufjan's apartment in Brooklyn
• The piano was recorded in the dead of night at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
• The string quartet was recorded at Marla's apartment in Washington Heights
• Matt Morgan's vocals were recorded in Red Hook, Brooklyn
• The electric organ was recorded at the New Jerusalem Recreational Room in Clarksboro, NJ
• The vibraphone was recorded at Carroll Music Studios, New York City
Disc 1 - 125g
Disc 2 - 135g
Double gatefold cover (i.e. triple panel)
Includes photo insert with lyrics and credits
• This is the 1st pressing of 5000, which has Superman on the front cover (see photos)
• Due to a copyright infringement, the Superman was hidden with a sticker of 3 colored balloons prior to release
• Although the official album title is "Illinois", the cover art reads "Sufjan Stevens invites you to: Come on feel the ILLINOISE"
All of the phrases etched in the runouts refer to Illinois and are only on this LP version:
• Side 1 - False etymology / loose translation of "Illinois"
• Side 2 - From the Carl Sandburg (b. Galesburg, IL) poem "Chicago"
• Side 3 - Lyrics from Illinois state song
• Side 4 - State slogan of Illinois
Full-length titles from back cover are used
Abbreviated titles are given on the vinyl labels and the insert
D23 is a vinyl bonus track
©℗ 2005 Asthmatic Kitty Records
© 2005 New Jerusalem Music / ASCAP
Asthmatic Kitty is distributed by arrangement with Sounds Familyre
All songs recorded/engineered/produced by Sufjan Stevens (Fall 2004 - Winter 2005)
James McAlister had a lot to do with the way the drums sound because he set up the microphones
All arrangements (painstakingly composed) by Sufjan Stevens
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, Tenafly, NJ
AcousTech Mastering and United Record Pressing credits taken from runouts
• Most of the songs were recorded at The Buddy Project (Astoria, Queens) with gratefulness to Kieran Kelly
• Many of the quiet parts were recorded at Sufjan's apartment in Brooklyn
• The piano was recorded in the dead of night at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
• The string quartet was recorded at Marla's apartment in Washington Heights
• Matt Morgan's vocals were recorded in Red Hook, Brooklyn
• The electric organ was recorded at the New Jerusalem Recreational Room in Clarksboro, NJ
• The vibraphone was recorded at Carroll Music Studios, New York City
Disc 1 - 125g
Disc 2 - 135g
Double gatefold cover (i.e. triple panel)
Includes photo insert with lyrics and credits
• This is the 1st pressing of 5000, which has Superman on the front cover (see photos)
• Due to a copyright infringement, the Superman was hidden with a sticker of 3 colored balloons prior to release
• Although the official album title is "Illinois", the cover art reads "Sufjan Stevens invites you to: Come on feel the ILLINOISE"
All of the phrases etched in the runouts refer to Illinois and are only on this LP version:
• Side 1 - False etymology / loose translation of "Illinois"
• Side 2 - From the Carl Sandburg (b. Galesburg, IL) poem "Chicago"
• Side 3 - Lyrics from Illinois state song
• Side 4 - State slogan of Illinois
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Sticker): 6 56605 89261 0
- Barcode (Scanned): 656605892610
- Matrix / Runout (Side A): AKR 014 LP A "TRIBE OF SUPERIOR MEN" [email protected] ⓤ
- Matrix / Runout (Side B): AKR 014 LP B [email protected] "HOG BUTCHER FOR THE WORLD, TOOLMAKER, STACKER OF WHEAT, PLAYER WITH RAILROADS"
- Matrix / Runout (Side C): AKR 014 LP C "BY THE RIVERS GENTLY FLOWING, O'ER THE PRAIRIES VERDANT GROWING" [email protected] ⓤ
- Matrix / Runout (Side D): AKR 014 LP D "LAND OF LINCOLN" [email protected] ⓤ
- Pressing Plant ID (Runouts): ⓤ
- Rights Society: ASCAP
Other Versions (5 of 33)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recently Edited | Illinois (CD, Album, Superman Cover) | Rough Trade | RTRADCD250 | Europe | 2005 | ||
Recently Edited | Illinois (2×LP, Album) | Rough Trade | RTRADLP250 | Europe | 2005 | ||
Recently Edited | Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel The Illinoise (CD, Album) | Cycle (2) | CYCLE 027 | Benelux | 2005 | ||
New Submission | Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel The Illinoise (CD, Album) | Sinnamon Records | SINCD105 | Spain | 2005 | ||
Recently Edited | Illinois (CD, Album, Superman Cover) | Asthmatic Kitty Records, Sounds Familyre | AKR 014, none | US | 2005 |
Recommendations
Reviews
Hmm, the Beatles "butcher" lps come to mind. Do I remove the sticker to see Superman or do I leave the sticker on?- Easily Sufjan's crowning achievement. For me Sufjan Stevens is one of those frustrating kind of artists where I greatly admire his creativity and his work ethic, yet I find his music a mixed bag quality-wise. Even stylistically his music covers a lot of ground - again something I genuinely respect the artist for doing. I love the fact that I don't know what kind of music he'll release next! However, I've still yet to feel that same sense of amazement that I felt upon listening to Illinois back in 2005. To be honest, nothing's come close; Carrie and Lowell being probably my second favourite of his. There's something about this album that just blows me away - some songs 'click' straight away, yet other songs are 'growers' - and to top it off, the complete album is certainly far greater than the sum of it's parts. All of those tiny little interludes really do add to the whole album experience and I feel like a part of something 'big' when I'm listening. For me this is an easy contender for one of the greatest albums of the 00's and should rightly be remembered as one of the best within it's genre (whatever that may be...).
And what about the pressing quality? i need a feedback : )
funny that this issue is not like 100 € already - its has the superman also - you can remove the balloon if you want :)
So the original pressing was 5,000... but how many actually made it out without the stickers as opposed to with?
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