Reddit reviews Come On Feel the Illinoise

Arcade Fire - Funeral

>OK, I give: if you like this, who or what is the "other" to your "us"? What music is TOO milquetoast and TOO lame for your sensibilities? Is anything? A couple decades ago even the soccermoms this would have been marketed to back then would have preferred something with a little more teeth, like light classical music or Kenny G. I've never met a human being who likes this music. Who are you? Could your attire be described as "complicated"? Do you assume a nickname that nobody actually uses of their own volition? Do you weep in gentle resignation as kittens nibble your toes? I'm reminded of the dodo. It just doesn't seem evolutionarily advantageous to not be immediately repulsed by this band.

>I didn't think the generational divide that would create "kids these days" for me would come so soon. The fetishization of fussiness & weakness, men and women switching genders, precious affected anti-showmanship as its own stuck-up pose--it's not that I don't get it, but it's stupid and it all goes against nature. You put food in your mouth, you poop out your butt, you start agreeing with your dad politically by middle-age; this is nature, and at the end of the day you can't outsmart nature.

Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise

> The government could replace waterboarding with forced listening of this CD. Sufjan Stevens is the John Tesh of college radio.

Does Sufjan Stevens's Illinois count?

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|name|Sufjan Stevens|
|about artist|Sufjan Stevens (pronounced "SOOF-yahn"; born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the folk revival through indie pop, but his influences are very broad, including experimental electronic music, the jazz of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Sufjan Stevens))|
|album|Illinois, released Jul 2005|
|track|Chicago|
|about track|The lyrics of "Chicago" are a particularly striking aspect of the song, in Pitchfork's review of the album Illinois it was said that "[the song] "Chicago" cagily celebrates the innate (and deeply American) tendency to employ highways as escape routes, ditching old mistakes for new swatches of land, new plates of eggs, new parking lots."|
|images|album image, artist image|
|links|lyrics, wikipedia, allmusic, discogs, secondhandsongs, official homepage, myspace, facebook, track on amazon, album on amazon|
|tags|folk, singersongwriter|
|similar|The Welcome Wagon, DM Stith, Rosie Thomas, St. Vincent, Owen Pallett|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 1,570,539, lastfm plays: 91,045,903, youtube plays: 230,331, radd.it score: 26.25|


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