Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 7 at The World Forgot

Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 7

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on December 11, 2007

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It has been a wonderful week. This week I’ve met some new friends, reaquainted with old ones, and discovered I haven’t yet heard every single song recorded by Sufjan Stevens. For those of you just dropping by this is the final installment of my current series, Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens. If you’d like to view this entire series on one page you can simply click here and it will be displayed for your viewing pleasure. Also, today is the last day that you can vote for The World Forgot. If you’d like to show some support please leave a comment on this post or simply vote for this blog. On to the music.

This post has literally taken me all day to compile. I’ve been working steadily on the music below for the past seven hours. Yes, seven hours. Granted some of that was uploading time, but most of it was spent editing a large concert file down to individual tracks, finding the best or cleanest version of a song, or simply finding a song to fulfill a request. You’re lucky I didn’t have to work today or this post never would have been realized.

This first section of songs is taken from a 2004 performance that Sufjan played up in Canada. The venue was a place called Lees Palace and it can be found in Toronto. The sound quality of the recording is absolutely excellent. To the best of my knowledge this concert has never been available as individual song downloads, so enjoy this little gem. For those of you who would like the entire concert, simply download the zip file from zshare {link}. This download contains every single second of the recording split up into individual tracks. With the entire concert you get to hear Sufjan banter a bit and explain literally every single song that he plays. The individual tracks listed below are listed in the order they were played that night and they have been edited, as best as possible, so that they contain only the song and not the conversational pieces or the audience applause. Choose your poison.

All the tracks in one zip file : here {zshare = left click}

It is quite an amazing set and I’m glad to be able to post it here. Enjoy it thoroughly, I recommend downloading the entire concert in one zip file as it gives you a much more complete set.

This next live set hails from a Festival Sufjan played October 1st, 2004 called the Festival Para Gente Sentada. Again you have two options to download the tracks. If you would like you can grab all the files in one easy to use zip file. The other option comes as single song downloads for those of you readers who are a bit more frugal with hard drive space. As per usual the tracks below are listed in the order they were played that night.

All the tracks in one place : here {zshare = left click}

Yet another great set from the esteemed Sufjan Stevens. It seems as if he cannot go wrong. As I’ve said before Sufjan seems to have a certain musical Midas touch with which, and we are all thankful, he has seen appropriate to share this blessing with us all.

This last section of songs hail from all over the map of the Sufjan canon. This is where I’m answering requests that were left during the previous six days. There’s a couple of Christmas tracks, a few from studio albums, and a trifecta of rare and largely unpublished other tracks. The BQE tracks hail from an in studio radio performance Sufjan and his orchestra played at WNYC. For those of you who don’t know The BQE stands for The Brooklyn Queens Expressway and it was a musical composition Sufjan set to a short film he made of that highway. Enjoy the rarities, some of them were an utter pain to find.

At long last this brings us to the end of the 2007 installment of Seven Days of Sufjan. I hope you’ve enjoyed your time here at The World Forgot and I hope I’ll see you back in the future. I’m not sure how long these tracks will stay available here as they seem to be downloaded literally by the dozens and it kills my bandwidth allowance. I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip through all things Sufjan and make sure you see him live to really experience his genius. Support him as an artist and support other bands on his label, Asthmatic Kitty. Cheers.

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29 Responses to “Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 7”

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1 Simon
December 11, 2007 at 9:20 pm

Fantastic work, really appreciate the fact you took the time to look into the missing Sufjan tracks i requested on day six of your run. And the fact you found three of the four too, much better than i could do in the last couple of years! If i ever find the one remaining missing one (How Does The Stone Remain?) i’ll link you up to it as i’m assuming you couldnt find it.

I’ll definately be back to check out this blog in future. It’s a hard thing running a good music blog. I tried and failed with the help of two others a few months back!
2 billy
December 11, 2007 at 10:00 pm

thanks so much simon. you’re right, i couldn’t find How Does The Stone Remain. and it is quite a job running a music blog. i’ve been doing this one on my own now for over a year and there are sometimes i just feel like deleting it all.

for now i’ll just have to keep on blogging.
3 Simon
December 11, 2007 at 10:38 pm

Don’t give up, too many people do and it’s a shame. As far as i can see music blogs are the way forward for word of mouth music and hopefully leads to more cd sales and sellout tours in the long run.

Keep up the good work, it’s nice to see somebody putting effort into a blog. With mine i used to think if a post didnt take at least half an hour, than i hadnt put enough effort into it!
4 troy.
December 12, 2007 at 12:32 pm

I have no words to express my thanks to your for taking the time to create these amazing posts. And not just the music, but for sharing all your thoughts so effortlessly! Found you thru Hype, but know you’ll be added to my daily blogroll.

@ Simon — are you guys talking about “How Can The Stone Remain?” I’ve never heard of “How Does The Stone Remain?” What is the story behind the “Does” version?
5 TSC
December 12, 2007 at 3:22 pm

Thanks, you have done a great job!

Let me give you my Soundclick link, http://www.soundclick.com/theserendipitouscacophonies, in case you are in the mood for diverse, weird music, mainly found by serendipity. It’s not Sufjan, but it’s what I can offer…

Cheers, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (already?!…)
6 TSC
December 12, 2007 at 3:28 pm

I forgot the Myspace link, http://www.myspace.com/theserendipitouscacophonies, which has easier-listening tracks…
7 billy
December 12, 2007 at 5:04 pm

yeah, seems as if we simply misquoted the actual title. i still couldn’t find the track though, regardless of title.
8 olle
December 12, 2007 at 5:22 pm

i actually have that track (”How Can The Stone Remain?”). if you’d like to, i can zshare it or something…?

thank you so incredibly much for the live sets! and the bqe tracks! you are my god.
9 billy
December 12, 2007 at 5:29 pm

olle, i’d love the track. zshare away!
10 olle
December 12, 2007 at 5:54 pm

aight, here ’tis: http://www.zshare.net/audio/5573198269ed1d/

enjoy!
11 Simon
December 12, 2007 at 6:07 pm

Cheers, that’s the Stone song i was looking for - wasnt sure of the exact title though. Thanks for linking it up!

Since a lot of Sufjan fans seem to be reading these comments, does anybody know anything of a Sufjan song called “Far Physican’s Son”? I seen it mentioned somewhere a while back, but it never seems to crop up anywhere!

This blog is fantastic. Thought i should add that thought, yet again.
12 olle
December 13, 2007 at 5:27 am

I think that’s the only track I’ve seen mentioned (only once though, and it was very long ago) that I don’t yet have… sorry.
13 troy.
December 13, 2007 at 12:03 pm

Ha…I was gonna pass it along, but Olle beat me to it! I’m not familiar w/ “Far Physican’s Son”
14 billy
December 13, 2007 at 5:58 pm

yeah, what is this “far physician’s son” i’m hearing about. i thought i was a sufjan aficionado and i’ve never heard of this track.
15 olle
December 15, 2007 at 10:00 am

until someone says they have it, i’m not even sure it exists.
16 mr smith
December 16, 2007 at 12:40 am

well done on this collection, however: i must demand that SOMEONE finds me a orchestral live version of the transfiguration,

SOMEONE out there has it
17 billy
December 16, 2007 at 2:03 am

to olle : i have the track. it will be posted later. thought it best to continue posting my regularly scheduled broadcast so as not to confuse new readers {due to me being top 5 in the ‘best music blog’ contest} into thinking all i talk about is sufjan.

to mr smith : i have no idea what you’re talking about. does anyone have this track?
18 Anna
December 20, 2007 at 11:48 am

I have an orchestral live track of the Transfiguration - no idea how to share it though. But I could email it to the blog owner & he could post it? It’s fab. Thanks so much for the wealth of Sufjan mp3s by the way, I found your blog through them and I will be sticking around. I’m so impressed at the care and attention that went into these posts! And so happy to have so many tracks I didn’t have before
19 billy
December 21, 2007 at 7:43 pm

anna, i would love the track. i’ll post it whenever you send it to me. i’m the author/owner around here and you can find my email address in the sidebar towards the top of the page.
20 billy
December 21, 2007 at 7:48 pm

thanks for the email anna, will post this track and a few other requested tracks/rarities soon after christmas. let’s call it a belated christmas present.
21 Jon
December 23, 2007 at 2:09 am

“Majesty Snowbird” is just spellbinding in concert, but I do appreciate the recording posted on this page.
22 noel
January 8, 2008 at 7:37 pm

Thank you so much. This is awesome.
23 pete
January 20, 2008 at 1:13 am

you are an absolute champion
thankyou so much for collecting all of these tracks together
24 rachel
May 4, 2008 at 10:24 am

Ahhhh, Sufjan singles totally make my day! I’d been looking for Bushwick Junkie for months now. Thanks so much!
25 Ryan
June 9, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Hey, would it be possible to just a get a download of the star spangled banner? If you would e-mail it to me as an attachment, I’d be very grateful. I can’t find it anywhere.
26 Alisa
October 2, 2008 at 10:38 pm

I’m sorry, could you repost or email to me Super Sexy Woman, the live verision? I can’t seem to download it.