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TWF Turns Two with Sufjan Stevens

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at April 15, 2008 in the world forgot, birthday, two years, twf, sufjan stevens, music, indie and mp3. 4 Comments

Well it’s that time of year again. The time where I once again reminisce about all the fun I’ve had blogging here on The World Forgot. It’s been two full years now since this little music blog was launched and I’d like to think that it’s grown up a bit in the intervening time. Now that I’m officially a toddling blog you can expect me to be even more temperamental, demanding, and precocious than ever before. Here’s to hoping that the next two years will prove to be just as much fun as the past two have been.

As I was thinking over what to post to mark this momentous occasion, while also contemplating that my relationship with this blog has now out performed even the longest of my romantic endeavors, I turned once again to the artist that quite literally got me into blogging in the first place. That artist is Sufjan Stevens and two years ago he was on literally every blog that you had ever heard of on at least a monthly basis. It was my interest in exploring his music, and his storytelling {along with a fair amount of other influences}, that led me to start blogging two years ago. And to commemorate this moment I’ve diced up a a small live set that Sufjan preformed for PENultimate Lit in 2007.

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL (Live at PENultimate Lit)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Interlude 01 (Live at PENultimate Lit)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Barn Owl, Night Killer (Live at PENultimate Lit)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Interlude 02 (Live at PENultimate Lit)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The Mistress Witch from Mcclure (Or The Mind That Knows Itself) (Live at PENultimate Lit

This is the entire set he played that day, cut up into individual tracks, and posted in the order they appear in the performance. If you’d care to download the set as one continuous recording you can find that here on PEN American Center’s website. I chose Sufjan for today’s post because of how influential his music has been on how I think and write about music, but also because I’ve blogged about him far more times than any other artist I’ve mentioned here. To check all the posts that include Sufjan Stevens here on The World Forgot simply click here.

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BOTM vol 03

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at December 26, 2007 in macon grayson, lupe fiasco, jens lekman, mylo, clark brothers, magnetic fields, killers, lightspeed champion, best of the month, indie, music, sufjan stevens, cover, botm, live and mp3. 7 Comments

Another month has come and gone, almost, and it is once again time for a little Best of the Month roundup. As I’ve said, and explained, before I have a lot more free time than you do. I don’t do much with my life other than listen to music and mess around with friends so, consequently, I have a lot of time to scour the interwebs to find the best music you probably missed on the first go round. These tracks were found using a variety of sources including Hype, Elbows, random blogs, and other music sites. Enjoy the tracks, I hope you all had a magnificent Christmas.

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

mp3 : Jens Lekman - I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You
mp3 : Lightspeed Champion - Heart in a Cage (Live The Strokes Cover)
mp3 : Lupe Fiasco - Streets on Fire
mp3 : Macon Grayson - Minnesota Weatherman
mp3 : Mylo - Sweet Child of Mine (Live Guns N Roses Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Far Physician’s Son
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - How Can The Stone Remain
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - In the Words of the Governor
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The Transfigurartion (Live Orchestral Version)
mp3 : The Clark Brothers - Gimme Shelter (Live Rolling Stones Cover)
mp3 : The Killers - Great Big Sled (Live)
mp3 : The Magnetic Fields - California Girls

Definitely check out the tracks by Lightspeed Champion, the newcomers The Clark Brothers, Mylo, and the new song from the upcoming Magnetic Fields album. The rest of the tracks are pretty awesome as well, especially the very rare Sufjan songs that were graciously given to my by many a concerned reader during my Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens. {if you look closely you’ll notice none of these songs are a remixed track. stay tuned for my inaugural post in the new BOTR series later this week}. Also, does anyone else think that Lupe Fiasco is very similar to Moby mixed with Will Smith? Whatever your opinion this track by Lupe Fiasco is phenomenal. Also, if Macon Greyson isn’t winning the award for ‘band who sounds the most like Lynryd Skynryd’ I don’t know who is.

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Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 7

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at December 11, 2007 in sdoss, rare, the bqe, live, cover, music, indie, sufjan stevens and mp3. 28 Comments

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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Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 6

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at December 10, 2007 in sdoss, rare, live, sufjan stevens, music, indie and mp3. 10 Comments

Welcome to the sixth installment of Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens. This is a series that I began, largely in jest, last year when my blog was still a young pup just learning to run around. This time around I’m dumping massive amounts of tracks from the ubiquitous Sufjan and I’m also encouraging you, if you like what you’re getting, to vote for this blog in the Billboard Best Music Blog competition. You only have two days left to vote, so hurry up and vote for this blog.

These tracks hail largely from various sources. Some are from the B-Sides of Michigan. Some performances have only ever been heard live. Others hail from compilation albums or an EP. Wherever they come from they are mostly rare. To the die hard Sufjan fan these might be old news. You might even have them floating around on your drive somewhere. For the rest of the world here’s a chance to see Sufjan in a new light.

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

If you’ve never heard Niagara Falls, Opie’s Funeral Song, or The Lord God Bird those are the three tracks that you should listen to immediately. Don’t hesitate, just listen. The rest of the tracks are quality as well. I hope you’re enjoying Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens. If you’d like to see the entire series on one page simply click here. Tomorrow I was planning on dropping two full live sets {at least one of which is recorded from the soundboard} and Movements 3 and 6 from the BQE. Does that sound like something you would be interested in?

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Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 5

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at December 9, 2007 in cover, sdoss, sufjan stevens, indie, music and mp3. 8 Comments

The Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens in 2007 is winding down my friends but it has been a good ride thus far. I hope you’ve all enjoyed the tracks posted and if you missed any feel free to click here and view the entire series of posts on one page.

Today I take a look at various covers that Sufjan has preformed, both in studio recordings and live. Although this isn’t a complete list of efforts these tracks serve to show his versatility as a musician as he covers some songs straight up and other songs he puts his own Sufjan spin on. Covers in this series can be found a variety of compilation albums; most notably Dream Brother, A Tribute to Joni Mitchell (iTunes), This Bird has Flown, and the soundtrack to the film I’m Not There (iTunes).

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Free Man In Paris (Joni Mitchell Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Lakes of Canada (Live The Innocence Mission Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Ring Them Bells (Bob Dylan Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - She Is (Tim Buckley Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The One I Love (Live REM Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - What Goes On (Beatles Cover)

The song Lakes of Canada is especially wonderful and if there comes a request or two I could possibly post the original by The Innocence Band sometime soon. We’ll see if anyone wants it. Cheers.

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Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 4

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at December 8, 2007 in live, sdoss, kcrw, sufjan stevens, music, indie and mp3. 3 Comments

Welcome back to day four in the massive run of Sufjan Stevens tracks. I hope you’re enjoying this little endeavor I’ve undertaken, but more importantly I hope you’re learning to love Sufjan in a new or deeper way. The man is a modern day musical genius. He can capture hearts like no other composer and although he has spawned a massive wave of talented musicians there are relatively few that can hold a candle to the particularities of Sufjan.

Today the tracks I’m bringing come from another radio performance Sufjan did in the year two thousand and five. Yesterday I put up his set from KEXP, and today I’m posting his set from another great radio station, KCRW. {Now if only I could find a performance from WOXY I would have covered the trifecta of great American Radio} If you’ve never been to site for KCRW you should check it out. They offer an amazingly complete listening archive where you can listen to old shows, programs, and generally anything of merit they’ve ever broadcast. If you dig their programs please take a moment and support their fine station. And as a side bonus, if you support them now, you’ll be entered in a drawing to win trips to Rome, Australia, or to drive away with a Smart Car.

The tracks here below were originally broadcast in a show entitled Morning Becomes Eclectic hosted by the indelible Nic Harcourt. If you’d rather listen to a stream of the show you can find that here on their site. Below the show is posted in the correct track order for the performance.

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

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Intro (Live on KCRW)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day (Live on KCRW)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts (Live on KCRW)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (Live on KCRW)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Interview (Live on KCRW)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (Live on KCRW)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - A Good Man is Hard to Find (Live on KCRW)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Jacksonville (Live on KCRW)

If you’re enjoying this series on The World Forgot I would like to say thanks for reading. If you’d like to view the other posts in this series click here. Also, thanks for all the great comments I’ve received, it’s always nice to get feedback. Enjoy the music and support KCRW.

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Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 3

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at December 7, 2007 in sdoss, kexp, live, sufjan stevens, music, indie and mp3. 9 Comments

I’m blogging about Sufjan each and every day for seven days straight. To see the rest of these posts simply click here. Also, if you like what you’re reading/seeing/hearing feel free to vote for my blog. Each vote would be much appreciated. {click here, then click on the blue ‘rate it’ button in the upper left}.

Today’s post hails from the year two thousand and five when Sufjan was invited to play a live set for one of my favorite radio stations, KEXP. If you don’t know what KEXP is, or you’ve never heard of them, then please take a second to hang out on their site. They stream all of their old shows {including concerts} for free as well as webcasting their daily broadcast to anyone who is willing to visit their site. For those of you who are big fans, or have deep pocket books, then please take a moment and help support a great radio station. You can even volunteer time, become an intern, or join one of KEXP’s street teams.

These Sufjan tracks hail from a show he played for KEXP at a venue called the Triple Door. If you’d rather stream the entire performance from KEXP you may certainly do so here, or to make life a little more portable, and a little more convenient, you can download the entire set in mp3 format below. Enjoy this third installment of Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens, it was a total bear to cobble this set together.

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

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day (Live on KEXP)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (Live on KEXP)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Jacksonville (Live on KEXP)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (Live on KEXP)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Prairie Fire That Wanders About (Live on KEXP)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts (Live on KEXP)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us! (Live on KEXP)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders Part I The Great Frontier (Live on KEXP)

The track order, as performed that night, can be found in the comments on this post.

It’s a beautiful concert broadcast by a great radio station I have been listening to for a long time. Visit KEXP and help support them and the great artists they give airtime to. Also worth noting is that this live rendition of John Wayne Gacy, Jr. is a full ninety seconds longer than its album counterpart. And let me say, each of those ninety seconds is well worth it.

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Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 2

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at December 6, 2007 in vote, sdoss, christmas, sufjan stevens, music, indie and mp3. 5 Comments

Ah, is it really part 2 in this series already? Time flies when you’re listening to Sufjan. For those first time readers this is a series where I will post tracks by Sufjan Stevens seven days in a row. The more positive votes I receive {vote here, click on the blue ‘rate it’ button in the upper left} and the more comments you leave here on the blog, the more tracks I will put in the following posts. It’s up to you.

These tracks come, again, from Songs For Christmas (iTunes), which is the first legitimate modern answer to the ages of Christmas music in the assumed Christmas Music Canon. I’m not sure if such a canon actually exists, but if I was in charge I would put this box set alongside the Christmas work of Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra. It is really that good. My favorite of the set is the fifth disc, entitled Peace, and it is from this disc that the first two tracks listed below are taken. The other songs come from the third and fourth disc in the set and are tagged appropriately.

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Once In Royal David’s City
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Star of Wonder
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - All The King’s Horns
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - That Was The Worst Christmas Ever!
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Did I Make You Cry On Christmas? (Well You Deserved It!)

Listen to every single track by Sufjan Stevens that you can find. The man has the Midas touch {and all other sort of appropriate metaphors as well}. Also, I seem to be honoring requests, if I can, so that is why Once In Royal David’s City was included today.

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Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens part 1

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at December 5, 2007 in vote, sdoss, christmas, sufjan stevens, music, indie and mp3. 13 Comments

Welcome to the second annual Seven Days of Sufjan here at The World Forgot. For those of you who are new to this concept let me explain the rules. I will be posting Sufjan tracks, some rare and some more commonplace, each and every single day for the following seven days. The more comments that each post gets the more tracks I will post. Also, this year, the more positive votes I get for my blog {vote here} the more tracks I will be posting. And I’ll go ahead and say that I have a ton of great music from Sufjan Stevens including an entire concert and a load of tracks you might not be able to find anywhere but here. So go leave comments, vote for the blog, do whatever you want to do if you think it will garner more great music from Sufjan.

To get it started I’ve taken some tracks from Sufjan’s Christmas compilation entitled, simply, Songs for Christmas (iTunes). I hope you enjoy the music, there’s plenty more to come.

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Amazing Grace
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - It’s Christmas! Let’s Be Glad
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Only At Christmas Time
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Put The Lights On The Christmas Tree

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BOTM vol 01

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at November 1, 2007 in feist, best of the month, bishop allen, bright eyes, nada surf, jeff tweedy, botm, cover, remix, sufjan stevens, radiohead, mix, arcade fire and mp3. 10 Comments

I did this style of mix a couple of times in the past but now they’ll hopefully become a regular part of the lineup here on The World Forgot. So welcome to the first of many Best of the Month compilations. Basically I do a lot of random reading, listening, searching, finding, digesting, etc. of all the music that I can possibly get my hands on. And let’s be honest, I probably have a bit more free time than you do. Judging from the fact that I’m writing this extensive explanation and you’re simply skimming through it looking for the mp3 links I would say that’s a fair assessment of our relative free time to work time ratios. But in this case when I win, with more free time than you suckas, you end up winning with more good music.

Here listed below are tunes I randomly sampled and loved from across the interwebs this past great month of October. By no means is it a conclusive list of who’s who and what’s what, but it is a small smattering of great music that you might have missed as you carried on with your fascinatingly involved thing some people call a “real life.” Seeing as how I haven’t had one of those since I graduated from college and failed to find a “real job” I guess it’s only fair.

As with all future BOTM volumes I recommend each and every track listed here below. They’re all worth a moment of your time. Cheers, and enjoy the first volume of BOTM.

mp3 : Arcade Fire - Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son (Serge Gainsbourg Cover)
mp3 : Bishop Allen - You Ain’t No Picaso
mp3 : Bright Eyes - Southern State
mp3 : Feist - Mushaboom (Postal Service Remix)
mp3 : Jeff Tweedy - Simple Twist of Fate
mp3 : Nada Surf - See These Bones
mp3 : Radiohead - Faithless the Wonder Boy
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Ring My Bells

Is it just me or does Jeff Tweedy sound like a young Bob Dylan on this track. And I might be reaching here but this Radiohead track I swear would fit in perfect as a b-side for Weezer’s Pinkerton. Maybe I’m crazy, you be the judge. And for once can Nada Surf make an entire album that lives up to their full potential for a full length? Please.

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Liz Janes

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at April 7, 2007 in liz janes, sufjan stevens, indie, music and mp3. 0 Comments

Liz Janes sounds a bit like a mashup of everything Sufjan Stevens has ever experimented with and the voice of a girl who grew up listening to pop radio in the late 70’s. Sometimes awkward, to be sure, but most of the time overflowing with warmth, vitality, and a smokey sort of personality that is unapologetically and unabashedly everything she wanted it to be. Maybe swagger would be a good word for Liz. She has a certain experimental swagger that coincided nicely with Sufjan’s backdrop of sound.

mp3 : Liz Janes - Lonesome Valley
mp3 : Liz Janes - Proposition
mp3 : Liz Janes - Wonderkiller

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Seven Days of Sufjan : part 7

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at December 17, 2006 in sufjan stevens, indie, music and mp3. 3 Comments

Today is a sad day because it marks the last of my Seven Days of Sufjan. It was a fun trip while it lasted and I hope I provided you all with some Christmas cheer and some harder to find tracks. Thanks for all the comments everyone. Also, merry Christmas to you all. Over the past week I’ve been getting hits on this blog from every continent but Antarctica, but I’m sure that’s just because it’s summer for them right now so they’re probably off sipping cocktails and chasing penguins.

Enjoy this track from Sufjan’s Songs for Christmas. If you’re interested in the man you should take a second and read the bio posted on his label’s website. here . It’s really a rather interesting biography.

mp3 : Sufan Stevens - It’s Christmas Let’s Be Glad

And as promised some harder to find tracks for you all to enjoy.

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Borderline
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The First Full Moon
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The Star Spangled Banner
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Variation on Commemorative Transfiguration and Communion at Magruder Park

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Seven Days of Sufjan : part 6

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at December 16, 2006 in sufjan stevens, indie, music and mp3. 1 Comment

Sorry kids but I’m strapped for time right now. I’m posting this real quick before I head out into the place some people refer to as the real world. Amazing, I know.

Something else that is amazing is this song by Sufjan. Yesterday I posted the instrumental ditty that is derived from this full length song. Both are great and worthy of space on your hard drive, but this one has words, you know, if that’s what you’re into.

Enjoy.

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - O Come O Come Emmanuel

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Seven Days of Sufjan : part 5

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at December 15, 2006 in sufjan stevens, indie, music and mp3. 0 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYMnEP7f6GI

Everything this man plays is golden. Here’s a clip of him playing Chicago; a simple and yet stunningly beautiful song.

I’m not sitting at my own computer right now so I cannot honor the comments I received yesterday with extra Sufjan songs right now. But fear ye not, I am a man of my word and tomorrow I will upload some extra rare tracks from the man who once called Michigan his home. For today I am posting a track that I’m not sure anyone else has put online yet. Probably because it’s an instrumental track that’s rather short and rather simple. But it’s precisely these musical interludes that make Sufjan who he is. These musical leftovers are what flesh out his albums and give us all a reason to actually buy full albums instead of settling for single song downloads.

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - O Come O Come Emmanual

[note, the spelling of the song is not a typo]

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Seven Days of Sufjan : part 4

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at December 14, 2006 in sufjan stevens, indie, music and mp3. 4 Comments

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This is a video of Sufjan playing an impromptu version of “For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti” at SXSW in 2004. And yes, he was famous then too. Watch the video, it’s simply wonderful.

Another day has come and another Sufjan song is posted. This puts us just over half way through Seven Days of Sufjan and I must say it has been an enjoyable run. As I stated in the first post, if there are comments left during this time I’ll post more than one song per day. On top of the Christmas music I also have some rare and largely uncirculated Sufjan songs that I think you all would enjoy. If I don’t get any comments I’ll just keep posting one song a day. Enjoy it while it lasts.

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Only at Christmas Time

Seven Days of Sufjan : part 3

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at December 13, 2006 in sufjan stevens, indie, music and mp3. 3 Comments

Today we look into the grab bag and we find a track from Mr. Stevens that is quite honestly the best Christmas or winter themed song I’ve heard. I know I’m prone to exaggerations, but this is one time when you must take me seriously. Download this track immediately, put it on one song repeat, and let your mind escape into the type of song that put Sufjan on the map.

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Sister Winter

Easily the best winter song ever recorded. I challenge you to find anything as poignant and as lyrically beautiful as this. I dare you.

Seven Days of Sufjan : part 2

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Let us be honest for a moment. Sufjan Stevens was the single driving force that brought music blogging to the prominent position that it now holds. He was the indie darling we all loved and craved and he’s the only reason you might be skimming this skimpy post.

He’s one of the most prolific songwriters of this millennium and his Christmas tunes are simply amazing. And so I bring to you the second installment of Seven Days of Sufjan. Enjoy the music and check back tomorrow for another song.

mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - We Three Kings of Orient Are