For those of you who have never heard Sufjan Stevens

[Jack of Arcades]

Download "Chicago" off of his new album Illinois (http://rapidshare.de/files/4874581/09_-_Chicago.mp3.html)

I'll give you your 6 minutes back if you aren't satisfied.

[Eurotrash]

ok, Jack, I gave you the benefit of the doubt and downloaded it. the music itself is kind of catchy, but the guy seems significantly emo and whiny.


this kind of reminds me of the Postal Service, except slightly more gay, less electronic, and maybe with a bit of religious/family undertones (stolen from his website)

[Soul Daddy]

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Download "Chicago" off of his new album Illinois (http://rapidshare.de/files/4874581/09_-_Chicago.mp3.html)

I'll give you your 6 minutes back if you aren't satisfied.

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Have you heard it in "[censored] awesome" yet?

[Los Feliz Slim]

meh

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

http://www.crittershots.com/Orca%20Blow%201.jpg

[jason_t]

I'm tired of this whiney queer and his stupid fifty states project.

[Eurotrash]

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I'm tired of this whiney queer and his stupid fifty states project.

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[CrazyEyez]

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Translation = it blows?

[asofel]

this song blows......this song blows.......

[Soul Daddy]

Bunch of savages on this board.

[asofel]

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Bunch of savages on this board.

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That song really did nothing for me...oh well...

/back to Yanni

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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Translation = it blows?

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Blows.

[Soul Daddy]

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/back to Yanni

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nice

[istewart]

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I'm tired of this whiney queer and his stupid fifty states project.

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You're a noob, kid.

[mslif]

Thanks for the link Jack.

[B Dids]

Stop making up bands that I haven't heard of, it makes me feel old and out of touch.

[asofel]

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Stop making up bands that I haven't heard of, it makes me feel old and out of touch.

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i believe jake is starting a support group for people like you.

[swede123]

I refuse to listen to this solely based on the guy's f'd up name. Sufjan Stevens? If this is a foreign name then why is his last name Stevens? This stuff really pisses me off.

Swede

[Eurotrash]

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I refuse to listen to this solely based on the guy's f'd up name. Sufjan Stevens? If this is a foreign name then why is his last name Stevens? This stuff really pisses me off.

Swede

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this is seriously another reason why I can't stand [censored] hipster musicians like this.

Swede, you'd never guess it, but he's a regular looking white guy

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Sufjan.jpg


is this guy seriously not an emo Dave Matthews with a banjo?? (and a gay posse wearing Scout uniforms)


http://www.sufjan.com/michigan/images/militia17_lg.jpg



[censored] hipsters.

[Hamish McBagpipe]

Your mistake was not giving them the far superior Casimir Pulaski Day. But, one of the best albums of the year IMO.

[Emmitt2222]

I will now officially never listen to the bulk majority of people's music recommendations on this board ever again. This guy makes freakin John Wayne Gacy Jr. seem fascinating in a frightening yet ordinary fashion; I garuntee you most people could not do that. I'm sure the hundreds of critics raving over this guy as album of the year are utterly clueless. For awhile I thought OOT may be on track to knowing good music and then that was completely derailed. If anyone deserves a boost into the public eye as the next big thing its this guy [although I do in some way enjoy having his music as something of my own]. September 13th in Cleveland I will be there.

[Jack of Arcades]

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Your mistake was not giving them the far superior Casimir Pulaski Day. But, one of the best albums of the year IMO.

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There's about 10 songs on the album that run close to me with Casmir Pulaski up there. I just figured Chicago would be the most accessible.

[WillMagic]

I'm reminded of Billy Wilder's description of a great movie: "Three great scenes. No bad scenes."

It might as well be applied to albums as well. And this album has 7-10 great songs and no bad ones.

Will

[IndieMatty]

This is the best album that has come out this year...until the new Broken Social Scene is released. Don't listen to the haters. I went off in an earlier thread about this; nothing since listening to SDRE Diary for the first time, has had such an impact on me like this album.

Was't there a thread about this a little while ago, and basically everyone said it was awesome?

There must be some kinda snow-balling effect goin on in these threads

[Jack of Arcades]

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Was't there a thread about this a little while ago, and basically everyone said it was awesome?

There must be some kinda snow-balling effect goin on in these threads

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It came up in the top 10 albums thread but a lot of people were all "stfu with the sufjan" and some were "wtf is sufjan" so yeah.

Whether or not you like it, appreciate anyone that listens

[Soul Daddy]

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This is the best album that has come out this year...until the new Broken Social Scene is released. Don't listen to the haters. I went off in an earlier thread about this; nothing since listening to SDRE Diary for the first time, has had such an impact on me like this album.

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Softened your stance a bit there, I see.

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Was't there a thread about this a little while ago, and basically everyone said it was awesome?

There must be some kinda snow-balling effect goin on in these threads

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It came up in the top 10 albums thread but a lot of people were all "stfu with the sufjan" and some were "wtf is sufjan" so yeah.

Whether or not you like it, appreciate anyone that listens

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oh, haven't seen that thread

I was refering to this one (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2884788&page=&view=&sb=5& o=&fpart=1&vc=1)

looking at it now makes me think how many threads I have killed without me realizing it... /images/graemlins/frown.gif

edit: btw I was not bringing this up to say to the OP 'you shouldn't have started another thread', but just to explain what I mean by snowballing effect

[waffle]

I would have picked Jacksonville. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[mason55]

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This is the best album that has come out this year...

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[Jack of Arcades]

Oh, never saw that thread.

[CrazyEyez]

Took your advice and listened to Chicago. I was intrigued. Went to check out a few more tracks. Then I saw something called "Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!"

Anyone who names a song that deserves to have the [censored] beat out of him.

[Jack of Arcades]

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I would have picked Jacksonville. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Seriously? It could have been one of the following:

Illinois
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Jacksonville
Decatur
Chicago
Casimir Pulaski
The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us
They Are Night Zombies! They Are Niehgbors! They Have Come Back from the Dead!
The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders
Out of Egypt

[Jack of Arcades]

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Took your advice and listened to Chicago. I was intrigued. Went to check out a few more tracks. Then I saw something called "Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!"

Anyone who names a song that deserves to have the [censored] beat out of him.

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That's okay, you have a stewie avatar which is easily the lamest thing in existence.

[Homer]

GRANDPA: Come here, Billy, I want to show you something...

STAN: Aw, do I have to?

GRANDPA: Yes you do you little pecker!

GRANDPA: I realized that the reason you won't kill me, is because you don't understand how I feel, Billy. But I found out a way to show YOU what it feels like to be grandpa.

STAN: Hey, what are you doing?

Grandpa hits a switch, and the lights in the room go out. Stan tries to look around the dark room. Grandpa reaches down and puts a tape into a tape player. The other boys have their ears pinned against the door.

KYLE: What are they doing in there?

CARTMAN: I don't know...

GRANDPA: Now, you're about to see what it's like to be as old as me. Are you ready Billy?

STAN: I guess.

Grandpa flips the switch on the tape player. A slow Enya song begins to play.

STAN: Okay, you can let me out now.

GRANDPA: Not just yet.

Grandpa turns the song up louder. Stan pulls on the door.

STAN: LET ME OUT, GRANDPA!!

The song gets even louder still.

STAN: I can't take it anymore! This music is terrible!! It's cheesy but lame and eerily soothing at the same time!!

GRANDPA: THAT'S IT!!!! NOW YOU KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE GRANDPA!!!!

STAN: Grandpa... I... I had no idea how bad it was for you... Now I understand...

GRANDPA: So now will you kill me, Billy?

STAN: Sure I will grandpa... I will.

[Soul Daddy]

Jacksonville was my favorite at one point. I've settled on Zombies.

[CrazyEyez]

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Took your advice and listened to Chicago. I was intrigued. Went to check out a few more tracks. Then I saw something called "Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!"

Anyone who names a song that deserves to have the [censored] beat out of him.

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That's okay, you have a stewie avatar which is easily the lamest thing in existence.

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OMG I know cuz Sufjan would never have such a cliche for an avatar cuz he's like the most originalist artist out there right now and he's soooooooo cool I hope he asks me to prom.

[Claunchy]

I've been meaning to check this guy out for a while now, and now I definitely will. That song was awesome. Most ootiots have shitty taste in everything anyway.

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Was't there a thread about this a little while ago, and basically everyone said it was awesome?

There must be some kinda snow-balling effect goin on in these threads

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It came up in the top 10 albums thread but a lot of people were all "stfu with the sufjan" and some were "wtf is sufjan" so yeah.

Whether or not you like it, appreciate anyone that listens

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Yeah, I thought this was just ok. Can ya upload casimir polanski day (sp?).

I don't get it. I wouldn't classify this as "great". I think y'all are out of your minds, in my mind, in my mind.

I'm probably an idiot for getting involved in a flame war, but you come off as an idiot with a simple taste in music

I view myself as some one with different taste in music, and am trying not to be associated with people like you

[CrazyEyez]

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I'm probably an idiot for getting involved in a flame war, but you come off as an idiot with a simple taste in music

I view myself as some one with different taste in music, and am trying not to be associated with people like you

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I'm pretty sure I've never posted about music before this thread. Then in this thread I said the Sufjan song was intriguing, but that a title of one of his other songs was stupid. And from that, I come off as an idiot with simple taste in music.
You, sir, come off as someone who makes irrational assumptions about people, and I try not to be associated with people like you.

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Then in this thread I said the Sufjan song was intriguing, but that a title of one of his other songs was stupid. And from that, I come off as an idiot with simple taste in music.

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nah, I was more refering to this (yes I know it was sarcastic)

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OMG I know cuz Sufjan would never have such a cliche for an avatar cuz he's like the most originalist artist out there right now and he's soooooooo cool I hope he asks me to prom.

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and I gave myself and out by using the phrase "come off as" in case I was wrong

[CrazyEyez]

Mehhh, this whole thing is dumb. I plan on checking out the album. And not because I want to feel original, but because I liked the song in the OP.

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Mehhh, this whole thing is dumb

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ok yeah agreed

friends 4 eva /images/graemlins/heart.gif

[CrazyEyez]

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[Eurotrash]

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The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us
They Are Night Zombies! They Are Niehgbors! They Have Come Back from the Dead!


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let's be honest with ourselves, people, these are about the most emo gay hipster song titles that could ever be conceived of by man.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us
They Are Night Zombies! They Are Niehgbors! They Have Come Back from the Dead!


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let's be honest with ourselves, people, these are about the most emo gay hipster song titles that could ever be conceived of by man.

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Here here!

[CrazyEyez]

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The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us
They Are Night Zombies! They Are Niehgbors! They Have Come Back from the Dead!


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let's be honest with ourselves, people, these are about the most emo gay hipster song titles that could ever be conceived of by man.

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No comment.

[Jack of Arcades]

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The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us
They Are Night Zombies! They Are Niehgbors! They Have Come Back from the Dead!


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let's be honest with ourselves, people, these are about the most emo gay hipster song titles that could ever be conceived of by man.

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I don't know what "emo gay hipster" means.

[waffle]

Jacksonville (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=17UU0K5ZWGNE936HJCXALUYTDO)

Casimir Pulaski Day (http://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0IMMX6HASNIRI1PKKCZOTM2URR)

[Eurotrash]

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I don't know what "emo gay hipster" means.

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Fig. 1-a

http://www.sufjan.com/michigan/images/militia17_lg.jpg


Fig. 1-b

http://www.sufjan.com/michigan/images/sufjan2_lg.jpg

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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I don't know what "emo gay hipster" means.

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Fig. 1-a

http://www.sufjan.com/michigan/images/militia17_lg.jpg


Fig. 1-b

http://www.sufjan.com/michigan/images/sufjan2_lg.jpg

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Very nice.

[Jack of Arcades]

Well, that's very gay, yes. emo hipster? hell, isn't that contradictory?

PS: When I think of "gay emo hipster" I guess I think of Weezer.

[Eurotrash]

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I don't know what "emo gay hipster" means.

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Fig. 2

http://www.perfectpitchonline.com/band_images/spoon.jpg

[Eurotrash]

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I don't know what "emo gay hipster" means.

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Fig. 3

http://clapyourhandssayyeah.com/images/alec_tyler_sean2.jpg



that's all for now, maybe I'll get a second wind and find some more amusing pictures later.

[Jack of Arcades]

You're 3-for-4, 'cause there was nothing funny about the Spoon pic.

[Soul Daddy]

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I don't know what "emo gay hipster" means.

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Fig. 2

http://www.perfectpitchonline.com/band_images/spoon.jpg

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Spoon rocks out.

[Eurotrash]

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You're 3-for-4, 'cause there was nothing funny about the Spoon pic.

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haha are you kidding? Look at those guys. Emo hipsters to the extreme!

[Claunchy]

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You're 3-for-4, 'cause there was nothing funny about the Spoon pic.

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haha are you kidding? Look at those guys. Emo hipsters to the extreme!

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Oh, big deal. Anyone who's being marketed to the 18-30 crowd is gonna be all but forced to look like a gay emo hipster.

Still, they do look pretty friggin' gay.

[Eurotrash]

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Oh, big deal. Anyone who's being marketed to the 18-30 crowd is gonna be all but forced to look like a gay emo hipster.

Still, they do look pretty friggin' gay.

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well at least somebody is agreeing.


I should point out that my ribbing of these ridiculous bands is mainly good natured, I hope I'm not truly offending your collective excellent tastes in hipster/emo/indie music. I don't want burn too many bridges here. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Jack of Arcades]

It's cool and all, I just don't really think there's anything special about the spoon pic. *shrug*

CYHSY pic is good, though.

Sufjan's gay, everybody makes fun of that. See here (http://www.indietits.com/comics/sufjan.png)