Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State Sufjan Stevens

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  • Release Date: 07/01/2003
  • Sales Rank: 15,932
  • Label: ASTHMATIC KITTY
  • UPC: 656605551029

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Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State

1LISTENFlint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid) 3:43
2LISTENAll Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace! 4:33
3LISTENFor the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti 3:57
4LISTENSay Yes! to M!ch!gan! 2:45
5LISTENThe Upper Peninsula 3:23
6LISTENTahquamenon Falls 2:18
7LISTENHolland 3:26
8LISTENDetroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!) 8:20
9LISTENRomulus 4:41
10LISTENAlanson, Crooked River 1:18
11LISTENSleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie 2:52
12LISTENThey Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For the Homeless in Muskegon) 6:21
13LISTENOh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? ...) 9:23
14LISTENRedford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou) 2:02
15LISTENVito's Ordination Song 7:06

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Sufjan Stevens's third album is a charming homage to his home state of Michigan. Filled with heartbreak, the album cryptically addresses Stevens' frustration with the notorious job market in the city of Flint in a lovely ballad that opens the record, and documents the depressing struggle the city of Detroit has fought to once again attain the elegance it had prior to the riots in the late '60s; however, it also touches on a brighter side, as in the cascading "Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!" Its title is a reference to the campaign adopted by the state in the 1980s and serves as the centerpiece as well as Stevens' attachment and amour for the state he is from. Musically, Stevens often plays his Jim O'Rourke and Stereolab cards, riffing along with complex polyphony in building loops and dynamics, but he also frequently imports lightly strummed guitars and stark banjo picking to break up the album and give it a rustic northern folk aesthetic. Stevens comfortably handles nearly every instrument on the album -- an impressive task that includes various keyboards, woodwinds, guitars, and percussions -- but also enlisted the help of Megan, Elin, and Daniel Smith from the Danielson Famile to help out with vocal duties, and the outcome is a haunting and hypnotic studio opus certainly worth getting lost in. Gregory McIntosh, All Music Guide

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May 06, 2006: Sufjan Steven's Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State is one of my favorite Cds. It combines great instrumental with wonderful lyrics, which creates a CD that truely does represent the state of Michigan.

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May 01, 2006: i bought this for the third song: "for the widows in paradise, for the fatherless in ypsilanti." it was the theme song for a podcast for something called the global night commute, put on by invisible children, inc. (invisiblechildren.com) i kept listening, however, because it was a brand of honesty that i'd never heard before. i am the girl who loves my thrice, my switchfoot, my eisley, my flyleaf and anberlin--and now, my sufjan stevens. it's unlike the music i normally listen to. it's unlike most of the music i've ever heard, actually. but it's marvelous nonetheless. i recommend it to those who can get over the simplicity and lack of electric guitar and can love the music for what it is.


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