So you finally broke down and bought Enjoy Your Rabbit--and actually really liked it!--finally completing your collection of albums, and now you're wondering, what's left? After scouring Hype Machine for some nummies like "The 50 States Song" and the EPIC "Majesty Snowbird," you might begin to wonder what else you can get your feverish paws on.
Fear no more, for we have blazed this trail for you. In the past few months we've made a couple other posts of pure, non-album-y, Sufjan-y goodness. Perhaps it all seems a bit heavy-handed of late, to try and fill the void we're left during his period of
Michigan B-sides:
- Sufjan Stevens - Wolverine.mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Niagara Falls.mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Marching Band.mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Pickerel Lake.mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Presidents & Magistrates.mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Vito’s Ordination Song (Acoustic Version).mp3
Other rarities:
- Sufjan Stevens - He Woke Me Up Again (banjo solo).mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - In the Words of the Governor.mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski demo.mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Adlai Stevenson (Sound The Hare Heard version).mp3
Collaborations:
- Daniel Smith & Sufjan Stevens - Worried Shoes (Daniel Johnston cover).mp3
- Sufjan Stevens & David Byrne - Saginaw, Michigan (live at Bookeaters benefit).mp3
- Rosie Thomas & Sufjan Stevens - Say Hello.mp3
By the way, have you seen the video for Say Hello? The soft, sweet song is paired with a mission-impossible-style assassination action sequence in a subway, where Sufjan throws punches, gets in a knife fight and hurls a grenade. No, really.
Mash-ups:
- Two Faced John McCartney - Zombies Walk!! (Sufjan Stevens vs Kanye West).mp3
- Aggro1 - The Made-Over Peninsula (Sufjan Stevens vs Christina Aguilera).mp3
(Non-Christmasy) Covers BY Sufjan:
- Sufjan Stevens - Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell cover).mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Ring Them Bells (Bob Dylan cover).mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - What Goes On (Beatles cover).mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - The One I Love (Live R.E.M. cover @ SXSW '04).mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Amazing Grace.mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Lakes of Canada (Innocence Mission cover).mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - She Is (Tim Buckley cover).mp3
- Sufjan Stevens - Variation On 'Commemorative Transfiguration & Communion At Magruder Park' (John Fahey cover).mp3
Covers OF Sufjan:
- Indie Blockapella - Come On! Feel The Illinoise!: The World's Columbian Exposition / Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream (Sufjan Stevens cover).mp3
- Indie Blockapella - Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step-Mother! (Sufjan Stevens cover).mp3
- David Crowder Band - O God Where Are You Now (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?) (Sufjan Stevens cover).m4a
- Brad Mehldau - Holland (Live Sufjan Stevens cover in München, Deutschland).mp3
Oh, and if you're unfamiliar with Brad Mehldau, he's an amazing modern jazz pianist who does some incredible extended covers of contemporary music, along with his own brilliant creations.
13 comments:
This post is a thing of comprehensive beauty.
I expect nothing less here, of course. Kudos.
freakin' heck! thank you muchmuchmuch for posting that "saginaw, michigan" cover. been searching for that. :)
also, i think it's rather funny that you fail to mention that the "say hello" video is animated. it'd be about a million times more epic if a real-life suf actually went all tom cruise for a video. heh heh.
I think i wrote in the first draft that it was animated and then must have left it out? Sorry. Yeah, it would be totally epic if someone, somehow got Sufjan to put on the Chuck Norris hat.
could you re-up the brad mehldau cover? thanks!
Just wanted to say thank you for posting these!
Hey,
Thanks for all the links! I'm really glad I stumbled upon this blog!
I know you posted these a while ago, but would it be possible for you to re-post the links to the banjo version of He Woke Me Up Again, Free Man In Paris, and (especially) the acoustic Vito's. They are expired and I really want them!
Thanks, again, June! Will any of these ever be posted again? I've been on an epic quest for all Sufjan b-sides, but some of them I haven't been able to find anywhere! Any help you can give me would be much appreciated.
Uncle Jim (and everyone else!)
YES, while I've had an unfortunate fire in my library of music, I am rebuilding. I have backed-up sources to get all these back, but it might be a week or two. When they're back, you'll know!
Thanks so much for your patience, and for reading VK.
Hey, hey! On my adventuresome mp3-collecting-mission (I'm from Germany) I just found your great blog. The best thing is this one here ("The Complete Sufjan Stevens"). Unfortunately, I always have to read this: "THE FILE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LINK HAS EXPIRED.." Is it possible to update that stuff? I would be so, so happy!
Would it be possible for you guys to re-upload the songs in this post, the Michigan b-sides, the collabos, covers he's done and covers of him? I know it's a lot, but I would be so grateful...
This is awesome - please repost songs!
Could you please repost this? Most of the links have expired and so I can not experience all this lovely rare Sufjan-ness :(
This is amazing, but can you repost the songs?
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