alright, i'm re-ripping all the stuff nathan gave me since i accidentally gave it all to graham instead of copied it. so i promise you guys will all see it up over the weekend while i'm gone back to alabama then mississippi for a day or two (hit me up if you wanna hang for a little bit, i'll try hard to make us all happy).
so i thought i'd collect some of my own personal favorite rarities and overall faves. starting out with a song actually done for NPR about the Lord God Bird, a bird thought to be extinct since the forties reappeared in tiny brinkley arkansas. the original aired features interviews with locals and they talk about how the bird has transformed the humble, poor town. Sufjan listened to the interviews and composed the song. the interview can be heard here and is incredibly well done and very interesting.
next up is his rendition of the star spangled banner which he never played again after getting booed while playing it in new york. he really never plays what he considers protest songs anymore, except all good naysayers, but that was an album track so, yeah you know.
i love this track. i think its my favorite track of his and i really feel like it gets forgotten unfairly in the grand scheme of his music. its sparse, it composition in flawless, it moves, it is in many ways his most adventuresome song and there's just so much going on i don't see how it continues to be pushed aside. its simply not fair.
finally, is this duo of tracks from sufjans christmas records, they're fantastic, and wildly different. come thou fount of every blessing has the feeling of a campfire sing-a-long, but the best sing-a-long ever, there's so much spirit you can't help but love it. next is the now seemingly inappropriate sister winter, its a prime example of his other worldly falsetto and his emotional delivery that really does seem awesome opossum.
sufjan lookin' like the greatest ever clive owen
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