The Age of Adz (Eternal Living)
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Right now the Age of Adz is my favorite album and I really don't know why.
If I go song by song I can't decide which is my least or most favorite, I can't get all 11 songs from out of my head, and I really don't want to make the first post long so i'm going to stop now.
Let's go track by track or something like that. Or just go for the free for all I don't care! -
I think my favorite song of the album RIGHT NOW is The Age of Adz. I really like the horns in the song and how his voice sounds in it too. The ending where he goes acoustic is a plus for me along with the begining where it sound all menacing. Also the echo like vibe in the first 2 minutes sounds so cool with Headphones.
Vesuvius is interesting on an emotional level because of how he is talking to himself during the song, in general the lyrics on this album are very emotional for me. -
Age of Adz is one of favourite albums of all time, but it took be a while to realize it. The first few times I heard it I knew it was a masterpiece but the emotional attachment alluded me. Age of Adz used to be my favourite track on the record, but not I'd say it's I Want to be Well.
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Especially since that was the first track where Sufjan's swore. That's why I make sure not to swear a lot because when I do want it to have an impact.
IS - Loooooove it. I've only listened to it the whole way through without doing other stuff at the same time once, but it's one of my fav tracks of the album. 25 minutes is a long to just listen to music, but sometimes you just get into that mood where the music drowns your conscious... amazing. The most amazing part about Impossible Soul is that none of that time does the song meander, none of it is wasted. Such a strong solid song for 25 minutes. -
I really like the end where he goes pure folk and just switches up the whole vibe of the song. Impossible Soul is too hard to put into words for me. When I first hear Sufjan I just want to sing along and join in his sadness/despair/guilt/ whatever feeling I can think of at the time.
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I'm assuming it's OK if we make this a general Sufjan Stevens thread?
I only began listening to his stuff not more than five days ago. I am now hooked. I've listened through Age of Adz, Sven Swans, Michigan, Illinois in that order. I like them all in their own way.
But Illinois is just something else! It is THE magnum opus. I'd read in a Pitchfork review that the final few lyrics of 'John Wayne Gacy Jr' are chilling, so it removed the surprise. But still, when he goes
"Look beneath the floor boards
For the secrets I have hid"
Chills go up my spine EVERY TIME.
And the "Oh my God" part. Chills again.
I really need to listen to the albums more seriously though. I haven't even touched Impossible Soul, I'm saving it for a summer day.
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That's really cool how you just discovered him Marzuki (I named you after his brother). I discovered him in 2005 with the Chicago craze, and I've been loving him since then (only one off point where I got sick of his music for a year). Personally, I think Age of Adz is his greatest so far, but MANY people have and would disagree with me. My favourite off Chicago is Casimir Pulaski Day, mostly because I have a lot of memories associated with it, partially because it's an AMAZING song with infinite passion.
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Yeah, it's experimental in the sense of genre, but if you know his entire discography you can recognize all the features from previous albums, like the more electronic stuff on Rabbit and the fanfare flutes on A Sun Came.
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im listening to this album for the 3rd time, ive never actually heard impossible soul. ive gotten caught up in other stuff. i think to much is my favorite track. or age of adz
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Sufjan is part of my holy trinity of music artists that includes Radiohead and of course Animal Collective.
Mostly because of the Age of Adz. I'm not very outwardly emotional, but Impossible Soul still managed to make me cry. The "boy we can do much more together" part is so uplifting, and it makes me visualize everyone I've met in my life helping me and cheering me on. The way it is juxtaposed with that final folky part in the song is what brings me to tears. "Boy we made such a mess together" is like a snap back to reality, when i remember that life just isn't as simple and happy as I want it to be. -
Vesufius, this is YOUR thread man!
I can be both very inwardly and outwardly emotional, but I would say that Age of Adz, makes me turns me from a highly emotional man to an IMPOSSIBLY emotional man. The album hits me so hard everytime and each song affects me in different ways and the album as a whole never becomes dull to me.
Also, Impossible Soul isn't a challenge for me to listen straight through since I can easily listen to JUST music for hours on end. -
What great advice for life!
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@Marzuki - it doesn't, hence misremember.
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This is the age of heads on sticks!
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Why does Clause have to be so marred?
Coal is the man!
Or the pillow be damned!
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