Sufjan Says, "Get Behind Me, Santa!"
Via Asthmatic Kitty:
As some of you may or may not know, for the past few years, as a holiday tradition, Sufjan has embarked on an extraordinary experiment to record an annual Christmas EP.We know.
It started in 2001, the year of Epiphanies, and continued onward (skipping only 2004), culminating into an odd and idiosyncratic catalog of music that has only existed in the Asthmatic Kitty archives (and on a number of file sharing sites)...That's right, the first Sufjan boxed set is heading our way! On 11/21, you can buy Songs For Christmas for the Sufjan lover in your life. Here's what you get:
• Five individually packaged CD EPs!
• Five Christmas stickers!
• Extensive liner notes and short stories by Sufjan Stevens!
• An original Christmas essay by Rick Moody!
• An animated music video and comic strip by Tom Eaton!
• A Christmas Songbook with lyric sheets and chord charts--so you can sing along too!
• An original Christmas Family Portrait painting of Santa Sufjan (with wife and kids!) by Jacques Bredy!
The tracklist for Volume V (i.e., the one you haven't downloaded yet):
Peace: Songs for Christmas, Vol. V (recorded June 2006)Sufjan's Christian? Sweet. We can't wait to spend XMas with Katrina Kerns. Here's one of the new songs from the Topic Magazine coverboy.
1. Once in Royal David’s City
2. Get Behind Me, Santa!
3. Jingle Bells
4. Christmas in July
5. Lo! How A Rose E’er Blooming
6. Jupiter Winter
7. Sister Winter
8. O Come O Come Emmanuel
9. Star of Wonder
10. Holy, Holy, Holy
11. The Winter Solstice
Sufjan Stevens - "Sister Winter" (MP3)
And as for Sufjan's next state-themed CD?
"If I haven't concluded the project in my life," he tells Guitar World Acoustic, "I'll definitely pass it on to someone else. Start a franchise, farm it out to other songwriters."Not that we're predicting Soof's death, but who would you like to see take on The 50 States? You know, aside from Kasabian.
Posted at 6:28 PM
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
Who has all four of the others? I have three of the four, I guess I'll just wait and buy it.
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this is too cool. can't wait!!!
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Could be interesting to see artists do concept albums on their home states; I can see R.E.M. doing Georgia, Will Oldham doing Kentucky, Iron & Wine doing South Carolina, Jason Molina doing Ohio, etc.
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i think Willy Mason would make a good candidate to continue the 50 states project; they'll be done way quicker because hes 21 and he won't use a buttload of orchestration!
Nobody has covered massachusetts yet?
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Dude, you can't beat the Dandy Warhols version of "Little Drummer Boy."
Seriously. You can't.
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I think you meant to lable the MP3 as "Sister Winter" not "Sister Christian" I mean Christmas.
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I love him as much as the next person, but along with the Avalanche this definitely puts Sufjan overload into high gear.
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this also marks the saturation point of stereogum being a Sufjan / asthmatic kitty product pusher.
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Paris Hilton.
"Rodeo Drive is a state, right...?"
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Iron & Wine is from Florida, not S. Carolina.
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the avalanche kinda sucked, but i'm excited about this. the three i've heard are great!
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yikes. too much sufjan in such a short period of time!
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Actually Sam Beam IS from South Carolina. Iron & Wine is based out of Florida, but he is a SC native. Either way, Flordia or SC would work for me.
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Wow. This is so exciting. Stereogum please keep sufjan news a-comin'
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I think Prince, Paul Westerberg and Dylan can do Minnesota
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Saddle Creek collective gets Nebraska, obvs. Elephant 6-ers get Georgia.
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wow you rock!
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Great. Just what we needed-- another antisemetic celebrity spouting off conservative propaganda.
Don't say I didn't warn you. Two weeks from now sufjan's gonna get pulled over for DUI (eggnog) and start calling the officer beligerent obsceneites... such a sad fate...
;D
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i was ready to say how could he make a x-mas album but damn this sounds good. sufjan delivers again.
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We can let Beirut do New Mexico. That should be interesting...
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I vote for Beirut too. I hope Sufjan follows through and does NJ...
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Oh I can't wait for this boxset!
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Oh I can't wait for this boxset!
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obviously, it should be silver jews. the song "Tennessee" springs to mind.
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When I saw this, I thought of the old 80s saying: "Gag me with a spoon!" Sufjan go away! Don't forget to cash in quick before you leave, wanker!
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I can't wait! "Sufjan" is now my password too!
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He needs to stop. It's getting annoying. How many shtiks can you have?
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The fourth EP (2005) was never put on the internet either.
I don't get why people complain about all the stuff Sufjan puts out - if you enjoy his music, why would that be a bad thing? If you don't like his music - why care at all?
Why would anyone complain about an artist whom they enjoy or who is good being prolific? Maybe if the music kept getting progressively worse.. But no one's forcing you to listen to it.
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Superdrag should get back together and do Tennessee. Maybe Self can help.
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and rob thomas says, get behind me santana.
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joanna newsom can handle one of the lesser states, like delaware
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For those of you desperate to see Santa Sufjan (hell, I know i was ;) ) head here:
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-sufjan-song.html
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i'm sick of this guy.
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he's sick of you too, poop.
for indiana, it has to be michael jackson and/or john cougar. wait...nevermind.
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never enough sufjan!
second the beirut idea!
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William Elliot Whitmore on Iowa would be great.
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the female voice on 'sister winter' is my friend marla hansen. here, www.myspace.com/marlahansen
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Whitmore on Iowa? That's gold. I like it.
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and for great state of washington... jeremy enigk. i heard that sufjan made it to jeremy's last show in N.Y.
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