Sufjan is finishing the 50 state project and has recruited you to help him write some of the track names for your home state.
Jot some down and other anons try to guess what state you're in.
Starting with an easy one.
>The Garden Gate to the Capital of the World!
>Fat Man Running
>1916 (The Monster From The River Has Taken Our Children!!!)
>Regarding the State of Education
>One Million Men on a Few Feet of Sand
>They Are Drawn to the Horrible Hypnotizing Change-Eating Machines, Beware!
i'm guessing that's all one song
New Jersey?
here's mine:
>Carrie and Lowell
What? No each arrow is a song.
Yup.
Oregon?
He already did it.
London Bridge is Falling Down, or how naivete doomed us to the ovens, or is anyone even listening?
>Yuma, Arizona
I wish
This was difficult and it probably sucks
>Dirge For the Looming Giant of the Fairground, Who Tragically Burned to Death One Warm October Morning
>Drive Friendly, Your Native Name Demands It!
>Orange Socks
>A Plucky Little Town Called Telephone (Part I: Mr. Hindman's General Store. Part II: Hell on the Red)
>Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Stephenville
>Independence Day, or an ode to Colonel Bowie
>Mr. Stack's Complaint (Taxation by the Air Station)
>Franklin Mountain State Park
>Thank You For Stepping Up, Mr. Johnson, May We Name Our Freeway After You?
>March on the Two Bridges
>Behold, the Giant Blue Insect!
>Milk of Grounds
>On the Tip of the Rock Spire, or Fun with Friends
>Anchors Aweigh ( The Ballad of Roger )
>The Mayor is my Buddy
>An Ode to the Bird Woman
>An Isle of Hope is Off in the Distance
>Hi, Neighbor!
Everywhere we know is crabs!
Texas
Maryland
>Vulcan Used To Glow In The Night, Now We Are Separated From His Light
>Zydeco (Or, Where Your Miserable Parents Met Each Other Then Married After Nine Days)
>Delicate Yellowhammer
>We Wish We Were Florida
>Bloody Sunday (Or, Isn't It Ironic That Black Blood Was Spilled On A Bridge Named After A Klansman?)
>1963
>We Have Managed To Curb The Satanic Beast Known As The Beatles
>The Tragedy of The Tornado Ravaged Town of Fultondale (And How The Mayor Managed To Fuck It Up Even More)
Georgia?
:3
i like it user.
it made me feel all warm and fuzzy towards Texas for a second.
Maryland as hell
> Don't Go in the Parks at Night!, Part 1: A Heroin Fueled Odyssey through Suburban Concord, Part 2: Death Comes Swiftly as I Overdose Behind a Pizza Shop
> Portsmouth is Totally Better than Portland, Trust Us!
> I Bleed Maple Syrup
> Fuck Adam Sandler
> Motorcycle Week, or: Aaaah! The Beach is Swarming with Rapists! Run!
>Territorial Lines (Part 1, Goodbye Nebraska and Utah, Part 2 Celebrating 100 Years)
>The Quest for Pike's, or Rushing for the Gold
>The Yellow Trees of Autumn (Tourism Abound!)
>Two Cites Become One, (But one might have not existed anyway)
>Silver Lode (Leadville makes it big, but then goes broke)
>Great Green Smoke! (Only used for recreation)
Whaddup New Hampshire. Bretty gud.
Washington
>Your Arms, Raise Them To The People Of The Sun! (Spokane)
>The Prisoners of Ritzville are tired from working
>Seattle
>It rains just as much here as it does in Seattle (Tacoma)
>The Islands That Most US Citizens Forget Are Apart Of This Great State Of Ours
>The Biggest Bridge (Pasco)
>The Many Lakes That Cover Eastern Washington
>Everette! Be Clean! Forgive The Curse Of 2011!
It's already been done
Minnesota
>Bob Dylan
>A Meteorite Lands in Mille Lacs and is met with Great Skepticism
>Bemidji
>The Legacy of a Large Lumberjack
>A Prince Has Died
>Bridge No. 5757
>The Lives Lost at the Collapsing of the I-35
>Road Construction Season
>Hark! The Call of the Loon!
>Lo, the Moonlit Twin Cities Beckon
>Alexandria
>Holy Fucking Shit: 10,000
>The Lives Rescued at the Mayo Clinic
>On the Glittering Shores of Lake Minnetonka, Or Minnetonka For Short
>Diablo Cody
>The Vulture Mosquitoes Hunt You Down! The Attrition is Unmatched.
>Duluth
>Conversations and Bets over Fishing/Football
>Peace is Finally Found at Gooseberry Falls
>Leaving Richmond, or, My Name is Wilbur Wright and I Have Something to Show You
>Carmel (The Red Light Turns Green)
>James Whitcomb Riley, or, the Children Are All OK
>Chief Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo and the Big Pill Factory
>For Spencer! For the Yellow Jackets! For Tippecanoe!
>Boot of the mountain.
>Jump 'em with 'em!
>Small craddle in our core
>The big belly
>Jungle Horn announces the water race jumping express!
>Don't laugh at my wang dang doodle!
>My back of acne
>Boot of the icecap
It's a country
>those trips
hell?
BONUS TRACK
>There's a ship inside my boot!
nope
>not living in based illinois and already having your very own sufjan album
WE SOLD OUR CLOTHES TO THE STATE
I DON'T MIND
I DON'T MIND
close
North Dakota
Georgia! is on Sufjan Stevens' Mind
>A Home for Debtors
>Plantation Rivalry; or Life in the Feudal South
>Terror in Terminus; or Ashes of Atlanta
>Hey Lincoln! Here's Savannah! Merry Christmas!
>The Little Grand Canyon Has A Lot to Offer
>Peaches and Peanuts, People and Poverty
>I Was in an Indie Rock Band with Jeff Mangum and Michael Stipe in a Great College Town
>Anyone Can Be A Trap Star (Feat. Gucci Mane, Young Thug [A.K.A. Jeffrey] and Future)
He already did my state, and he nailed it. V comfy album
I should have read the op better
oh well
He wouldn't get it right, because no one cares about my state outside of one city.
Fun idea, OP
>One Big Oak and a Compromise
>Nothing to do but Drugs and Suicide
>Indian Legends and Poker Chips
>The Last of the Great Whalers
>The Melon Heads Still Stalk Dracula Drive
>I Will Personally Slaughter All the Horse Girls
>Don't You Know We Were in the Union, You White Trash Inbred?
NY?
I can't believe someone actually did Rhode Island
Yep.
>El Exodo
>To Taste the Cactus Fruit
>Heat Death In Theory and Practice
>The Phoenix that Never Arose
>For God, Country, and Suburban Development
>The Sound of Music Resounds in the Wasteland
>Lead Paint, Lead Bullets, and the Misled
>Our Lady of Infinite Desolation
>The Walls of Jericho, The Walls of Naco (History Repeats Itself)
>Three Stories Lost to the Sonoran
underrated post
Alabama
Colorado
Hawaii
Alaska
Virginia
Italy?
Oklahoma
Arizona
>Alaska
He literally says Minnesota you daft cunt
kek
Nah he really meant Alaska
>The Night of the Early Grey Ocean
>City of Molasses
>The Phallus Fucking The Sky (Here Come the Bears!)
>Florida
>Pioneers of the Valley
>The Best Bar In Town (Cheers)
>Behold! The Saddest City in These Great States!
>The River Runs Green
>Brood V Awakens to Destroy Another Summer
>We Agree, Young'un! (or, How to Make a Bad Purchase That You Will Never Live Down)
>Cleveland
>How to Clean the Rust Off Your Belt and Fail Miserably
I think he is implying he's from Michigan
Ohio
Florida
Y'all are making this too easy