HUGE DAY FOR ME IN PARTICULAR

Sufjan being older than Pitbull has to be some kind of time travel mess up or something

You forgot to mention an acoustic version of chicago was featured in "The Bear". A show actually based in Chicago.

Dude, the carrie and lowell part was brutal. Phenomenal writing and editing

"Sufjan may not have written songs about Sean from "Hot Ones", which would not exist for another 11 years, so instead he had to settle for songs about the Bible." - that could be something taken straight out of philomena cunk lol love it as always, great episode

Seeing how the Illinois musical just won a Tony for Best Choreography, this is perfect timing.

carrie & lowell crushed me so fucking much to the point where I start tearing up if I hear even a couple of seconds of any song from that album

i walked AND feel this moment mashed up? you've made marsona 5 and you now must make a full sufjan and pitbull mashup album

I’m still extremely depressed Sufjan hasn’t made Ohio yet… is a joke I would’ve made a year ago. However, today I am a changed man. I am no longer the silly child from back then. Thank you

How awesome of you to dedicate a whole video to my favorite Bowie song, Suffrajette Stevens!

The first time I listened to Carrie and Lowell in full was about 6 months after my dad died. I was an absolute mess at the end. It will absolutely destroy you, gently hold you, and encourage you to cry until you’ve completely run out of tears in your body. It’s a masterpiece and one of my favorite albums of the 2010s, but I’m still afraid to listen to it ever again.

GIVE IT TO ME GIVE IT TO ME MICTHESNARE GIVE ME THE THE DEEP DISCOG DIVE

One of my favourite needle drops of “Chicago” was in the first season of the bear as the demo version was used to start the seventh episode. A show actually set in Chicago! Very fitting

i feel like i have been waiting my whole life for this

Javelin is Sufjan's most recent album, yet I'd say it's his best one if Illinois never happened. It's just unbelievable that someone like Suf can pull a masterpiece at a still-high point in his career and, simultaneously, probably his lowest point in life (paralysis & his husband's passing). And I find it bamboozling that an artist like Suf, who already owns a vastly robust catalog filled with so many genres and subgenres, has the capacity of showing growth and sometimes returning to form, along with a desire to seek out for more. The day Sufjan drops a bad album, indie music society will fall off p. s. With The Greatest Gift existing, I thoroughly believe that Sufjan was making a full Oregon concept album before settling on C&L. This thesis is mostly carried by songs like "The Hidden River of My Life" & "City of Roses"

No Light in the Crazy of the Frog

I'm surpsried you didn't mention "my Rajneesh" which was a b side from the ascension. In my opinion it's one of Sufjan's best works. It's so sprawling and has pieces of just about every style sufjan has ever attempted.

AGE OF ADZ IS HIS BEST ALBUM THANK YOU FOR BEING CORRECT!!!!

A bit disappointed you didn't bring up My Rajneesh during the video because man is that song stellar

Heard there was a another Great Lake before Sufjan filled it in when he invented Illinois

this is literally perfect timing, I only just discovered Sufjan’s music last week

I'm going to be coming back to this video regularly for a long time, I think. I fell into Sufjan Stevens' discography back in April of 2020, following the passing of my grandfather. I inherited his modest record collection, and upon arriving with my family after the day-long drive to the small town in southern Alabama where he had lived, I went to the small record store in town. Aside from a couple of tracks from Illinois, I didn't have much exposure to Sufjan's music yet, but I knew I loved the sound. The record store only had one Sufjan record: 'Michigan,' which I had never heard. I listened in full, to both it and then Carrie & Lowell, on the drive back home, and I felt fully and completely understood in my grief and in my confusion. I found Redford and Romulus and Vito's Ordination Song and The Fourth of July and No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross and Should Have Known Better and many others to be both emotionally stripping, and also deeply, deeply comforting. I've loved his music ever since. You've managed to capture so much of what drew me to Sufjan's work initially and what has kept me listening since. Amazing writing on this. I have so much more to say, but I'll leave it at 'bravo.'

Yesssss! Oh wow, Deathconsciousness: The Musical would be a sight to behold

IVE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO SEE A DISCOG DIVE IN MY FEED

Best KZfaq notification I’ve received in years

Saying “we’re all gonna die” to a crowd of people on various substances is BOLD LOLOL

I did the biggest irl POG face ever when I saw this video in my recommended feed. I have been waiting for this dive for so long, BIG day for my fellow "suf the snare" heads out there

following his albums in real time was such a rollercoaster ride lmao "oh sweet, new record in a completely new but surprisingly successful genre, let's go suf"

I first listened to Illinois back in 2020 and it completely blew me away and to this day it’s one of my all time favorites. It took me awhile to really get into the rest of his catalog. It wasn’t until last that I really got in deep for multiple reasons. I never really saw the appeal of Carrie and Lowell. In early 2023 I really made an effort to get more into it and it was growing on me. And then my mom died in May and now every song made complete and total sense. Age of Adz was getting a vinyl reissue so I was listening to that a lot more. I was struggling with certain things so that album really helped. And we also had Javelin coming out that year. The songs on that one hit me hard as the relationship that I was in (my first one by the way) was slowly deteriorating. Before I knew it Sufjan Stevens was in my top 5 listened to artists at the end of the year. I didn’t realize I had listened to him that much.

Carrie and Lowell is one of my favorite albums of all time. I found it when my mother was in the hospital battling Guillon Barré syndrome. She was paralyzed from the eyes down, on a ventilator in the ICU for weeks. There were moments where I’d leave her room and think I’d never see her again. That album in a weird way helped me process that fear, and be there with her through her slow but eventual recovery. “We’re all gonna die…”

What you said about Carrie & Lowell is so true. I used to love the album before but a few years ago I lost my mother and listening to this album broke me so bad… and stitched me up after. 100% recommend, I love to cry to it.

Christmas came early this year 🙏

You think you're too deep when you decide to check out the 5 hours of Christmas music, you're actually too deep when you frantically try to explain to your friends that no actually Silver & Gold has some of Sufjan's best work I swear listen to the 2008 leak where are you going (appreciate the sisyphus/run rabbit run shoutouts, the sun came/enjoy your rabbit appreciation, and the somewhat defense of the ascension. listen to landslide and the title track! Majesty Snowbird and My Rajneesh are also essential sufjan)

I remember finding a copy of Illinois in a box of over a hundred CDs labelled 'free to take' someone left at work. It ended up being in mine and my wife's 'road trip' selection of albums we listened to in our car. This was the first way I ever heard him, and I fell in love with the sound straight away

I need to listen to more of his discography. Greetings from Michigan is my favorite from what ive heard so far

"Christmas in the Room" got my wife and I through our isolated covid Christmas in 2020. Such an incredibly prescient song so many years before the pandemic, and I know others probably had much, much worse Christmases that year.

Oh I have never been so sat in my LIFE

the ascension as a song hit me so hard when i was deconstructing my faith in 2020. absolutely haunting song

Man, 50 albums in THAT SHORT TIME?? Amazing Mic, Keep it up, Proud of you!

One of the most DDD worthy artists in my opinion. Such an interesting and diverse discography with some of my favourite albums of all time. Thanks Mic

I’ve been WAITING for this one! Another piece of Sufjan lore not mentioned in the DDD: In 2019, he released two singles titled “Love Yourself”and “With My Whole Heart”, with “Love Yourself” having an additional two renditions. The song “Love Yourself (Short Reprise)” ended up appearing in Season 1 of Bridgerton.

This is a massive win for me, I was literally listening to Illinois on vinyl, a birthday present, for the first time yesterday.

I can't believe you shouted out Colby, Kansas, had to run it back to make sure I heard you right 😂

I remember commenting on here once asking for this and my prayers have been answered!! Thank you for listening

Love a Sufjan deep dive. Love the stock footage of Grand Rapids. Love the walking tour of Holland.

Just listened to Illinois in full for the first time a couple weeks ago (I'd heard the entirety of Carrie & Lowell as well as the song "Chicago" before this) and fell in love with it. Thought to myself "I'd love it if Mic covered Sufjan but God help him when he gets to the song titles" XD Thanks for granting my wish without knowing it lol

I can confirm that the Illinoise musical is an absolute triumph. I saw it in Chicago before they moved to New York. Peck’s choreography works so well with the music and the interpretation of loss, and the band is so tight as well. It is definitely not a jukebox musical and feels more like a ballet set to a 2000s indie album

always a fucking awesome day when a new mic video dropped. also congrats on the interview thing!

What makes Sufjan such a fascinating artist is that he truly has explored and will probably explore so much more. Just making wild concepts for an album and making it work. Even if it can vary from insane electronic music to quiet folk music and it’s so so awesome to have an artist that just does his thing and does it good!

SUBARU DDD LETS GOOOOOOO

incredible video thank you so much

Sufjan Stevens and I have the same birthday. As I was born in 1987, I was also a Year of the Rabbit baby. Illinois came out three days after I turned 18. Some things are just fate, and Sufjan being my favorite musician of all time is one of them. A couple of core Sufjan memories for me: I took my little sister to see him on the Age of Adz tour when she was 12, and she recently told me what a thrilling and formative musical experience that was. I'm just so glad I was able to share that with her. Carrie & Lowell came out just over a year before my mom died. For months after her passing, it was the only music I could listen to. It didn't make me feel better, per se, but it felt like a truly honest reckoning with what I was feeling that no other album could achieve. Today, I can only really listen to individual songs from that album, and only sometimes. It's so transporting to that time and place and I don't always want to go there. But I am so grateful that I had that album to listen to after my mom's death, as it helped me feel connected to the world in a time when I felt otherwise unmoored.

Excellent work, Mic!

Awesome content as always.

Made my day seeing this one! Thank you

don’t know why this missed my recommendation box yesterday but we’re here now !!

amazing vid as always. mic u are the goat

Mic, The Run Away With Me bit has me 😂

fantastic video, sufjan was always an artist i felt a connection with throughout highschool and now in college. age of adz hits me like a truck every time and i can’t even listen to carrie and lowell because it is guaranteed to make me sob. thank you for covering this legend.

thank you so muchhhhhh

the most intrigued i've been for something on the tl

Been waiting for this one for sooo long... was a big fan of sufjan for ages and slowly working my way through his discography

I did not expect a sound byte from the Gametrailers Final Fantasy Retrospective in my Mic The Snare video

SO EARLY OMG!!! I’ve been waiting for this for ages 🎉🎉🎉

this is huuuuuge for me i’m so excited to watch !! sufjan stevens is incredibly important to me

I love your DDD videos so much. They're always so informative and entertaining. Your snappy sense of humor ads to my enjoyment a lot too. This is one of my new favourites for sure, because I think it's a really well-done video and because I love Sufjan Stevens' music so much Honestly, I think you are singlehandedly carrying music discussion on your back, because,despite all of the silly bits in your videos, you're the only one who I feel like actually tackles these discussions with the nuance and grace they deserve

oh my god we were waiting for ages

FINALLY been begging for this forever 😭

Your videos are always top notch man. Had me laughing out loud in the train station. Good stuff 👊

This is sooo crazy!!! I just revisited Illinois after years of not listening to in in full for a couple years

my favorite youtuber covering my favorito artist this is basically a national holiday to me

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY FOR YEARS

O I’ve been waiting for this one

imo enjoy your rabbit is incredibly underrated-it's so vast and varied, and though i do think some of the songs overstay their welcome a bit, they each present something captivating

Hey, Mic, can you do a video on the history of the guest rapper in pop music? I really want to know how that trope became so common, because it's weirdly specific when you think about it. It's like if most hair metal had a bagpipe solo, or if string quartets had a tendency to break out into yodelling

this one. I'm most excited for this one.

Sufjan has been through so much, I want to give him a hug. Would also be a way to say thanks for all the amazing music.

Another fantastic DDD

Istg I started humming “the man of metropolis steals our hearts” and then I picked up my phone to find this notification in ABSOLUTE DISBELIEF. Mic are you psychic???

thank you for making these videos no matter what every time i watch one of your videos i want to play music and do creative things so thank you !!!

Thank you mic, I’ve actually been meaning to challenge my music taste and listen to sufjan and this’ll prolly be the perfect guide

Javelin is the first Sufjan album I listened to apart from a few songs I'd heard and wow, he's changed my world. Thank you for this video, it's super helpful as a guide to navigate his work!

Been looking forward to this one, Mike! Great job! Cried to the Carrie and Lowell segment in a McDonalds!

Wow. Oh wow wow wow. This particular DDD made me feel so many emotions I didn't even know I had. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. To touch on the feelings you mentioned during Ascension--can I just say that my life has become immeasurably better since I started watching your channel? I can actually connect with my older brother so much more than I ever could before since I can finally connect with him on music. I always thought music was "his thing," seeing as that's what he studied in college, but now I see it can be both of our things. Because we were raised by parents who both deeply valued music and shared it with us any chance they could. And I love that so, so much. Also... yeah, you're 100% right about Carrie & Lowell hitting so much harder after losing a close family member. I lost almost all of my mom's side between 2018 and 2021 and let's just say this album will never simply pass over me again. But perhaps it's for the best--after all, isn't grief what makes us human? On a lighter note, I am LOVING this era of you doing DDDs you're truly excited about. Life is too short to not indulge in your passions whenever possible! Speaking of... I have a novel I should get back to outlining 😉 thank you thank you THANK YOU for this wonderfully thoughtful video. I cannot wait to immerse myself even deeper into Sufjan's music with this added context. Instant fave 😊

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COVERING SILVER AND GOLD ON THIS FOR ONE PARTICULAR REASON. I'VE RECENTLY FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SUFJAN'S MUSIC, BEEN DIVING INTO A LOT OF HIS STUFF FOR THE PAST 4 MONTHS AND I'M ALSO A MASSIVE PRINCE FAN. Recently, Alphabet St. has been on repeat for me, I love that song to death, SO I WAS OVER THE MOON WHEN I FOUND OUT SUFJAN COVERED IT HAHAHAHA, OF ALL SONGS THAT ONE?! THE ONE I HAPPEN TO LOVE SO MUCH! LOVE THE CONTENT!

I like Surfjan Stevens. His music surprisingly kept me in a safe state to get through my deployments overseas while I was in the service. Respect 🙏

Hi mic, you've made some positive impact Thank you.

This made my day, Sufjan is one of my favorite artists

i have a weird fear of all of carrie and lowell and cashimir pulaski day- i listened to them as my grandmother was in hospice, and as my dad was suddenly diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. they both died in spring 2023, and i haven’t listened to either since.

YAAAAAA THANK U MR SNARE

This was so good.

yesssss new dive for an artist i love

GODDAMN IT MIC NOW I NEED A SUFJAN AND PITBULL COLLABORATION

amazing video mister snare !!! sufjan is so incredible and clever and creative. i'm so sorry to hear about your dad

THIS IS ALL I"VE WANTED FROM YOU SINCE THE DISCOG DIVES!!!!

songs for christmas is probably my most listened to sufjan album - every decemeber on repeat - i just love it so much

Always glad to see a new Mic the Snare video. I wonder, will you ever do the Quick Album Review videos again??

Another great video. Also, doing my regular duty of suggesting/requesting/insisting on Deep Discog Dive: Porcupine Tree

Thank you. I always felt a bit confused by his discography, some I clicked with, others I just didn't understand and couldn't comprehend why it was released under the same artist name ; yet this clears up a lot for me.

Anything I know about Smurfman Sassafras, I learned on this channel. Excited for this one!