Sufjan Stevens

Negoba wrote: A: I just went up and clicked "Search" typed in Sufjan and got only this thread. What am I doing wrong?   B: No one seems to have actually evaluated him back in 2007. Listen to the song I included, and tell me how that isn't prog. Odd time signature, idiosyncratic instrumentation, composed interweaving parts, concept albums, intelligent lyrics...the closest thing I have to this is Battles which is definitely prog.   C: I admit prog folk may not be the right place, perhaps Eclectic?       ed. I figured out A: the time constraint automatically enters at 6 months. So I got all 7 or so threads now. Still, the best excuse for his exclusion was that he was indie, which someone correctly said is no longer a meaningful label.

(I originally wanted to post this 10 hours ago, but I didn't notice that error occurred so I hit back and am posting it again, OK ?)

Hey Jay, few things:

A)Common mistake done by people not so familiar with how forum works. No offense meant in this, I till two months ago didn't know that I can search within threads, not just on wide-scale forum.

So let me explain. Here's the result I'm have:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/search_results_posts.asp?SearchID=20101001053234&KW=Sufjan

The point is that you have to change Last 6 months to Any Date in "Find Posts"

B)Are you aware that we'll give him most probably evaluation based on tracks on his myspace ? So far, he has one NO vote by Chris S. Other team members, including me, still haven't placed the vote.

I can tell for myself, I'll listen Illinois album, OK ?

EDIT:

Listened Illinois. YES for Crossover  Great music, so different from samples on myspace.

^ Jay, let me make a sound <sigh>, but it's not sigh like in (oh he whines again), but like in sigh (yes I understand you, yet the reality is different than our opinion is).

Myspace is filled with poppy sounds, because they're the ones that will attract them most listeners. Only die hard Prog bands actually put Prog there (I remember Hours of Shipwreck, recent evaluation). But we can't have albums of all bands that we're evaluating. 

I'm glad that I could help you with this search. Noteworthy fact is that Dean was the one who told me how to use topic search. I was here for year and half, thought that I already know everything about how forum works, but nah, there are still mysterious parts :-)

Re: Illinois - I was very, very surprised how different it sounded. If I understand it correctly, he has quite big discography, doesn't he ? Or is majority of his work in EP format ? I saw about 15 of his albums, but I'm not sure if they're studio ones (most of them).

Haha, a lot of bands fall for Christmas albums. I don't like them at all, but why not, some people like it (otherwise, there wouldn't be X-mas albums made).

I'm taking this quite personally. I can, I have quite a lot of time now, I've did some research, like the music, consider it Prog, would like to see him here as well. But sadly, this isn't case with ALL of our evaluations. A lot of teams depends on myspace samples only, including us (sometimes to often).