Illinois (album) by Sufjan Stevens
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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90/100  | 38 hours ago | mjp11 | | 80/100 |
85/100 | 3 days ago | kjistok | | 82/100 |
70/100 | 3 days ago |  Timestarter | | 88/100 |
90/100 | 4 days ago |  Rockdrigo | | 66/100 |
90/100 | 05/24/2020 08:48 | jukkasetala | | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a mean average rating of 85.0/100. The trimmed mean (excluding outliers) is 86.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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Great album!
What a special album. Masterpiece of the 21st century
This album is my happy place
Favorite Tracks: John Wayne Gacy, Jr., Chicago, They Are Night Zombies!!
Simply one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard. Just haunting and lively. It hits all the strings of my heart.
Really good, ambitious project
Needs a lot of efforts to understand where this comes from but it is very rewarding.
Best tracks: Feel the illinois, John Wayne Gacy Jr, Jacksonville, Decatur and Chicago
Boltzmann 01/12/2020 11:12
Sometimes folk artists try something new, like baroque pop. You know, the most recent innovation in music right now: baroque pop. I guess folk singers need some time to accept the newer things, just enough time that people forget that the people who pioneered the genre had buried themselves in drugs. Anyway, our politically correct hero comes back with the same album again, with a slightly bigger instrumentation, and more complex song structures. You know, the usual things to fool people who have zero understanding of art and hide it with "it's just all subjective", into thinking you made a masterpiece.
The hipsters have gone full circle and are now misinterpreting basic folk that praises the lord, your hometown and all those clichés with nostalgia. Again, I don't see why you should praise this moch more than any folk hero from any country.
first time listening through this album, and the experience was like no other. So mad I waited to long to give him a proper listen
corenfro 10/07/2019 18:06
I'm sure I have an actual comment buried here about the music itself....
I just want to point out it's very rare that the average rating on the tracks is lower than the overall album rating on this site. If I'm mistaken please directly message me.
Favorite Tracks:The Black Hawk War, Prairie Fire That Wanders About, They Are Night Zombies!!
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