Prairie Fire That Wanders About (track)
by Sufjan Stevens
Year: 2005
From the album Illinois (track #13)
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Prairie Fire That Wanders About appears on the following album(s) by Sufjan Stevens:
- Illinois (track #13) (this album) (2005)

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This track is rated in the top 6% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.1/100, a mean average of 79.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.9.
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Kind of bizarre. But I like it a lot. Cool choirs and instrumentation. The drums stand out.
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