I am a big fan Sufjan Stevens and this song is up there as one of my favourites. This song's actual name is Come On! Feel The Illinoise!: The World's Columbian Exposition / Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream. Sufjan manages to have almost infinite layers in his music, both from an instrumental perspective and in his lyrics.
This goes from a jazzy offbeat beginning into an almost The Cures Close To Me epic ending. Let me know if you can hear the resemblance. There are heaps of instruments in this one to detail but I am a huge fan of the bassline and the clarinet scale used as a fill before the verses.
"Chicago, in fashion, the soft drinks, expansion
Oh Columbia!
From Paris, incentive, like Cream of Wheat invented,
The Ferris Wheel!"
Not much of a video here. So open up another tab, read the news, and give this one a listen.
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