Talk:Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album)

message: I just spent about an hour or so researching as many allusions to Illinois I could find in the lyrics to this album and posted them in a list in the thematic elements section. I hope everyone finds that okay (hopefully it's not too much original research), and if not let me know or just edit it away. Also, I don't know how to change the format to make it look like the rest of the page. If anyone could fix that for me, that'd be awesome :-)
--TheWindshield 09:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Thematic Elements

message: Could we make a template for Sufjan Stevens 50 states albums
JohnRussell 04:07, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made this some time ago. What do you think? --Gika 17:28, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  template 

message: Has anyone else noticed that the name of the album is not Illinois but "Illinoise"? This needs to be changed, if for no other reason than to get it off the Illinois disambiguation. Ikefox
: Check Talk:Sufjan Stevens. --Gika 20:50, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Again, see Talk:Sufjan Stevens, specifically Talk:Sufjan Stevens/Archive1#Illinois or Come On! Feel The Illinoise!. --PEJL 05:58, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of album 

message: It seems to me that the album Picture being used should be changed. The one with Superman is not the one actually being sold anymore. We should update with the new cover.Dlime16 10:19, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Superman cover is how the artist had conceived it. I feel like we should keep it as it is. --Gika 10:50, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It would be nice to show each of the different versions to better tell the story of what happened. Dkordik 09:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Album Picture 

message: I added the note about the use of "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" on NBC's Conviction just now.  Ep was "The Wall", air date Fri 28 Apr 2006.  65.4.23.230 01:12, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Uses/References in Pop Culture

message: Would someone who has the physical record confirm a track title? Conflicting sources including Amazon and Musicbrainz do not agree. Is it "To the workers of the Rock River Valley Region ..." or "...of the Rockford River Valley Region..." ? Although there is no "Rockford River", Stevens seems to use city names a lot, so both are plausible. --Dhartung | Talk 07:19, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: CD liner notes say "Rock River". I'm changing that. --Gika 11:30, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rockford/Rock River 

message: Is it perhaps worth mentioning that either the label or SS seem keen to release his albums on Vinyl? Illinois is available in rather lovely double gatefold format.  It's perhaps not clear from this article what formats are available.
I'm not sure where this info could be included though - in the info box?
--born against 12:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vinyl worth mentioning? 

message: Not sure where I should put this really, but the last track on Illinois, Out of Egypt... sounds remarkably like Steve Reich's Music for Eighteen Musicians, amongst others. Minimalism's influence on Sufjan has been well documented, but this seems like the most direct reference i can find in his music. Thoughts? -- Adamdurkacz
:Wow, Stevens' music truly has many layers to it. I think some discussion of the previously documented minimalist influence of Illinois should be in the article, without question. If you can find a legitimate outside source discussing the connection between "Out of Egypt" and Reich's "Music for Eighteen Musicians", then the article should make reference to it. Omphaloscope » talk 19:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minimalism 

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message: Because trivia sections are discouraged on Wikipedia, and because this particular trivia section was garbage, I removed it all. - tbone (talk) 06:28, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia section removal 

message: The song "Jacksonville" seems to contain a musical phrase from Cat Stevens' "Two Fine People Love Each Other."  I'm mentioning this because I noticed the list of lyrical references and was wondering whether all known musical references are also being included.  --laura  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.235.18.93 (talk) 03:43, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musical Reference (Cat Stevens) 

message: I've removed the "release history" section, as it had been tagged as unreferenced for a week. If anyone would like to replace it, please include references. Thanks. Jujutacular T · C 16:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Release History" section 

message: Substituted at 18:46, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The vinyl names shouldn't have any superiority over the others as these are not the names used on the more popular editions - CD & digital - which, with the exception of random grammar choices, are seemingly uniform. I feel the digital names should be used with the vinyl versions of the titles added as footnotes, if at all.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.215.210 (talk) 20:29, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are the vinyl track names the ones that are listed here? 

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message: There is an inherent need or want to collectively use links like AllMusic, Discogs (list of releases), Metacritic, and MusicBrainz (list of releases) on articles even if all of them do not offer anything unique. What we end up with is  site advertising and link farming. 
I have not looked at these but others have shown redundancy listings and nothing new from one to another. If someone (article editor) would review these and remove any that are not pertinent or offering something new or unique, that cannot be used in the body of the article, I would appreciate it. I have no issue with using links that are helpful but inundating Wikipedia with the same links just for the fun if it makes no sense and ultimately these types of things result in article demoting. Surely a "list of releases" can be used from one or the other link and not both? Otr500 (talk) 11:59, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , I don't understand your question: can you reword it? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:53, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

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message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Not moved per WP:PARTIALDAB   (t · c) buidhe 04:18, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album) →  – The Sufjan album gets 35 times the page-views compared to Illinois (Brett Eldredge album) leading me to think it is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. It would be generally split as 2 disambiguated articles if both have simillar popularity, but that isn't the case here. Mcguy15 (talk) 20:52, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 8 April 2021