Tracklist

1. Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
2. The Black Hawk War, Or, How To Demolish An Entire Civilization And Still Feel Good About Yourself In The Morning, Or, We Apologize For The Inconvenience But You're Going To Have To Leave Now, Or, "I Have Fought The Big Knives And Will Continue To Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!"
3. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
4. Jacksonville
5. A Short Reprise For Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons
6. Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Step Mother!
7. One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" For The Pullman!!
8. Go! Chicago! Go! Yeah!
9. Casimir Pulaski Day
10. To The Workers Of The Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea Concerning Your Predicament, And It Involves Tube Socks, A Paper Airplane, And Twenty-Two Able-Bodied Men.
11. The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
12. Prairie Fire That Wanders About
13. A Conjunction Of Drones Simulating The Way In Which Sufjan Stevens Has An Existential Crisis In The Great Godfrey Maze
14. The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
15. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!
16. Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All The Way Out In Bloomington-Normal
17. In This Temple As In The Hearts Of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth
18. The Seer's Tower
19. Riffs And Variations On A Single Note For Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, And The King Of Swing, To Name A Few
20. Out Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run
21. The Avalanche

About this record

Tracks are numbered consecutively regardless of sides (as they appear on the release) Full-length titles from back cover are used Abbreviated titles are given on the vinyl labels and the insert D23 is a vinyl bonus track ©℗ 2005 Asthmatic Kitty Reco

Pressing details

Released

2005

Label

Asthmatic Kitty Records

Catalogue #

AKR 014

Pressing country

US

Format

Vinyl

Genre

Rock, Pop, Stage & Screen

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2,963 collectors have it on their want-list against 4,386 who own it — moderately collectible without being scarce. Originally released in 2005 on Asthmatic Kitty Records, this pressing comes from the US.

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