Top 10 Sufjan Stevens Songs That Will Give You Chills
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- Top 10 Sufjan Stevens Songs That Will Give You Chills
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Make some ‘illinoise’ for Sufjan! Welcome To WatchMojo.com and today we’ll be taking a look at our picks for the Top 10 Sufjan Stevens Songs. For this list, we’ll be breaking down the indie-folk stylings of this new age music sensation, including tracks like “Futile Devices”, “To Be Alone With You”, “Flint”, “John Wayne Gacy, Jr”, “Impossible Soul”, “Casimir Pulaski Day” and more, to see which track takes the cake! Did your favorite Sufjan song make the list? Let us know in the comments below!
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#10: “Futile Devices”
#9: “Flint (For The Unemployed and Underpaid)”
#8: “Should Have Known Better”
#7: “To Be Alone With You”
#6:“Chicago”
#5: “Mystery of Love”
#4: “Casimir Pulaski Day”
#3, #2 & #1: ?
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'Call me by your name' introduced me with Sufjan Stevens & changed my life.
arup das true bro 💯💛
arup das same
Me too~
Same, his songs seem like they were written about my past as well.
Omg same
I love Sufjan Stevens and was once humming fourth of July on a subway ride. Suddenly the old lady sitting near me gives me a shocking stare. That is when I realised that I was singing this line "we're all gonna die" repeatedly.
Shivani Singh oh this made me laugh out loud. 😂
Hahahahaha
Hahahahahah. This happened to me last Christmas! I was humming the exact same line and my siblings looked at me as if I had lost my mind
R. I. P xd
😂
Okay, "Mystery of Love" captures the essence of the movie, but this is a video about songs that give you chills and "Visions of Gideon" gives me MAJOR chills.
RIGHT??? JUST READING THE TITLE OF IT IN THIS COMMENT GAVE ME CHILLS, THATS HOW U KNOW A SONG IS LEGIT
Exactly. For me Visions of Gideon just bulldozes my composure and my soul everytime I hear it, or watch the end of CMBYN... 😭😭😭
Visions of Gideon not in the Top 10 Sufjan songs... WatchMojo just lost all credibility for me... I honestly think there are few songs that are that emotionally powerful. True it's based on movie or book characters and their context, but managing for that to make a devastating emotional punch like it's something so real, is truly beyond words.
EXACTLY! And though the song is mentioned during Mystery of Love (at number FIVE?!), it didn’t even get an honerable mention...!
Jlnkht Exactly, like wtf??
This video made my depression depressed.
BigBec1926 That’s Sufjan in a nutshell
BigBec1926 it will not go away if you listen to him the hole will just be deeper and deeper
BigBec1926 You should check out Elliott Smith if you want more of that feeling
@@Gilgamesh099 you it happened to me
His song deserved the Oscar more than Coco.
it was obviously rigged, The Oscars wasnt gonna give a gay movie, especially its theme song an award.
Hollywood is still homophobic, thats a fact.
Just rediculous it didn't win!
WynterRayn19 you remember Moonlight won best picture last year right
Sidney Davies but Moonlight isn’t about his gay relationship...
Marcus Moribe moonlight literally is about being gay
"4th Of July". That's all I have to say.
Ouch
We're all gonna die
I know. Literally heart wrenching.
Absolutely.
Exactly
"With lines like im crying in the bathroom its hard not to relate" is the watchmojo man okay?
I will never forget the first time I heard Sufjan Stevens, it was like a revelation for me. It was the music I always envisioned in my head but never knew what it exactly was until I heard him. Now That I'm Older should have been included!
For real thooo! I always feel like I’m in a movie when I’m listening to him 😂
now that I'm older
Me too! But people often categorise his music as melancholy and although some of his songs are indeed that, I find his so much of his music uplifting and exalting. Even the melancholy music feels incredibly honest and therefore affirming. Plus his story telling puts you emotionally right there.
He's on another level. Mostly by himself. Because no one else can reach it.
So why isn't Fourth of July in the top 5?
That’s what I’m wondering. That song broke my hard and fixed it in the same time. And it’s not even in honorable mentions ...
4OJ should have been #2
Esteban Ramos I’m not sure it was out yet but it should’ve been on the list if it was because otherwise they got it so wrong
Esteban Ramos no Mariah songs in this countdown, sadly 😔
it's not even in the list... how disappointing
The ENTIRE Carrie & Lowell album should be here. I get chills every time.
OMG! I believe definitely that C&L is the most beautiful album of Sufjan
Couldn't agree more
I had to go out of state for a work training for a few days and I brought nothing but 2 days of clothes. I went on google and searched what bars had open mics that week and found one nearby. I sang “Death With Dignity” acapella (I’m a very good singer) and the whole place was dead silent the entire time and there was about 10 seconds of dead silence after I finished before the place ERUPTED. This was a few weeks after Carrie & Lowell was released and I doubt anyone knew who Sufjan was either way.
Amazing experience
@@TheWingusThat’s such a powerful song, especially the line, “l forgive you mother …” Thank you for giving those listeners what I’m sure was a very powerful experience 🙏🏻💓
Visions of Gideon wasn't even a honorable mention, geez
Synfaxed ikr 😫
Better than Mystery of Love, imo
That song was so beautiful...I thought it was going to be the number 1 song😔😔😔
Is it a video?
@@henrikibsen6258 is it a videeeoooo
LOOK AT MAH BOI SUFJAN GETTING MORE RECOGNITION
yeah but it's by w a t c h m o j o
Why the hate lol?
Alot of us have heard of Sufjan, and we enjoy his tunes. He's quite a well known musician. If you haven't heard of him check him out, or don't... The list obviously isn't for you if you're not into his tunes.
Chill.
shut up its for me
Am Sorry but... WHERE IS VISIONS OF GIDEON? IT GIVES ME CHILLS EVERYTIME I LISTEN TO IT AND I CAN'T AVOID TO CRY
You forgot Death With Dignity!
Jacky W. Such a good album opener!
Jacky W. Yeah! :(
They Did! I first heard it in 'This is Us'.
That's the best ever
@@xiuxiu1108 I can't believe the actual band Xiu Xiu is here in the comment section.
Wasp of the Palisades is his best song hands down.
Stormy Lukasavage i cried the first time i listened to it, it’s so beautiful
true
That's the one that got me in to his music, but Chicago is my favorite. Gives me chills every time I listen to it.
Carter Milan it's all about perspective, it's not the most complex song he's got though in fact it's not even that complex to begin with.
Carter Milan To each their own, but since you're the only one comparing it to vomit compared to others who have said they liked it, I doubt its vomit.
the entire CARRIE & LOWELL are some of the BEST songs I’ve ever HEARD in MY LIFE, and also mytery of love, visions of gideon, tonya harding, john wayne jr., and futile devices gosh I could talk about his incredible music for hours!!!
Sufjan Stevens is easily one of my most favorite musicians of all time. There's something deeply poignant and intimate in so many of his songs, as if we're hearing a man lay his soul bare, and he has a talent for making an honest connection with listeners.
I discovered Carrie & Lowell around the same time my grandfather, who had at one point been rather estranged from his daughter (my mother), was dying of dementia. Somehow listening to it not only soothed my own aches, but helped me feel a potion of what my mother was likely feeling. And that's the magic of Stevens's music--it's not just a song, it's not just an album, it's an experience.
Such a joy to see this pop up in my subscriptions feed.
also the quality of lyrics, the images n scenarios he creates are in all his song top level! together with the music, this man is a genius!
Heartily agreed.
There is no song on this planet that gives me more chills than "I Want To Be Well" off Sufjan's 2010 album Age of Adz. It carries a double meaning between fearing illness, and fearing mediocrity. I found the song as I was having an existential crisis while in the hospital, and the song described exactly how I was feeling. It starts out almost upbeat, with many layers (as is his specialty), speaking both about his illness (he was quite sick as he wrote Age of Adz) and "ordinary" and what it means to him, and as the song goes on it gets more and more desperate, repeatedly pleasing that he wants to be well, culminating in him saying "I'm not fucking around", over the repeated "I want to be well", and there's just so much raw emotion and desperation in his voice and it just turns your veins to ice and skin to goosebumps.
I just heard this song after seeing your comment and it’s AMAZING especially near the end. Thanks
Everyone is naming songs that should be on the list, and I am like "Yep! Definitely!" to most of them without wanting to remove any other ones, and that just proves how good Sufjan Stevens is at his craft.
should have known better destroyed me the first time i heard it.
Ali Marashian it’s just so good
Same
Same
Romulus isn't on this list...
The Owl and the Tanager is the most haunting song I’ve ever listened to besides John Wayne Gacy Jr. and Fourth of July of course...
I don’t think I have ever been so excited for a watchmojo video😍
Divine MissE ok
I was about to say!
Haha same
Totally Agree
same
"Come on! Feel the Illinoise!" will always be my favorite song of his. Sufjan is a beast.
Bradley Bourne The second half of that song gives me so many goosebumps.
My fave from Illinois along the wasp and casimir pulaski day.
Absolutely! One of the greatest things ever composed.
Yes! One of my favs
Bro as a sufjaniologist... there’s some even more chilling songs but they r less heard
Being a sufjaniologist is the only title I aspire to have
Romulus being one for certain.
Luna , Enchanting ghost??
Barcarola, for example, makes me cry EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!
Damascus, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Borderline, Vitos Ordination Song (particularly the acoustic version)... only having 10 spots is tough
*He is a poet, Pure Art!! I love Him!*
I love Sufjan, he's a great lyricist. I love the part in '4th of july' when he sings like his mother at her deathbed and she tells him "Did you get enough love, my little dove, why do you cry? And I'm sorry I left but it was for the best, though it never felt right, my little Versailles". I also love the part in 'I walked' that says "I've come to explain why I left such a mess on the floor. For when you went away, I went crazy, I was wild with the breast of a dog. I ran through the night with a knife in my chest, with the lust of your loveless bite". I also love this part from 'John My Beloved': "So can we pretend sweetly before the mystery ends? I am a man with a heart that offends with its lonely and greedy demands. There's only a shadow of me, in a matter of speaking I'm dead". I absolutely love 'The predatory wasp of the palisades...', "We were in love, we were in love, palisades, palisades, I can wait, I can wait". And adore 'They are night zombies...', specially the part at the middle to the end of the song, the catharsis: "I know, I know, my time is past, I'm not so young, I'm not so fast. I tremble with the nervous thought of having been at last forgot". And Age of Adz is amazing. :D
all of his songs are too perfect basically
#10 - Djohariah
#9 - The Upper Peninsula
#8 - Enchanting Ghost
#7 - John Wayne Gacy Jr.
#6 - Casimir Pulaski Day
#5 - I Want to Be Well
#4 - Death With Dignity
#3 - Impossible Soul
#2 - All Delighted People
#1 - Owl and the Tanager
tough list to make...
I cant help but dance at least a bit every time the "boy we can do much more together" end of Impossible Soul
His entire discography is honerable mentions
Good job. Owl and the Tanger will always be #1
What is with people implying that he is less-than because they have never heard of him? It's arrogant and nobody cares. Popularity isn't always equatable with high quality. Besides music, just like all art, is very subjective. If it doesn't connect with you then that's fine but there is no need to go shit on others for thinking it's good just because it is not to your taste.
Cameron Belcher true indeed.
Top 10 Sufjan Stevens that are about God or Loving Men.
Marco P time to play ‘is this gay or about jesus?’
Palisades
yes one of my favs
infra white Impossible Soul, I think
all
I challenge anyone to listen to the entire
Carrie and Lowell album without shedding a tear.
I'm not up to the challenge 😂😢
I had already lost :"(
I didn't, but it's really a good album
He killed it on the Call me by your name soundtrack 😍🔥
that is such a tasteless way to describe his music
@@s8v1 impressed me the same way: crude, trying to be "cool"
Mystery of Love and Visions of Gideon never fail to make me cry everytime i listen to it
I love this list. I've been passionately listening to Sufjan over the last decade and as i read through the below comment's there are so many comment's about how personal favourite's are missing from this top ten - i find this to be the highest compliment to an artist with such a vast, beautiful range of music. Listening to Sufjan perform "Impossible Soul" in Dublin was my favourite moment of my musical history
Just coming to see where Casimir Pulaski day ranked.
Lyric Poet lol same
YES
Lol same
Yeah same
Yup
every sufjan steven's songs makes me sad and happy at the same time. It just makes you feel alive
My #1 is John My Beloved. This song is so powerful and deeply emotional
my favorite aswell
Casimir Pulaski Day makes me cry every time I listen to it. And I've listened to it all day before.
Visions of Gideon, I walked, John my Beloved, The only thing and The owl and the tanager are all missing in this list.
And Sister Winter.
reckoner7 And ”Death With Dignity”.
The Only Thing gang
The owl and the tanager 😢
He is absolutely a musical Genius ! I went to see him in concert not really having heard of him .... at 58 , i was one if not the only person in the audience in my age bracket. He walked out on stage with his band dressed rather silly with angle wings and such .... what then took place on stage bloody blew mw away . I had no idea of the depth of this young man ... his wall of sound ... the deconstruction of noise ... He brought me to tears
Chicago is definitely my favourite of his songs, it has a lot of special memories attached to it for me, that and death with dignity never fail to bring tears to my eyes.
Why he's so underrated?? He's amazing♥
John my beloved?
Or even Fourth of July.
This one thanks
It is by far for me the most beautiful song in his album carrie and lowell
yes it's so good
Heck. yes.
Okay, but, "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us!" is a very underrated song and provides so much depth I'm surprised to see it not even in the honorable mentions.
John Wayne Gacy Jr, Tonya Harding and Mystery Of Love are THE ones
Impossible Soul, Vito's Ordination Song, and The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
tonya harding is a fabulous song
John Wayne Gacy Jr, Chicago (this song makes me incredibly nostalgic sad/happy), all 3 of the cmbyn songs bc that DAMN movie, and Casimir Pulaski day break me every time I hear them. LOve this man. Saw him live a couple years ago and he actually said how he was tired of playing sad songs about death, so he played his more upbeat songs instead.
This made me realize how much I love him and his music
Casimir Pulaski day and Chicago will always be so nostalgic to me.
Sufjan Stevens Is Love 💙
What an awesome choice, WatchMojo. 🤟
Personally it's why I remain subscribed- to be surprised from time to time by small gems like this one.
FromDkWithLove Exactly, you will never know what video will appear, and this is one of the gems that you mention about. Like you, I also remain subscribed to this channel just to wait for such videos.
Many people often complain about the over-saturation of watchmojo's catalog, but if it means I can actually get a Sufjan top 10 then it can only be a good thing.
Holy shit just looked up "top 10 sufjan". By far the best singer ever. Also I'm laughing my ass off at all the people raging in the comments. "Everyone is always praising him... who is he?" Also the main reason people seem to hate it is due to him being religious? How bigoted are you?
Tyrone Duck
HOLY SHIT.....
I SMELL LIES......
You're pretentious I am not convinced.
Tyrone Duck
Lmao...
Why does most idiot's presume EVERYBODY are kids ! ! ?
Just a heads up, I'm probably old enough to be your father if not your grand father........
Gacy hits me every time. It’s the most haunting singing I’ve ever heard as a musician I don’t even know how to explain it. Every time no matter what I have goosebumps and left feeling ill. It’s powerful expression of sound and art
I felt in love with Mystery of love. It's my favorite song to strum mindlessly on the guitar.
Those songs feel so gorgeous
He should have won that Oscar! He has a voice of an angel and those lyrics are just stunning.
I first heard Sufjan when i was very young. my mum used to play his songs a lot and i always felt so transported into a different feeling or place when i listened to his songs. last year i heard chicago again since my childhood and it was magical. now i can’t stop listeningz he really tranforms me into a different world
A bit of my journey: I found out about Sufjan Stevens a month ago throughout Instagram suggested songs, I choose "Mystery of Love" for one of my videos from Biltmore Estate. After loving the part of the song for days I searched here for the whole song and I found out about the movie "Call me by your name" then I watched the movie and I fell in love with the movie. Then I heard the soundtracks of the movie and I found out about Futile Devices and Visions of Gideon, I love the songs as well. Then I fell in love with "I should have known better". Days later I search Sufjan's interviews and I found one from MTV, I was like " MTV? Are you serious? I checked the video upload date and it was from 14 years ago!! Wow 🤯 how I have never had heard of Sufjan Stevens before. I keep learning more about him, such an amazing artist.
Sufjan has a level of depth that I haven’t heard from artists in a long ass time. I don't know what it is, but his music touches my soul, like i can relate to his stories as though i have lived through them too! He's absolutely one of my favorite artists now! ✨🔮
So happy you guys did this. I've been a huge Sufjan fan for so long, glad to finally see him get some good recognition out there.
Oh man I love seeing Impossible Soul so high. It’s like an opus of the entire album bringing back musical themes from songs throughout. It’s such a beautiful piece of music. And Casimir Pulaski Day makes me cry basically any time I hear it.
i remember first time i listened to Chicago i almost cried by the sheer amount of beauty and magnifisence (or whatever it's spelled) that song has, it was like hearing a choir of angels
I missed Wallowa Lake Monster, very deep lyrics too. Anyway, all Sufjan's songs are very deep and very beautiful, his voice sounds so angelic, you can't help but feel the emotional weight his songs carry.
I've been so lonely with "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." song as my favorite one until today. Its lyrics are just perfect.
SAME
I genuinely gasped listening to that song and gave me so much goosebumps
Like many “Call Me By Your Name” introduced me to Sufjan. It completely changed my musical perspective for the better. Really appreciate his beautiful work.
Anybody who can captivate you with his music and vocals all while smiling at you with his eyes, deserves respect and admiration.
"The Owl and the Tanager" is the loveliest.
"Impossible Soul" is his best song, criminally underrated by people, even by Sufjan fans themselves. _The Age of Adz_ is a real overlooked masterpiece.
Impossible Soul is incredible. Such a journey. It has one of my favorite guitar solos ever. That crazy disjointed off-rythm noisefest that shouldn't sound good, but gives me chills every time.
Bro Age of Adz is something else man I get an overwhelming amount of emotions every time I hear it
Now... here. Perfect timing to showcase Sufjan and his tender gifts. We are drifting from gentleness and kindness. A good reminder via Sufjan. Well done WM.
My Favorite, and his most underrated song, is the title track from Illinois
Who else started listening to sufjan Stevens after watching call me by your name
Honestly i think its totally fine that people found out about Sufjan because of cmbyn, we all find musicians and new things from all film etc. Just more people to appreciate the artist!
I found this amazing guy... his songs are really "my thing" these days... love Sufi... ❣❤
I was listening to him when this list came out
Sufjan is 1 of only 17 people who are physically gorgeous, and highly talented. Like, globally.
Sufjan is probably one of the greatest songwriters/musicians of the past 15 years. Good for ya'll for making this video. I know what I'm putting on this morning now!
The first time I listened to Sufjan Stevens was after watching Grave of the Fireflies and I went on CZcams and a suggested video had the opening scene of Seita and Setsuko as the thumbnail, and the title read Fourth of July by Sufjan Steven so I click on it and began bawling uncontrollably.
Same. It's from Cyborg and I love her editing of such tracks and movie scenes. :)
He has many great songs, but the most haunting for me (not on the video list I mean) are 'The Fourth of July', 'We won't Need Legs to Stand,' 'A Good Man is Hard to Find', and perhaps 'Sister'... Oh, and also' 'Holland', and 'Marching Band.'
You played "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us" at the beginning but didn't include it in the list? Blasphemy.
his every song is a blessing. so happy for him . .
He is very underrated and far better than so many artists
“Mysteries of life” is my favorite. Also, “Visions of gideon”
Futile Devices makes me cry so loud.😩
I seem to be the only one who ever mentions I Want To Be Well. When the choir is chanting and he starts singing 'I'm not fucking around.' That's so delightful to me I raise my hands.
I remember my chairmate back when I was in high school introduced illinois album to me. That was like the coolest record I ever heard back then. He's amazing!!!
He is an incredible song writer and a gifted musician.
Amazing sufjan stevens. With bjork and antony hegarty, and some of Regina Spektor, Sufjan is ones of the deepest human beings into music today.
1. Vesuvius
2. Mystery of Love
3.Visions of Gideon
4.Futile Devices
5.Should Have Known Better
6.Fourth of July
7.Come On, Feel The Illinoise!
8.John Wayne Gacy Jr.
9.Chicago
10. Casimir Pulaski Day
I love Sufjan music , I cry when I listen to him sing 🎶. Drawn to the blood and Fourth of July is my all time favorite.
the entirety of carrie and lowell is perfect imo. no album has made me feel more numb inside that it has. chicago might be my favourite song of all time. palisades made me sob the first time I heard it, so while I agree with the inclusion of every song on this list, that song is also incredible.
THE CONTENT THAT I SIGNED UP FOR!!
Truly Gifted in every sense feel good to be born in his era .
I always get the chills with "Seven Swans" and "Sister" even though the fact that is not my favorite album, that place belongs to "The Age of ADZ"
Chicago bursts to life
And your sweet smile remembers you! :)
Sufjan’s genius is outer worldly. I couldn’t love him more. ❤️
Seven Swans was my introduction back in 05. To this day, I will blindly buy any time he has new material… knowing full well I’ll cry at some point.
I already have these songs in my play list 😍❤ . How can you guys miss "Visions Of Gideon" and "All Of Me Wants All Of You" ?
paromita ghosh finally someone indian
okay but where is the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us! ?
Audrey Richdale EXACTLY
Casimir pulaski day & John Wayne gacy jr are his two best songs I’ve ever heard by him!!! Literally chills every time. His music changed me
So very happy these made the list I knew they would
I've loved this singer for three years now I'm so incredibly glad that he's starting to get noticed. Thanks to everyone!!
Edit: FLAWLESS LIST!!!! Almost literally the order I would've put them in. I'm impressed watchmojo. Thank you for respecting is amazing voice so much.
No "Drawn to the Blood"? geez
never clicked so fast
Ron Nicklas saaaaaaaaame