Sufjan Stevens - For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2006
- I found this video on the internet years ago. I didn't make this and don't know who to credit for it. It's probably not even legit to post it, but it's one of my favorite videos of Sufjan.
- Hudba
We recorded this song with Sufjan in march 2004 on a farm in Texas. He was performing at SXSW in Austin Texas. We asked him to join us to the farm to film and record his song For the Widows in Paradise. It has been recorded in very basic circomstances but that did not matter. Sufjan was performing like he really is. Directed by Cris Kijne, Camera by Erik Zyuderhoff, Sound Recording by Bert van den Dungen and Production by Nicole Cremers for VPRO in The Netherlands. Cool that almost two million people have seen this clip ;))
Bert van den dungen wow :-) thanks!
Bert van den dungen it's amazing that you found this 9 years after it was uploaded lol
Bert van den dungen Was he referring to a spider by "is it far enough away, now?"
+1 more
+CarlosIsDown It was not a spider but Sufjan was referring to my request to wait for a passing noisy plane ;))
A sad song on the worlds saddest banjo by sadjan stevens
I SAW THAT MEME
Hahaha
Savos Catholic has a point there 🤝
You know it's good when it's in 240p and no one complains.
A beast of a musician. *Claps* Thankyou for sharing.
They could have recorded it on a string and a tin can...
The wretched quality is so overshadowed by his poetic songwriting and angular progressions.
I've never even been to America and yet I feel oddly nostalgic towards this ranch.
+ClumsySandbocks Same here! i can taste the atmosfere!
I always feel that listening to Sufjan. I miss driving down big U.S highways I've never been to! Weird.
Y'all should come! Plenty of room.
It gets old very quickly...
Lol it's the tune!! I feel like I could be at the end of the earth and this tune would make it all better. Love from Glasgow, can I come to the ranch? 🤣💙
i love this man and his sad ass banjo
yesss his sad ass banjooo
amen
I used to listen to this when I was in high school, and now I am 31 years old and still tear up. I love this song so much.
Same
Same
33 now and still feel the same
First listened when I was 16 and I'm now 24.
I'll never forget Sufjan.
Burned it to a cd for one of my highschool girlfriends after hearing on the o.c.
I think we might be getting old bro.
I love that Sufjan manages to make the banjo sound sad in this song.
While my banjo gently weeps.
I have a hard time finding anything of old folk or bluegrass that doesnt have some fucking melancholy or mourning to it. Even if ironically hopeful. I think of the scots irish who brought that sound over to the appalachians on their bare backs.
Mikal Salaam the banjo has always reminded me in tone of many slavic, turkic and middle eastern strings. Very many mournful songs. Maybe thats why its inherently mournful or intense for me?
well that's actually one of his officially listed superpowers
I think can list a few more folk singers who can do the same...
I used to watch this video every day in highschool to remind me I mattered and one day it would be okay to be who I am. Thank you sufjan.
Please keep this online forever. I’ve been visiting this video for 15 years. Just as powerful now as it was day one. ❤
And his lyrics show a beautiful sensitivity. "Like a father to impress, like a mother's morning dress ..."
I first heard of Sufjan in 2008 and his music has had a huge impact on my life. He changed how I look at music, the process behind it's creation. He changed how I look at humanity and life. His compassion shines through in every song, beauty persisting in a flawed world. I have so many memories attached to his music, lost lovers and old friends, trips to the coast, hiking in the mountains. Sufjan's music got me through some dark times as well, addiction and incarceration, death of family. No other artists work explores the entire spectrum of human experience as well as Sufjan's does and I am forever grateful that he exists.
this song makes me so deeply sad and vaguely nostalgic but it's also comforting. i love sufjan
That's how a lot of his music is...makes you feel really melancholy, but at the same time, the beauty in that makes it all seem ok...
Please don't ever ever delete this gem
This song is indescribably beautiful. I can't get over it. In my opinion, this man is the most talented artist out there.
I just cried am a Christian that had never heard world music but this man is .....may God bless him
Isn't his music just like crack when you're depressed?
Yes
Oui (yes in French)
@@taasinbinhossainalvi9173 oui know
10 years...
Been coming back to watch this video every year since it was first posted- 17 years ago! A lifetime ago it seems. Sufjan is timeless and this song still hits me so deep. ❤
One of the first videos I ever watched on CZcams and still my all time favourite!!
This is the second video I ever saw on youtube. I didn't really understand what youtube was then there were a lot of sites sort of doing a somewhat similar though ultimately less successful thing. I was a sophomore in high school. thank you soo much for posting. The first video i ever saw was an ad for Xbox 360 with people pointing finger guns at each other. My friend linked it from his AIM profile. The third was like a parody of Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch. Both those things were so quintessentially 2006.
It is so cool that a lot of the comments are saying the same thing. "This is one of the first videos I saw on youtube."
I felt like in 2007 after a year of youtbe being in my life, I posted on this video saying something like this same message haha
The first video I ever saw on CZcams was PotterPals
"hurry up cause this farmers gonna be asking questions"
you know what I love most about this video is that Sufjan is at one with his music and feelings, and not playing for an audience or worried about whoever is filming moving around and zooming in etc. one of my favourite songs.
I got a banjo just to learn this song
Beautiful man, beautiful song, beautiful looking place! Heaven.
2, 3, 4
I have called you children, I have called you son
What is there to answer if I'm the only one?
Morning comes in Paradise, morning comes in light
Still I must obey, still I must invite
If there's anything to say, if there's anything to do
If there's any other way, I'll do anything for you
I was dressed embarrassment
I was dressed in wine
If you had a part of me, will you take your time?
Even if I come back, even if I die
Is there some idea to replace my life?
Like a father to impress
Like a mother's mourning dress
If you ever make a mess, I'll do anything for you
I have called you preacher, I have called you son
If you have a father or if you haven't one
I'll do anything for you, I'll do
Discovered this song when I was in HS over a decade ago. Driving around as a teenager, finally finding an indie/folk station on the radio that was run by a bunch of local college students. Honestly they changed my life when it comes to music. Thanks to them I not only found this song all those years ago but it shaped my personality and my love for music moving forward. Now I'm that person who you hand the aux to and plays indie gems and absolutely nobody appreciates them.
This song gives me shivers. i love it.
"I was dressed embarrassment, I was dressed in white. If you had a part of me, will you take your time." Gets me errtime. This will always be a funeral song thanks to The OC.
I'm from Ypsi. God bless her. God bless Sufjan. He has broughten hope to those who had none.
This was the first video I ever watched on CZcams. It's still a great video.
Wow I have never heard someone play the banjo so beautifully in my life, and never in a non-country way, I love it so much. This song is so simple (not talent-wise, I mean it's not over-busy) and elegant, and it strikes a chord somewhere in me, it's just one of those very few songs you immediately get attached to. It has soul, which is hard to find in the music industry these days. Sufjan, if you read these, thank you so much for your beautiful song.
Yes this is from SXSW 2004; he did two shows and I was able to catch both of them. The first one he came literally from the plane, with luggage in tow to the venue, and did a short but perfect set. Later that night (or it might've been the next day) he got us all to be a "human chorus" for the song 'Sister' from Seven Swans. Great shows both.
I was born in Ypsilanti. That is all.
My goodness this song is so beyond amazing.
this is the second video i ever saw on youtube. (the first was like a commercial of someone using their hands as pretend guns and getting into a huge stand off) But this was like the first video I ever really watched on here, and wow, It's nice to come back to it.
capo on a banjo. str8 up boss.
Its 2021, and 14 years ago I sent this video to a boy to try and get him to stay, because I knew he would love the song as much as I did, and it said what I couldn't. He didnt like our shithole town or me as much as he liked the song though.
I don't wish he stayed anymore, it's been 14 years after all, but this goddamn song is so goddamn good, I can still remember exactly what it felt like when i listen to it now.
This guys good stuff, found out about him because of mine and his name are pronounced the same lolol
the devil trembles at our troubadours. love this man.
I don't normally like banjo, but this guy is a true artist and his music is so heartwarming, there's something about the way he plays. It's in the way he sings the lyrics in such a tender voice with the banjo.. he's just, amazing. I love it, and this is one of my favourite songs. He's beautiful and I really admire his work :) thanks for posting this.
( also I forgot to mention that this was the first video and song I heard of sufjan about 6 months ago, took my breath away )
i just want to hug him
This was the first thing I ever saw from Sufjan. Man time flies!
so weird to see a VERRRRY recent (27 minutes to be exact) comment on this 14 year old video. Lol
I can't believe this video has been up for ten years. Wow. Love everything about it
This song is so amazing it always takes me to a completely different state of mind. Def one of my favorites
I finally figured it out! He plays neither clawhammer nor three finger! I've been so confused until now. It looks like hes basically playing it like a guitar.
New listener from June 2021. I am floored and obsessed rightly with this talent. I was visiting friends in Patagonia, AZ. Their radio station KPUP played Widows. I had to find out more. Blessings Sufjan and All~✝️💕
Zum Glück gibt es CZcams. Sufjan habe ich das erste mal 2009 gehört und kann bis heute nicht damit aufhören. Ich liebe diese entspannte Musik. Sie hilft mir in aufregenden Zeiten.
This is just.. magic. All of it. The location is perfection to this song.
As a manly, manly man, I can say this is beautiful
I love the way you sing this song, the emotions in your eyes and voice.. It´s perfect!
I have watched this like 25 times today and I just can't stop. amazing.
holy shit. goosebumps. this video made me tear up.
I rarely say this, but what a powerful song. He is one talented man
this song is sooo amazing...i'm speechless. thanks for this great song!
I always come back to this one because it doesn't have the harmonies in the background. I always sing with him.
the best sufjan video ever
this is probably my favorite song ever. he is so amazing.
this guy lays it all on the line. his emotionality is amazing. raw beauty.
This guy has been a growing enigma to me lately. I keep hearing his bloody name and go figure, he's a folk revivalist from northern Michigan. I love it. Two years having moved away from the only home I've ever known and little things like this keep calling me back...
He looks so sad while and after singing this :( I wonder what this song means to him
he was thinking , i wonder what watz will think when he sees this video
Watziterinhetcadeautje I believe that he is asking for forgiveness to god. Sufjan is a very religious man. He says repeatedly that "I did everything for you" and "I'd do anything for you" and there's something else in the song that supports this. But I think that's what this song is about.
I don't like how everyone just keeps associating sufjan with sadness alone, as if his songs aren't him trying to find meaning and hope and beauty through them, his own form of worship and connecting with the world
Amazing! My new favorite performance😊
cheers for posting
Thanks CZcams Algorithm
THINGS I LOVE ABOUT SUFJAN STEVENS:
1) He seems like a chill guy 2) His voice is flippin amazing 3) His eyes are sooo gorgeous 4) his music is phenomenal and doesn't need anything innapropriate like other artists do:/ 5) This man can wear t-shirts 6) He seems really sweet 7) there's just no way you can't love him(:
Been addicted to this song for around 5 years now. Never get sick of it. Always makes me feel better :)
Beautiful thanks for sharing
The OC man.
Is what far enough away? Are they trying to dodge a tornado?
Your comment has made me smile for about a week now. 😊
Absolutely mesmerizing! My heart and soul are moved.
I think this genuinely may have been the first video I ever saw on CZcams. Literally 18 years ago. I have such fond memories of this video. It’s sonically permanently ingrained in my mind. It’s so comforting and so special to me. So glad it’s still here. 🤍
What an excellent songwriter. Been a fan of his for many years
Ive literally thought this song was called for the WINDOWS in paradise this entire time im so stupid
A better picture of Sufjan in our filmset is to be found at: 3voor12.vpro.nl/nieuws/2004/maart/south-by-southwest-2004-op-3voor12.html
Hard to believe this was among the first things that were uploaded to youtube and made it great... 13 years ago!
This video is so comforting
Gambino brought me here.
Only black kid at a Sufjan concert
I've uploaded an improved version of this performance here:
czcams.com/video/q5wmJPfvQQs/video.html
Same 240p source (not a YT rip but from elsewhere), but the video has been upscaled with AI and the audio has had the clicks / static removed.
its perfect! i cant stop watching it!
I never get tired of watching this.
I literally just discovered this artist today, and am checking out some of his music here. Are there any videos anyone could suggest where he 'lets loose' a bit more vocally? He seems to be very restrained, yet lyrically quite explosive, if that makes any sense. To each their own, and certainly everyone has their own style. It's not an insult, just an observation; and I'm curious to see more, and perhaps a different level of vocal intensity from Sufjan.
He's pretty reserved vocally throughout his albums. Age of Adz is probably his most "experimental" work, which you may enjoy more than this. His Illinois album is probably his most celebrated, so I'd check out a couple tracks from that. His new album "Carrie & Lowell" sort of brings back his folk sound from "Seven Swans" and "Michigan" so it may not be for you. Overall he's a very diverse artist who has dabbled in folk, rock, electronic, hip-hop, orchestral, etc... So there is probably something for you in one album or another.
I'd like to add, check out his EP All Delighted People, and A Sun Came
I can't help but laugh at that silly t shirt but then it's like wait this is serious stuff oh yes hmm hmm hmm
Holy freakin' crap! I'm sooooooooo adicted to this song! Just got 'round to buying the album this is on from iTunes a few days ago and it is right now my most listened to. I discovered Sufjan via a comment in Ben Fold's myspace blog plus looking up soundtrack information on the movie "Little Miss Sunshine". I adore Ben Folds, but now I also adore Sufjan as well. And whilst I'm at it I love Iron and Wine. So there you have it, my top 3 fave music people. :-)
Came here after watching The OC for the 100th time, damn I missed that show
I miss that show too. I was in high school when that show was running, and despite all the drama I wish I had some of those romances we saw in the show. They had such a good selection of songs for that show and it made every serious moment between the couples really beautiful.
bruuuuuuuuh
+Jared!!! i dont remember saying this but yes
Jared gotcha
Who would find themselves here and say they don't like this? Like, think, "I don't like this so much I will click don't like"? Weirdos. Weordos, that's who...
I totally understand but sometimes songs like this can stir up emotions that a person might not want to experience. Maybe it can bring up some sad memories...
Maybe they don't like it.
Carriages Band Yeah, I had considered that, thanks. It was really more of an expression of how much I like it...
What a lovely, pure video.
omigosh..I watch it everyday now :) LOVE LOVE LOVE
Someone tell me what type of banjo that is.
+Stephan Blazis Fifthstringless ;-)
a sad one, they're rare
2019 anyone???
This is so cool. Gosh I love everything about it. The melody, the chords, and the lyrics. Bliss in simplicity. :-) some one said this guys name under an iron and wine video, so glad they did. :)
There are depths within us all and this captures a glimpse of those depths. How moving is such a glimpse...and through this glimpse tap into deeper realms...
I thought this was a meme...
You people and your fucking memes.
sometimes i think sufjan is a fellow lesbian like so many of us listen to his much and he... he just looks like one in this vid ya know?
Okay N best comment you win
amazing. one of my favorite songs of all time. sufjan is amazing.
this is so clean and pure
This is from La Blogotheque Take Away Show. You mention you don't know who to credit. So there ya go. I love Sufjan.
I'm not sure how that's possible, because this video is older than that show
Nathanael Terra Please read my post, some 10 messages up, Bert van den Dungen
this is great.
i love this
I love this song. Thanks.
Haven't watch this video in like 4 years, good kind of nostalgia listening to this