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* "Landslide" includes an electronic fill almost identical to one in "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" by Music/WhitneyHouston.
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** "You Give Death A Bad Name" is inspired by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''.
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** "You Give Death A Bad Name" is inspired by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''.''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
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*** Sufjan previously referenced this film in "They Are Night Zombies...", on ''Illinois''.
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*** Suf Sufjan previously referenced this film in "Ativan"."Ativan", on ''The Ascension''.
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* Each track was inspired by a different film, so naturally the lyrics are full of references:
** "Reach Out" is inspired by ''Film/WingsOfDesire''.
** "Lady Macbeth In Chains" is inspired by ''Film/AllAboutEve''.
*** The title also references the famous character from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.
** "Back To Oz" is inspired by ''Film/ReturnToOz''.
** "The Pillar Of Souls" is inspired by ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth''.
** "You Give Death A Bad Name" is inspired by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''.
*** The title and some of the lyrics also shout out "You Give Love a Bad Name" by Music/BonJovi.
** "Beginner's Mind" is inspired by ''Film/PointBreak''.
** "Olympus" is inspired by ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''.
** "Murder And Crime" is inspired by ''Film/MadMax''.
** "(This Is) The Thing" is inspired by ''Film/TheThing1982''.
** "It's Your Own Body And Mind" is inspired by ''Film/ShesGottaHaveIt''.
** "Lost In The World" is inspired by ''Film/TheLastWave''.
*** The song also shares a title with a Music/KanyeWest track.
** "Fictional California" is inspired by ''[[Film/BringItOn Bring It On Again]]''.
** "Cimmerian Shade" is inspired by ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.
*** Suf previously referenced this film in "Ativan".
** "Lacrimae" is inspired by a Nikos Nikolaidis short film called ''Lacrimae Rerum''.
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* Each track was inspired by a different film, so naturally the lyrics are full of references:
** "Reach Out" is inspired by ''Film/WingsOfDesire''.
** "Lady Macbeth In Chains" is inspired by ''Film/AllAboutEve''.
*** The title also references the famous character from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.
** "Back To Oz" is inspired by ''Film/ReturnToOz''.
** "The Pillar Of Souls" is inspired by ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth''.
** "You Give Death A Bad Name" is inspired by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''.
*** The title and some of the lyrics also shout out "You Give Love a Bad Name" by Music/BonJovi.
** "Beginner's Mind" is inspired by ''Film/PointBreak''.
** "Olympus" is inspired by ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''.
** "Murder And Crime" is inspired by ''Film/MadMax''.
** "(This Is) The Thing" is inspired by ''Film/TheThing1982''.
** "It's Your Own Body And Mind" is inspired by ''Film/ShesGottaHaveIt''.
** "Lost In The World" is inspired by ''Film/TheLastWave''.
*** The song also shares a title with a Music/KanyeWest track.
** "Fictional California" is inspired by ''[[Film/BringItOn Bring It On Again]]''.
** "Cimmerian Shade" is inspired by ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.
*** Suf previously referenced this film in "Ativan".
** "Lacrimae" is inspired by a Nikos Nikolaidis short film called ''Lacrimae Rerum''.
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* "Borderline" borrows a couple lines from Music/{{Madonna}}'s song of the same name.
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* "Dear Mr. Supercomputer" references the [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] song "You Never Give Me Your Money", with the lines "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 / All computers go to heaven". (In the Beatles version, sung to the same rhythm, it's "all good children".)
* "No Man's Land" reworks lyrics from "This Land Is Your Land" by Music/WoodyGuthrie.
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* "Dear Mr. Supercomputer" references the [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] song "You Never Give Me Your Money", with the lines "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 / All computers go to heaven". (In the Beatles version, sung to the same rhythm, it's "all good children".)
* "No Man's Land" reworks lyrics from "This Land Is Your Land" by Music/WoodyGuthrie.
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* Several of the songs share titles with famous tracks by other artists (e.g. "[[Music/CarlyRaeJepsen Run Away With Me]]", "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Landslide]]").
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* The titles and lyrics reference media including ''Franchise/StarWars'' ("Death Star"), ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' ("Gilgamesh"), ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' (''"Put the lotion in the basket..."''), ''Film/TheGodfather'' ("Make Me an Offer I Cannot Refuse"), ''Theatre/KingLear'' (''"Then Cordelia came back in a chariot hallucination..."''), and the writings of Joan Didion ("Goodbye To All That").
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* The song titles and lyrics reference media including as diverse as ''Film/TheGodfather'' ("Make Me an Offer I Cannot Refuse"), Music/DepecheMode (''"I don't wanna be your personal Jesus..."''), ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' (''"Put the lotion in the basket..."''), ''Franchise/StarWars'' ("Death Star"), ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' ("Gilgamesh"), ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' (''"Put the lotion in the basket..."''), ''Film/TheGodfather'' ("Make Me an Offer I Cannot Refuse"), essays of Joan Didion ("Goodbye To All That"), and ''Theatre/KingLear'' (''"Then Cordelia came back in a chariot hallucination..."''), and the writings of Joan Didion ("Goodbye To All That")."'').
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* The titles and lyrics reference media including ''Franchise/StarWars'' ("Death Star"), ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' ("Gilgamesh"), ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' (''"Put the lotion in the basket..."''), ''Theatre/KingLear'' (''"Then Cordelia came back in a chariot hallucination..."''), and the writings of Joan Didion ("Goodbye To All That").
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[[folder: THE ASCENSION]]
* Several of the songs share titles with famous tracks by other artists (e.g. "[[Music/CarlyRaeJepsen Run Away With Me]]", "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Landslide]]").
* The instrumentals often echo those used by the likes of Music/JanetJackson, Music/WhitneyHouston, and other iconic pop stars.
* The titles and lyrics reference media including ''Franchise/StarWars'' ("Death Star"), ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' (''"Put the lotion in the basket..."''), and ''Theatre/KingLear'' (''"Then Cordelia came back in a chariot hallucination..."'').
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* Several of the songs share titles with famous tracks by other artists (e.g. "[[Music/CarlyRaeJepsen Run Away With Me]]", "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Landslide]]").
* The instrumentals often echo those used by the likes of Music/JanetJackson, Music/WhitneyHouston, and other iconic pop stars.
* The titles and lyrics reference media including ''Franchise/StarWars'' ("Death Star"), ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' (''"Put the lotion in the basket..."''), and ''Theatre/KingLear'' (''"Then Cordelia came back in a chariot hallucination..."'').
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* "The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders" mentions "The Great Frontier", a book by Walter Prescott Webb on the settlement of the web.
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* There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to "the Aleph room" (i.e. a room where a person can see every point of the universe at once) from Creator/JorgeLuisBorges' story "The Aleph" in "From the Mouth of Gabriel."
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* "In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth" bases its name off of part of the Lincoln Memorial epitaph ("In this temple as in the hearts of the people for whom he [Lincoln] saved the union").
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* The album is rife with references to the works of Creator/FlanneryOConnor:
** "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is based ona her short story by Creator/FlanneryOConnor.the same name.
** "In the Devil's Territory" takes its title from a line in ''Mystery and Manners''.
** "Size Too Small" contains the phrase "everything rises, going at it all," which could be read as a reference to O'Connor's story "Everything That Rises Must Converge".
** The TitleTrack has a lot in common thematically with her two novels, ''The Violent Bear it Away'' and ''Wise Blood''.
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** "In the Devil's Territory" takes its title from a line in ''Mystery and Manners''.
** "Size Too Small" contains the phrase "everything rises, going at it all," which could be read as a reference to O'Connor's story "Everything That Rises Must Converge".
** The TitleTrack has a lot in common thematically with her two novels, ''The Violent Bear it Away'' and ''Wise Blood''.
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** It also references figure skating contemporaries Krisi Yamaguchi and Nancy Kerrigan, including the infamous attack on the latter.
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* According to an ancient interview in ''Sound Collector'', "Kill" is a retelling of Sherwood Anderson's "The Man Who Became a Woman".
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* "They Are Night Zombies!.." fittingly mentions ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
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* The claymation music video for "Mr Frosty Man" pays homage to the famous chainsaw sequence from ''Film/EvilDead2''.
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[[folder: THE GREATEST GIFT]]
* "Wallowa Lake Monster" references [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the demogorgon]], [[KrakenAndLeviathan the Leviathan]], and famed Nez Perce chief Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt.
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* "Wallowa Lake Monster" references [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the demogorgon]], [[KrakenAndLeviathan the Leviathan]], and famed Nez Perce chief Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt.
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* Songs on the album mention Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; politician Stephen A. Douglas; Helen Keller; serial killer John Wayne Gacy, Jr.; black preacher A.W. Jackson; social activist Jane Addams; musician Benny Goodman; baseball player Joe Jackson; as well as the Chicago Cubs and its associated goat curse.
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* "Mystery of Love" mentions the relationship between Alexander & Hephaestion.
* "Tonya Harding" is about (surprise!) Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding.
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[[folder: ILLINOIS]]
* "The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts" is about {{ComicBook/Superman}} being created in Illinois. Superman was also infamously included on initial editions of the album but removed to avoid issues with copyright.
* The title of ''Come On Feel the Illinoise!" is a play on Music/{{Slade}}'s "Cum On Feel the Noize".
** The song uses a saxophone part from "Close to Me" by Music/TheCure.
** Carl Sandburg (or, rather, his ghost) appears as a character in the second part of the song.
* "Chicago" is very loosely inspired by the Carl Sandburg poem of the same name.
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* "Christmas Unicorn" samples Music/JoyDivision's "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
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* He uses lyrics from "[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel The Sounds of Silence]]" on the title track of ''All Delighted People.''
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* "Death with Dignity" references the fable of the little Red Hen, wherein an industrious barnyard animal does all the hard work to make bread while the other animals laze around.
* The indifferent partner in "All of Me Wants All of You" is compared to Poseidon, the ancient Greek god the sea.
* "Drawn to the Blood" references the myth of Samson and Delilah.
* "In the Shadow of the Cross" is a hymn by William J. Henry.
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* "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is based on a short story by Creator/FlanneryOConnor.
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* "The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts" is about {{ComicBook/Superman}} being created in Illinois. Superman was also infamously included on initial editions of the album but removed to avoid issues with copyright.
* The title of ''Come On Feel the Illinoise!" is a play on Music/{{Slade}}'s "Cum On Feel the Noize".
** The song uses a saxophone part from "Close to Me" by Music/TheCure.
** Carl Sandburg (or, rather, his ghost) appears as a character in the second part of the song.
* "Chicago" is very loosely inspired by the Carl Sandburg poem of the same name.
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* "Christmas Unicorn" samples Music/JoyDivision's "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
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* He uses lyrics from "[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel The Sounds of Silence]]" on the title track of ''All Delighted People.''
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* "Death with Dignity" references the fable of the little Red Hen, wherein an industrious barnyard animal does all the hard work to make bread while the other animals laze around.
* The indifferent partner in "All of Me Wants All of You" is compared to Poseidon, the ancient Greek god the sea.
* "Drawn to the Blood" references the myth of Samson and Delilah.
* "In the Shadow of the Cross" is a hymn by William J. Henry.
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