Fictional track list for Sufjan’s California stylized as:
JOIN SUFJAN STEVENS IN RIDING SUNNY
CALIFORNIA’S
SERENE PACIFIC OCEAN AND IDYLLIC INLAND WAVES!
- Prelude Sailing the Sacramento River
- Eureka, or, The Last Bastion of Humanity Before the Road Takes You Out Yonder
- Friend, Gehenna Hath Nary an Opportunity to Prevail
- The Great San Francisco Earthquake
- Response to the Susanville Prison Warden (Let’s Discuss at Mt. Shasta if That’s Alright)
- Interlude #1 Floating Down Lake Nacimiento
- Towards a Resolution in Yosemite, and More Specifically, El Capitan
- This oboe trio can really hold a mariachi tune, don’t you think?
- Where the Almonds Grow For Now: A Salute! To the Central Valley!
- We Take a Moment to Recall Henry Gaylord Wilshire, Because in Some Ways He Inspired the Whole Operation
- Interlude #2 Feeling the Current in Morro Bay
- Aria for Arzner
- Solvang (Is There a Future Here for the Great Danes?)
- A Requiem for W. R. Hearst and William Mulholland, Who Despite Their Best Efforts Couldn’t Prevent Los Angeles from Becoming a World-Class Town
- Ave Santa Monica, a Prayer to Our Matron Saint of Temperate Microclimate Aristocratic Fancy
- Interlude #3 Undulating During a Rainstorm in Rio Hondo
- La Jolla’s Beaches (O Ezekiel, sing that psalm again)
- Delano y El Malcriado, Grapes of Righteous Wrath (Letter Addressed to Dolores Huerta and César Chávez)
- Postlude in a Catamaran Coming Home from Catalina Island
Fictional track list for Sufjan’s New York stylized as:
EXPLORE THE EMPIRE STATE’S SCENIC ROADS AND ICONIC DIALECTS WITH LOCAL MUSICIAN SUFJAN STEVENS IN HIS LATEST WORK INSPIRINGLY ENTITLED
“NEW YORK”!
- Demarcating Albany
- The Roosevelts Both Dropped Out of Law School, So Why Can’t We?
- George Clinton, Our American Knave(s)
- Poughkeepsie, Town Of, Dutchess
- Home of the U.S. Open, Though Which Sport, Nobody Knows
- Theme from the Bustling City of Buffalo, Bill 1: The Blizzard Mafia Has a Cantankerous Outlook but One Shouldn’t Take It the Wrong Way, Not Even on the Peace Bridge
- Great Neck, as Told by Diaspora Enthusiasts and LIRR Commuters
- Pastiche to reminisce on the anti-folk scene that really could have taken off if the stars had aligned
- Corning Glass Works, No It Really Does and I Can Prove It
- Greenpoint Poets
- Vigil in the Upper Bay
- Onward to the Set, Mr. Met! Stadium Ho! Joe DiMaggio!
- A lovely klezmer-fusion ensemble will briefly enter the foray as per union rules
- Theme from the Bustling City of Buffalo, Bill 2: The County Recorder of Assassinations Feels Ready to Make a Statement Regarding the Events of Friday, September 6, 1901
- Adirondack
- For Rochester, the Garbage Plate; For Myself, the Usual Please if You Would Be So Kind
- Riverside Park and What Have You (Noguchi’s Song)
- The Five Boroughs, or Rather, How the MTA Tries Its Best Every Day
- Margaret Sanger, Look at Us Now (It Ain’t Pretty)
- Port Authority (Exeunt Omnes)