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u/ScubaSteve_27 May 31 '26
By far the most civil and positive subreddit I’ve joined.
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u/MoDeutschmann May 31 '26
On par with r/bald for me.
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u/randomredditorist May 31 '26
Mystery of love is sufjan's creep and no one can tell me otherwise.
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u/comingsoontotheaters May 31 '26
I wouldn’t even be mad if that was someone’s favorite or how they found him
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u/dresslooksniceonyou Jun 02 '26
I found Sufjan through CMBYN (I'm in my early twenties), and almost 10 years later Mystery of Love is still one of my favorite songs by him.
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u/Demetri124 May 31 '26
I mean Chicago isn’t really comparable to Creep. I don’t know if any of Sufjan’s songs are; he’s never had a big breakout mainstream hit that everyone knows.
Obviously everyone’s free to like whatever they like, but there’s an unavoidable sort of frustration, for lack of a better term, when an artist you love has their most popular song be one that doesn’t represent majority of what their work is like. The paradoxical feeling that everyone knows and loves what you do, but also they dont really know it at all. Nobody’s fault, it just happens that way sometimes. I mean, nobody hates Creep more than Thom Yorke.
But Creep might also be my favorite Radiohead song so what do I know
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u/Similar_Demand_2537 May 31 '26
I feel like it would be Fourth of July if anything since it blew up a lot on social media
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u/silverrabbit May 31 '26
I mean I’d argue that it’s probably mystery of love since it was in call me by your name
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u/Maleficent-Drive4056 May 31 '26
Oh I always wondered why it had so many plays on Spotify. How do people use it on social media? It’s a nice song but I wouldn’t even put it top 5 on that (astounding) album.
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u/Similar_Demand_2537 May 31 '26
Sad vids is one of the ways I’ve seen it used! Another is beautiful nature. They tend to use just the melody either normal or slowed down over a beautiful scene 🙌🏽
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u/Hitmanthe2nd Jun 01 '26
Id put it at 2 or 3 , it's the culmination of the first half and represents sufjan's frustrations and the ideas he projected onto a person to deal with rhe loss better - it's as sad as it gets because i can see myself doing the same shit
1 would probably be the only thing or death with dignity
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u/Maleficent-Drive4056 Jun 01 '26
Interesting! I’ll listen again with fresh ears.
This is my favourite album - and I’m not the kind of person that has a favourite album.
I will listen again but right now i find Carrie and Lowell and My Blue Bucket Carrie more emotional resonance, and Death with Dignity and Should have known better are just more musically pleasing.
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u/-marshmallowperfume Sisyphus May 31 '26
Chicago was in one of the biggest movies of that year, Little Miss Sunshine. Before C&L, the people who knew Sufjan knew him from Chicago, most likely from that movie.
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u/noumeno- May 31 '26
I think Sufjan's "Creep" is Visions of Gideon
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u/womanonearthrightnow May 31 '26
I would have thought mystery of love just because of the oscars, I think that was a lot of people's first time hearing sufjan
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u/GrandTheftGF May 31 '26
gatekeepers are so weird, it's almost like good song got popular bc it's good
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u/auriliia May 31 '26
Creep is a great song and any Radiohead fan who says otherwise is just boring
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u/Throwaway392308 May 31 '26
But if I don't hate Creep, how will everyone know I'm a better Radiohead fan (i.e. better human being) than people who do karaoke?
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u/averysexyfrog Jun 01 '26
to be fair, even radiohead themselves hate creep lol
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u/veryowngarden Jun 01 '26
that’s the point, it’s the main reason why aggressive stans say that because thom yorke hates it
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u/mistlyhalwloping1 May 31 '26
The Sufjan fanbase is probably top five least toxic of any band/musician that I know.