This is the track that first got me interested music blogging – I stumbled across The Hype Machine and saw a load of tracks by a guy with an odd name I’d never heard of before. Out of this list jumped the name of a serial killer, and I thought “that’s the one for me!”

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This is an incredible song, from an incredible artist. Read about him and check out some of his other material here – “John Wayne Gacy Jr” is off the Illinois album (the second CD in Sufjan’s “50 States” series – how’s that for ambition?) and is my favourite.