How can a planner resist an album titled 'the suburbs', with songs like 'Sprawl 1', Suburban War, and 'City with no Children'? A band writing songs about people and places they live in - and where most people grew up. I don't think they're necessarily saying they're proclaiming the city - it seems to be more about the boredom of placelessness, and surbanisation that never ceases to eat up green fields. In the opening he sings about wanting to have a daughter while hes still young, who can appreciate beauty, while its still around.. and otherwise he'd prefer to have a son.
In 'Wasted Hours' - 'Some Cities make you lose your head, endless suburbs stretched out thin and dead'
In Sprawl I - 'We took a drive into the sprawl, to find the house where we used to stay - We couldn't read the numbers in the dark - You said, "Lets find it another day".
In Sprawl II - 'But late at night the feelings swim towards the surface 'cause on the surface the city lights shine. They're calling at me: "Come and find your kind!". Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small that we can never get awary from the sprawl. Living in the Sprawl the dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains'
Anyway, its a beautiful record at times & worth a listen. Who else writes this kind of stuff?
