In Suburbia
| In Suburbia | |
| Created by: | meander |
| Tracks: | 18 |
| Length: | 01:19:31 |
| Keywords |
1. sprawl 2. suburbs 3. compilation |
| Created on | 10/3/09 11:09pm |
| Level | 1 |
| Points | 1236 |
| Total visitors | 10 |
| Unique visitors | 7 |
description:
I’ve wanted to make this mix for a long time. A mix devoted entirely to songs about suburban sprawl.
I grew up in the suburbs and was scarred from that experience. Well, that’s not entirely true, but it did make me realize that the way you design your community has a huge environmental footprint. Suburb communities that are structured with single use development patterns with cul-de-sacs means that you need to get into your car every time you need some milk or want to go to the bank.
This realization lead me to study sustainable community design and to advocate for walkable neighbourhoods. So it is no surprise that I ended up working at a non-profit that encourages compact complete communities.
I made this mix as a 2008 Christmas present for my colleagues. Enjoy!
(and I took this photo not too far from my mother's house. It's a sign advertising a track housing development with the hysterical tag line "A complete community close to nature." right.)
I grew up in the suburbs and was scarred from that experience. Well, that’s not entirely true, but it did make me realize that the way you design your community has a huge environmental footprint. Suburb communities that are structured with single use development patterns with cul-de-sacs means that you need to get into your car every time you need some milk or want to go to the bank.
This realization lead me to study sustainable community design and to advocate for walkable neighbourhoods. So it is no surprise that I ended up working at a non-profit that encourages compact complete communities.
I made this mix as a 2008 Christmas present for my colleagues. Enjoy!
(and I took this photo not too far from my mother's house. It's a sign advertising a track housing development with the hysterical tag line "A complete community close to nature." right.)
tracklist
| 1 | Danny Michel : Feather, Fur and Fin |
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(Canadian) "I went to the country to escape the noise and lights and I laid there in the pine cones all night I woke in the morning when all the trees were gone I got this sinking feeling, everything felt wrong Strip malls and dollar stores and diesel in the air" SHOW MORE
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Track 1 from Feather, Fur and Fin
Length: 00:04:58 Year: 2008 |
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(Canadian) "I went to the country to escape the noise and lights and I laid there in the pine cones all night I woke in the morning when all the trees were gone I got this sinking feeling, everything felt wrong Strip malls and dollar stores and diesel in the air" SHOW LESS
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| 2 | The Weakerthans : Night Windows |
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(Canadian) “We turned and watch our city sprawl”
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Track 2 from Reunion Tour
Length: 00:04:36 Year: 2007 |
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(Canadian) “We turned and watch our city sprawl” SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Josh Rouse : Suburban Sweethearts |
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"We could move back to the suburbs Rent a house, change our name If you could only find a purpose If you could only stay the same" SHOW MORE
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Track 3 from Dressed up like Nebraska
Length: 00:02:49 |
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"We could move back to the suburbs Rent a house, change our name If you could only find a purpose If you could only stay the same" SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Spoon : Rhthm and Soul |
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"Tract houses square couches short legs and square shoulders" SHOW MORE
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Track 4 from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Length: 00:03:30 Year: 2007 |
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"Tract houses square couches short legs and square shoulders" SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Stars : Reunion |
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(Canadian) “driving twisted through the suburbs, then driving back again”
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Track 5 from Set Yourself on Fire
Length: 00:03:41 Year: 2005 |
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(Canadian) “driving twisted through the suburbs, then driving back again” SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Snailhouse : O My God |
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(Canadian) "You spent half your life in the suburbs and the other half on the town" SHOW MORE
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Track 6 from Lies on the prize
Length: 00:03:50 Year: 2008 |
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(Canadian) "You spent half your life in the suburbs and the other half on the town" SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Iron and Wine : Peace Beneath The City |
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"Here’s a prayer for the body buried by the interstate Mother of a soldier, a tree in a forest up in flames Black valley, peace beneath the city Where the women hear the washboard rhythm in their bosom when they say "Give me good legs and a Japanese car and show me a road”" SHOW MORE
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Track 7 from The Shepherd's Dog
Length: 00:04:45 Year: 2007 |
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"Here’s a prayer for the body buried by the interstate Mother of a soldier, a tree in a forest up in flames Black valley, peace beneath the city Where the women hear the washboard rhythm in their bosom when they say "Give me good legs and a Japanese car and show me a road”" SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Calexico : Bisbee Blue |
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"New cities keep on sprawling Old towns falling too Raining a river of color" SHOW MORE
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Track 8 from Garden Ruin
Length: 00:02:48 Year: 2006 |
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"New cities keep on sprawling Old towns falling too Raining a river of color" SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Jim Bryson : Somewhere Else |
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"(Canadian) This town that I once called home, I just can’t hold on to. It’s got strip malls, and bus stops and people I’ve never really talked to And everybody out here wants to live somewhere else I wish I could find a place and stay there by myself Bit but bit I swear I think I’m losing All this city’s confidence" SHOW MORE
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Track 9 from The North Side Benches
Length: 00:03:53 Year: 2003 |
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"(Canadian) This town that I once called home, I just can’t hold on to. It’s got strip malls, and bus stops and people I’ve never really talked to And everybody out here wants to live somewhere else I wish I could find a place and stay there by myself Bit but bit I swear I think I’m losing All this city’s confidence" SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Death Cab for Cutie : 405 |
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Suburbs exist because of highways - and sometimes you miss the exit. "took the 405 and drove a stake down into your center, and stated that it's never ever been better than this... Misguided by the 405 'cause it lead me to an alcoholic summer. I missed the exit to your parents' house hours ago." SHOW MORE
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Track 10 from We Have The Facts and We're Voting Yes
Length: 00:03:38 Year: 2000 |
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Suburbs exist because of highways - and sometimes you miss the exit. "took the 405 and drove a stake down into your center, and stated that it's never ever been better than this... Misguided by the 405 'cause it lead me to an alcoholic summer. I missed the exit to your parents' house hours ago." SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Catatonia : Road Rage |
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And sometimes all that highway driving leads to road rage. "We all live in the space age, coming down with road rage, Racing through the best days" SHOW MORE
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Track 11 from Greatest Hits (Disc 1)
Length: 00:05:08 Year: 2002 |
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And sometimes all that highway driving leads to road rage. "We all live in the space age, coming down with road rage, Racing through the best days" SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Ben Folds : Rockin' the Suburbs |
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"I'm rockin' the suburbs Just like Michael Jackson did I'm rockin' the suburbs Except that he was talented I'm rockin' the suburbs I take the cheques and face the facts That some producer with computers fixes all my shitty tracks" SHOW MORE
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Track 12 from Rockin' the Suburbs
Length: 00:04:58 Year: 2001 |
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"I'm rockin' the suburbs Just like Michael Jackson did I'm rockin' the suburbs Except that he was talented I'm rockin' the suburbs I take the cheques and face the facts That some producer with computers fixes all my shitty tracks" SHOW LESS
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| 13 | the Rheostatics : The Ballad of Wendel Clark, Part 1&2 |
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(Canadian) "This suburb rocks, with the Eddie Van Wailers"
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Track 13 from Double Live
Length: 00:05:17 Year: 1997 |
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(Canadian) "This suburb rocks, with the Eddie Van Wailers" SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Pet shop boys : Suburbia |
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"Lost in the high street, where the dogs run Roaming suburban boys Mothers got a hairdo to be done She says theyre too old for toys Stood by the bus stop with a felt pen In this suburban hell And in the distance a police car To break the suburban spell... I only wanted something else to do but hang around" SHOW MORE
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Track 14 from Please
Length: 00:05:05 Year: 1986 |
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"Lost in the high street, where the dogs run Roaming suburban boys Mothers got a hairdo to be done She says theyre too old for toys Stood by the bus stop with a felt pen In this suburban hell And in the distance a police car To break the suburban spell... I only wanted something else to do but hang around" SHOW LESS
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| 15 | The Arcade Fire : Headlights Look Like Diamonds |
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(Canadian) "The countryside's deserted There's no one on the farms The suburbs all are sleeping The earthquakes set off car alarms" SHOW MORE
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Track 15 from The Arcade Fire
Length: 00:04:22 Year: 2003 |
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(Canadian) "The countryside's deserted There's no one on the farms The suburbs all are sleeping The earthquakes set off car alarms" SHOW LESS
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| 16 | Andrew Bird : Plasticities |
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"We’ll fight, we’ll fight We’ll fight for your music halls and dying cities They’ll fight, they’ll fight They’ll fight for your neural wall and plasticities And precious territory" SHOW MORE
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Track 16 from Armchair Apocrypha
Length: 00:04:27 Year: 2007 |
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"We’ll fight, we’ll fight We’ll fight for your music halls and dying cities They’ll fight, they’ll fight They’ll fight for your neural wall and plasticities And precious territory" SHOW LESS
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| 17 | The Recoilers : Airport Parkway |
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(Canadian) "I'm leaving on the Airport Parkway Forever Again in my tape deck From the city to the suburbs, just another mile." SHOW MORE
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Track 17 from For Decoration Only
Length: 00:06:11 Year: 1996 |
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(Canadian) "I'm leaving on the Airport Parkway Forever Again in my tape deck From the city to the suburbs, just another mile." SHOW LESS
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| 18 | Talking Heads : (Nothing But) Flowers |
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Here’s a song for my colleagues. How to turn a place around? How do you convert the highways to flowers? We may not do that entirely, but it's slightly hopeful on turning asphalt to daisies. "From the age of the dinosaurs Cars have run on gasoline Where, where have they gone? Now, it's nothing but flowers This used to be real estate Now it's only fields and trees Where, where is the town Now, it's nothing but flowers The highways and cars Were sacrificed for agriculture I thought that we'd start over But I guess I was wrong Once there were parking lots Now it's a peaceful oasis you got it, you got it This was a Pizza Hut Now it's all covered with daisies you got it, you got it" SHOW MORE
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Track 18 from Naked
Length: 00:05:35 Year: 1988 |
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Here’s a song for my colleagues. How to turn a place around? How do you convert the highways to flowers? We may not do that entirely, but it's slightly hopeful on turning asphalt to daisies. "From the age of the dinosaurs Cars have run on gasoline Where, where have they gone? Now, it's nothing but flowers This used to be real estate Now it's only fields and trees Where, where is the town Now, it's nothing but flowers The highways and cars Were sacrificed for agriculture I thought that we'd start over But I guess I was wrong Once there were parking lots Now it's a peaceful oasis you got it, you got it This was a Pizza Hut Now it's all covered with daisies you got it, you got it" SHOW LESS
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