The Suburbs

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Call Number: CD Rock Arcade Suburbs
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

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Compact disc.
Lyrics inserted in container.
The suburbs (5:14) -- Ready to start (4:15) -- Modern man (4:39) -- Rococo (3:56) -- Empty room (2:51) -- City with no children (3:11) -- Half light I (4:13) -- Half light II (No celebration) (4:25) -- Suburban war (4:45) -- Month of May (3:50) -- Wasted hours (3:20) -- Deep blue (4:28) -- We used to wait (5:01) -- Sprawl I (Flatland) (2:54) -- Sprawl II (Mountains beyond mountains) (5:25) -- The suburbs (continued) (1:27).
Arcade Fire: Win Butler, Regine Chassagne, Richard Parry, Tim Kingsbury, William Butler.
Grammy-nominated indie rock band Arcade Fire created one of the most lauded albums of the last decade, 2004's Funeral. Now, to follow up their acclaimed second album, Neon Bible, they present The Suburbs, one of the most anticipated rock releases of 2010.
"9 out of 10...blazingly intense...Radiant with apocalyptic tension..."--SPIN.
"4 out of 4...philosophically rich, sonically bold and emotionally gripping...An instant classic..."--USA Today.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Arcade Fire -- The Suburbs submitted by Caser on September 29, 2010, 8:46am Arcade Fire is not afraid to record an album that aims for the grand statement. And when they get it right, the songs burn into your mind, not only for their catchy riffs and anthemic, stadium filling choruses, but because they are so good at capturing life in the 21st century from a single, sympathetic perspective.

This comes in both the 'I' and the 'we' form. In Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), Regine Chassagne laments the grind of hourly work as she gets stifled from singing and told to "quit these pretentious things, and just punch the clock." The setting is the effective landscape: "dead shopping malls" that rise "like mountains beyond mountains." Yet the narrator is not entirely hopeless; instead, she looks to the city where she can "find [her] kind." Like so many of Springsteen's songs, the world may be at best dead and at worst oppressive, but when you can find the right people to share the good times with, life can be a celebration.

In We Used to Wait, Butler returns to the time just a few decades ago when we used to wait for letters to arrive in the mail, with all the hope and anticipation that brought into our lives. He captures the collective consciousness of the Generations X-Y, the last generation to remember when not everything in life was expected to come instantly into our hands, eyes, and ears. It's not just a nostalgic trip, however, for this same group of people are also the ones who catalyzed the information age, wanting so much to speed things ahead, until we got there and suddendly needed everything to slow down again.

The Suburbs may be the best record of the year. It may even be the best record of the decade. Or it may just be a record of the moment. One that falls into an historical document rather than a perpetual zeitgeist. Perhaps time will tell

great submitted by codyson159 on August 1, 2011, 10:37pm i love this

good submitted by Margaretta on August 4, 2011, 9:36pm fine

awesome! submitted by ark on August 8, 2011, 8:39pm I love this album! I've listened to it straight through a few times and then went back to my favorites--The Suburbs, Modern Man, Rococo, Half Light I and II are my favorites. There's the standard Arcade Fire style--big and and scopey, wind and acoustic and bass, and then there are some more playful tracks like The Suburbs. Definitely give this a listen whether you're a fan or have never listened to them before.

Good-- deep submitted by emjane on July 14, 2012, 9:07pm . Much of what makes the album is its lyrics and you have to actually pay attention to get them. The 16 tracks that make up The Suburbs are pieces of the whole, rather than individual songs (though they do have their own names) and should be listened to uninterrupted. Having only listened to the album twice, I can’t claim to fully understand the story it’s telling, but it provides a rather depressing look at suburban life and how its changed the way we live (or, at least, I think that’s what it’s saying).

The driving drums and sustained strings throughout the album provide a feeling of anticipation: not can’t-sleep-the-night-before-going-to-Disneyland anticipation, but can’t-sleep-because-there’s-a-monster-under-the-bed anticipation. The album as a whole is overwhelming—I feel like I would need to listen to it a dozen more times to really “get it.” But the unbalance I feel when listening to The Suburbs contributes to the experience of the album

The opening track “The Suburbs” draws you right into the album and was my favorite, upon the first listen. However, on time two, “Month of May” took that place (probably because it was up-tempo and could stand alone.) I found some of the songs (especially “Deep Blue”) to be a little slow—not just in tempo, but in interest and development.

this is a cd submitted by unknown on August 21, 2013, 2:41am Ready to start is my favorite track

Good Lord is this Good submitted by timdufresne on July 13, 2018, 10:58pm Funeral, Neon Bible, now this? Keep going AF! Keep going!

The submitted by Anthany on July 14, 2020, 9:17am The suburs

An Indie Concept Album That Is Actually Good submitted by Meginator on June 10, 2023, 9:11am This is an indie concept album of sorts, with each of its songs contributing to a broader picture of how suburbs function in the U.S., although (in true indie fashion) much of its investigation is abstract rather than head-on and occurs deep within the lyrics. Still, not even the band’s grand ambitions can stand in the way of the fact that this is an excellent and even enjoyable album, with its standout tracks supported well by a consistent flow of strong supporting acts that together contribute to a sound that almost feels like a distinct state of mind. The music is standard indie pop-rock, distinguished primarily by the band’s ability to compose central ideas to anchor each song without setting any one track too far afield from the others, and they use their multiple vocalists to excellent effect. At its core, this is still an indie album from the genre’s heyday with all of the pretense that comes with it, but even genre skeptics might have to admit that there’s something to this style of music that suits the hazy, undefined suburban malaise this album attempts to pin down. And if you like it, well, you just can’t move past the feeling.