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A band which describes the sound of the suburbs?
ARCADE FIRE
all emo
>>60588741
yeah, pretty much
>>60588720
does this image not scare you? like holy shit, 3 or more people live in each of those houses and they are more or less just like you, a person with a job or going to school. like every one is there own themselves, their own you
Murican Football
TV on the radio, spoon,
>>60588720
Rush
foo fighters
death grips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_3uxzkoV4
>>60588720
Sunny Day Real Estate
>>60588929
DUDE IM 15 LMAO
>>60588929
it just looks uncanny, try living in one of these bbys
>>60589385
step you game up son
>>60589432
>hongkong.jpg
Is living in the suburbs as depressing as it looks?
>>60589701
Sorta. You end up with a shit ton of creative energy though
>>60589701
>clean
>big houses
>grass and trees
>swimming pools
>good income
>depressing
>>60589701
No, just plain. Sort of empty if you don't have much going on.
>>60589701
You don't have many real world problems to be concerned with (poverty, crime, etc) so it usually makes people either incredibly stupid and rebellious or an existentially ridden sadboy (like myself)
>>60589833
This
>>60589701
All my friends that lived in the suburbs have emotional problems and bad, abusive parents.
Meanwhile my friends that live in slightly smaller homes in neighborhood surrounded by woods are more or less well-adjusted.
I think a lack of dense woods to play in leads to instability.
>>60589767
>everyone is boring and white bread as fuck
>no culture or arts scene
>commuting
>swimming pools
>people actually elect to go to applebees
>>60589701
I doubt I'll ever live in the suburbs when I'm older, but lol consider yourself lucky if you find the suburbs to be "scary". I'd rather that than a lot places in the world. I do want to direct a movie about a suburban neighborhood where everyone is secretly murderers, sickos, drug addicts, and psychopaths in their spare time. They try to hide it from each other, and they're so caught up with their own facade they don't notice each other. Don't steal my idea /mu/
>>60589886
How's middle school going?
>>60589881
It's not like cities are any better anon.
Really the only thing they have going for them is "culture", and that's usually shit.
Oh, and street vendors, which are the best form of food.
>>60589908
Shit, wrong person
>>60589701
yes i want to kill myself
>>60589922
honestly i think moderate sized cities are the best. lots to do, crime isn't really an issue unless you are involved in it yourself, clean enough, easy commute to work or school, more affordable than large cites, bands and events don't skip you like some small place, many options for jobs etc etc. all that but without huge city issues
>>60589960
Cheer up, buddy! You'd be just as suicidal in a rundown apartment in the city, or wasting away slowly in the country!
>>60589886
that's actually a really neat plot idea. you should get on it, seriously. write a screenplay or novel based on that premise, and start writing it now. what are you waiting for? when I was 16 I wanted to write a nine-part space opera, and now years later I'm polishing off the second draft of part one. you just have to do it. DO IT
>>60589701
Not as much as people make it out to be. People should have more initiative in the suburbs to do stuff tho.
>>60589908
Lol it's better than half the shite movies that come out nowadays.
>>60590094
Thanks, and that's cool, I love sci-fi. I've got a bunch of things and I just got serious about writing stuff for real after brainstorming shit for so long
>>60588771
this
>>60588741
this isnt fuckinhg suburban. its bad indie. except for Sprawl II
i'd say something emo. this years Turnover for example. not directly about the suburbs but it sounds like the suburbs.
>>60588929
I live in a place like this. I live a normal, fulfilling life
>>60590520
a goooood portion of Arcade Fire's lyrics have to do with suburban tropes of growing up and having a hometown. Not to mention Neon Bible and it's total revolt against having grown up with a suburban mentality
>>60589701
Yes. But it also allows you to live in an almost parody-like version of America.
It's probably the most average you can get when it comes to civilization, it's right in the middle of ghetto and city, with less crime than either.
It can be depressing, but it's great fuel for music.
>pavement
>zappa
>big black
>modest mouse
>>60590678
>modest mouse
>issaquah
>a suburb
kek
>>60590716
They're not from the suburbs, but they definitely use lyrics that conjure up feelings of living in the suburbs, same with trailer parks.
Pic related is Issaquah, borders very closesly to what I consider a suburb.
>>60590818
i ve been to isssaquah many times. most of the neighborhoods are quite new and would not have been there when they were. theres a lot of farms and the town centre is like 3 blocks long. its a shit hole. that pic is almost the entire non rural area of the whole city as it would have been in the 90s
>>60590520
>literally have an album called the suburbs
>not suburban
>>60591303
That's like saying the members of The Beatles are literally Beetles because of the name.
>no one has posted any pop punk bands
pop punk is objectively the definitive suburb music
>>60591303
yes and david bowie is an alien
>>60591344
same with metal. go ahead and post some if you think it's worth listening to.
>>60588720
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYdQB0mkEU
>>60591365
Dont know about "suburb" metal but you make it seem like it's hard to find good metal.. which it's not.
>>60588720
Beach House for some reason, and yes, suburbs do scare me for some reason.
I like the suburbs. Everyone knows each other and are very nice and it's cute and comforting. I live 25 min from the city so I could go whenever I want
Eminem is Suburbcore
Real Estate
>>60591389
meal is for children
>>60591409
>suburbs do scare me for some reason.
Too clean and safe?
>>60588720
I'm from the suburbs but our houses aren't identical like that at all. Living in a place like that does seem kind of freaky
>>60591410
Do you ever regret living in a place that isn't culturally enriched?
>>60588720
Suburbs creep me the fuck out
>>60589873
>skinwalker
pls go
Suburbs that are near a culturally rich city are objectively the best place to live
>>60589886
You mean Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and many other Lynch films. As well as others like him.
>>60591543
>america
>culturally rich cities
lol
>>60589701
yes
i used to live in the suburbs and i prefer the literal rotting shithole i'm in than the suburbs
>>60591577
Funny, I'm in the opposite scenario. It's nice feeling relatively safe in my own neighborhood for a change.
>>60591577
How come ghettos and suburbs are considered separate? Compton is one of the most crime ridden shitholes in America and it's also a suburb. Where I live is technically fairly rural and a suburb and it's riddled with tweakers, rotting old houses, felons and spic gangbangers.
>>60591459
It's a dream for people with make fun of "special snowflakes" over the internet on facebook. Overly Sanitized, boring and predictable, safe from people who aren't like them
>>60589701
pretty much, unless you live near a city like me
>>60591466
hm I don't regret it but it would definately be cooler to live in a place like Salem with a lot of history or something. I live in the Chicago suburbs so I kind of relate to the city's culture. my town has a pretty equal distribution of people of each race which is something I really like. some larger suburbs seem to be more interesting, they have a lot of artwork and stuff
>>60591613
Section 8 housing is bringing a lot of that shit to suburban areas. The theory was that letting gangbangers into a nice area will help them to see that they don't have to live a life of crime and violence, but what ends up happening is they just bring that mentality and their friends to their new home until their neighbors get sick of that shit, move out, housing value inevitably drops and then you have a new "ghetto".
>>60591615
>Overly Sanitized, boring and predictable, safe from people who aren't like them
that sounds more like it would be a dream for the special snowflakes themselves senpai
This album more than their others
If I lived in a suburb, I'd probably go full on goth or something, I have some sort of primal urge to disrupt all illusions of "harmony"
>>60591702
"harmony" in a suburb is staying inside and sometimes hearing a lawnmower in the distance.
You can go outside every single night, in the dead of night, and you can walk around and see absolutely no one. Disrupting the harmony is easy, all you have to do is realize how boring everyone in a suburb is and do what they don't do.
>>60591671
Where I live actually was worse 20 years ago. The suburb where I live was pretty much all tweakers, white trash and mexicans then improved when they started building new houses and subdivisions in the outskirts, which brought in all these middle class mormons looking for somewhere a bit cheaper to live. So now it's like 70 percent ghetto/rednecks and 30 percent middle class religious families that "gentrified" the town over the years.
>>60591745
>You can go outside every single night, in the dead of night, and you can walk around and see absolutely no one.
You can do this in the afternoon as well and it's like a ghost town; when I was a kid I would ride my bike around the neighborhood and never come in contact with a single person.
>>60591532
kek
>>60589509
This...can't....no, this can't....no..
>>60591745
This is what cities are for. You visit them when you want some excitement.
>>60591532
p-LS
>>60591854
Ke-ek? Kek. Kek kek.
Pls kek. Go kek. Kek pls.
>>60591890
i have bad news......
>>60589701
>>60591577
Lmao mate, I grew up n suburban England and now live in a south american city and BOY do the suburbs seem like paradise now.
>>60588720
everyone who lives in the suburbs is really fucking delusional and listens to country music, it's an identity thing for them
>>60588720
Run The Jewels, Young Thug, and Yung Lean
>>60591942
>>60589509
>>60589432
is it fucked up if I want to live in one of those?
>>60591992
yes, you communist
>>60589509
We matrix now boys
>>60591613
>>60591603
i'm not in a ghetto, my house is literally rotting, so much that the headphones port of the computer was torn apart (everything inside is also slowly rotting)
>>60591409
Are you David Lynch?
>>60591942
What do you suppose is the population in one of those?
>>60592095
10s of thousands. look up hong kong micro apartments. its like 8x the density of NYC
>>60592042
that's actually kind of metal tb h
>>60592242
more crust punk than anything
it's pretty sludge though
>>60588720
You're probably looking for Arcade Fire
>>60591344
Do americans really do this?
>>60592171
>mfw my suburban hometown woud fit in one chinese human-storage unit
>>60592382
My brother and I used to sit out on the roof, and I have a friend who also used to. Arguably though, it might be an "I'm 14 and imitating this thing I saw in a movie" kind of thing. So americans might be doing this because of album covers like this.
(also this album is great)
>>60589509
That's cyberpunk as fuck. I like it
>>60591328
kek
>>60588720
Anything Pop Punk
>>60592382
I used to do this in my student house cause the garden was small and shitty with no sunlight, and we had a flat garage roof just outside my window. Really nice to be honest family.
I'm British
>>60592382
of course. just take some acid and put a speaker on the windowsill, you're guaranteed some fond memories.
>>60591424
This is the onyl correct answer
>>60591992
me too. it'd be so bizarre. the constant hum of electricity and fans being so deeply sheltered from any natural light or sounds surrounded by thousands and thousands of lonely humans in weird lonely forgotten rooms
it reminds one of eraserhead
>>60588929
wow deep thought kiddo, people live in houses
>nobody posted it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwb4izbGgvY
also yea suburbs are creepy as fuck, but I grew up watching american tv so I've always had a sort of fetish for being a suburban midwest skate-punk teenager
>>60593760
Anyone who says that suburbs are creepyhave never lived in a shithole such as Compton
>>60592382
where else are you supposed to smoke weed at?
>>60593789
It's not "creepy" as in scary. It's more uncanny, like it's hard to imagine the people who actually live there in real life
And I do know what poorfag shitholes look like thanks.
>>60588929
its juts people living their lives man, same as you. Doesn't mean everyone is depressed and having an existential crisis everyday. Most of these people are probably perfectly happy. Gotta set yourself apart and be unique INWARDLY, by having specific interests and passions that are important to you, not by living in a nicer house.
>>60589509
I fucking love his work, we /p/ now
and fitting music for this would be burial. Dark, cold and vaguely human
>>60593559
100% this. Especially the suburbs at night. Wait and Outro always remind me of going on walks with my ex between having dinner with her family and watching a cozy movie. Goddamn I'm depressed
Why is this shit so desirable in America? I don't mean to judge but in my country apartments are more desirable than large houses, because, really, wtf are you going to do with so much space except having people further from each other and being as a whole further from multiple choices of lifestyle (more nearby schools, markets etc.)?
>>60589881
We have some not white people here and they kinda suck.
Heterogeneity is so overrated.
>>60594136
You're like that because you have to be.
I'm not sure if you're aware but Europe has a pretty massive housing crisis right now.
>>60594136
You only say that because you didn't live that way. I've lived in the suburbs almost all my life and other than being closer to things I'd much rather have a house than an apartment. Living so close to strangers seems gross. The extra space is great for kids to play in, grow gardens, build a pool, have a big dog, have nice greenery to look at, fresh air, privacy, the feeling of (sort of) owning property
weezer
>>60594403
>muh american dream
it's fucking over anon, get over it
>>60594490
I'm talking about the practical advantages of owning a yard, what are you on about
>>60594403
not who you are replying to but i much prefer being right in the city. being in an apartment doesn't bug me at all. i mean yea, like you said, if i had kids it might be different but i got no benefit from being in a house. i just got annoyed that i always had to drive to get to where i wanted to be. really its a personal preference and what your hobbies and interests are that makes one place better over the other
>>60589886
I feel like this already exists
>>60594591
It does, it's called Blue Velvet.
10/10 movie
>>60594656
Great soundtrack too. Lynch movies always have good sound design.
>>60590818
>Issaquah
I'm sorry anon
>>60594745
I actually live in the most calculated suburb I've ever seen, on tv or real life. It's in Arizona: land of suburbs
Yo La Tengo
Pavement
Bark Psychosis
Sum 41
>>60594772
oh god. those hyper over planned communities are so hard to stomach
Any shitty Ska revival band of the 90s.
>>60591992
my granny lives in a commieblock in moscow, i think its cool because of the city, but im only there for like 2-3 weeks in a year, so i might hate if id live there all the time
>>60590520
I'd think that suburbans would just be bad indie
>>60591745
this man
Everyone is working all day so it's like a ghost town in the day
and at the night its a dark ghost town because everyone is inside watching the walking plebs and ignoring their spouse
>>60594828
You've never truly felt the human experience until you've lived in a city with high crime rates/gang violence, generally-accepted pollution, the vague tensions of culture clash, and the faint smell of urine from the many homeless people constantly permeating the air. White Bread suburbanites have no idea what they're missing out on.
>>60594802
You have no idea. Pic related is Sun City. If you pull it up on Google Maps, it looks like it was planned by aliens or some shit.
Look at this shit
The Front Bottoms. The suburbs sound like whiny post-teens who are apprehensive about their futures and sad about girls.
>>60594951
That's fucking frightening
Also think how much water is wasted creating an artificial oasis in the desert
>>60594917
agreed desu
For some reason, people feel that they are getting a good deal when they consent to sitting in traffic for an hour, working a shit job to pay the bills, hoof it back in traffic for another hour, and come home to an unremarkable house, with an unremarkable life.
scary man
>>60594951
yikes. i lived in a really sterile planned city in CA and it was terrible but that is next level. i'm sorry friend
>>60595002
*meant to add
You spend just as much money if you lived in the city. Is being able to have a house with a lawn really worth living in a ghostown with stress stacking up faster than your debt?
Might as well just rent a 2-3 bedroom apartment in the city and save yourself the stress and monotony, and enjoy the two extra hours of life you get back.
>>60595002
All jokes aside a rural life would be ideal, but I would take suburban life over city life any day. The idea of living in a giant concrete human hive is not appealing to me. At least you can have a nice yard and some peace in the suburbs.
>>60595045
How in the hell do you come to the conclusion that living in a quiet suburb is somehow more stressful than some city with its noise pollution and traffic jams?
>>60595063
But it's a sterile environment. Like the anon earlier was saying, there's no clashing of cultures and classes. There's no buzzing music scene, no bar hopping, no film festivals. It's an enclosed environment where everyone pretty much makes the same amount of money and has basically lived the same life.
City living can be shit, even lonelier than suburbs, but at least there is character to it. There is soul for lack of a better term.
The suburb is where the wageslave plants his roots and raises a new generation of wageslaves.
>>60595094
not that guy but i'll say it again. its personal preference. i hate sitting in traffic to get to work, loud ass lawn mowers, no night life, less access. thats stressful to me. at least if you are in the city you can just walk places. it just depends on what you like to do.
>>60594951
my dad wants to buy a trailer down there and start snowbirding
>>60595094
I suppose that's me projecting.
Both my parents worked, and sat in traffic for an hour every single day, to come home and raise/feed 4 kids, while going through a shit marriage and struggling with paying outrageous rent.
I guess it's only applicable if you're a miserable wageslave with kids.
>>60595124
That is why you live in a suburb where you can have your space and isolation, and visit a city when you want to have some fun. If you live in a city, you can never really escape all that shit when you need time to yourself without saving up for a vacation or something.
>>60595169
see im the exact other way. i love to go camping but i need to be around everything most of the time
>>60595154
Your dad really shouldn't. Flagstaff is a great place for its environment, but its filled with hippies and natives who absolutely despise snowbirds.
Apparently the mountain was a holy spot for natives, and now it's getting covered with literal frozen shit water.
Snowbirds are tourists, they usually don't plant their roots near here.
>>60595169
I see your point. Having privacy is definately nice.
But personally, I wouldn't want to drive 30-60 minutes to have a few hours of fun.
Sometimes you just want to walk on over to the local bar and drink
>>60595224
not to mention if its like a Tuesday night at 10pm and you feel like doing something you actually can cuz stuff is open
>>60595155
Outrageous rent is a universal experience for lower-class people, I think, as is much of the other stuff you mentioned. If you work a shit job for shit money and come home miserable and unfulfilled, it doesn't matter if you're living in a tiny apartment in a giant, dirty city or in a trailer in the middle of a wasteland - it's still gonna be some ass. The flavor of the ass might be slightly different, but everyone's sad no matter where they are.
I kind of hope there are ways to break out of that and find meaning and hope in your life, no matter where you end up living, but I think that might be overly optimistic.
>>60588720
Not a band's whole catalog but one album
La Dispute - Rooms of the House
I would prefer to live in a trailer park t︂b︂︂h
MCR
>>60595338
>>60595124
>>60591702
lol grow up
>>60595405
lol grow up
>>60589701
Not if you can handle the mad mad world of low crime and proper sanitation and no traffic. It's a real fucking burden ya know.
Source: live in the suburbs like an upper-middle-class-fag
>>60594136
muh drumming
>>60591984
>everyone who lives in the suburbs no matter where they are in the world is a hick and has shit taste in music
Ben Folds?
>>60595124
20 y/o trustfund bandmusicianbabby pls
>>60595674
>imblying
My parents barely made ends meet and I have no musical talent
>>60593559
>>60594057
never heard of this album before, thanks anons
>>60595452
>No traffic
m9 what kinda suburb do you live in
>>60592382
One of my best memories is going to my best friends house in high school and shooting shit off his roof with an air rifle and bonding over how much we loved Dead Kennedys while listening to them on a portable speaker
>>60588720
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru6DAEJMyy4
>>60595520
America is were these suburbs are common, very few american style suburbs outside of america
listening to country music doesn't make you a hick, but the people in the suburbs get something out of it
>>60589110
this t b h pham
It's like the soundtrack of an obsessive and overly energetic teenager living in the suburbs desperately trying to make things happen.
>>60596935
This is too good T B H F A M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebHfMRw--sE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5pkQgAo5tg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjWyxc-SaE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZE6YPQjzBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cduC2DZ7Iyw
also anything from any tony hawk soundtrack
https://youtu.be/jhGp4ulxyT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiUcBfzazPs
DO NOT
O
N
O
T
SLEEP ON THIS ALBUM.
I WARNED YOU.
Odd Future is as suburban as it gets.
>>60598619
anon thank you so much for sharing this...I've been trying to find this album again for forever, but forgot the name of the band.
This and swimming pools and really bad chain restaurants. Or that's what it was. Pretty sure it's mostly falling apart now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8SdWEQg6cE
>>60598619
very Raincoats-y
>>60598646
maybe audience-wise, but their music doesn't really capture suburban life at all
>>60589701
The burbs are mad comfy. The only problem is when people just stay in the house 24/7 and dont go out for a walk, talk with neighbours, etc. Barely even see kids playing outside anymore, they are all inside on video games.
still beats living in a gray, concrete, over-populated, cramped, noisy, crime-ridden, nature-less city though
pizza thieves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUWUN6X4fvQ
OP here, if dubs every other fag who posted in this thread will live the tranquil suburban life.
>>60589701
if you are not socially retarded then its good for being close to a lot of people
>>60589191
The moneystore is definitely downtown kind of music though.
The National tee-bee-h
This guy used to hang around on /mu/ a while back. He makes hands down the suburbiest music on the planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTAfFWxGYQ8
>>60588720
Green Day
>>60599932
Oh man you summed it up perfectly. The most common complaint of where I lie is that it's boring. While that is true my city is beautiful as fuck and I try to take every moment to experience it anyway I can.
A lot of the people I know simply seem too comfortable with life and spend it doing sedentary things. I don't have any grudge against people like that but I hate it when they summarise an entire city without making much of an effort to explore it first
