The suburbs, y’all. They seem safe (or Stepford) on the surface, but behind the white picket fences and chemically treated lawns, you’ll find secrets, mysteries, and soooo much angst.
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Friday Playlist: Stuck in the Suburbs
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Hello, you. June’s theme will be LONGING. Unlike more-acute forms of desire like desperation or need, longing is a sweet ache—more pining for something than dying for it. It’s nostalgia, homesickness, boredom, a persistent feeling of lack, dreaming of escape/the future. It’s summer: summer homes & cottages, stuffy summer bedrooms, sun-bleached memories of summers past. The shadow of September that hangs over June. It’s secret hangouts, crushes, unrequited love. Send what you’ve got here, and thanks. ♥
This is really cute!
Log in to replythank you for this. exactly what i was looking for :) x
Log in to replyI just spazzed out because Jesus of Suburbia is on here, which is freaking awesome. :D Oh, and not to mention The Replacements and The Offspring AND the Sex Pistols. This is officially one of my favorite playlists on here. :)
Log in to replyI knew “The Suburbs” by Arcade Fire had to be on here, as soon as I saw the title of the playlist.
Log in to replyAwesome! This is crazy because I had “Little Boxes” in my head AND I was talking about suburbia with my friends. Rookie always knows what’s on my mind! Another good song for this is Rockin’ the Suburbs by Ben Folds.
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Log in to replyYay Madness are on there! I love the comic strip too, this playlist is so different from the usual
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Log in to replyTHIS PLAYLIST
EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS PERFECT
THANK YOU
Log in to replyGREEN DAY, THE OFFSPRING AND THE SEX PISTOLS!!! I love you Rookie! Fahnalyyyyy!
Log in to replyARCADE FIRE!!!!! and I must say butthole surfers are slightly excellent too:)
Log in to replyglad you included arcade fire in this! their whole suburbs album fits perfectly with this theme, without a doubt one of my favourite albums
Log in to replyYeah, Punk Rock gping on :D
Log in to replyExtremely cool playlist, you guys.
No “Rocking the Suburbs”?? Dissapointed :(
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BOYS
Pet Shop Boys and the Kinks! Yes!!
Log in to reply+248746287 awesome points for Arcade Fire and The Kinks!!! (not that rookie wasn’t already infinitely awesome)
Log in to replyi love this, that whole creepy suburbia blue velvet vibe is one of my favorites <3
Log in to replyCROSBY STILLS NASH AND YOUNG <3
Log in to replyi was waiting for them to show up on one of these
how do you upload one of these without it just showing as a link?
Log in to replyim trying to make one for my school’s paper
Log in to replyNot sure what you’re trying to do — are you trying to make your own 8tracks playlist, or embed this one somewhere else, or…?
Log in to replythis is awesome and goes very well with the Twin Peaks rewatch that I’m currently embroiled in (appropriate word choice, I promise you)
Log in to replyTHE REPLACEMENTS. AHHHH THE REPLACEMENTS. <3 A+++
Log in to replyExcellent! …but you forgot Smashing Pumpkins 1979. :/ That is the *ultimate* Suburbia song.
Log in to replyomfg screeching weasel loveeeeeeeeee
Log in to replyI love how this starts and ends with “Little Boxes”. Great playlist!!
Log in to replyYou forgot ‘A Town Called Malice’ by the Jam!
Log in to replythis is so perfect I can’t stop listening
Log in to replyI would to hear a playlist about being stuck in a small town in the middle of nowhere. . . Amazing playlist, it would be the most perfect theme if I lived somewhere like a suburbian neighboorhood than a small town in the middle of the desert. . .
Log in to replyMy favorite, a love song from a man to his mistress about why he won’t leave his suburban dreamworld: I Won’t Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar
Log in to replyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUCBArbKtMw
Rookie, you just made my day;)
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Log in to replyTHANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
THESE SONGS SAVED MY LIFE!!!
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