Growing up in the Suburbs?

donbosco said:
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Very Fountains of Wayne-esque. And since I like Fountains of Wayne, I like that too. You don't get more suburban that Fountains of Wayne. The whole Utopia Parkway album is just one big ode to 80s suburban youth.

Hard to pick just one song from the album, but...
 
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I was raised in a very small town—population was 3500, now 2500. Raised my kids in suburb of large city. I now live downtown in a large city and am actually a little frightened of living anywhere else—too red.
 
C-Money said:
Never heard of it. I see it has Matt Dillon in it. "They were old enough to know better, but too young to care."
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Yeah, I really didn't remember that he was in it. It's been a minute since I've seen that movie. Until I just wathced the trailer I had only two memories from that movie:
  1. Cheap Trick Surrender on the soundtrack, and
  2. "What's that on your belt buckle young man!" (it's clearly a pot leaf)... "It's a Canadian maple leaf!!!" (angsty teen storms out of the house).
 
And interestingly, my two posts intersect in an odd way.

On the "Lost in Space" track on Utopia Parkway, Fountains of Wayne do a very clear homage to Cheap Trick's "Surrender". It's clear as a bell.

At the 44 second mark of "Lost in Space" the lyric "and I love her anyway.... aaaaayyyy", is a very clear homage to Cheap Trick's Surrender "don't give yourself away...aaaaayyyy".

So there's that.
 
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