1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_suburbs_7773.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350: And just when I knew what I wanted to say / A violent wind blew the wires away.]] |
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4 | ''The Suburbs'' is the third studio album by Music/ArcadeFire, released in 2010. A ConceptAlbum, leader Win Butler wrote the bulk of the lyrics inspired by memories of growing up in The Woodlands, which is, yes, a suburb of Houston, Texas. |
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6 | ''The Suburbs'' can be seen as the album that really broke Arcade Fire as a globally huge rock act. It debuted at the top of the charts in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} United Kingdom,]] and UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}, and subsequently won the UsefulNotes/GrammyAward for ''Album of the Year'' in 2011. |
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8 | |
9 | !! Tracklist: |
10 | |
11 | # "The Suburbs" - 5:15 |
12 | # "Ready to Start" - 4:15 |
13 | # "Modern Man" - 4:39 |
14 | # "Rococo" - 3:56 |
15 | # "Empty Room" - 2:51 |
16 | # "City with No Children" - 3:11 |
17 | # "Half Light I" - 4:13 |
18 | # "Half Light II (No Celebration)" - 4:25 |
19 | # "Suburban War" - 4:45 |
20 | # "Month of May" - 3:50 |
21 | # "Wasted Hours" - 3:20 |
22 | # "Deep Blue" - 4:28 |
23 | # "We Used to Wait" - 5:01 |
24 | # "Sprawl I (Flatland)" - 2:54 |
25 | # "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" - 5:25 |
26 | # "The Suburbs (Continued)" - 1:27 |
27 | ---- |
28 | |
29 | !! Principal Members: |
30 | |
31 | * Will Butler - Synthesizer, piano, vocals, guitar, bass, organ |
32 | * Win Butler - Lead vocals, guitar, piano |
33 | * Regine Chassagne - Lead vocals, drums, piano, harpsichord, synthesizer, organ, keyboard strings |
34 | * Jeremy Gara - Drums, percussion, piano, synthesizer |
35 | * Tim Kingsbury - Bass, guitar, vocals, percussion |
36 | * Sarah Neufeld - Violin, vocals |
37 | * Richard Reed Parry - Guitar, vocals, double bass, piano, harpsichord, percussion |
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39 | |
40 | !! If tropes were yours, but they're not: |
41 | |
42 | * AlbumTitleDrop: "The Suburbs." |
43 | --> ''In the suburbs I, I learned to drive'' |
44 | --> ''And you told me we'd never survive'' |
45 | --> ''Grab your mother's keys we're leavin' '' |
46 | * AlliterativeTitle: "'''M'''onth of '''M'''ay", "'''M'''odern '''M'''an". |
47 | * BreakUpSong: "Empty Room" |
48 | --> ''Said your name, in an empty room'' |
49 | --> ''Said your name, in an empty room'' |
50 | --> ''Something I would never do'' |
51 | --> ''I'm alone again'' |
52 | * {{Claustrophobia}}: "City With No Children" has a verse that could make a claustrophobe break out in hives: |
53 | -->''I dreamed I drove to Houston on a highway that was underground''\ |
54 | ''There was no light that we could see as we listened to the sound''\ |
55 | ''Of the engines failing.'' |
56 | * ConceptAlbum: Not a linear story, but serves as "a letter from the suburbs" as Butler put it. |
57 | * DarkReprise: The title track sounds at least tentatively hopeful when played at the top of the album. The abbreviated version at the end sounds tired and defeated. |
58 | --> ''If I could have it back'' |
59 | --> ''All the time that we wasted'' |
60 | --> ''I'd only waste it again'' |
61 | --> ''Waste it again, and again, and again...'' |
62 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: "Ready To Start" was promoted with a black and white performance video. |
63 | * DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: From "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)": |
64 | --> ''These days my life I feel it has no purpose''\ |
65 | ''But late at night the feelings swim to the surface''. |
66 | * EmoTeen: From "Month Of May": |
67 | -->''So young''\ |
68 | ''So young''\ |
69 | ''So much pain for someone so young''\ |
70 | ''I know it's heavy, I know it ain’t light''\ |
71 | ''But how are you gonna lift it with your arms folded tight''. |
72 | * GratuitousFrench: "Empty Room" |
73 | --> ''Toute ma vie, est avec toi'' |
74 | --> ''Toute ma vie, est avec toi'' |
75 | --> ''Moi, j' attends, toi tu pars'' |
76 | * {{Hipster}}: On "Rococo", the band – who have kind of a hipster background themselves – take on hipster audiences who abandoned them for being too mainstream. |
77 | * NostalgiaFilter: "The Suburbs" |
78 | --> ''And all of the walls that they built in the seventies finally fall'' |
79 | --> ''And all of the houses they built in the seventies finally fall'' |
80 | --> ''Meant nothing' at all, meant nothing' at all, It meant nothing'' |
81 | * OneManSong: "Modern Man". |
82 | * OneWordTitle: "Rococo" |
83 | * ShoutOut: The first line of "Ready To Start", "If the business men drink my blood…" is lyrically very close to Music/BobDylan's "All Along The Watchtower". |
84 | * SpecialGuest: The deluxe edition bonus track "Speaking in Tongues" features backing vocals from Music/DavidByrne; of note is that the song shares its title with an [[Music/SpeakingInTongues album]] by Byrne's former band Music/TalkingHeads. |
85 | * StepUpToTheMicrophone: To date this is the Arcade Fire album where Regine Chassagne takes the most lead vocals, as distinguished from backing and harmony vocals. |
86 | * TechnologyMarchesOn: InUniverse the subject of "We Used To Wait", which isn't wholly positive on things like texting taking over from letter writing. |
87 | * UnusuallyUninterestingSight: "The Suburbs" |
88 | --> ''But by the time the first bombs fell'' |
89 | --> ''We were already bored'' |
90 | * YouAreNumberSix: “Modern Man” draws a connection between taking a number and being reduced to a number. |
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