THE SUBURBS: Credit in Heven

The Suburbs

Credit in Heven

© 2001 Beejtar (802177135925)

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The Suburbs, from Minneapolis, formed and began playing orginal material in the fall of 1977. Their sound is influenced musically by everyone from the Rolling Stones to Karlheinz Stockhausen - which is to say they're well educated but not needlessly eclec

tracks

1 Tired of my Plans
2 Faith
3 Tape your wife to the ceiling
4 Macho Drunk
5 Ghoul
6 Dish it up
7 Mommy
8 Cigarette in Backwards
9 Girl Ache
10 Drinking with an Angel
11 Spring Came
12 Girlfriend
13 Postcard
14 Music for Boys
15 Idiot Voodoo
16 Pipsqueak Millionaire
17 Credit in Heven

notes

Well, it's about time. Nine years since the fondly remembered First Avenue reunion shows, 15 since their breakup, and 22 since In Combo first popped up in the vinyl racks, Beej and the boys' original albums are finally out on CD. It's a fine opportunity to reacquaint ourselves with the 'Burbs' brand of buzzy and bouncy punk-pop. Less angry than Hüsker Dü and less drunk than the Replacements, the Suburbs eschewed the aggressive, deliberate sloppiness of their peers in favor of tightly arranged punk for the dance floor-the sugarbuzz-happy middle ground between Culture Club and Wire. They never broke big nationwide, but a ferocious cult developed out of a string of club hits and memorably weird lyrics about cows, monster men, and wives taped to the ceiling. They broke up for good reason-major-label malaise led to 1986's uninspired The Suburbs , not included in this reissue-but their place in local rock mythology is completely warranted.

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