The title is a line from the first song on the mix, which basically summed up a lot of my teenage years. I grew up in the suburbs of West London, and my best friend and two of my girlfriends lived on the opposite side of London, in a town called Brentwood. Tracey was also a huge Suede fan, and we really bonded over that, but the imagery of pylons and grey skies and concrete, which is such a Suede-esque thing (a lot of their tracks talk about that kind of greyish, concrete dullness that was so familiar to us growing up) really just fitted with the mentality at the time. There was a lot of depressiveness, self-harm and suicides around that time in people I knew from the scene as it was back then.
I've posted this video before, but it's basically a really good representation of what it's like to grow up in a British suburban council estate and the kind of depressing drudgery and alienation people felt. It came out a long time after I left high school, or it would have been on the mix for sure.
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on 2009-04-03 02:49 pm (UTC)The title is a line from the first song on the mix, which basically summed up a lot of my teenage years. I grew up in the suburbs of West London, and my best friend and two of my girlfriends lived on the opposite side of London, in a town called Brentwood. Tracey was also a huge Suede fan, and we really bonded over that, but the imagery of pylons and grey skies and concrete, which is such a Suede-esque thing (a lot of their tracks talk about that kind of greyish, concrete dullness that was so familiar to us growing up) really just fitted with the mentality at the time. There was a lot of depressiveness, self-harm and suicides around that time in people I knew from the scene as it was back then.
I've posted this video before, but it's basically a really good representation of what it's like to grow up in a British suburban council estate and the kind of depressing drudgery and alienation people felt. It came out a long time after I left high school, or it would have been on the mix for sure.