Let's Talk DB Music - Urban Decay Trilogy by DB...
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I don't know about everyone else, but I don't think there is a finer trilogy of songs that speak of urban decandance, decline and depravity, mixed in with grit, darkness and squalid places of assignation, where hope turns into misery while people are still trying to make it, than Welcome to the Boomtown from Boomtown, Sirens in the City from Bedtime Stories and Secret Silken World from Triage.These three songs must be listened back to back and in order. On top of that, the poetry in the lyrics and the mind's eye imagery these songs evoke is masterful. I think the song title Sirens in the City is likened to the bet once made by Earnest Hemingway when it came to the shortest novel to possibly ever be writtenv("For sale: baby shoes, never worn."). When one thinks of "sirens in the city," the possible stories are endless.
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I don't know about everyone else, but I don't think there is a finer trilogy of songs that speak of urban decandance, decline and depravity, mixed in with grit, darkness and squalid places of assignation, where hope turns into misery while people are still trying to make it, than Welcome to the Boomtown from Boomtown, Sirens in the City from Bedtime Stories and Secret Silken World from Triage.These three songs must be listened back to back and in order. On top of that, the poetry in the lyrics and the mind's eye imagery these songs evoke is masterful. I think the song title Sirens in the City is likened to the bet once made by Earnest Hemingway when it came to the shortest novel to possibly ever be writtenv("For sale: baby shoes, never worn."). When one thinks of "sirens in the city," the possible stories are endless.
