We love Molly Ringwald (We Love The City - Hefner)

Member Name: nicolasb

Product:	We Love The City - Hefner
Date:	04/03/01 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: tells the truth about our everyday life

Disadvantages: depressive truth it is

Hefner's "We Love the City" is the album for the awkward souls that haunt the londonite suburbia. The aura is of chip shop love stories, common people with common lives trying to pull through. Darren Hayman's voice croaks and croons through our misfortunes without sounding too much like Damon Albarn; this is is not the work of an onlooker, Hayman is the working class hero that John Lennon sang of. In "we love the city," the first song of the album, we wonder why he doesn't just leave it all behind. The world described here is rock star-free; no supermodels, just the girl from the cafeteria, the champagne is a cheap bottle of claret which will undoubtedly give you a hangover,and you just know it's not your agent that will call you in the morning, just your mother asking you to get a haircut and a job. Every Hefner song has its vilain, whether it be Maggie Thatcher or cigarettes, but the Beach Boys harmonies soothe the pain of being an outcast. The moral here is that we are all pawns in the city but at least we don't come from the suburbs, however much it hurts to be anonymous forever. The guitar seems to echo the Velvet Underground, albeit a very humbled one with a Lou Reed that dresses at charity shops and can't get a girl. Hefner are the voice of a lost generation, the boys and girls of the estates, and the account of their fate has the effect of cheap aftershave on wounded skin. But somehow, you know you belong because in the 80's, like them, you wore leg warmers, fancied the pants off Emilio Estevez and wished the recession would end. Thatcher's not dead after all and this is the story of the bitter taste she left behind; a bitter taste which we have made our own.

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