Screeching Weasel, “Hey Suburbia”
Back in the day in junior high when maximumrocknroll was still my bible I played guitar in a punk rock cover band and we played the shit out of this song and I can’t even begin to tell you how fucking righteous it made us feel to turn our amplifiers to 11 and do our best Ben Weasel and tell suburbia to shutupshutupSHUTUP. I was the “lead singer” (loosely speaking) and one day I’m belting out “HEY SUBURBIA WE’RE NOT WITH YOU” and the bassist says dude you’re singing it wrong and I’m like what no I’m singing it fine and she says I’ve got the lyrics wrong and that it’s supposed to be “Hey suburbia we’re in love with you” and I’m like what no no way that’s wrong there’s no way Screeching Weasel is in love with suburbia and she’s all DUDE, IT’S IRONY.
Then again, we were a punk rock band practicing “Hey Suburbia” in the basement of her parents’ McMansion, so you know, DUDE, IT’S IRONY.
