A weekend in the city

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A weekend in the city
Studio album from Bloc Party

Publication
(s)

2007

Label (s) Vice Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Indie rock

Title (number)

11

running time

51 min 50 s

occupation
  • Electric guitar: Russel Lissack

production

Jacknife Lee

Studio (s)

Grouse Lodge Records, Ireland

chronology
Silent Alarm
(2005) 		A weekend in the city Intimacy
(2008)

A Weekend in the City is the second studio album by the band Bloc Party .

History of origin

According to the singer Kele Okereke, the band did not want a kind of “ Silent Alarm Pt. 2 ”, the sound is therefore much more electronic and experimental than the debut. The album is about a. violence, the terrorist attacks on July 7th 2005 in London , immigration and substance abuse . In interviews, Okereke admitted that he dared to approach political issues to a greater extent in his lyrics, especially some racist incidents in Great Britain were the trigger. The album cover is a photograph called A Modern Project by Rut Blees Luxembourg . At the same time, the single The Prayer ( B-side : We Were Lovers ) was released.

successes

It sold so often in the UK that it reached number 2 on the UK album charts in February 2007. The album was also successful in the USA; With 47,726 copies sold, the album climbed to number 12 on the Billboard charts.

Track list

  1. Song for Clay (Disappear Here) - 4:49
  2. Hunting for Witches - 3:31
  3. Waiting for the 7.18 - 4:17
  4. The Prayer - 3:45
  5. Uniform - 5:32
  6. On - 4:46
  7. Where is home? - 4:54
  8. Kreuzberg - 5:27
  9. I Still Remember - 4:33
  10. Sunday - 4:59
  11. SRXT - 4:51

Versions

The album appeared in different versions. A limited edition included a DVD with bonus material. Different bonus tracks have also been recorded for the various download portals such as iTunes and Napster . More bonus tracks can be found on the Japanese and Canadian versions of the album. In addition to the CD versions, a picture LP was also released without bonus material.

DVD

  1. Studio footage
  2. Interviews
  3. The Prayer (Video)
  4. I Still Remember (Video)

Bonus tracks

  • Flux (Us Version) - 3:37
  • We Were Lovers (Japanese Version) - 4:12
  • England (Japanese version) - 4:15
  • Cain Said to Abel (available on iTunes US) - 3:24
  • Atonement (on iTunes US) - 3:46
  • Version 2.0 (Best Buy Version) - 3:19
  • Emma Kate's Accident (Best Buy Version) - 5:38
  • Secrets (Canadian Version & Target Version) - 4:06
  • The Once and Future King (Canadian Version & Target Version) - 3:20
  • Rhododendron (at eMusic US) - 4:49
  • Selfish Son (available on Napster and Rhapsody) - 4:59

All bonus tracks were also compiled on the unofficial B-side album Another Weekend in the City .

Songs

  • The song Song for Clay (Disappear Here) was actually called Merge on Freeway and based on the novel Less Than Zero (dt .: Less Than Zero ) by Bret Easton Ellis .
  • The Prayer was originally supposed to be called A Prayer to the Lord , On initially Wet and Where Is Home actually called Death of a Century .

use

Single releases

  • The Prayer (UK), January 27, 2007
  • I Still Remember (US), February 5, 2007
  • I Still Remember (UK), April 9, 2007
  • Hunting for Witches , July 9, 2007
  • Flux , November 12, 2007

swell

  1. ↑ Fall Out Boy Rule the Charts, Howard Stern's Warm Fuzzy Side, New Elliott Smith Stuff. In: www.rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone, February 14, 2007; archived from the original on April 6, 2008 ; accessed on July 6, 2013 .

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