This question is about 10 years out of date, but I’ve always wondered what the deal was with Chicago band Urge Overkill featuring the skyline of Houston on the cover of their album Saturation.
i was going to ask this very question today. Listening to some old cds and I am wondering the same thing.
Well, that’s more than I knew. It’s the Houston Skyline? Hmmph, never knew in all my years of owning the album. One of my favorite albums (no accounting for taste…don’t ya know.) on cassettte. I only have the cassette… the CD Revolution never took hold for me. I owned my first CD in '97, guess I skipped over that to compression… MP3’s and what not.
I saw them live, but you’d have to beat me and put me in an isolation chamber on ecstacy, crack, and mushrooms for total recall. I just remember Nash giving me a dirty look…
Here’s something you gotta know about me… I have never set foot in Texas, and I will never set foot in Texas. I will die never knowing Texas, with great contempt, and relief. I have boycotted Texas.
I really wish they would try to secede so we can have the great Millenial War of the Texas Republic… and we, the Union, could kick their asses into the 21st. Century. Maybe repopulate them like we did Florida.
Please continue to stay away from Texas. We don’t have any shortage of dumbasses…
Don’t tell me, let me guess…you don’t like it 'cause you think it’s full of bigots, right?
They probably said “we want a generic city skyline” (i.e., not one easily identifiable like Chicago’s) and the art director picked Houston’s.
:looks around:
…did I miss something?
I understand that Houston’s skyline is popular in ad shoots because the big buildings Downtown are mostly surrounded by residential areas (& one nice park). So the skyline juts up pretty dramatically.
Seems ham-handed to use Houston for a band that has ties to another city, though…
No, I will never go there for the same reason I will never go to North Korea… It’s a repressive, backwards, ideological state that is the home of an evil dictator. It’s one of the many axes of evil.
Back to the OP:
The reason it has the Houston skyline depicted may be a meta-reason related to the title of the album- Saturation. Referring possibly to the oil industry and population.
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This reminds me of the new Amstel Light Beer commercials that are all about Amsterdam - so they can be all cute with “'dam” as in “'dam fine beer” - whatever. Anyway, they go off about how great Amsterdam is - with a very distinctive song in the background - The Fratelli’s song Chelsea Dagger.
Um - but the Fratelli’s are rather famously *Scottish *(well, to the extent that the Fratelli’s are famous). And Chelsea Dagger sounds like a Scottish pub/drinking song…where is Amsterdam in any of that?
Drives me nuts when I see it.
That is all.
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Well, needn’t worry then. As soon as my plans for the violent overthrow of the state government come to fruition, all that’s gonna change.
We didn’t need to know any of this about you since it has nothing to do with the thread, so it would be appreciated if you let go of it for good.
Er, sorry as well, probably shouldn’t have responded.
Regarding the OP, not familiar with the band, so I’m not sure way they’d use the Houston skyline except that it’s distinctive and easy to make dramatic in a photograph.
Or, referring to the music industry and fans…
Of course, the album could just refer to their saturation of the POP. Maybe they knew this album had enough saturation to make the top 100.
… or maybe urge overkill… acting to the point of gluttony on every urge, had achieved saturation. There is even enough for those who have had enough.