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Re:A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen from Above by Kalium on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:29PM (#21922724)
Famously so! That song was about houses on a hill in Daly City, outside San Francisco.

Personally, I've always found it a great example of irony. The condemnation of sameness and uniformity, from someone self-consciously countercultural and generally trotted out by others who are self-consciously counterculture stereotype compliant. A song lambasting people for their smug and thoughtless conformity from the perspective of someone thoughtlessly smug and superior for their conformity who marks the difference by sneering.

It's really a remarkable piece.

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