Mmm…Skyscraper I Love You

Album: Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993)
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Songfacts®:

  • Underworld's Karl Hyde was inspired to write this tune after walking around Greenwich Village in New York City at night. He was working in the Big Apple at the time with Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. Hyde told Uncut: "I was very much inspired by Lou Reed's New York album. I imagined him sitting in cafes and bars and eavesdropping conversations and singing conversational American and I thought, 'I'm gonna sing conversational English.'"
  • The song's title came from a 1994 art compilation by Underworld's design company, Tomato, titled Mmm... Skyscraper I Love You: A Typographic Journal of New York.

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