"Suburban Knights" samples
Toots and the Maytals' song "Funky Kingston" from the
album of the same name. It began as a rough demo that had already been created by the time
Stars of CCTV had been released and is also one of the older tracks on the album
Once Upon a Time in the West.
Richard Archer says that it began as just the chorus and the backing vocals. The band started working on it while on tour and played it live a couple of times. "We never said it has to be the first single, we just felt like it was a nice bridge between the first and second albums", Archer told
NME. Variations of the track were performed live, sounding slightly different from what became the final version. Archer describes it as being about various things and having your head in lots of places at once. It's about being felt left out and degraded, people looking down on others, journalists slagging off people from suburban areas and dreams being out of reach among other things such as having nothing to do and having no money. There's not much in suburban towns so you have to be creative. We've toured the world and have met many people much like ourselves, from suburban areas, we were always told to celebrate where we're from and fight back. Suburban Knights is just made to celebrate the amazing people who live in the real world. You have to be creative living in suburbia and we wanted to celebrate that. == Music video ==