Talk:The Hissing of Summer Lawns

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Ouch I say. Fixed two types, but the end of the sentence "a few occasional" I can't fix, since I have no idea what the original writer wanted to say. A few what? --jae 12:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Since it is 5 December 2006, and the original writer has not returned to particularise whatever it was he or she was on about, it is time for the sentence to go.

I'm not sure the following sentence from this entry is accurate:

"The African theme of "The Jungle Line" is continued on the album sleeve, with an image of natives carrying a huge captured snake, superimposed on the Beverly Hills suburbs. Joni's own house is marked in blue on the back cover."

Are the houses in the background identifiable as a "Beverly Hills suburb"? They look like ticky-tacky 1950s-era houses from a lower middle-class neighborhood--certainly not Beverly Hills. Did the author mean to say "Los Angeles suburb"? That would more accurately describe these houses, although the phrase "Los Angeles suburb" is debatable because Los Angeles IS a giant suburb. Yes, I know, Los Angeles proper is a city, but "Los Angeles" is used loosely to describe the ninety-plus municipalities in Los Angeles County.

The urban skyline behind these houses deserves mention too. Are they too part of the Los Angeles skyline? Of the four tall buildings, the middle too resemble (vaguely) the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building. Which brings me to this observation: Is the entire background--low-rise houses and high-rise buildings--an actual skyline or an artist's imaginary city-scape? I don't live in New York or Los Angeles, so any help here would be appreciated.

Sorry if any of this seems like nit-picking, but the original entry does include an entire paragraph on the album cover, so I think this discussion is relevant.Kinkyturnip (talk) 05:26, 14 January 2008 (UTC)