Bands whose lyrics seem to document Nightlife or the goings on (with a sexual emphasis) of a particular social circle

The Velvet Underground

anything by Steely Dan from Pretzel Logic through The Royal Scam.

(you said Lifter Puller, so it probably goes without saying that the Hold Steady do this...)

Fleetwood Mac (social circle = Fleetwood Mac)
Flight of the Conchords (social circle = Brooklyn hipsters)

Rockbitch

Anal Cunt?

disco

rap

Flight of the Conchords (social circle = Brooklyn hipsters)

Wow, who knew Brooklyn hipsters were the only ones who try to impress women, think it's funny that they sound corny when rapping, have routine businesslike sex in long-time relationships, and don't like getting date-raped.

i used to hate this subject matter but now i find it just kind of fun and light. depends tho.

Springsteen had Jersey for a long time.

xxpost nabisco, I guess I was thinking less about the songs than the show, which does make me think of people in that one pretty specific milieu (though like any sitcom it involves more universal/common situations). To me they "seem to document" a particular circle, but it could just be that they use good location scouts.

Nearly every Liftr pulr song seemed to focus on a barman with a habit and his runaway bird who was a scat porn hero. I was obsessed with them for about 3 weeks about two years after they were active.

Are their out of print cds worth a mint now seeing as 'The Steady' are world famous? Well,speccing out from the front of Uncut every fucking month...

Squeeze!!

All the straight edge whining and flexing from the mid eighties and beyond

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone pwnz altho social cirle is largely fictional and composed mostly of people who can't bring themselves to hiton each other

Sham 69 'That's Life'. Seriously. You listen

^ no actually, don't , it's cringingly terrible

broken social scene

jsut kidding but the name sounds like it does

I guess I was thinking less about the songs than the show, which does make me think of people in that one pretty specific milieu

Did the same songs make you think of awkward New Zealand expats in London when they played them on the original show?

Also,

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/nightlife.jpg

I'm sure they would have if I'd heard them in that context. Guess I'm impressionable.

Other answers (though not bands): Costes, Suckdog, Smog, GG Allin.

X

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QREF7DN8L._SS500_.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003B6J.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/assets/artists/roxy-music/gallery/1.jpg

DUHHHHH

I misread this thread title as "bands whose lyrics seem to dominate Nightlife" and had a moment of imagining kids in nightclubs spouting Hold Steady lyrics.

by the way, why the "seem to" in the thread question? Why not just "whose lyrics document"? Are we supposed to think of bands whose lyrics just give the appearance of documenting? Or seem to because the actual nightlife itself is fiction?

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone pwnz altho social cirle is largely fictional and composed mostly of people who can't bring themselves to hiton each other

arf!

Thin Lizzy

The Wrens

Suede? They certainly always wanted us to think that their life was one of thin black suits, cigarettes, trasy Euro women and heroin. Whether or not there was a scene for them to hang around in..