We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
- Heston
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We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
It's not a bad tune you know.
Yes, the production is horrible and it has that 80s mechanical clunking drum machine BUT listen to the lyrics! They're not bad, I've certainly heard worse.
Yes, the production is horrible and it has that 80s mechanical clunking drum machine BUT listen to the lyrics! They're not bad, I've certainly heard worse.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
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”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
There are far worse songs in existence.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
This could easily have fitted on Cut the Crap, hell, if it was on the May 84 tape it would be recognized as a classic....
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Say you dont know me or recognize my face
Say you dont care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, dont you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Someone always playing corporation games
Who cares theyre always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible write us off the page
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, dont you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Its just another sunday, in a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh then we just lost the beat
Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who rides the wrecking ball in two rock guitars
Dont tell us you need us, cos were the ship of fools
Looking for america, coming through your schools
(Im looking out over that golden gate bridge
Out on another gorgeous sunny saturday, not seein that bumper to bumper traffic)
Dont you remember (member)(member)
(whats your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, dont you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
(we built, we built this city) built this city (we built, we built this city)
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Say you dont know me or recognize my face
Say you dont care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, dont you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Someone always playing corporation games
Who cares theyre always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible write us off the page
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, dont you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Its just another sunday, in a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh then we just lost the beat
Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who rides the wrecking ball in two rock guitars
Dont tell us you need us, cos were the ship of fools
Looking for america, coming through your schools
(Im looking out over that golden gate bridge
Out on another gorgeous sunny saturday, not seein that bumper to bumper traffic)
Dont you remember (member)(member)
(whats your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, dont you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
(we built, we built this city) built this city (we built, we built this city)
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
Well it's certainly catchy. But then so is syphilis.
- Wolter
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
Agreed. But that proves nothing.Heston wrote:This could easily have fitted on Cut the Crap,
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
- Flex
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
Well it "proves" the lyrics are pretty retarded.Wolter wrote:Agreed. But that proves nothing.Heston wrote:This could easily have fitted on Cut the Crap,
Also:
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
- Flex
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
That's almost certainly wrong in the sense that there aren't any far worse songs in existence. It's debatable in that there may be one or two more pieces of dreck that somehow plummet slightly deeper into the depths of sonic anguish and musical despair than this, the most foul of songs. But it's doubtful.matedog wrote:There are far worse songs in existence.
I am not a fan of We Built This City.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
The fact that Flex won't even defend this insanity in the name of fairness proves this thread is a Hoyston.Flex wrote:That's almost certainly wrong in the sense that there aren't any far worse songs in existence. It's debatable in that there may be one or two more pieces of dreck that somehow plummet slightly deeper into the depths of sonic anguish and musical despair than this, the most foul of songs. But it's doubtful.matedog wrote:There are far worse songs in existence.
I am not a fan of We Built This City.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
- Flex
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
To put it another way: We Built This City is the aural version of what happens when you get raped by a lolputee with tourette syndrome.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
- Wolter
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
That scenario is actually far more awesome than We Built This City. And it ain't awesome.Flex wrote:To put it another way: We Built This City is the aural version of what happens when you get raped by a lolputee with tourette syndrome.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
Hoyston ain't a bad place to be.Wolter wrote:The fact that Flex won't even defend this insanity in the name of fairness proves this thread is a Hoyston.Flex wrote:That's almost certainly wrong in the sense that there aren't any far worse songs in existence. It's debatable in that there may be one or two more pieces of dreck that somehow plummet slightly deeper into the depths of sonic anguish and musical despair than this, the most foul of songs. But it's doubtful.matedog wrote:There are far worse songs in existence.
I am not a fan of We Built This City.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
- Flex
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
About the only times I disagree with Hoy are when he agrees with Heston.matedog wrote:Hoyston ain't a bad place to be.
About the only times I disagree with Heston are when he agrees with Heston.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Re: We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
Out of my delirium and exhaustion, I return and see this? There is so much wrong with this song that my mind all but shuts down. It sounds like it was written by a committee of anonymous hacks who constantly tinkered with it based on feedback from fat, pony-tailed record executives who deliberately avoided listening to any band younger than thirty years old. That it purportedly celebrates rock n roll, yet is among the most sterile corporate anti-rock n roll song of the era, it ends up being a perverse triumphal hymn of everything that was gutted from rock n roll once the beancounters took over the boardrooms of record companies. It could be genius satire but there's no evidence that it ain't the most straight-up fuck you to the rebellious essence of rock n roll.
I'm exhausted. I'm going back to bed.
I'm exhausted. I'm going back to bed.
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