We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread

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WestwayKid wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 4:03pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:20pm
Flex wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:16pm
Great news Doc! Ask them to install x ray eyes on the next go round.
Thanks, fellers. I honestly can't remember the world being so vibrant in colour. It's a minor miracle.

Also, as I was waiting for the surgery to start, I had the thought, what if the lens being implanted allows someone to see everything I see, that I would become an unwitting spy on myself. Not quite x-ray eyes, but in the ballpark.
Sounds like an episode of The Twilight Zone ;)
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Flex wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:16pm
Great news Doc! Ask them to install x ray eyes on the next go round.
Feel the hurt in Gene's voice...

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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Heston wrote:
11 Jul 2020, 6:43pm
BitterTom wrote:
11 Jul 2020, 5:55pm
Came on shuflle earlier i wasnnt disappointed its always the dogs bollocmks
Superb mate. Then you factor in the irony..
Can't really remember this well, what was the irony sorry?

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Heston wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 5:06pm
Flex wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:16pm
Great news Doc! Ask them to install x ray eyes on the next go round.
Feel the hurt in Gene's voice...

Clearly just got his results back from the clap clinic.
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BitterTom wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 5:08pm
Heston wrote:
11 Jul 2020, 6:43pm
BitterTom wrote:
11 Jul 2020, 5:55pm
Came on shuflle earlier i wasnnt disappointed its always the dogs bollocmks
Superb mate. Then you factor in the irony..
Can't really remember this well, what was the irony sorry?
The fact they're singing about the destruction of rock and roll at the hands of manufactured, overproduced pop, yet they're deliberately performing it in that very style.
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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Dr. Medulla wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:20pm
Flex wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:16pm
Great news Doc! Ask them to install x ray eyes on the next go round.
Thanks, fellers. I honestly can't remember the world being so vibrant in colour. It's a minor miracle.

Also, as I was waiting for the surgery to start, I had the thought, what if the lens being implanted allows someone to see everything I see, that I would become an unwitting spy on myself. Not quite x-ray eyes, but in the ballpark.
Ahem, as a representative of Big Optics I must inform you, that you really shouldn't be spreading this sort of disinformation.

We'll be watching. ;)

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Heston wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 5:24pm
BitterTom wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 5:08pm
Heston wrote:
11 Jul 2020, 6:43pm
BitterTom wrote:
11 Jul 2020, 5:55pm
Came on shuflle earlier i wasnnt disappointed its always the dogs bollocmks
Superb mate. Then you factor in the irony..
Can't really remember this well, what was the irony sorry?
The fact they're singing about the destruction of rock and roll at the hands of manufactured, overproduced pop, yet they're deliberately performing it in that very style.
This argument is still like people rationalizing Trump's evil senility as 53-dimensional chess.
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revbob wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 6:13pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:20pm
Flex wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:16pm
Great news Doc! Ask them to install x ray eyes on the next go round.
Thanks, fellers. I honestly can't remember the world being so vibrant in colour. It's a minor miracle.

Also, as I was waiting for the surgery to start, I had the thought, what if the lens being implanted allows someone to see everything I see, that I would become an unwitting spy on myself. Not quite x-ray eyes, but in the ballpark.
Ahem, as a representative of Big Optics I must inform you, that you really shouldn't be spreading this sort of disinformation.

We'll be watching. ;)
Not if I close my eyes!
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 6:29pm
revbob wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 6:13pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:20pm
Flex wrote:
22 Sep 2020, 3:16pm
Great news Doc! Ask them to install x ray eyes on the next go round.
Thanks, fellers. I honestly can't remember the world being so vibrant in colour. It's a minor miracle.

Also, as I was waiting for the surgery to start, I had the thought, what if the lens being implanted allows someone to see everything I see, that I would become an unwitting spy on myself. Not quite x-ray eyes, but in the ballpark.
Ahem, as a representative of Big Optics I must inform you, that you really shouldn't be spreading this sort of disinformation.

We'll be watching. ;)
Not if I close my eyes!
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Marky Dread wrote:
23 Sep 2020, 4:24am
This is why I always keep my pin number written on the back of my eyelids.
And I'll bet when you tell people that, they act like you should be sectioned. People, huh?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
23 Sep 2020, 6:08am
Marky Dread wrote:
23 Sep 2020, 4:24am
This is why I always keep my pin number written on the back of my eyelids.
And I'll bet when you tell people that, they act like you should be sectioned. People, huh?
Oh I don't tell people. I don't trust them.
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Remember Marconi is playing the MAMBA not the MAMBO. The deadly snake is slithering out of the radio.
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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Heston wrote:
23 Sep 2020, 6:52am
Remember Marconi is playing the MAMBA not the MAMBO. The deadly snake is slithering out of the radio.
That Marconi guy ain't so smart.

Take two wires, then take one away and what you got?

A wire less. Easy.
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Heston wrote:
23 Sep 2020, 6:52am
Remember Marconi is playing the MAMBA not the MAMBO. The deadly snake is slithering out of the radio.
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I heard this at the grocery store last night:



Same LP as We Built This City (I believe).

I found to my dismay that it was kind of catchy in a cheesy 80's way. I also might just have been nostalgic for the simpler times of 1986.
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