Oh, kids. If this morning's pick is any indication, today could be off the charts in fantastic.
Today's pick, courtesy of the 1980s Music Choice channel on my digital cable provided by Suddenlink, a company for which I am like a battered wife.
The first song I heard today is, "We Built This City" by Starship. A song, by most accounts (including this one where Blender magazine named it pretty much the worst song ever), that represented all that was wrong with pop music, even though the song railed against it.
For your singalong pleasure:
We Built This City
Chorus:
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 don't know me or recognize my face
Say you don't 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, don't 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 they're 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, don't 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
It's 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
Don't tell us you need us, cos were the ship of fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools
(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate Bridge
Out on another gorgeous sunny Saturday, not seein' that bumper to bumper traffic)
Don't you remember ('member)('member)
(what's 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, don't 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)
I makes me wish my open fingered gloves were here already!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
7 comments:
I simply must get those in the mail to you. Awesome sing-a-long. Loved it!!!
This is one of the best "urban planner" songs ever!
I love this song :)
I got two of the best Angelas in the world hanging out RIGHT HERE. :)
Yes, Angela. I need those gloves!!
And Ang, if you started building more cities on rock and roll, that would be AWESOME!! :)
Grace Slick should have been shot in the face at close range for participating in this soulless abortion of a song. How do you go from "Somebody To Love" to this loose musical bowel movement?
She's definitely knee deep in the hoopla.
the 80s weren't too kind to any survivor bands of the previous two decades -- chicago, heart, genesis. all reduced to power ballads. kinda sad, really. (plus, the adaptable lyric in a late-80s office machinery commercial: "we built this business." the horror.)
of course, this is mock horror -- the same kind of horror you rear back in when faced with cheez whiz sauce or tiny smoked sausage links. it's yummy, cheesy goodness.
Mmm. Cheez Whiz.
Post a Comment