757690 (09-03-2022)
Fascist Groove Thing from this album. Very 80s
Right on the cusp...
The song was meant to be satirical but it fits the 80's very well
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Giving Joe Jackson some acknowledgment as well. Very underrated artist
Last edited by ShyGuy; 09-02-2022 at 09:36 PM.
Here's a long distance dedication to ShyGuy :
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!
“It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.”
---- Bill Vaughn
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved." ---Tim Minchin("Storm")
ShyGuy (09-04-2022)
Considered by some in music circles to be the worst rock song of all time. I say, no way. How could any song penned by Bernie Taupin and sang by someone with the pipes of Mickey Thomas be an all-time worst song? It topped the Billboard charts in 1985 and Thomas still closes his shows with everyone singing along to it.
“It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.”
---- Bill Vaughn
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved." ---Tim Minchin("Storm")
That song is an abomination. Yet its slick production and complete thematic sellout might oddly qualify for it in this category. If someone wants to argue the 1980s were an undigestible ball of processed cheese food, then "We Built This City" would be the song that best encapsulates that.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
Revering4Blue (09-03-2022),texasdave (09-03-2022)
Back in the 90’s, St. Louis opened a new arena, The Kiel Center (no idea what it is named today). They had a celebratory night for all the construction workers and everyone else who worked on it. I had a connection and was able to attend. Starship was hired to perform, the first band to play there.
They closed with “We Built This City” but changed the lyrics to “We Built The Kiel Center on Rock and Roll”. The construction workers loved it.
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Revering4Blue (09-04-2022)
It used to be if you had a Kings Island season pass, you could get a Timberwolf ticket for like $5. At the time, my kids were little. So we'd buy tickets, put the kids in the stroller, and go see bands like Jefferson Starship, Dan Fogelberg, REO Speedwagon, Kenny Loggins, a real melange of 80's music. We'd sit in the very back row and pretend we were still hip.
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
The irony is thick with the song "We Built This City". They complain that corporation, and corporate greed, is ruining rock-n-roll, and yet that song is a prime example of corporate rock. And, yes, it is one of the worst rock songs in history.
M2 (09-04-2022)
Watch this UK ad that uses “we built this city” for the soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRE-LYqwAi8
“It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.”
---- Bill Vaughn
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved." ---Tim Minchin("Storm")
marcshoe (09-03-2022),redsfandan (09-04-2022),ShyGuy (09-04-2022)
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