Grace is really screaming it lol!!! the eyes towards the crowd lol
Grace Said that she doesn’t like we built this city and she thinks the repeated chorus is stupid…
I know it’s a softball of a target, but I just really can’t get behind that. It’s pretty much as “white” as you can get, both literally and metaphorically. That cheesy little riff ending with the two chord punctuation on the synth between the chorus and the verse just makes me wince every time. At least the audience seem to be, predominantly, clapping on the 2 & 4. (At least the ones not clapping on every beat.)
Mickey getting hit with the soft ball is funny!!!
Who the hell revives a Gods Damned thread about this shitty song?
Jesus, Alla, Ra, The Great Spirit and Buddha all think this song is crap.
Well, it’s an apocalyptically bad song, so I guess this thread deserves a viewing in the year 2012. Just don’t everybody get it as an earworm at once, as it may actually bring about the apocalypse. “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. We build this city, we built this city on rock & roll.”
“We Built This City” is bad, but it’s too cheesy to even summon Hello Cthulhu.
It’s back so the Mayans can destroy it again like they will do everything else in 2012. I’ve seen the documentary!
Good. I’m willing to see the end of creation if it means that piece of shit dies with everything else.
You’ll all be glad to know that “We Built This City” was, I have it on good authority, actually engraved by NASA on the Voyager Gold Records and thus will long outlive humanity itself.
I feel the same way about Carrot Top.
Lol. Gotta love the very clear shot at 00:30 of the audience member who is clearly NOT a Starship fan. He looks almost as bored as Mickey Thomas does. Pete Sears looks like he’s thinking “Get me the HELL out of here!”
At least Grace is trying to act like she’s having a good time…
All I can tell you is that the first time I heard this song I was a young man in college and it irritated me enough that I shut the radio off. Now I am a man of fifty, and even though I should probably be having pangs of nostalgia for the things of my youth, I still shut the radio off when this song comes on.
Wow, I’m getting better at this. Before I even saw that SuperFleetwoodMac was the one who revived this zombie, I correctly identified his/her join date, based solely on the number of "lol"s and exclamation points.
I love THE FLAME too–I’d rank it as Cheap Trick’s fourth best song (after I want you to Want me, Surrender and Dream Police.
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For instance, where the DJ talks there is a version made that omits that part so that each radio station can fill in their own “DJ” bit with the name of their own radio station./quote]
Hmm…seems to me that was done pretty liberally with Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, where each radio station overdubbed Sting’s intro “I want my MTV” with their own radio station letters. In San Diego, the AOR station inserted “KGB” while the pop station inserted “KFMB” yet nobody blasted the entire song for selling out. In fact, they praised it as a working man’s backlash against nouveau riche slacker-musicians – this coming from a band of newly rich musicians…
–G!
That ain’ workin’…
. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)
. Money For Nothing
. Brothers in Arms
So? The DJ bit is just a very minor part of the suckitude that is WBTC. Focusing on that is like focusing on the fact that Mussolini hated dogs. So many more reasons to hate than that.
Im sorry for reviving this thread, Im new here!
It’s OK, but you’ve distracted us from our serious discussions on the cultural impacts of, “Ice Ice Baby”.
Are you asking Vanilla to kick it one time?