No it wasn’t. Mankind has done a lot of horrible things, but we didn’t do that. Actually the radio broadcasts of the song will reach interstellar civilizations far before Voyager does. So I guess we shouldn’t be all that proud of ourselves.
Enjoy,
Steven
I thought it was, “While Tony plays La Bamba.”
“Saturday in the Park” by Chicago.
After Chicago (CTA) dedicated their first album to "The people and the revolution in all of it’s forms (paraphrase from memory). Losing your early edge is one thing, but totally selling out is revolting.
I’m an old guy. Maybe it’s an ‘you had to be there’ thing…
I just have to say, thanks for that link. Amazing stuff there…and a few ideas.
Whoosh!
Elendil’s Heir
Yes, I had a feeling that you were facetiously posting that NASA “fact”.
Everyone knows that the song on board “Voyager” was “Billy Don’t Be A Hero”.
Which is why the Borg are out to destroy humanity.
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Tonight I learned that Bernie Taupin is one of the listed writers of We Built This City.
Very important.
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Sounds like he or someone he knows has been reading this thread!
Steve Cohen, a small businessman from Ohio, is now addressing the Republican National Convention in Tampa. As he walked out to the podium, they played about ten seconds of “We Built This City.” That might have lost Romney the election right there!
I’m willing to bet that none, zero, nada, zilch of the assholes at that convention tonight were in the crowd with me at Winterland back in 72. Leave it to the GOP to use the corporate, sell-out music rather than the real thing.
One generation got old
One generation got soul
This generation got no destination to hold
Pick up the cry
**silenus
**
Sorry for the lyric correction here but I always thought the line was:
One generation got sold
Doing a search for the lyrics, I found both “soul” and “sold”.
If nothing else, “sold” fits perfectly into the rhyme pattern.
Trying to identify what Marty screams at any given performance is a mug’s game. 
Curse you for reviving this thread (again)! Now my brain has to replay that damn song over and over again!
Jeez, the zombie that will NOT die!
You do know it’s gonna be played at your funeral, right?
To comfort the mourners, I presume: “Thanks to the sweet release of death, he’ll never have to hear that $%&@# song again.”
“…but now we’ll be hearing it in our heads for the rest of the $%&@# week!”
This was also done heavily with Huey Lewis’ “Heart of Rock and Roll”, inserting the local market city into the lyrics. I recall both a “…Seattle!..” and a “…Portland, Oregon!..” version of the song. I was happy because he pronounced Oregon correctly 
/waɪˈoʊmɪŋ/?
Listen to Milk Train and you’ll understand why people hate We Built This City.
You know I vaguely remembered liking this song, but now that I’m listening again… it is fucking terrible.
The chorus is the only tolerable part. Damn. My memory was way wrong on this one.
In fact, this song in my memory is like the republican party itself. I vaguely remember liking them in the past, but now that I look at them again I realize how fucking terrible they are. They have one or two tolerable parts but damn.