"We Built This City": All-Time Great Song (1 Viewer)

[QuizGuy66]

Eileen? And is that Come on Eileen song really about bukkake?  Kids used to say that but the spelling is off?

You know Mickey is about right?

-QG

 

[Eephus]

I still want to know what else started in SF in 1967

 

[PIK95]

I still want to know what else started in SF in 1967

Worlds fair?  LSD did too, right?  Eephus turned thirty?

 

[proteus126]

Red Red Wine by UB40 sucked hard.  She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals sucked even harder.

Neither approaches how very very bad that Starship song was.

 

[PIK95]

You know Mickey is about right?

-QG

She will "take it like a man?"

 

[Tom Servo]

Shlocky, yet in every way a better song than "The Joker".  Don't @ me.

Don't tell me what to do.

 

[northern exposure]

It's a thing apparently.

Who knew? 

Lame. If you want a tattoo of song lyrics a better choice is Tubthumping by Chumbawamba.

 

[Tom Servo]

If country music is included, Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA is the equivalent of a 9-second flat hundred hundred dash.

THANK YOU.

That song is literally 50 shades of awful and makes me want to be Canadian.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I still want to know what else started in SF in 1967

Sorry I went dark there and haven't responded - life intervened. You guys already mentioned it.

Through a combination of talent, timing, and sheer dumb luck Rolling Sting quickly became more than a "local rag". The record business didn't know what to do with all of the hippie stuff, but Wenner did and he sold it to the establishment who just wanted to find a way to make money off of it. Then, Rolling Stone became the establishment and pretty much had free reign as tastemakers and writers of history. They got to decide what was important and what belonged (and what didn't, which is where my bigger gripe is).

You know all of this stuff, Eeephus - I'm sure, better than I do - and it's hardly a secret. If you wanted to read with any depth about rock and roll in the 70s and 80s, it was mostly RS and folks in its orbit that told the tale. 

I just happen to think that they pumped up some artists (like the bulk of the Haight bands) more than they merited and downplayed (or outright ignored) others who were worthy of discussion.

Plus, Wenner is a flaming #######.

 

[northern exposure]

THANK YOU.

That song is literally 50 shades of awful and makes me want to be Canadian.

You should be so lucky. 

 

[Joe Summer]

proteus126 said:

Red Red Wine by UB40 sucked hard.

Right, but the original isn't so bad.

 

[Eephus]

Methinks there's a gimmick for a music draft lying somewhere in this thread.

 

[Josie Maran]

I don't know what they mean, actually. It's probably Catholic - inspired, given Mr. Mister's Kyrie Eleison..  

WTF?  So what exactly did you mean by this:   "My step niece has a Broken Wings tattoo on her shoulder. I feel bad telling her exactly what those lyrics are  -- or where they come from, or why they're so bad." 

 

[rockaction]

WTF?  So what exactly did you mean by this:   "My step niece has a Broken Wings tattoo on her shoulder. I feel bad telling her exactly what those lyrics are  -- or where they come from, or why they're so bad." 

Enough down this rabbit hole, apparently. If you can't figure it out, your loss.  

 

[QuizGuy66]

She will "take it like a man?"

that is how the lyrics read sir

-QG

 

[rockaction]

Red Red Wine by UB40 sucked hard.  She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals sucked even harder.

Neither approaches how very very bad that Starship song was.

She Drives Me Crazy might have been the worst song of the '80s. Drool...drool...drool...my payola.  

 

[Gr00vus]

This is a bad song, a very bad song. Bad as it is, there were even worse 80's songs - worse than many of the ones previously mentioned in this thread - that you've probably forgotten about. I mean, Samantha Fox had a whole album for instance, Heartbeat from Don Johnson, Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy? Any number of unfortunate rap experiments from people who should have stayed far, far away from that genre. Tons of horrific hair bands. All said, I think my all time worst 80's song is this -  Glass Tiger.

 

[Ghost Rider]

The two worst 80's hits have to be: 

Red Red Wine
Don't Worry Be Happy

Both songs are bags of ####. 

 

[[scooter]]

If country music is included, Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA is the equivalent of a 9-second flat hundred hundred dash.

THANK YOU.

That song is literally 50 shades of awful and makes me want to be Canadian.

YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CANNOT ESCAPE IT!!

 

[Josie Maran]

Enough down this rabbit hole, apparently. If you can't figure it out, your loss.  

I just want to know what it is about those lyrics you don't want to tell your niece.

 

[northern exposure]

This is a bad song, a very bad song. Bad as it is, there were even worse 80's songs - worse than many of the ones previously mentioned in this thread - that you've probably forgotten about. I mean, Samantha Fox had a whole album for instance, Heartbeat from Don Johnson, Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy? Any number of unfortunate rap experiments from people who should have stayed far, far away from that genre. Tons of horrific hair bands. All said, I think my all time worst 80's song is this -  Glass Tiger.

Building on the actors with hit songs theme you hinted at, let's not forget She's Like The Wind by Patrick Swayze.

 

[Zegras11]

I still want to know what else started in SF in 1967

Joe Gibbon?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I still want to know what else started in SF in 1967

Joe Gibbon?

The 'ol ball coach, Steve Spurrier, made his first appearance for the 49ers?

 

[Tom Servo]

This is a bad song, a very bad song. Bad as it is, there were even worse 80's songs - worse than many of the ones previously mentioned in this thread - that you've probably forgotten about. I mean, Samantha Fox had a whole album for instance, Heartbeat from Don Johnson, Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy? Any number of unfortunate rap experiments from people who should have stayed far, far away from that genre. Tons of horrific hair bands. All said, I think my all time worst 80's song is this -  Glass Tiger.

For me, there's a certain kitsch that I enjoy watching Don Johnson sing. Partly because he so far up his own ### at the time that he thought he could go from Sonny Crockett to singing. Then, there's the video; the way he looks at the camera like he's so serious and is trying way too hard to show you that he's EMOTING and SINGING HIS GUTS OUT that I can't help but

 

[Tom Servo]

Building on the actors with hit songs theme you hinted at, let's not forget She's Like The Wind by Patrick Swayze.

And Bruce Willis' "Respect Yourself".

 

[Osaurus]

For me, there's a certain kitsch that I enjoy watching Don Johnson sing. Partly because he so far up his own ### at the time that he thought he could go from Sonny Crockett to singing. Then, there's the video; the way he looks at the camera like he's so serious and is trying way too hard to show you that he's EMOTING and SINGING HIS GUTS OUT that I can't help but

The comedic value of the video is off the charts.  Sometimes I belt out “heartbeeeeet” to Mrs.O and she loses it.  I do it mostly at the grocery store.

 

[Redwes25]

"We Built This City" didn't suck because the Airplane sold out. It sucked because it's a horrible song - the melody would make a 3rd grader puke and the lyric is garbage; if the playing was better, that might be off-set somewhat, but it wasn't.

By the way, the original Airplane wasn't all that either. So let's not pretend this was some kind of Great Demise. They stunk when they were at their best. Most of the Haight bands did - sloppy arrangements, couldn't play, and were horrible live. Santana propped that whole scene up. Quicksilver, too, if they hadn't kept imploding.

Grateful Dead was also a great band to come out of the Haight. 

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I liked "All I Need" by Jack Wagner

 

[Osaurus]

I liked "All I Need" by Jack Wagner

How about another soap star cover:  Rock On by Michael Damian?

 

[Tom Servo]

The comedic value of the video is off the charts.  Sometimes I belt out “heartbeeeeet” to Mrs.O and she loses it.  I do it mostly at the grocery store.

Might want to cross-post this in the "Shtick you use in real life" thread.

 

[Osaurus]

Might want to cross-post this in the "Shtick you use in real life" thread.

It did come to mind.  

 

[rockaction]

 Sometimes I belt out “heartbeeeeet” to Mrs.O and she loses it.  I do it mostly at the grocery store.

Then you might be doing the Buddy Holly, which is never incorrect.  

 

[Tom Servo]

For me, there's a certain kitsch that I enjoy watching Don Johnson sing. Partly because he so far up his own ### at the time that he thought he could go from Sonny Crockett to singing. Then, there's the video; the way he looks at the camera like he's so serious and is trying way too hard to show you that he's EMOTING and SINGING HIS GUTS OUT that I can't help but

I actually just watched this again. For someone who's supposed to be singing a love song, he gets WAY more screen time than the chick he's singing about.  

He has to do the action shot where he leaps over the small cement block wall while holding the camera. Then later in the video, he just throws a small kid over the small cement block wall...  like he was a sack of potatoes.   

The best part? That video is the ONLY copy of the actual official video.  It was reposted after being reported. Imagine a 30 year old music video being a problem.  The video is shrunk down so the record company can't find it, but it destroys it because now all the close ups are just shots of eyes.

I'm dead over here.

 

[PIK95]

This song just came on the sirius and I have to say its prerry great.  The vocals are fantastic.  The lyrics are a bit weak and the radio station sample suxor but this is a solid 80's tune. Grace sounds so good.  She's 80 now?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

This song just came on the sirius and I have to say its prerry great.  The vocals are fantastic.  The lyrics are a bit weak and the radio station sample suxor but this is a solid 80's tune. Grace sounds so good.  She's 80 now?

Grace always had one of the more solid female voices.