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We Built This City On Rock and Roll appreciation thread
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There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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The world is awful and you are its prophet.
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There is only one true god of thunder and he lives on pasty sandwiches.Dr. Medulla wrote:The world is awful and you are its prophet.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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Still216 posted this to Heston's fb today: http://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we ... f-all-time
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Chaquico: The song says we built this city on live music, let's bring it back—but the music is computerized. It complains about techno pop, but it's a techno-pop song. It exemplifies the problem it's protesting.matedog wrote:Still216 posted this to Heston's fb today: http://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we ... f-all-time
Thomas: Anybody who says the lyrics are dumb hasn't taken the time to digest the verses. I don't think there's anything dumb about “looking for America, crawling through your schools.”
Page: Chordally and harmonically it's—this isn't an ego thing—it's incredibly skillful.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Thomas: When the song went to No. 1, I said to Bernie, “More than ever, people are gonna ask what ‘Marconi plays the mamba’ means.” He said, “I have no fucking idea, mate.”
Page: Hmm. Marconi was the first one to send music across the ocean. I saw “We Built This City” as saying stop the corporations, we need to play music.
Thomas: Bernie didn't say “mambo,” he said “mamba,” which is a snake. Marconi created the radio. Maybe Bernie meant to say “mambo.” Maybe it means: If you don't like this music, some really angry snakes are gonna come out of the speaker
God, what a fucking terrible song.Stephen Holden (critic; ‘The New York Times,’ 1985): A compendium of strutting pop-rock clichés, Knee Deep in the Hoopla represents the '80s equivalent of almost everything the original Jefferson Airplane stood against—conformity, conservatism, and a slavish adherence to formula.
I WILL DO NO SUCH THING.Chaquico: I do the song with my band—sometimes as a full-on power trio, like if Cream or Jimi Hendrix were to do it, but we also do a reggae version of it, when we're in the mood. Imagine Bob Marley singing “We Built This City.”
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Translation: Anyone who doesn't realize our brilliance must be a moron.matedog wrote:Thomas: Anybody who says the lyrics are dumb hasn't taken the time to digest the verses. I don't think there's anything dumb about “looking for America, crawling through your schools.”
Yeah, the rationale of every self-deluded genius ever.
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I want to know who the 80's singer who called it "pussy" music is. Any guesses?
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David Lee Roth?JennyB wrote:I want to know who the 80's singer who called it "pussy" music is. Any guesses?
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I thought about him too. What if it was someone with an already "fey" image like Dave Gahan/Martin Gore or Morrissey? :)Wolter wrote:David Lee Roth?JennyB wrote:I want to know who the 80's singer who called it "pussy" music is. Any guesses?
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Another dumbfuck totally missing the irony and subversion of the song.matedog wrote:Chaquico: The song says we built this city on live music, let's bring it back—but the music is computerized. It complains about techno pop, but it's a techno-pop song. It exemplifies the problem it's protesting.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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I don't think he necessarily doesn't see the irony/subversion. In fact, I think he's highlighting it.Heston wrote:Another dumbfuck totally missing the irony and subversion of the song.matedog wrote:Chaquico: The song says we built this city on live music, let's bring it back—but the music is computerized. It complains about techno pop, but it's a techno-pop song. It exemplifies the problem it's protesting.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Ahhh, I see. I've missed his intention due to just seeing it written down. Sorry Chaquico, you aren't a dumbfuck, you are a very wise man.matedog wrote:I don't think he necessarily doesn't see the irony/subversion. In fact, I think he's highlighting it.Heston wrote:Another dumbfuck totally missing the irony and subversion of the song.matedog wrote:Chaquico: The song says we built this city on live music, let's bring it back—but the music is computerized. It complains about techno pop, but it's a techno-pop song. It exemplifies the problem it's protesting.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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He says a lot of equally dumb things throughout that, so of course you'd praise him.Heston wrote:Ahhh, I see. I've missed his intention due to just seeing it written down. Sorry Chaquico, you aren't a dumbfuck, you are a very wise man.matedog wrote:I don't think he necessarily doesn't see the irony/subversion. In fact, I think he's highlighting it.Heston wrote:Another dumbfuck totally missing the irony and subversion of the song.matedog wrote:Chaquico: The song says we built this city on live music, let's bring it back—but the music is computerized. It complains about techno pop, but it's a techno-pop song. It exemplifies the problem it's protesting.
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