Is the irony that the ####iest song ever made (at least by people that did have other good music) is being used in a Charmin commercial? Genius marketing.
We Built This City
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More like we built this ******.
Every time I hear that song I just keep thinking “she did Woodstock!” It’s mind boggling.
Monterey Pop too. Two years earlier.Every time I hear that song I just keep thinking “she did Woodstock!” It’s mind boggling.
Muskrat Love would like a word with you on worst song ever.
The worst part is that Starship/Airplane have a bunch of really good songs... how this turd ever saw the light of day is a travesty.
Speaking of terrible songs and Woodstock, if I never hear Joe Cocker singing With a Little Help From My Friends ever again, I will die a much happier man. Why are they still playing that 60 years later???
The lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin, who has gotten away with an occasional throw away lyric like "horny back toads' but the song gods decided to punish him and Starship by creating a monster hit but so bad no one will ever forget it.
He tried claiming once it was a very dark song about LA, not SF, and how corporatism had killed the live rock scene and blamed the producer but in that same article that The Motels were offered the song and said no way when they heard the demo
He tried claiming once it was a very dark song about LA, not SF, and how corporatism had killed the live rock scene and blamed the producer but in that same article that The Motels were offered the song and said no way when they heard the demo
You've got to cut JC some slack. He was having an epileptic fit while singing.