― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― MANDEE (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Christian Rawk (Christian Rawk), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:55 (twenty years ago) link
Agreed, but "Knee Deep In the Hoopla" was the name of the record.
Now that I think about it, "We Built This City" just might be the ULTIMATE corporate rock song.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:29 (twenty years ago) link
It is indeed, if only because of the band's infamous gambit of sending it to radio stations with a blank spot where the DJ spiel goes (near the bridge), so each town's "rockinest" DJ could insert his own name and the station's call letters into the song.
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Acid! Polizei! (ex machina), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link
Almost got kicked out before the show started for no real reason other than the fact that we were nearly 20 years younger than the next youngest person.
So basically it sucked but it was f'n hillarious. They were tight on sarah and we built this city - almost like they've been playing it for 30 years.
not reccomended
― rs, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
The M.W.U.A. (I can't remember exactly, If I'm wrong someone else might be able to give me the correct union) features stickers with the southern cross flag and 'We Built This City!' down the bottom.
Also, some of you will be pleased to know this song got voted the worst song ever.
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Nancy, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link
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― ww, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 06:25 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 22 April 2004 06:26 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 06:27 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 22 April 2004 06:30 (twenty years ago) link
Contrary to what's listed above, I'm pretty sure the lyric goes "Marconi plays the mamba listen to the radio".
I dunno, it's just always crossed my mind.
― rs, Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:07 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link
Very grudging respect for that one. But who remembers the part in the video where the guy made up like the Lincoln Memorial stands up and pumps his fist and mime-shouts along to the chorus?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago) link
just think, a slight change in cultural history and the quintessential prepunk anthem would have been "marconi on!"
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
Never too late.
Went to a big city festival in Bolzano, Italy and there were bands playing in every town square and one cover band tore into this and the locals went nuts and it was awesome.
Sorry folks, it’s a banger.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Friday, 18 March 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link
just the idea of going to a minor key and deciding that the line was 'Ma Coley plays the mamba' .. i need an oral history of this
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 18:23 (six months ago) link
I thought it was 'Marconi plays the mamba' (because it's followed by 'listen to the radio)? Though I guess that doesn't really make much more sense. Is there a person called Ma Coley?
― soref, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 18:27 (six months ago) link
I got a bunch of hoopla stuck to my shoe.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 18:32 (six months ago) link
Also, a mamba is a snake.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 18:37 (six months ago) link
The use of this song in the dead animal montage of Fall of the House of Usher was fantastic.
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 18:39 (six months ago) link
yeah i thought it was marconi!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:17 (six months ago) link
it's Marconi. but it still doesn't make sense
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:24 (six months ago) link
Especially because he's playing a mamba.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:24 (six months ago) link
a mamba can be an instrument, you can shake it and then emit a piercing yell when it bites the shit out of you
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:26 (six months ago) link
one of the all time great bullshit lines in pop history
― Left, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:28 (six months ago) link
xp That's metal
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:28 (six months ago) link
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 speakers. (...)At one point I did start to sing “mambo,” to try and be more grammatically correct, and after a while I thought, “Fuck it,” and went back to “mamba.”
At one point I did start to sing “mambo,” to try and be more grammatically correct, and after a while I thought, “Fuck it,” and went back to “mamba.”
― Rhoda Morgenstern stan account (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:29 (six months ago) link
who knows what kinda weird shit marconi was into
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:30 (six months ago) link
people love to hate this song but I don't mind it. it's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now that I hate
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:31 (six months ago) link
what's going on with the timing in the chorus? why does the second part of the refrain seem to slam into the first in a hilariously awkward way?
― Left, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:32 (six months ago) link
ultimately the song doesn't really hang together but it's trying its best and you have to respect that
― Left, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:33 (six months ago) link
Marconi played your mamalisten to the radio
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:35 (six months ago) link
Stuck a feather in his cap and called it marconi played the mamba
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:41 (six months ago) link
It's no "White Rabbit."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:43 (six months ago) link
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:43 (six months ago) link
I might not be thinking of the same thing
at the time it was very punk
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:44 (six months ago) link
Police got the chokehold
we built this city, here's your invoice
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:45 (six months ago) link
https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/slicksynth1_465_471_int.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:46 (six months ago) link
Grace don't give two forks
― Rhoda Morgenstern stan account (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:47 (six months ago) link
Starship - We Built This City vs Jefferson Airplane - Planes
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:47 (six months ago) link
a popist and a malpropist
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:48 (six months ago) link
*mala
Speaking of punk, this reminds me of one of my favorite Creem moments. This guy otm. Kinda NSFW.
Speaking Of Boy Howdy!
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:50 (six months ago) link
https://gifer.com/en/BkdU
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 19:59 (six months ago) link
This is the most clever bit in the song! They knew that it would be redundant to say the entire phrase "We built this city" four times in a row, so the third time they just say "built this city", but they sing "built" on the offbeat before the one where they usually sing "we", which keeps the chorus rolling nicely.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:29 (six months ago) link
...before the one beat, that is.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 27 October 2023 15:30 (six months ago) link