― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
"you turn me on I'M a marconi"
(sounds like a porn film for those with a fetish for italians)
― dave q, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
Suckas on my jock when I walk down the blockI really don't care if you're jealous or notCos I make the songs, you sing alongAnd your marconi's def when my record's onSo get off the wall, become involvedAll your marconi problems have now been solvedMy treacherous beats make ya ears respondAnd my marconi's loud like a fire alarmThe floor vibrates, the walls cave inThe bass makes my eardrums seem thinDef sounds in my ride, yes the front and backYou would think it was a party, not a CadillacCos I drive up to the ave, with the windows closedAnd my bass is so loud, it could rip your clothesMy stereo's thumpin' like a savage beastThe level on my power meter will not decreaseSuckas get mad, cos the girlies screamAnd I'm still gettin' paid while you look at me meanI'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the goBut I know I can't live without my marconiI'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the goAnd I know I can't live without my marconi
Don't touch that dial, I'll be upsetMight go into a fit and rip off your neckCos the marconi's thumpin' when I'm down to playI'm the royal chief rocker LL Cool JLet your big butt bounce from right to leftCos it's a actual fact this jam is defMost definitely created by meGoin' down in marconi historyI'm good to go on your marconiAnd I'm cold gettin' paid cos Rick said soMake the woofers wallop and your tweeters twitchSome jealous knuckleheads might try to disBut it's nuthin', ya frontin', ya girl I am stuntin'And my marconi's loud enough to keep you gruntin'My name is Cool J, I'm from the rockCirculating through your marconi non-stopI'm lookin' at the wires behind the cassetteAnd now I'm on the right, standing on the ejectWearin' light blue Pumas, a whole lotta goldAnd jams like these keep me in controlI'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the goAnd I know I can't live without my marconi
Your energy level starts to increaseAs my big beat is slowly releasedI'm on the marconi and at the jamLL Cool J is who I amImma make ya dance, boogie down and rockAnd you'll scratch and shake to my musical plotAnd to expand my musical planCut Creator, rock the beat with your hands
That's right, so don't try to front the moveAs you become motivated by the funky grooveYou can see me and Earl chillin' on the blockWith my box cold kickin' with the gangster rockSee people can't stop me, neither can the policeI'm a musical maniac to say the leastFor you and your marconi I made this forCool J's here to devastate once morePullin' all the girls, takin' out MCsIf ya try to disrespect me, I just say Please!Here to command the hip-hop landKick it live with a box inside my handI'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the goBut I know I can't live without my marconi
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
Yes, compared to shroomadelica (but it's early days yet)
― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
well, this explains why the lyrics are so effing awful then
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 24 April 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link
― iofs, Saturday, 24 April 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
― bimble (bimble), Saturday, 24 April 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 24 April 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago) link
i was in an urban outfitters (i know, right) and they were playing this!!! i don't even know any more. maybe carles can explain.
― reche caldwell O_O (daria-g), Monday, 4 May 2009 03:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I appreciate this song completely and unironically.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 May 2009 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Owned the cassingle!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 4 May 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Bernie Taupin's lyrics, and songwriting input from that guy who wrote "In The House Of Stone And Light," "These Dreams" by Heart and "King Of Wishful Thinking" by Go West. .. A winning combination.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 06:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Taupin also write the lyrics for "These Dreams!" I had no idea..
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
We Built This City On REALLY BAD 80's SONGS
Wait - what? Taupin wrote the lyrics for These Dreams? Ha, what a trip. I didn't know that.
― Smart, Long, Lifephones (Bimble), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 05:47 (fifteen years ago) link
The great Kenny Loggins anthem to the 80s action-comedy that never was.
― tevin "ratt" campbell (Pillbox), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 06:55 (fifteen years ago) link
back when it came out i always professed to hating this song, while secretly kinda liking it.
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Family Guy was funny the other night when Chris was complaining about the rock station bragging about how they play the greatest rock songs of all time before segueing into "We Built This City".
There were two versions of the single, one with the DJ patter in San Francisco and one without. I guess radio listeners outside of the Bay Area were just getting too confused.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
These were already on sale in 1985? Wow.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, May 3, 2009 11:04 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark
Me too.
― i'm still sick, he's still drunk (ENBB), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
As somebody who grew up in Marin County in the 80's, there is not a single song by Journey or Starship that doesn't set my teeth on edge. I think I went to high school w/Slick's daughter but I can't recall her name.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Oil Slick.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I think her name was China. I shall, of course, name one of my daughters China, too.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Starbucks version for the win
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Was Grace's daughter's first initial R?
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
No, her name is China. I looked it up.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i really like the album cover
http://wtf.juhe.ee/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/b000002w8q01lzzzzzzzgif.jpg
― QE II, Thursday, 7 May 2009 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link
would look better if they had omitted the bottom text and just called the album "Starship", though
This is actually pretty great, isn't it?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
This song makes me want to murder people
― blurgh (jjjusten), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
It is wonderful and djp agrees case closed.
― ENBB, Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
"Hey guys, I've been thinking...remember how we appeared in The Star Wars Holiday Special? I actually think we have it in us to do something more embarrassing and potentially damaging to our already-shaky legacy! Whaddya say?"
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, there's no Ma Coney on the internet (vs. Marconi or even Mascone).
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Sunday, 22 January 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
mascarpone lady mumble, obv
wretched song. a friend brought it up the other day as a guilty pleasure, and i was utterly appalled.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
I used to love it as a kid. Now I hate it.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
The defunct magazine Blender's ranking of the song as the worst song ever was in conjunction with a VH1 Special of The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever.[7] In order to qualify for the distinction, the songs on the list had to be a popular hit at some point, thus disqualifying many songs that would by consensus be considered much worse. Blender editor Craig Marks said of the song, "It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of '80s corporate-rock commercialism. It's a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the '80s."[8]
However, an article in the Sydney Morning Herald pointed out that "Blender's list - compiled via an arbitrary and anecdotal data collection process and ranked by Marks - included several whimsical criteria. One was to go easy on novelty songs." In a discussion with the band's manager, Bill Thompson, he was surprised at the ranking, but also "thrilled" because of the other high-profile groups on the list, saying, "I wish Blender had called us for a group shot. I'd love to have my picture taken with Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney."[9] Mickey Thomas, one of the singers of Starship, stated in regards to the review from the, by then folded, Blender magazine, "From what I heard, they got so much flack about it that they sort of retracted their statements in a way about the song. And not only that, but Blender's folded, and we're still here."[10]
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
ah sixties survivors:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/5/18/1305716093730/We-built-this-city-on-roc-007.jpg
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
Stay gold, Jefferson Wheelchair
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
I really want to hear the whole track of the version they did for Milken - "We built this city - on high yield bonds!"
― carson dial, Monday, 23 January 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
WE BUILT THIS CITY ON FEED YOUR HEAD
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
The only thing missing from that picture is Pat St. John.
― BIG JOJO aka the road runner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
(For reference: Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?)
― BIG JOJO aka the road runner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://static.nme.com/images/gallery/StarshipWeBuiltThisCityGb071011.jpg
― buzza, Monday, 23 January 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
Thurs Mar 8 2012: Jefferson Starship @ Reggie's
Jefferson Starship, created by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Jefferson Airplane founder Paul Kantner, embarks on tour in 2011 marking 40 years since the release of their first album "Blows Against the Empire." "Blows" was the first ever rock music recording nominated for literary science fiction's prestigious Hugo Award and represented a pinnacle of collaboration for Kantner's "Airplane camp". Jefferson Starship takes flight again in 2011, reprising a 40 plus year repertoire that is the soundtrack to a generation. Paul Kantner's music has appeared in numerous films including "Forrest Gump" and "A Serious Man" and his plans include producing, composing and touring well into the future. In 2011 he will be 70 years young. The version of the Starship features Kantner, David Freiberg, Cathy Richardson, Chris Smith, Slick Aguilar and Donny Baldwin.
― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
Thu, March 8, 20127:00 pmReggies Rock ClubChicago, IL--> $30.00 - $80.00 <--
― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
This Reggie?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjy3rr7J_yQ
― BIG JOJO aka the road runner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
Different Reggie, in ChicagoBooks all kinds of stuff, nice venue, a lot of mid level metal shows are there afaik (never cost more than $12 ime)...and also 2012 Jefferson Starship, at those prices!
Unbelievable.
― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
Well, believable, but give me 1 break pls