The ULTIMATE Corporate Rock Song

So what was corporate rock anyway? Everyone was against it a few years ago, but I never figured out who qualified and who didn't. Were Boston corporate rock, even though they did that "Corporate America" song mentioned above? Pearl Jam? Huey Lewis? Someone enlighten me.

listen guys if it wasnt 4 corporations u would b eatin potatoes out of the ground and drinking rainwater u collected urself u fucken hippeys

And eating Geoff Travis' brown rice.

What a horrible thought.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l239/Danj1234/CorporateRockStillSucks2.jpg

(I'm all for corporate rock, by the way. Whatever it is.)

Wikipedia sez :

Corporate rock is an often pejorative term used primarily by music critics to describe rock music, particularly music from arena rock bands, which are alleged to be purely commercial, formulaic, or lacking in creativity or authenticity, or to music which was thought to have used corporate record producing power to get an unfair playback advantage on radio over more music more deserving of exposure. According to these critics, the primary goal of the corporate rock artist or band in making music is profit and radio airplay rather than artistic creativity. As a result, corporate rock is typified by catchy, mainstream radio-friendly, formulaic songs following a pop music model. The term was first used in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Despite the negative opinions of critics, many corporate rock bands attained a high degree of commercial success, and some still have loyal followings today.

So that's cleared that up then.

"We Built This City" was what I immediately thought of, same as NTI.

Like Blood and Sparkles, I thought of 'Hip To Be Square'. There is some sense in which that song really does stand alone.

The most corporate of corporate rock songs are when actual talented songwriters get hits delivered by professional cliche hitmaker songwriters because their management/label or whatever believe those songs have more hit potential. Examples are "The Flame" by Cheap Trick and "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith.

"Double Vision"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UguqNYa90UM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id3qqS27xHE