Jefferson Starship (2016) with Darby Slick, 'White Rabbit, Somebody to Love, June 12, 2016
Posted on 04/26/2021 4:50:28 AM PDT by mylife
Everybody says they hate “We Built This City.”
But… everybody doesn’t — even if it really seems like they do.
In 2004, Blender magazine and VH1 ganged up on “We Built This City” and placed it at No. 1 on their list of The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever. In 2011, Rolling Stone’s readers named the Starship tune the worst song of the ’80s, and did so by a huge margin. GQ called it “the most detested song in human history.” In The New York Times, Stephen Holden called the album that spawned the song, Knee Deep in the Hoopla, “A compendium of strutting pop-rock clichés” and that it “represents the '80s equivalent of almost everything the original Jefferson Airplane stood against — conformity, conservatism, and a slavish adherence to formula.”
Even many of the people who wrote it and sung it have thrown the song under the bus. Singer Grace Slick referred to "We Built This City" as “the worst song ever” during a 2012 conversation with Vanity Fair.
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But I love “We Built This City.” And deep down, a lot of other people love “We Built This City” as well.
In 1985, Jefferson Starship crashed and took off again as Starship with singers Slick and Mickey Thomas, guitarist Craig Chaquico, bassist Pete Sears and drummer Donny Baldwin. What started with Slick writing and singing “White Rabbit” in Jefferson Airplane - shouting “And you've just had some kind of mushroom/And your mind is moving low” and screaming “Feed your head!” over gloriously trippy and relentless-driving music - had become something very different in ’85.
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Profound! LOL!
“Can’t Get Started”, by I forget who and with Ira G writing the execrable lyrics.
I hate that song!
I kinda like the song.
Yes but he shows up as uncredited in the IMDB for the movie.
You mean the song the Eagles ripped off from Jethro Tull's "We Used to Know"?
Lol, I can’t stand him and never could...but found myself singing DANCIN’ IN THE DARK recently out of the blue. “This gun’s for hi-er...”
“Muskrat Love” has to be the worst song ever. But really, all these lists and “worst evers” and “best evers” are just a marketing hook. Especially the “worst evers.” There is so much junk that you can have one “worst ever” for every day of the year.
“It’s a bit like this tribute Rolex that I’m wearing.”
Classic!
Said the Anti-Second Amendment jerk.
The America version or the Captain and Tenille version?
Muskrat Love, good Gawd!
Good on him!, Yo mind if we dance wif yo dates?
comon people! lets talk about Journey...
Never heard it until just now. Yuck.
I was busy starting a family with my bride and time for this stuff just disappeared.
However, I did discover solo Craig Chaquico around 2000 and loved his instrumental music.
and I am sorry folks but stevie nicks destroyed fleetwood mac
“or my personal vomitorious pick Sweet Caroline”
Oh my.
What? You don’t like those kazoo / nasal vocals of hers?
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