Posted on 11/18/2023 6:18:07 AM PST by DoodleBob
Here is the Demo of “We Built This City”.
My vote for most cringy song/video combo of the 80s is Journey’s “Separate Ways.” I’d rather listen to Milli Vanilli.
It sucks.
IMHO the demo is much better. Much less Pop.
San Francisco was fun to live in during the 90s up to about 2000. One was seeing the old rockers at bars on Saturday or more likely Sunday afternoon - Paul Kantner as an example, it was no surprise to see them there, not playing just listening to live music.
“We Are the World” is right up there in the “Sucky 80s song/video” category, IMO.
It goes without saying that anything Springsteen or Bon Jovi released in the 80s sucks way more than this tripe.
Agree
The demo sucks less than the released version.
Jefferson airplane was never really all that good to begin with. There is only so much you can do with a screamy female leas singer. So the Starship era was a mediocre band that turned 80s.
A rule of thumb that works pretty well is that the worst song on any given album is the one that will get the most airplay.
Sorry, ‘Nebraska’ and ‘Tunnel Of Love’ were pretty damn good albums by Springsteen.
Are you Alix777? 🤣
I guess you and I are in the minority here. I like it fine.
I hate every single “lots of famous rock stars singing together” song. I also hate any song about the plight of the musician, e.g. Turn the Page.
That Journey song isn’t too bad, at least until they start singing.
In Houston in the 80s, we would sing “We built this city on gas and oil…”
It was all over the radio when my friends and I were adolescents.
We would sing: “we milked this titty.”
When Marty Balin left the band went downhill, IMHO.
These guys must have had fun, though. 😄
“We Are the Worms”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=86mLpbwwLPM
People who have short memories or never lived through the 80’s forget one very important aspect of that song. In “We Built..,”, there’s a radio station ID dropped in. Radio stations would drop in their OWN station ids in the song. So tah-dah, the song becomes an advertisement for the radio station—and they played it ENDLESSLY, on EVERY pop station with a different station id in the commercial jingle bit. That’s a major reason why this song was so loathed, you couldn’t get away from it!
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