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How Can A City Be Made Out Of Rock & Roll?!
WTF? The guy that made that song is a complete idiot. I mean really, doesn't he know you need lots of steel, wood, nails, and elbow grease. It's just plain daft!
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| Originally posted by dj_cuba complete idiot...just plain daft! |
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On complete idiot...just plain daft! |
Certainly is!
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Certainly is! |
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| Originally posted by dj_cuba Complete nutcase! |
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| Originally posted by idoru |
If I recall correctly, We Built This City on Rock and Roll is a Starship song. Starship was formerly Jefferson Starship, which was formerly Jefferson Airplane. The song is about San Francisco CA and laments how it had evolved from a city of free thought, expression, and a haven for Hippies and those ascribing to socialist ideals in the late sixtys and seventies to a corporate centre in the mid to late eighties. Jefferson Airplane along with such bands as the Grateful Dead were instrumental in the creation of the Haight -Ashbury community. Haight-Ashbury became a mecca for hippies and free spirits and led to a great deal of immigration to San Francisco, which in-turn made San Francisco a major city. Without the influance of the artistic community in SF, particullarly the music community, it is unlikely that it would have ever grown to any significance other then as a port city, thus, in a manner of speaking, they did build that city on rock and roll. Ironically, it was that very atmosphere of free thought and experimentation that drew the PC makers and software developers to SF thus leading to the corporate atmosphere the song protests against. So not only did they build their idealic city on rock and roll but they destroyed their ideals via the same mechanism.
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| Originally posted by dj_cuba WTF? The guy that made that song is a complete idiot. I mean really, doesn't he know you need lots of steel, wood, nails, and elbow grease. It's just plain daft! |
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| Originally posted by stren steel = metal wood = boner = groupies nails = nine inch nails = industrial elbow grease = useful in moshpits all that is connected to rock |
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| Originally posted by Moral Hazard Without the influance of the artistic community in SF, particullarly the music community, it is unlikely that it would have ever grown to any significance other then as a port city, thus, in a manner of speaking, they did build that city on rock and roll. |
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| Originally posted by stren steel = metal wood = boner = groupies nails = nine inch nails = industrial elbow grease = useful in moshpits all that is connected to rock |
morals right
plus there's a difference between on and out of
they didn't build their city out of rock and roll, they built it on rock and roll, just as, for example, arbiter's campaigning on a platform of moral and intellectual superiority
Re: How Can A City Be Made Out Of Rock & Roll?!
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| Originally posted by dj_cuba WTF? The guy that made that song is a complete idiot. I mean really, doesn't he know you need lots of steel, wood, nails, and elbow grease. It's just plain daft! |
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| Starship - Grace Slick singing We built this city We built this city on rock and roll We built this city We built this city on rock and roll Say you don't know me Or recognize my face Say you don't care who goes To that kind of place Knee deep in the hoopla Sinking in your fight Too many runaways Eating up the night Marconi plays the mamba Listen to the radio Don't you remember We built this city We built this city on rock and roll We built this city We built this city on rock and roll We built this city We built this city on rock and roll Someone always playing Corporation games Who cares they're always changing Corporation names We just want to dance here Someone stole the stage They call us irresponsible Write us off the page Marconi plays the mamba Listen to the radio Don't you remember We built this city We built this city on rock and roll We built this city We built this city on rock and roll We built this city We built this city on rock and roll It's just another Sunday In a tired old street Police have got the choke hold Oh, and we just lost the beat Who counts the money Underneath the bar Who rides the wrecking ball Into our guitars Don't tell us you need us 'Cause we're just simple fools Looking for America Calling through your schools (I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge Out on a gorgeous sunny Saturday I've seen that bumper-to-bumper traffic) Don't you remember (remember) (Here's your favorite radio station in your favorite radio city The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps) Marconi plays the mamba Listen to the radio Don't you remember We built this city We built this city on rock and roll We built this city We built this city on rock and roll We built this city We built this city on rock and roll |
I'm pretty sure that city was built on land stolen from the native americans.
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| Originally posted by Marc Summers I'm pretty sure that city was built on land stolen from the native americans. |
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| Originally posted by Moral Hazard most native north american tribes did not believe in the ownership of land, subsequently, they did not own it, thus, it was not stolen. |
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| Originally posted by Marc Summers I guess they didn't believe in genocide or germ warfare either, thus it did not happen. |
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| Originally posted by Moral Hazard All I'm saying is that if one does not believe that something can be owned they cannot then claim it to be theirs. Fuck your revisionist history. They should be happy they weren't all killed off. |
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| Originally posted by Moral Hazard All I'm saying is that if one does not believe that something can be owned they cannot then claim it to be theirs. Fuck your revisionist history. They should be happy they weren't all killed off. |
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| Originally posted by Danny Ocean what a piece of shit mentality. |
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| Originally posted by Danny Ocean what a piece of shit mentality. |
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| Originally posted by Moral Hazard All I'm saying is that if one does not believe that something can be owned they cannot then claim it to be theirs. Fuck your revisionist history. They should be happy they weren't all killed off. |
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