Yeah, this sucks, on We Built This City:
The original song was… a very dark song about how club life in L.A. was being killed off and live acts had no place to go. A producer named Peter Wolf—not the J. Geils Peter Wolf, but a big-time pop guy and Austrian record producer—got ahold of the demo and totally changed it.… If you heard the original demo, you wouldn't even recognize the song.
Ok, I bought the tape, I liked the song. Of course I was 12. What's MTV's excuse for ranking it the #2 video of 1985:
Of course Jefferson Airplane/Starship has really sixties era LSD fueled counter-culture credibility. Grace slick tells us:
The Starship, I hated. Our big hit single, “We Built This City,” was awful.… I felt like I'd throw up on the front row, but I smiled and did it anyway. The show must go on.
Which is fine. Send me a big enough check I'll write vampire lit.
Any takers?
