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View Poll Results: Starship's "We Built This City" - it sucks or not?
It sucks 15 53.57%
It doesn't suck 13 46.43%
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Old 11-09-2018, 03:27 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Old 11-09-2018, 03:31 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 11-09-2018, 03:38 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I'd never heard the whole song before now and now I hate it.
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Old 11-09-2018, 03:43 PM   #15 (permalink)
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**** the haters this song bumps

What's next, you elitists cant hang with the boys being back in town?
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Old 11-09-2018, 03:45 PM   #16 (permalink)
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The difference being that this isn't hot garbage


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Old 11-09-2018, 03:45 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Old 11-09-2018, 03:49 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Old 11-09-2018, 03:50 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Mickey Thomas (the vocalist): "When the song went to No. 1, I said to Bernie [Taupin, one of the writers],
"More than ever, people are gonna ask what ‘Marconi plays the mamba’ means." He said, “I have no fucking idea, mate.”
Well I can only guess if the record company knew what Taupin meant they would have black-listed him. He just took the fifth to keep his job.
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Now this is something I can get down with


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