{"id":488,"date":"2008-02-18T19:48:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T19:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=488"},"modified":"2008-02-18T19:48:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T19:48:30","slug":"althouse-conjures-up-some-bad-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Althouse Conjures Up Some Bad Music."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Althouse%20Conjures%20Up%20Some%20Bad%20Music.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>She asks:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/what-band-claimed-to-have-built-this.html\"> \t  \t &#8220;What band claimed to have &#8216;built this city on rock n&#8217; roll&#8217;?&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know the answer, it&#8217;s the band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jefferson_Starship\">Starship<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t know the song, BE GREATFUL!!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We Built This City&#8221; &#8211; What a wretched piece of garbage that song is. A little bile comes up in my throat just thinking about that song. And wasn&#8217;t it just soooooo cute that each large market city (San Diego, Chicago, etc.) had a version of the song with it&#8217;s name inserted in the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson Airplane was a very good band (Jack Casady is a fine bassist). Even JS had their moments, though in hindsight you could see where things were going. It was all about the record sales, and by the late 80&#8217;s, big, unchallenging, mindless, by the numbers,\u00c2\u00a0 ghost-written-by-commitee finger painted songs were being churned out by the industry. When bands devolve musically to this point, we give them the &#8220;Phat&#8221; label. The term derived from the 80&#8217;s version of Heart, and no, it had nothing to do with Ann Wilson&#8217;s size. It was based on that huge, booming, cookie cutter song writing template they adopted after they found their 70&#8217;s success had faded. This sound became typical of &#8220;comeback&#8221; bands during the 80&#8217;s. This metamorphosis brought us &#8220;What About Love&#8221; and the catchy titled &#8220;All I Wanna do is Make Love to You&#8221;. You had Phat Chicago playing &#8220;Stay The Night&#8221;, Phat REO Speedwagon with &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Fight this Feeling Anymore&#8221;. Genesis, though not a comeback band, gave us &#8220;Invisible Touch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love the 80&#8217;s. There were some great new bands &#8211; Mr. Mister, Crowded House, Oingo Boingo to name a few, and some of the older guys were recording good stuff &#8211; Don Henley, Peter Gabriel, Sting all shined during this period, but man, some of the stuff that emanated from my radio just makes my head hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Althouse%20Conjures%20Up%20Some%20Bad%20Music.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>She asks: &#8220;What band claimed to have &#8216;built this city on rock n&#8217; roll&#8217;?&#8221; If you don&#8217;t know the answer, it&#8217;s the band Starship. If you don&#8217;t know the song, BE GREATFUL!!! &#8220;We Built This City&#8221; &#8211; What a wretched piece of garbage that song is. 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