[Opinionated Blowhard]

I’m always amused that “We Built This City” is commonly referenced in Rolling Stone polls as a “worst song.” Now its of the 1980s. In a prior poll, it was the worst song of all time. I can just see the Lib rock critics bitterly crying that their first love, the cool, hip Grace Slick of Woodstock, went from a liberal icon to a Reagan 80s corporate sellout, complete with synthesizers backing her singing. The song itself isn’t that bad. It isn’t that good but it certainly isn’t the “worst.”

[edh]

“The song itself isn’t that bad. It isn’t that good but it certainly isn’t the “worst.””

I never got the hate for this song. Cheesy 80s sound, yes. Textbook pop hit, yes. Perfect for radio ... yes.

Something I’d search through a pile of albums/cassettes/CDs/directory of poorly named MP3s to dig up and play? Hell no! That’s true of a lot of pop hits though :-).

[SamAdams76]

I kind of like "We Built This City" even though it blatantly pandered to whatever city it was being played in. I was doing a lot of business travel during the time it was popular and in every city I was driving in, the song would have DJ patter customized for that particular city.

For example, I'd be driving through St. Louis and "I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge on another gorgeous sunny Saturday" would become "I'm looking out over that beautiful Gateway Arch..."

[kelly4c]

I hated that darn song. One of the worst.