Made with the sounds on the Commodore 64 - 6 Channel
This is another one of those classic 80s songs that makes its way onto every 'worst songs of all time' lists. I made it to #1 here in Australia and a few other countries so c'mon, embrace your inner trashbaggery and get on down with it. :)
I'm a digital busker doing this for the love of it. If you would like to support me, head to my Bandcamp page where you can nominate a your own price for my music/albums: gavingraham.bandcamp.com
Made with ♥
Gavin
lyrics
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll, built this city
We built this city on rock and roll, oh
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
We got 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, built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Someone's 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 an' roll
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll, built this city
We built this city on rock and roll, built this city
We built this city on rock and roll, built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
It's just another Sunday in a tired old street
Well, if you got the toco, oh, then we just lost the beat
Who counts the money underneath the bar?
And who writes the wrecking ball in two wild guitars?
Don't tell us you need us, 'cause we're just simple fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll, built this city
We built this city on rock and roll, built this city
We built this city on rock and roll, built this city
We built this city on rock and roll, oh
I was a demoscene programmer back in the 80s on the Commodore 64 computer. Part of what I did was write a sound player to
exploited tricks to make its sound chip to some conceptually far fetched tricks.
Years later, I've revived my musical bent for the C64 but now I combine modern songs with these sounds of one of the greatest sounding computers of any generation....more
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