Starship's WE BUILT THIS CITY ON hoopla, beaver pelts, snakes, hate, and interdimensional accidents

<p>Welcome back from our break. No, that sounds wrong ... if we've been away, surely it's you that should be welcoming us back? ... Thanks, it's lovely to be back here again and you're looking great.</p> <p>Dave and I have made up for the absence with a bumper 22 minute podcast, and you pretty much need every second of that if you're going to tackle a subject like Starship's much maligned 80s hit.</p> <p>"We built this city on rock and roll" achieves a beautiful unification that only mutual hate can bring, and we consider inappropriate protest anthems, load-bearing instruments and warranty issues, destructive sound waves, city planning and engineering, metaphors and chief exports, demolition-sustain, illicit hoopla, snakey radio slang, tax evasion, beats and choke-holds, streetwise 50 year old kids; Alfred Hitchcock, airplanes and starships, in-song advertising, Bernards, Elton John, acoustic levitation, stealing plans from Superman, snake-charming in an alternate universe, dementia, tearing a sonic hole in the space-time continuum, and feedback from Rolling Stone, Blender and GQ magazines.</p> <p>Would you like to appear (well, vocally) on the show? Do you have a pop song or ear-worm from the SMOOTH FM genre that’s infested your mind and needs to be investigated? Visit this page <a href="https://anchor.fm/peter-davis6" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">anchor.fm/peter-davis6</a> and press the message button to record me your own voicemail hot-take on your specific smooth song of suckiness. You can be on a future episode! (you can always email sound files or just text to <a href="http://poidadavis@gmail.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poidadavis@gmail.com</a> if that's easier). Cheers</p> <p>Sound clips are included for educational reference, criticism, satire and parody in fair use. Clips remain the property of the respective rights holder and no endorsement is implied. All information and opinion is performed and expressed in-character and does not reflect reality or genuine comm