We Built This City, the Glossary

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1. 80 relations: A.V. Undercover, Achtung Bono, Arena rock, ARIA Charts, ARIA Digital Track Chart, Ariana Grande, Australian Recording Industry Association, Ava Max, Bernie Taupin, Bill Bottrell, Billboard (magazine), Billboard Hot 100, Blender (magazine), Cashbox (magazine), Comedy rock, Craig Chaquico, Cursive (band), Dance-rock, Dennis Lambert, Disc jockey, Donny Baldwin, Ebony and Ivory, Electronic rock, European Hot 100 Singles, Golden Gate Bridge, GQ, Grace Slick, Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Grammy Awards, Grunt Records, Guglielmo Marconi, Half Man Half Biscuit, History of radio disc jockeys, Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Indie rock, JAM Creative Productions, Jasun Martz, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Kent Music Report, Knee Deep in the Hoopla, La Opinión, LadBaby, Les Garland, List of music considered the worst, List of UK singles chart Christmas number ones, Los Angeles, Mamba, Mamba (band), Mambo (music), ... Expand index (30 more) »

2. Christmas number-one single downloads in the United Kingdom
3. Grunt Records singles
4. LadBaby songs
5. Songs about San Francisco
6. Songs written by Dennis Lambert
7. Songs written by Martin Page
8. Songs written by Peter Wolf (producer)
9. Starship (band) songs
10. Synth rock songs

A.V. Undercover

A.V. Undercover is an American live music web series created by The A.V. Club, distributed on their website.

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Achtung Bono

Achtung Bono is the tenth album by UK indie rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 2005.

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Arena rock

Arena rock (also known as AOR, melodic rock, pomp rock, stadium rock, corporate rock or dad rock) is a style of rock music that became mainstream in the 1970s.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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ARIA Digital Track Chart

The ARIA Digital Track Chart ranks the highest selling legally downloaded music tracks within Australia and is provided by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Ava Max

Amanda Ava Koci (born Amanda Koçi; February 16, 1994), known professionally as Ava Max, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Bernie Taupin

Bernard John Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist and visual artist.

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Bill Bottrell

William A. Bottrell (born October 27, 1952) is an American record producer and songwriter.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine. We Built This City and Billboard Hot 100 are Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles.

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Blender (magazine)

Blender was an American music magazine published from 1994 to 2009 that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more".

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.

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Comedy rock

Comedy rock is rock music that is comedic in nature.

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Craig Chaquico

Craig Clinton Chaquico (or Chaquiço,; born September 26, 1954) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and composer.

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Cursive (band)

Cursive is an American indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska.

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Dance-rock

Dance-rock is a dance-infused genre of rock music.

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Dennis Lambert

Dennis Earle Lambert (born May 18, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.

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Donny Baldwin

Donald Baldwin (born June 22, 1951) is an American drummer best known as a member of Jefferson Starship (1982–1984; 2008–present) and its continuation Starship (1984–1989).

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Ebony and Ivory

"Ebony and Ivory" is a song that was released in 1982 as a single by Paul McCartney featuring Stevie Wonder. We Built This City and Ebony and Ivory are Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, Cashbox number-one singles and RPM Top Singles number-one singles.

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Electronic rock

Electronic rock (also known as electro rock and synth rock) is a music genre that involves a combination of rock music and electronic music, featuring instruments typically found within both genres.

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European Hot 100 Singles

The European Hot 100 Singles was compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine from March 1984 until December 2010.

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Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

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GQ

GQ (which stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly and is also known Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.

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Grace Slick

Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is a retired American musician and a painter whose musical career spanned four decades.

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Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded between 1980 and 2011.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Grunt Records

Grunt Records was a vanity label founded in 1971 by Jefferson Airplane and distributed by RCA Records.

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Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, electrical engineer, and politician, known for his creation of a practical radio wave–based wireless telegraph system.

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Half Man Half Biscuit

Half Man Half Biscuit are an English rock band, formed in 1984 in Birkenhead, Merseyside.

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History of radio disc jockeys

The history of radio disc jockeys covers the time when gramophone records were first transmitted by experimental radio broadcasters to present day radio personalities who host shows featuring a variety of recorded music.

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Hot Rock & Alternative Songs

Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (formerly known as Rock Songs and Hot Rock Songs) is a record chart published by Billboard magazine.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.

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JAM Creative Productions

JAM Creative Productions, Inc., is an American company that produces radio jingles, promo music for television, and commercial jingles for advertisers.

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Jasun Martz

Jasun Martz is an American record producer, composer, musician, fine artist, creative director and sculptor who has worked on several #1 internationally best-selling hit records but is probably best known for his contemporary classical symphonies.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1974 by a group of musicians including former members of Jefferson Airplane.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Knee Deep in the Hoopla

Knee Deep in the Hoopla is the debut studio album by American AOR band Starship, the succeeding musical project to Jefferson Starship.

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La Opinión

La Opinión is a Spanish-language daily newspaper and website based in Los Angeles, California.

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LadBaby

Mark Ian Hoyle (born 12 April 1987), better known by his online pseudonym LadBaby, is an English YouTuber, musician, and blogger.

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Les Garland

Les Garland is an American entertainment executive who is the founder and CEO of AfterPlay Entertainment, a media and entertainment consulting practice.

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List of music considered the worst

This list consists of albums or songs considered the worst examples of popular music, based on reviews, polls and sentiment from music critics, musicians and the public.

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List of UK singles chart Christmas number ones

In the United Kingdom, Christmas number ones are singles that top the UK Singles Chart in the week in which Christmas Day falls. We Built This City and List of UK singles chart Christmas number ones are Christmas number-one singles in the United Kingdom.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Mamba

Mambas are fast-moving, highly venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis (which literally means "tree asp") in the family Elapidae.

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Mamba (band)

Mamba is a Finnish schlager band formed in Pori in 1984.

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Mambo (music)

Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado.

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Martin Page

Martin George Page (born 23 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and bassist.

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Mickey Thomas (singer)

John Michael Thomas (born December 3, 1949) is an American rock singer.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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Music & Media was a pan-European magazine for radio, music and entertainment.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a song co-written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond and recorded by American rock band Starship for their second studio album, No Protection (1987). We Built This City and Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now are Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, Cashbox number-one singles, Grunt Records singles, RPM Top Singles number-one singles and Starship (band) songs.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.

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Pete Sears

Peter Roy Sears (born 27 May 1948) is an English rock musician.

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Peter Wolf (producer)

Peter F. Wolf (born August 25, 1952) is an Austrian composer, producer, songwriter and arranger.

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RCA Records

RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch

The Richmond Times-Dispatch (RTD or TD for short) is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, and the primary newspaper of record for the state of Virginia.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Sara (Starship song)

"Sara" is a song recorded by the American rock band Starship which reached number-one on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart on March 15, 1986. We Built This City and Sara (Starship song) are 1985 songs, Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, Cashbox number-one singles, Grunt Records singles, RPM Top Singles number-one singles, songs written by Peter Wolf (producer) and Starship (band) songs.

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Sausage roll

A sausage roll is a savoury dish, popular in current and former Commonwealth nations, consisting of sausage meat wrapped in puff pastry.

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Springbok Radio

Springbok Radio (spelled Springbokradio in Afrikaans) was a South African nationwide radio station that operated from 1950 to 1985.

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Starship (band)

Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California.

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Station identification

Station identification (ident, network ID, channel ID or bumper) is the practice of radio and television stations and networks identifying themselves on-air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name (sometimes known, particularly in the United States, as a "sounder" or "stinger", more generally as a station or network ID).

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Sweet but Psycho

"Sweet but Psycho" is the debut single by American singer Ava Max, released on August 17, 2018, through Atlantic Records.

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Thank U, Next (song)

"Thank U, Next" is a song by American singer Ariana Grande. We Built This City and Thank U, Next (song) are Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles and number-one singles in Australia.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The City That Never Sleeps (nickname)

The City That Never Sleeps is a ubiquitously used nickname for New York City.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Trussell Trust

The Trussell Trust is an NGO and charity that works to end the need for food banks in the United Kingdom.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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VH1

VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American Basic Cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the BET Media Group subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group based in New York City.

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See also

Christmas number-one single downloads in the United Kingdom

• A Bridge over You
• All I Want for Christmas Is You
• Do They Know It's Christmas?
• Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)
• He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
• Human (Rag'n'Bone Man song)
• JCB (song)
• Killing in the Name
• Many of Horror
• Patience (Take That song)
• Perfect (Ed Sheeran song)
• Skyscraper (song)
• Something I Need
• We Built This City
• Wherever You Are (Military Wives song)

Grunt Records singles

• Count On Me (Jefferson Starship song)
• Find Your Way Back (Jefferson Starship song)
• Jane (Jefferson Starship song)
• Miracles (Jefferson Starship song)
• Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
• Play on Love
• Runaway (Jefferson Starship song)
• Sara (Starship song)
• We Built This City
• With Your Love

LadBaby songs

• Sausage Rolls for Everyone
• We Built This City

Songs about San Francisco

• (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
• Fake Tales of San Francisco
• I Left My Heart in San Francisco
• Let's Go to San Francisco
• Lights (Journey song)
• Ride Captain Ride
• San Franciscan Nights
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
• San Francisco (Cascada song)
• San Francisco (You've Got Me)
• San Francisco Bay Blues
• San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)
• San Francisco Is a Lonely Town
• Save Me, San Francisco (song)
• Scene in San Francisco
• Taxi (Harry Chapin song)
• Theme from San Francisco
• We Built This City
• We Like to Party! (Vengaboys song)
• Who Needs the Peace Corps?

Songs written by Dennis Lambert

• Ain't No Man (SWV song)
• Ain't No Nigga
• Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)
• Are You Man Enough (Four Tops song)
• Ashes to Ashes (The 5th Dimension song)
• Can't Keep this Feeling In
• Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.)
• Don't Look Any Further
• Don't Pull Your Love
• Dream On (The Righteous Brothers song)
• Hit 'Em Up
• Hold It Don't Drop It
• It Only Takes a Minute
• Keeper of the Castle (song)
• Lose to Win
• Nightshift (song)
• One Tin Soldier
• Paper'd Up
• Sweet Understanding Love
• Take It from Me (Commodores song)
• The Moment of Truth (song)
• This Heart (Gene Redding song)
• To Love You (song)
• Two Divided by Love
• Way of Life (Lil Wayne song)
• We Built This City

Songs written by Martin Page

• Deal for Life
• Faithful (Go West song)
• In the House of Stone and Light
• Invisible Hands (song)
• Keeper of the Flame (song)
• King of Wishful Thinking
• Put on Your Red Dress
• These Dreams
• Touch (Earth, Wind & Fire song)
• Turn on (The Beat Box)
• We Built This City
• You Make My Heart Beat Faster (And That's All That Matters)

Songs written by Peter Wolf (producer)

• Everybody Have Fun Tonight
• Playing with the Boys
• Sara (Starship song)
• True Blue Love
• We Built This City
• Who's Johnny

Starship (band) songs

• Don't Lose Any Sleep
• Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
• Sara (Starship song)
• Set the Night to Music
• We Built This City

Synth rock songs

• Always Be Here
• Another Step (Closer to You)
• Between Us (CNBLUE song)
• Centerfold (song)
• Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Dead Inside (song)
• Don't Come Around Here No More
• Don't Forget (Sky Ferreira song)
• Drive (The Cars song)
• I'll Wait
• Jump (Van Halen song)
• Kiss It Better
• Love Is Alive (Gary Wright song)
• Love Walks In
• Lunch (song)
• Mr. Brightside
• Mr. Roboto
• On Fire (Lil Wayne song)
• Pressure (Billy Joel song)
• Rough Boy
• Shut Up and Dance (Walk the Moon song)
• Stand Back
• Subdivisions (song)
• The Big Money
• Tranz
• Uprising (song)
• We Built This City
• Wild Wild Life

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Built_This_City

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