<P> Who is Marconi? And what is the mamba? The mamba is the deadliest snake in the world, so he must have meant the mambo, but it sounds so much like' mamba' that every lyric web site writes it that way . It makes sense neither way ." </P> <P> The Richmond Times - Dispatch listed other songs by Starship that would have made more sense for being on the top of the list than "We Built This City," concluding, </P> <P> No, no . They chose the song that references Marconi, the father of the radio . The song that inserted a cool snippet of DJ chatter from the band's beloved San Francisco . The song that found Grace Slick enunciating the phrase "corporation games" with nutty abandon . </P> <P> In 2011 a Rolling Stone magazine online readers poll named "We Built This City" as the worst song of the 1980s . The song's winning margin was so large that the magazine reported it "could be the biggest blow - out victory in the history of the Rolling Stone Readers Poll". </P>

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