Starship [CD-single] [Import]

Track Listings

1. Radio Edit

2. Original Version

3. Syklone Remix

4. Tony Kelly's Dancehall Del8i

5. Dj Assad & Jo Jo Yannik Mix

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Iceberg Slimm is one of the UK's most prominent and illustrious rappers. Growing up in Hackney East London in a family of 6 brothers & sisters has given Ice a unique perspective on inner city life and this background gives his rhymes an added dimension. 'Starship' is taken from his 2004 debut, the Original Version is backed with 4 non-album versions - Radio Edit, Syklone Remix, Tony Kelly's Dancehall Delight & DJ Assad & Jo JO Yannik Remix. V2.

Starship,Iceberg Swim,V2,5"CD Singles,Rap

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Hot CD
From Airplanes to Starships
Starship is a badge of the 80s!
Starship Minus Jefferson...

The Very Best of Starship
Starship
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ASIN: B000024TZB
Release Date: 1997-09-15

Tracks:

We Built This City
Jane
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)
Babylon
Set the Night to Music
Sara
Love Among the Cannibals
Rock Myself to Sleep
Hearts of the World (Will Understand)
It's Not Enough
Layin' It on the Line
Find Your Way Back
Stranger
No Way Out
Don't Lose Any Sleep
Good Heart

Customer Reviews:

Hot CD.......2007-07-05

I've been looking for a particular song for awhile and I finally found it. "Nothin' Gonna Stop Us Now" is on this CD collection and it's awesome. What I didn't realize was the other great tunes on here as well. A total bonus for me.
YEAH

From Airplanes to Starships.......2005-12-20

A fairly good representation of the mostly Mickey Thomas and Grace Slick days of Starship, previously known as Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. Contains most of the hits, notably "Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now , (featured in the movie Mannequin) Rock Myself to Sleep ,(also covered by April Wine) Sara ,(with actress Rebecca De Mornay in the video) Find Your Way Back, Jane and a song that in some circles the video was voted one of the worst ever but the song one of the most original "We Built This City"(insert the name of your favourite radio station here). My only complaint is the omission of "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" from the "Knee Deep in the Hoopla " album. Other than that sit back and enjoy.

Starship is a badge of the 80s!.......2005-05-17

Starship is one of the hottest band of the 80's decade. This is a summary of the group work... I find it great but I feel full with only 3 songs. They are enough for me... too much!!! "We built this city" rocks! It's a great song... great guitars, great drums! Then I love "Sara"... what a song... definitely it's one of the best songs of all that decade (history?) Who knows... Sara starts with a soft melody and then it gets harder and louder... but it still keeps the love song kind. And the mega hit "Nothing's gonna stop us now" is one of my all time favourite songs... another "not soft" love long... just remember a phrase... "... all that I need is you... all that I ever needed..."

Starship Minus Jefferson..........2001-09-16

Probably the best of all the best of's, this cd contains choice album cuts as well as the hits. For fans of Grace Slick like myself,this collection contains most of what she did with the band after it became Starship.

While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets

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Awesome Album, Start to Finish
Beam me up Cobra Starship
G A B E gonna get you high!
Cobra starship rocks!
Cool sound

While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets
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Album Description

The band burst onto the scene with the uber-catchy dance-pop-rock of "Snakes On A Plane (Bring It)" from the movie's soundtrack. This is their debut full-length. Produced by S*A*M, a.k.a. Sam Hollander (Method Man, The Sounds, Gym Class Heroes) and Sluggo, the alter ego of renowned session bassist Dave Katz (Roger Daltrey). Features special guests, such as members of Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is..., Gym Class Heroes, The Sounds, and 80's dance/pop group The Cover Girls.

Customer Reviews:

Awesome Album, Start to Finish.......2007-06-27

Highly Reccomended. It's got a blend of the 80s with a more contemporary feel and keeps yer head boppin along with the beat.

Beam me up Cobra Starship.......2007-06-05

Saw this band on this years Honda Civic Tour. I originally went to see Fall Out Boy (of course!) and was totally taken over by Cobra Starship!
I find their music original and fun.
Favorite tracks are "Send My Love to the Dance Floor..." and "Keep it Simple".
I would definitely recommend this album to anyone who is looking for something different.

G A B E gonna get you high!.......2007-05-21

Cobra Startship's debut album will put you in such a great musical mood, you wont be able to help dancing with yourself!

Gabe Saporta knows just want it takes to get the listener to really feel his songs and get you moving!

My favorite tracks are Send my Love... The balland of Big Poppa... The Kids are all F'd up.

If you are feeling Gabe's sound, be sure to check out some of his former band, Midtown's releases: Forget What you Know OR Living Well is the Best Revenge.

Holla!

Cobra starship rocks!.......2007-04-09

Dudes this album is sick all the way through!!! If you dig gabes voice and songs, you must check out all of his "midtown" albums!!! they are different, but evenly good!!!!

Cool sound.......2007-03-09

Cobra starship has a nice up beat kind of dance beat to it. I really like the whole C.D. it is a nice addition to my collection

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fantastic
Rare Intersection of Commercialism and Quality
If Only You'd Believe In Miracles, So Would I
Starship In '75
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Red Octopus
Jefferson Starship
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ASIN: B000ANVPJM
Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

Fast Buck Freddie
Miracles
Git Fiddler
Al Garimasu (There Is Love)
Sweeter Than Honey
Play On Love
Tumblin'
I Want To See Another World
Sandalphon
There Will Be Love
Miracles (Singles Version)
Band Introduction (Live)
Fast Buck Freddie (Live)
There Will Be Love (Live)
You're Driving Me Crazy (Live)

Customer Reviews:

fantastic.......2007-04-05

I don't know if I'd call myself a big Jefferson Starship fan, because most of their music besides this album hasn't really caught my attention, but Red Octopus RULES. I LOVE this album. Every song.

Maybe it's the meaningful vocal melodies with lots of emotion, or maybe it's the guitar playing. Whatever it is, I love this baby.

"fast buck freddie" seems like a song that goes all OVER the place the first time you listen to it, without any of the vocal melodies really catching on. However, listen to it a few more times, and find out that it really IS a good song. Of course "miracles" is a classic, especially the longer version. Great song. A great way to blend female and male vocals, too. I won't argue with anyone who says it's the best song on the album.

"git fiddler" is another highlight. I love instrumentals and this is a really good one. "tumblin" is a typical 70's ballad, but who cares? "I want to see another world" is a strange one. A song that really stands out from the rest of the album. It's loud, sounds important, and you won't forget how the chorus goes. The chorus is great. "saldalphon" sounds SO MUCH like a Procol Harum song. It must be the slow-building keyboards that help me come to this conclusion. Very soft, beautiful, memorable song. "there will be love" is the song that carefully blends great emotional singing with emotional guitar playing. What a song this one is.

But do you want to know which song makes the whole thing near perfect? It's "Al Garimasu (there is love)" POWERFUL, slow-building, flawless female vocals. BEST SONG EVER. I'm serious. PLEASE listen to Red Octopus. "AHHHHHHH, I want to FE-EL YOUR LO-O-OVE" You don't realize how good this song is.

Rare Intersection of Commercialism and Quality.......2007-04-03

There's no denying that Red Octopus is one of the most successful commercial albums ever produced by a previously counterculture band. On this second official release of Jefferson Starship, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Marty Balin and company boldly toss off the last vestiges of the Jefferson Airplane era and stride boldly into the world of mid-70s corporate rock. And as much as I truly despise that genre, I'd have to say that Red Octopus manages to achieve that rare intersection of broad commercial appeal and quality.
What song is more symbolic of an era than Miracles? Perhaps only the reconstituted Fleetwood Mac of the early Buckingham-Nicks era comes as close to commercially evoking the mid-70s spirit of album oriented rock radio. As blatantly commercial the appeal of Miracles is, I still like it. The line "I had a taste of the real world (just a drop of it), when I went down on you girl" was one of the most daringly suggestive lines of the day and also one of the most pointedly passionate. It still sounds that way today and the full version of Miracles is a song of which I never tire.
By and large, the rest of Red Octopus is a very enjoyable album. Never has Grace Slick's voice rang out with more confidence and authority. In addition to Miracles, my favorites are Fast Buck Freddy, Al Garimasu, Play On Love, I Want To See Another World, and the instrumental Sandalphon which is briefly evocative of Procol Harum. I enjoy the bonus tracks as well, although the shortened version of Miracles just doesn't do it for me. The play of Papa John Creech and the musicality of Pete Sears add much to the aural appeal of Red Octopus.
I agree with the reviewer from Florida who feels that Red Octopus constitutes the apex of creativity for Jefferson Starship as a band. It was all downhill from here and it was especially painful to hear the depths to which they ultimately sunk with the execrable "We Built This City".
If I had to recommend one album by Jefferson Starship, Red Octopus is the only one to which I give an enthusiastic recommendation. Not only is it good, but it is at a bargain price as well. Now that I've rediscovered it, it will never gather dust.

If Only You'd Believe In Miracles, So Would I.......2006-06-04

It fascinates this reviewer that the second release of Jefferson Airplane, SURREALISTIC PILLOW, was their greatest commercial success, just as RED OCTOPUS, the second release of Jefferson Starship was theirs. It was all downhill from there and here.

RED OCTOPUS was a mainstay of the mid-1970s AOR playlist. Unlike the Airplane, whose politically-minded, drug-fueled, and musically daring discography made them a pure Counterculture band between 1966 and 1972, Jefferson Starship stayed largely within the bounds of convention on 1975's RED OCTOPUS. Virtually all the songs are pure love songs, and the vast majority of them will someday make the Vegas lounge jump with no problem at all. RED OCTOPUS is a musical departure from the band's usual formula. RED OCTOPUS showcases the talents of Craig Chaquico, Pete Sears, and Papa John Creach, each of whom contributes a unique signature that carries this album in the direction of Fusion Jazz. Even the rockers, such as "Fast Buck Freddie" have an agreeable AM slant, while Paul Kantner's obligatory Oriental/Sci-Fi contribution, "I Want To See Another World" is a three-part harmonized love song shared by Kantner, Grace Slick and Marty Balin.

Thirty years on, the incessant romancing on RED OCTOPUS sounds more than a little sappy, but it WAS the album for it's time and place, a lush, laid back, and well-crafted production, perfectly geared to the tiffany glass fern bar crowd.

Jefferson Starship could and would never replicate the success of RED OCTOPUS. On subsequent albums the band retreated into it's habitually overproduced electric anthem sound even where the largely RED OCTOPUS-like material didn't warrant it. It's no wonder they fell to the nadir of "We Built This City On Rock And Roll," a piece of utter pop trash that is painful to contrast with SURREALISTIC PILLOW's "Somebody To Love," the title track of CROWN OF CREATION, or even the signature RED OCTOPUS number, "Miracles."

In it's forty year lifespan this protean band perfectly mirrored the rise and fall of Rock.

Starship In '75.......2006-01-28

The Jefferson Starship enjoyed their first and only number one album with Red Octopus. While this album doesn't have the rebellious bite of their Airplane recordings, it is a pleasing collection of songs. "Miracles" is probably the band's best song and Marty Balin has never sounded smoother with Grace Slick providing powerful backup and "There Will Be Love" contains a classic Balin-Kanter-Slick vocal interplay. The album has some good rockers such as Slick's "Fast Buck Freddie" & "Play On Love" and the scorching "Sweeter Than Honey" which contains fiery fiddle playing from Papa John Creach. Red Octopus is often overlooked, especially stacked up against Airplane recordings, but is it is a superb collection of rock songs by a veteran rock group that never sounded tighter or more well-oiled in their career. The newly remastered version greatly improves on the sound and the four live tracks are welcome bonus.

Jefferson Starship's Best Just Got Better.......2005-10-12

RED OCTOPUS, Jefferson Starship's best album ever, just got better. In addition to the main album, there are now five bonus cuts, all of which are excellent, including the single version of "Miracles." All eight band members are playing very well together, just like in the early Airplane, and "Sweeter Than Honey" and "I Want To See Another World", along with "Fast Buck Freddie", are three of the best rockers the band ever recorded. The fact that Marty Balin and Paul Kantner believe that the Indonesian drug-smuggling conviction of a young Australian tourist was trumped-up and unjust makes this CD an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.

Starship's Greatest Hits (Ten Years and Change 1979-1991)

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Cheesy 80s music with a few classics...
A Fine Collection of the Later Years
Great songs!
More of A Bridge Than A Greatest Hits Album.
This is a good, over-the-top '80s rock album!

Starship's Greatest Hits (Ten Years and Change 1979-1991)
Starship
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ASIN: B000002W3P
Release Date: 1991-05-28

Tracks:

Jane
Find Your Way Back
Stranger
No Way Out
Layin' It On The Line
Don't Lose Any Sleep
We Built This City
Sara
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)
It's Not Enough
Good Heart

Customer Reviews:

Cheesy 80s music with a few classics..........2007-03-17

I don't own any other albums by Starship (or Jefferson Airplane or Jefferson Starship or any other iteration of this schizophrenic group) and don't consider myself a fan. I bought this album strictly because it was dirt-cheap, and I was familiar with a few of the songs.

Ultimately, the album does deliver their few biggest hits from the 80s, including "We Built This City," "Sara," and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." And those songs are lots of fun, even if primarily for their nostalgic sound.

There are also a few other interesting songs that were new to me, such as "Find Your Way Back." However, most of the other tracks were largely forgettable.

Ultimately, this album is nothing beyond mediocre. Based on other reviews, it appears that true fans will want to look elsewhere. And casual listeners like myself won't find much of value here beyond their few big hits. This disc is tolerable but nothing special.

A Fine Collection of the Later Years.......2006-08-01

For me this is the Starship of my generation,(I do love to 'Somebody To Love')featuring the Fantastic voices of Mickey Thomas & Grace Slick, the more Rock & Pop songs of this period has been unfairly reviewed by some, I would rather have 'We Built This City' as one of the defining songs of the 80's than the most of mess that are examples of the 90's & now! 'Sara' is one the best songs of the 80's, and the huge hit 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now'. These are great songs that still sound good and bring back great memories!

Great songs!.......2005-03-24

Worth it just for 'We Built this City', which was one of the best songs of the 80's.

More of A Bridge Than A Greatest Hits Album........2005-02-13

Jefferson Airplane was considered a really good rock outfit. They were a key part of the sex, drugs and rock n' roll of the 70's. Swiftly they began to change. From battles over the name of the band to member changes to style changes, the group seemed more like three or four bands than one. The musical styling changes prove that. Those changes can be heard throughout this album.

The earlier songs found here, especially "Jane," hearken back to the days when this band was built to rock. Songs like "No Way Out" revealed the changes to come as the band metamorphosed one more time into a pop/arena rock outfit. Of course, this change lead to their big hits of the 80's, such as "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" and "Sara," which are included here. The album also includes a couple of new tracks which are pretty good, "Good Heart" and "Don't Lose Any Sleep," which show a band embracing their new pop sound to perfection.

Of course, there are always songs that bring about controversy, and "We Built This City" is that song on this compilation. Much like Styx's "Mr. Roboto," this song is either loved or detested by all that hear it. I'm one of those schmucks who loves the song. It's been rated one of the cheesiest songs ever on a multitude of television shows and in magazines. It's also been called one of the best pop tunes ever. No matter which side of the fence you're on, it's here for you to sample.

In closing, all you can really say about this album is that it gives you a taste of what once was Jefferson Airplane, what became Jefferson Starship, and what eventually went down in flames groupwise as Starship. All of the songs on this album are keepers, but there's nothing especially groundbreaking here. Just keep in mind that Starship is the pop version of Jefferson Airplane, and you won't be let down.

This is a good, over-the-top '80s rock album!.......2004-05-31

I liked this Starship album compiling their hits between the name changes of Jefferson Starship and Starship. I loved Jane when it came out in 1979 and the other songs from '84 to '90 are full-blown over-the-top rockers! They were like a milder Van Halen under the newer name with the excess and bombast. The pre-'84-85 songs don't grab me as much as the others. Some of the songs actually sound good in Atlanta--the skyline of that city matches very well to the songs and landscapes. We Built This City still rocks, I still like the calm to blasting vibes of No Way Out, Sara still has that mysterious feel to it, It's Not Over still is charging, and I still like the Mike Shipley sound of It's Not Enough. Paul Kantner and Mickey Thomas were good as the lead singers, but no one mentioned Marty Balin? To me, he was also another strong lead singer in that band when he was in it. Through a lot of conflicts over the group name, this album justifies their success in the '80s. Surprising that most of the songs average in the 4 1/2 minute range.

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Streamlined Starship
Much improved over original release
A weak best of....
Like "Worst Of Jefferson Airplane", a fair intro
Jefferson Starship's Gold

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Release Date: 1998-02-24

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Ride The Tiger
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Miracles
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With Your Love
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Hyperdrive

Customer Reviews:

Streamlined Starship.......2005-02-17

"Best Of" albums are by definition hodge-podgey affairs. Yes, there are artists whose works are best represented by retrospective repackagings, but even Jefferson Starship's detractors (and the reviews below suggest that there certainly are some) would have to admit that the group was attempting more--even in their most commercial periods--than their singles alone might suggest. A "best of" is likely to only begin to suggest the range of the group's experimentalism, which WAS there even in the 70s.

As someone once said, any group that included a songwriter and singer as idiosyncratic as Grace Slick could never be a totally commercial venture. The Starship enterprise was certainly as commercial as a bunch of hippies could ever get, but neither Paul nor Grace were really capable of churning out the hits over the long haul. Sweet voiced Marty Balin finally received his due in the 70s (since, as is commonly noted, he felt justifiably frustrated in the 60s when the interloper Slick brought the Airplane their only real hits and got ALL the media attention). And who can deny that "Miracles" wasn't a deserving hit? For a while, he was being hailed as a white soul balladeer. But that proved to be a pretty shortlived phenomenon, and by the time of "Runaway" and "With Your Love," people were screaming "formula." Worse yet they were referring to him as a "lounge singer."

What are you gonna do? When Balin was in his prime, I could have listened to him sing the phone book. And the more uptempo numbers here, such as "Caroline" show him at his versatile best. But Balin himself once referred to the group that brought him stardom as essentially "a variety show." And that's a statement that you could take in a positive or negative light. (I gather he meant in negatively himself.)

Even more so than the Airplane before them, the Starship really did seem to be three or four songwriters all "on separate trips," as we used to say. You had Grace's cool obscurantism, Paul's sci-fi and poli-sci-fi tracts, and Marty's ardent love songs. Throw in a few instrumentals and one or two experiments and you had your typical Starship record circa '74 to '79. More than the sum of its parts? Less? Or just a strange assemblage of parts, sometimes coming together in a perfect fit and sometimes not? The last may be the best and most accurate way of viewing them.

So, in order to get the full flavor, it's still probably preferable to listen to the complete albums--even if you do find them flawed. On the other hand, if you have to have a "best of" collection, this is pretty much as good a one as you could hope for. Really, if I had been assigned the project (fat chance, but in my dreams), I would have selected pretty much the same Starship tracks: "Caroline" (a little long but still the JS track that recaptured some Airplane magic and likely convinced Marty to rejoin the group fulltime for RED OCTOPUS), "Ride the Tiger" (a little heavy handed but also as rocky as a Kantner opus is gonna get) and "Hyperdrive," (a favorite of mine, with Grace at her most elliptical) all from DRAGONFLY. The RED OCTOPUS tracks are what you would expect, "Miracles," "Play On Love," and "Fast Buck Freddie" (classic Marty, Grace at her most accessible). The EARTH and SPITFIRE tracks are also virtual musts in any Jefferson Starship collection. I know some would argue against the Balin ballads, but they WERE hits. "Love Too Good" is latter day Grace at her very best--one of her best vocals ever. And "St. Charles" is as good an example of a successful collaborative effort by the group's three main songwriters as you're going to find (from their entire oeuvre). And as I suggested, those collaborations were getting rarer and rarer by the late 70s.

Overall, then, it's as good a collection as you're gonna get, if you're not up to investing in a complete set of all the JS albums. The bonus track "Light the Sky On Fire" probably shouldn't be the decisive factor in anyone's purchasing decision. It's a nice non-ballad Marty vocal. He sounds a little strained, and the Kantneresque lyrics and arrangements don't quite work here for him. Not the way they do on "St. Charles" -- that track is the GROUP at their magical best.

One caveat: apparently the remastered edition of GOLD has the album length version of "Miracles." That's doubtless a plus for most listeners. Actually, though, since I also own RED OCTOPUS, I didn't mind having the single version as well. I knew that the hit version had been edited down, but since I didn't really listen to commercial radio back in the 70s, the 45 version was pretty much unfamiliar to me. It was interesting to see how it was skillfully edited down to a more "radio friendly" length. Doubtless some will even prefer the more stripped down version.

Much improved over original release.......2005-01-29

I just bought this rereleased disc, and I must say I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that the four tracks that had been edited for the original 1979 release (as well as the original CD release) have been replaced with the full-length album versions.

A weak best of...........2004-10-14

"Gold" is a collection of the Jeffersom Starship's greatest hits. I use that term loosely because "greatest" is questionable. What you have here is a collection of the best this band could offer up. The band's best song "miracles" is cut to the shortened single version and not the 6+ minute superior LP version. Grace Slick, who I will give the honor as most overrated songwriter and vocalist in history, is all over this release with more cornball lyrics (Play on Love, Fast Buck Freddie) that sink any melody the music tries to give it. That fact also underscores the entire career of the JS because no one in this band is a bonified songwriter. Kanter's stuff is mediocre at best, Pete Sears makes the most of bad lyrics, but even his songs hang only on the slightest of hooks. Nothing to really sink your teeth into. Marty Balin vocals are indeed spirited and at times make up for the rather bland recordings JS offers up to the listener.What JS did right was pick outside songwriters to provide them with meaningful songs, okay maybe not meaningful, but sucessful songs. Successful because melody and lyrics mesh with music to relate the desired mood. "Count on Me" "Runaway" and "With Your Love" achieve this combination. Like these songs or not, they do succeed within themselves. Unfortunatly Jefferson Starship's Gold makes one realise that a 'best of' album was really just beyond their reach.

Like "Worst Of Jefferson Airplane", a fair intro.......2002-01-02

This CD reminds me of "Worst of Jefferson Airplane". It's a fair introduction to a great rock band. Unfortunately, there are some bad choices here. The full version of "Miracles" is not present, only the 'single' version (even most oldies stations play the full song, unlike the Doors' Light My Fire). Other good selections are "Play on love", "St. Charles", and "With Your Love". I like "Ride the Tiger" as well. "Runaway" is all right, but not quite up there. I could do without the other tracks, however. I know "Count on Me" was a pop hit, but it was too commercial for my liking. I think there should have been other tracks from the 1974 and 1976 albums to make this better.

Overall, I'd say Jefferson Airplane had a message of the late 60s, and that message helped to make their music unique and apart from the mainstream (which made me wonder why "Somebody to Love" was on the 1968 AM Gold CD, quite an insult). Jefferson Starship's first 3 albums were smart enough to not try to recreate the late 60s. Instead they opted for a new 70s sound. This was a good thing, because the mid-70s were plagued by a strange softness. With Watergate and a gas and energy crisis, we should have expected a harder edge on the radio. Instead, we got the likes of the Carpenters, Dan Hill, etc. Jefferson Starship still had a Slick/Kantner/Balin punch; therefore, in its early days, J.S. had a unique sound of its own, just less acid-edged. Like another reviewer noted about one of the albums, in the late 70s, Grace Slick got disillusioned about J.S. and Paul Kantner, and the group got way too commercial and, therefore, ineffectual.

This CD represents, in parts anyway, the highlights of that unique sound of "The Jeffersons", as I like to call them.

Jefferson Starship's Gold.......2001-03-01

This collection features the hits and many of Jefferson Starship's classic songs from their four studio albums between 1974 to 1978. In the early 70's, after recording a couple of fine solo albums, legendary Jefferson Airplane members Paul Kantner and Grace Slick decided to start a new band, fittingly named Jefferson Starship. Also aboard this new band..Craig Chaquico, David Freiberg, Pete Sears, John Barbata, (Papa) John Creach & Marty Balin.

An incredible and very diverse collection of songs emerged from this new group. Their new sound was an eclectic mix of rock, folk and r & b, a sound that sometimes could be heard all in the same song at times. Their biggest hits were the romantic ballads but that was only part of what defined their soaring music. Balin and Slick's memorable vocals, Chaquico's blistering lead guitar, and Kantner's unique vision was what fueled Jefferson Starship's musical voyages of the 1970's. The accompanying liner notes nicely details the band's members and the music during that time period.

Tracks:

It's No Secret
Somebody To Love
White Rabbit
Embryonic Journey
Plastic Fantastic Lover
Comin' Back To Me
The Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil
Greasy Heart
Lather
Crown Of Creation
Wooden Ships
Volunteers
Good Shepard
Have You Seen The Saucers
Pretty As You Feel
Third Week In Chelsea
Long John Silver
Caroline
Ride The Tiger

Tracks:

Miracles
With Your Love
Count On Me
Runaway
Jane
Find Your Way Back
Stranger
Be My Lady
No Way Out
Layin' It On The Line
We Built This City
Sara
Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
It's Not Over (Til It's Over)
It's Not Enough

Customer Reviews:

One-Stop Shopping.......2006-07-19

Although no greatest hits compilation will have EVERY song you might want on it, this one comes close, including several I didn't even realize WERE by this amazing group of artists. Even though it does have a song I must regretfully admit to loathing ("We Built This City"), I give this item the HIGHEST marks!

Satisfying, but a boxed set would be great!.......2004-10-31

It's a little hard to believe that the trippy Jefferson Airplane became the rocking Jefferson Starship only to disintegrate into the sappy Starship, but the transformation is right here on these two CDs. The songs you'd expect to find on a hits collection of these three bands are here -- Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, Miracles, Caroline, Jane and We Built This City, to name a few. For me, this compilation is worth having for the full version of Miracles, which was edited for radio play back in the 70s but is more passionate and amazing at its full length! While this set is satisfying, I'd like to see a boxed set someday...

Lives up to its title perfectly.......2004-09-05

I've been reading the reviews on this collection, and quite frankly, the name of this package is HITS...not what some people regard as their favorites maybe, but all the hits are there from all three incarnations of this band between 1967 and 1990. I've always been of the train of thought that band members come and go for reasons, and they chose the ones they thought would serve them the best. I don't see any of the changes this band made as any kind of sellout at all...hey, no one held a gun to their heads and said "You will make THIS type of music..." they wrote and performed the songs that were on these albums, and the ones they didn't write were ones they liked enough to record. Grace Slick and Marty Balin sounded great together...and when I had the chance to see the band in 1985, she sounded great together with Mickey Thomas...and in 2002 when I caught Mickey Thomas's Starship on tour with Eddie Money, he still sounded great doing all the Starship tunes associated with him. Every song is someone's favorite, and a lot of mine are on this collection. If you don't want to spend tons of money to get all their hits in one place, buy this collection. If, on the other hand, you prefer one period of this band's varied history over another...then go buy the best of collection from that period, or collect the albums they put out during that period. Hits collections seem to take it on the chin for not including one person's favorites or inevitably another person has to ask "how could they NOT include...?" (like the track "Winds of Change", but I already have that on another CD, it's not like I can't listen to it). All in all, great collection, comprehensive...
and affordable.

An Exhaustive Collection of Jeffersonýs multiple transitions.......2004-06-14

Jefferson Airplane - "Hits" (Rock & Roll, Hard Rock, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Arena Rock) : Firstly it should be mentioned that this extensive compilation compiles the vast majority of the best / Most popular tracks from the 3 incarnations of Jefferson Airplane.....so that includes the bands transitions from "Jefferson Airplane" to "Jefferson Starship" through to just "Starship" (Which contained none of the founder members, and thus explains the radically different sound in the bands transitions).

Seeing as this is a "Hits" album, the vast majority of their most popular & critically applauded songs throughout the various transitions of the band are complied here. From the Jefferson Airplane side, the 60's rock and psychedelic rock & Folk-rock that they made their name on, is faithfully represented here, with the excellent inclusions of "Somebody to Love / White Rabbit / Plastic Fantastic Lover".....which (for me) are amongst some of the strongest tracks featured here on this 35 track double album. Jefferson Starship gradual shift away from 60's/Psychedelic rock, to a more Area based rock, and Album oriented rock, lists their best achievements in "Caroline / Miracles / Count on me / With your love", and yet again prove themselves to be fantastic songs in their own right. The transition of their sound was complete with the move to "Starship", which had a completely different line-up of musicians and saw them embrace 80's rock/ Soft rock (not to dissimilar to 'Fleetwood Mac'), and Pop/Rock crossover....with "Sara / Nothings gonna stop us now / It not over (Til it's over)", and the anthemic "We Built this City".

Seeing as the band went through three personality changes since it's inception, its not hard to audibly hear the transition of sound, where the band change direction musically. And herein lies the problem.....if you only like one or indeed two, of the bands incarnations, then you're going to have difficulty sitting through the tracks of the period of the band that you don't like.......and because it's one of the only albums to give a complete overview of the band, this is really only aimed at people that liked all three incarnations (irrespective of the wildly different sound), so if you are one of those people, than you'd be far better served, picking up a individual collection album of the period of the band that you like.

For those of us, that do appreciate Jefferson's multiple musical & line-up changes, this is as exhaustive & thorough a compilation as you could possibly hope for, and serves to be an illuminating overview of the band, and a balanced portrayal of their wildly varying music. And if you can handle listening to '60's Folk-rock', through to 'Arena / Album oriented rock'....culminating in 80's soft rock (although undeniably catchy), this is the finest catalogue of a band with over 20 years of hits......and highly recommended.

Comprehensive collection of the band in all its incarnations.......2004-04-20

I was somewhat amused by another reviewers description of this collection as being "bizarre". I would concur that this is an apt description as this is one group that changed personnel and musical directions so frequently that it would make your head spin. But in the final analysis, this outfit left us with a pretty impressive body of work. This two CD set released in 1998 is no doubt the best collection that has ever been offered. RCA/BMG has included a generous 35 tracks beginning with the best work of Jefferson Airplane from the late 60's. Aside from the obligatory "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit", selections include "Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil" as well as the title cuts from two of their popular albums of the day "Crown of Creation" and "Volunteers".
For me, the group did it finest work in the mid to late 70's when they were known as Jefferson Starship. All of the hit singles are here including "Miracles", "With Your Love", Count On Me" and one of my personal favorites "Runaway" from 1978. Another terrific tune, 1984's "No Way Out" is also included.
The group had another metamorphisis in 1985 when they emerged as simply Starship. And much to my amazement, the group scored with several of its biggest hits ever including "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", "Sara" and of course "We Built This City". All three of those tunes reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
While I enjoyed the music, Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship was never among my very favorite bands. There are really more tracks here that I required. But as a practical matter this package remains the best collection available. The remastering job is excellent and the 12 page booklet that is included is OK. All in all, a pretty good deal.

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only worthwhile due to Paul Kantner's contribution
Not nearly as good as I remembered it.
BEST JEFFERSON STARSHIP ALBUM
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Freedom at Point Zero
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ASIN: B000002WY2
Release Date: 1997-01-28

Tracks:

Jane
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Awakening
Girl With The Hungry Eyes
Just The Same
Rock Music
Fading Lady Night
Freedom At Point Zero

Customer Reviews:

only worthwhile due to Paul Kantner's contribution.......2007-04-11

Paul puts up a herculean effort here, almost saving this recording. Worht having just for his songs. With this recording, Craig had apparently gone to the dark side to try be a adolescent guitar god. The inclusion of Mickey Thomas to try to replace both Marty and Grace was devestating -- it sealed the sad fate of this band toward the worthless drivel it would produce in the future.

Not nearly as good as I remembered it. .......2006-10-16

This was the first new "Jefferson" album to come out after I discovered my love for the Airplane. At the time I was pretty excited about it, but hearing it again 25 years later was very disappointing. I do still like the Kantner anthems (particularly "Lightning Rose"), but musically it's pretty dull - really just a collection of power chord songs. If you like that kind of thing, it's well done, and the songs are reasonably well-written, but one after another after another gets dull pretty quickly.

Still, considerably better than what followed.

BEST JEFFERSON STARSHIP ALBUM.......2006-08-08

Wow! This album still floors me. The songwriting is top notch. All the wheels were turning during the writing and recording of this album. I do wish an official concert album of this tour would be released. Mickey Thomas had just joined the band and Paul Kantner wrote some brilliant songs. Most notable are The Awakening, Lightning Rose, Girl With the Hungry Eyes and the title track.

If you are a fan, don't hesitate. This album is great. Includes the hits, Jane and Rock Music. Big 5 stars!

Unleash The Guitars!.......2006-03-27

The Jefferson Starship made a big change in their sound towards hard rock in 1979 with the release of this album. Mickey Thomas from Elvin Bishop's band was hired to replace Marty Balin and Grace Slick on lead vocals and Aynsley Dunbar formerly of Journey was brought in as the new drummer. They created a new hard rocking sound with lead guitarist Craig Chaquico dominating the guitar driven sound with great electic guitar riffs and solos. The producer of this album was the well known 80's rock producer Ron Nevison. The only hit single was "Jane" which has turned into a staple on classic rock radio stations.Other standout songs include;"Alien","Just The Same","Rock Music",and "The Girl With The Hungry Eyes".

Jefferson Starship 2.0.......2006-01-28

After both Marty Balin & Grace Slick left the band, it seemed they were doomed. Surprisingly they came back with a better effort than the previously release Earth on 1979's Freedom At Point Zero. Paul Kanter was the sole remnant left from the Airplane days and he rises to the occasion with some solid tracks including the great "Girl With The Hungry Eyes". Former Elvin Bishop Group singer Mickey Thomas assumes the bulk of the lead vocals and his presence helped push the group towards the arena rock sounds of Foreigner & Journey. Mr. Thomas' vocal prowess is on display on the albums best track and hit single "Jane". The album peaked at number 10 and showed that the band were indeed survivors.

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Jefferson Starships Hardest Rockin Cd!
The Forgotten Album - Modern Times, Jefferson Starship
Modern Times - Modern Rock!
Bring back basic '80's Rock!

Modern Times
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ASIN: B000009H0U
Release Date: 2005-08-01

Tracks:

Find Your Way Back
Stranger
Wildeyes
Save Your Love
Modern Times
Mary
Free
Alien
Stairway To Cleveland

Album Description

Digitally remastered Japanese reissue of their smash top 30 1981 album. Out of print in the U.S., it features 20 bit K2 Super Coding, plus the top 30 hit 'Find Your Way Back' and the top 50 'Stranger'. Nine tracks total. 1998 BMG release.

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SARGAST501@AOL.COM.......2006-07-07

LIKE THE STONES THE JEFFERSON STARSHIP ALWAYS GAVE YOU 2 GREAT CUTS (IN THIS CASE STRANGER AND FIND YOUR WAY BACK) AND THEN A LOT OF FILLER. MODERN TIMES LACKS WHAT FREEDOM AT POINT ZERO HAD WHICH WAS A VERY FOCUSED PAUL KANTNER (POSSIBLY BECAUSE OF THE RETURN OF GRACE SLICK. HE WROTE LESS AND TURNED THE REIGNS BACK OVER TO EVERYONE ELSE. I LIKE SAVE YOUR LOVE AND THE TITLE CUT BUT THEY ARE IN THE SAME BOAT WITH THE OTHER 5. THIS ALBUMS IN MY I-POD FOR LONG FLIGHTS BUT IF ITS A SHORT ONE FREEDOM AT POINT ZERO GETS THE NOD.

Jefferson Starships Hardest Rockin Cd!.......2005-02-22

Jefferson Starship really rocks on this cd which came out in the spring of 1981. This cd has become very hard to find since it went out print in the USA. Grace Slick rejoined the band on this album to share the lead vocals with Mickey Thomas. Lead guitarist Craig Chaquico really stands out on this cd with his masterful guitar solos and riffs. The song "Save Your Love" has one the best guitar solos I have ever heard him play. The songs "Find Your Way Back" and "Stranger" were the hit singles off this cd. This cd is the hradest rocking cd I have heard from Jefferson Starship.

The Forgotten Album - Modern Times, Jefferson Starship .......2005-02-17

MODERN TIMES

This isn't just my opinion, it's a fact. Modern Times is the most underrated Jefferson Starship album of all time and it's no longer in print. If you want it, you have to spend $35 on a remastered Japanese version of this American classic. Funny thing it's probably worth it!

Not counting Paul Kantner, who was usually more of a backup singer, Jefferson Airplane / Starship etc. has had three lead singers in their history, the inimitable Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane original Marty Balin and the very capable Mickey Thomas and, if I'm not mistaken, this is the first album that both Slick and Thomas appeared on and they are great together. And let's not forget guitarist extraordinaire Craig Chaquico. He may be the best there is and on this album you get to see what he is really capable of. The guitar solo on "Save Your Love" is nothing if not sensational.

On Modern Times the ever changing J.S. lineup consisted of:

Craig Chaquico Synthesizer, Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm)
Aynsley Dunbar Percussion, Drums, Marimba
David Freiberg Organ, Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Paul Kantner Guitar, Guitar (Rythm), Vocals, Oberheim 8
Pete Sears Synthesizer, Bass, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals
Grace Slick Vocals (bckgr)
Mickey Thomas Vocals

1981's Modern Times gave the band the chance to re"introduce" Grace Slick and she makes the best of it, lending her magnificent voice on songs like "Stranger" and "Alien". Opening track, "Find Your Way Back", which was a #26 hit in 1981, seems an appropriate name for the opening track, since wayward members did indeed find their way back. Slick, who has one of the most powerful voices in all of musicdom, and Thomas harmonize wonderfully together and it's as if Grace had never left. In fact Slick's and Thomas's voices are close enough that you have to listen close to tell who's singing. In the end you can tell because Grace's vox has more presence.

Check out this great lineup of songs, these all are(or should be) classics: Find your way Back" is one of the best Jefferson..... songs ever, with a medium tempo start/stop format, this song has Thomas in the lead, with melodic background vocals by Slick. Next, Slick really outdoes herself in the slick arrangement of "Stranger" a rather dark number that was also released as a single, that has interesting bluesy guitars and strong percussion. Mickey Thomas takes the mic for the following rousing number - "Wild Eyes", which is actually reminiscent of earlier Airplane. Ok, stay with me now, the next song "Save your Love" is my second favorite J.S/J.A..song of all-time, just behind the incomparable "Someone to Love". Mickey keeps the mic and Slick again performs her magic on the backups. This is a very catchy mid tempo number and listen to Craig Chaquico play the axe, while Thomas and Slick hum in the background, it is amazing.

Title song, "Modern Times", is another Kantner influenced, rollicking song with whole dang band joining in on this fun number. I suppose if there's a dog on Modern Times it would be "Mary" a mediocre take off of their hit song from the last album "Jane". Guitarist, Chaquico delivers another standout performance on the next track "Free", a semi-fast song with screaming guitars backing Thomas's vocals. "Alien" is another interesting song with heavy drum beat and similarities to "Stranger". Hilarity reigns when the album closes out with "Stairway to Cleveland" another stellar J.S. song, where the entire band and probably the recording studio join in, dissing literally everyone, critics, record labels, DJs and so forth, a fitting climax to a very underrated but excellent album.

CONCLUSION

Some old time fans and purists felt that this new more mainstream Jefferson Starship style was a sellout to commercialism but hey, they've always been commercial. They may have been on the fringe of commercialism but even with Jefferson Airplane, their singles sold, their albums sold and their tours sold out. Yes they did AOR but that was a sideline. Most of their songs through the years were the three to four minute variety, so what's the big deal?

Actually there is nothing wrong with top forty music, at least there didn't used to be, as long as it was imaginative thoughtful music. Sure I've always liked AOR, Heavy Metal and Progressive Rock but I've got my share of albums by big top forty artists like Styx, Def Leppard, Fleetwood Mac etc and for my money Modern Times has forty-three plus minutes of some of the best, most accessible music in the Jefferson ....... catalog.

If you haven't figured out yet that I'm recommending this masterpiece let me make it official. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!!!

Modern Times - Modern Rock!.......2004-01-03

Critics love to assail 1980s-era Jefferson Starship for their weak rock, insipid ballads and overall sellout crass commercialism, but in their defense if it was such a sellout why didn't they have a LOT more hits? And in their defense 1979's "Freedom at Point Zero" marked a drastic turning point for them. Farewell to Marty Balin, Grace Slick and the jazzy/blues inspired tracks clocking in at over five minutes. Hello hard rock and Mickey Thomas. Mickey's voice gave them a new vehicle better suited for rock and up-tempo numbers that put Jefferson Starship back on the charts. 1981's "Modern Times" gave the band the chance to "introduce" Grace Slick to the lineup to a positive and very devastating effect. "Find Your Way Back" is an appropriate track for all concerned as it truly is Jefferson Starship, all back, all together and hitting it hard. Grace and Mickey harmonize great together and it's as if Grace had never left. The two keep the tempo going on "Stranger" and really burn the place down on that track. Grace gets an awesome turn on "Wildeyes" and the whole band joins in for a rollicking "Modern Times". It's as if being freed of Marty Balin liberated the group to do what they want. Speaking of doing what they want, the finale "Stairway to Cleveland" is probably the funniest thing any band did in the 80s giving the finger to literally everyone, critics, record labels, DJs and so on. This CD is worth the money just to hear Mickey shout "F*%k you! We do what we want!"

For some insane reason this is a Japanese only CD that has been wonderfully re-mastered, yet even though it sold well in the USA was never released here on CD. Strange that as it probably was the best Jefferson Starship recording of the 1980s along with "Winds of Change" which followed up this one. Now before you think I'm some rocker dude let me correct you...I also LOVE "Earth" era Jefferson Starship and the 70's ballads that turned people's stomachs. I freely admit Peter Wolf ruined the group circa "Knee Deep In the Hoopla" when Paul Kantner bailed (and rightfully so!). Grace Slick has rightfully sworn off any further reunions and tours and rightfully so. Rest on your wonderfully voiced laurels darling...you've earned it!

Bring back basic '80's Rock!.......2003-06-07

just imagine if this CD/Lp was released now in 2003!people would flock to the stores to grab tis one!All the rock albums made now fade away so quickly,this album goes back to what my generation rocked to!Come on now,"save all your love",gives a message that we all wanted back then,Craig really and has always been at the forefront on guitar jammin'.Can't beat the vocals and the rest of the band!Buy this album,you'll be brought back to the 'good old days' of rock......

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BPs Review
Jefferson Starship's Third Great Album In A Row
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Fire Follows Octopus
This CD Has Some Great Songs On It!!!

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Switchblade
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BPs Review.......2007-01-09

It was great hearing this oldie once again. It's been about 25 - 30 years since I last heard it. Sound was great and brought back great college memories of the dorm room!

Jefferson Starship's Third Great Album In A Row.......2006-06-29

SPITFIRE was Jefferson Starship's third great album in a row. The songs "Dance With The Dragon" and "Song To The Sun" have a political/mystical slant similar to the old Airplane, but the rest of the album is mostly love songs, albeit very good ones. Aside from the two aforementioned songs, the only other real rocker here is the John Barbata-written-and-sung "Big City." The fact that several band members, past and present, believe that the young Australian tourist jailed in Indonesia since 2005 on drug-smuggling charges was unjustly convicted makes SPITFIRE an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.

Dance With The Dragon Till The Day Is Done.......2006-06-11

Jefferson Starship's 1976 follow up to 1975's phenomenally successful RED OCTOPUS has more of the earmarks of 1974's DRAGON FLY, including its Paul Kantner-inspired repeated references to dragons and orientalia.

Had Jefferson Starship been more daring, they could have graced us with a musical experience that drew on Eastern musics; the elements are there. Instead, they presented us with a town-meeting-where-everybody-gets-to-talk-here democracy, a truly run-of-the-mill collection of multilayered but overproduced love songs, pop ditties, and an occasional wannabe arty piece such as "Ozymandias."

This isn't to say there aren't any good songs on SPITFIRE. "Cruisin,'" "St. Charles," and "Dance With The Dragon" were Album Oriented Rock staples in that Bicentennial year. There were a lot of toss-offs too, like "Love Lovely Love." Unfortunately, thirty years later none of SPITFIRE's songs are at all memorable; none of them can stand up to Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody To Love" of nine years previously.

Jefferson Starship loved that dense instrumentation sound, and they loved seven part vocal harmonies, but they never seemed to appreciate that not every song needed to be crafted that way.

In the end, like bad Chinese food, everything pretty much tasted the same. Still, if you were sixteen when this album was released and loved your air guitar and blowing out the speakers on the Fisher stereo that Mom and Dad bought you for getting a "B" in math, SPITFIRE will take you back to your youth of black lights, velvet posters, lava lamps and the doobies.

Fire Follows Octopus.......2006-01-28

1976's Spitfire was Jefferson Starship's follow-up to the number one album, Red Octopus. While it is not as tight as that release, it is still filled with great tracks. "With Your Love" has a breezy feel that features beautiful vocals by Marty Balin & Grace Slick and a warm instrumentation. It peaked at number 12, but deserved top ten status. "St. Charles" is a song in the vein of "Miracles" and was the only other single from the album. It only managed to get to number 64. The album contains a couple of Paul Kanter songs, "Dance With The Dragon" and "Song To The Sun" that have a political bent similar to their Airplane days, but most of the album is made up of love songs like "Cruisin'", "Switchblade" and "Love Lovely Love". Drummer John Barbata has a rare lead vocal on the workman like rocker "Big City". Spitfire peaked at number three in the summer of '76.

This CD Has Some Great Songs On It!!!.......2005-12-26

I bought this on vinyl when it first came out. I decided to write a review about it when I saw that their were so few who had already done this before me. When this originally came out I had gone to see them at a free concert in Central Park (NYC). It was a great show and the band even risked their lives playing in a summer storm. The outstanding songs on this CD are Cruisin', St. Charles, and With Your Love. Although the music seems dated...it brings back memories of an era that has all to soon passed us by. Buy it because this CD has some great songs on it!!!

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Jefferson Starship - The 2nd Best Album Of The Mickey Thomas Era
The Jefferson Speedwagon album
very good early '80's ear candy. not a masterpiece, but......
There are 6 Out of 9 Awesome Songs on This Album!
Fills missing part of Jefferson Airplane/Starship collection

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Jefferson Starship - The 2nd Best Album Of The Mickey Thomas Era.......2007-06-05

Jefferson Starship had started out as Jefferson Airplane back in the 60's. The Starship had gone through numerous personnel changes by the time this album came out in 1982. Paul Kantner was still the mainstay of the band and Grace Slick had come back to the fold after leaving for one album. A lot of people wrote off the late 70's early 80's version of Jefferson Starship as AOR wimps, but I always enjoyed a lot of what they did. In fact, for me the album "Freedom At Point Zero" was one of my favorite discs of the late 70's. (I still need to get that on CD one of these days). "Winds Of Change" was the 3rd album to feature former Elvin Bishop vocalist Mickey Thomas and was the 2nd after the return of Grace Slick. The album featured the big AOR hit "Can't Find Love" along with two other songs that received some AOR airplay "Winds Of Change" and Slick's "Black Widow". I don't think it is the best Mickey Thomas era Jefferson Starship album, but I would probably put it at number 2. Guitarist Craig Chaquico really shines on this one. There is a lot of metal oriented material here and Chaquico gets the chance to show off probably more than on any other J.S. album. Thomas, Slick and Kantner all share lead vocal duties often singing as duets or all together. It is a sound that works for the most part. Kantner's "I Came Back From The Jaws Of The Dragon" sounds the most like the 70's version of the band and is the longest track on the disc. The lyrics are about Kantner's survival from a cerebral hemorrhage that had happened prior to this album's release. Overall I like this album a lot. It is not quite as good as "Freedom At Point Zero", but it is worth checking out if you liked the AOR / Metal version of Jefferson Starship.

The Jefferson Speedwagon album.......2006-09-28

This, the 7th Jefferson Starship album, was the third to feature Mickey Thomas as the band's male lead vocalist. On this one, Grace Slick returned full time as co-lead singer and occasional lyricist. However, this album sounds significantly different than its two predecessors, the excellent "Freedom at Point Zero" and the somewhat weaker "Modern Times".

On "Freedom..", besides Thomas, the other key factor in the group's rejuvenation was the work of producer Ron Nevison. He provided a polished, forceful production sheen which complimented the group's sci-fi/fantasy lyrical visions and the powerhouse musicianship. "Modern Times" took a dip in the songwriting, but Nevison was able to compensate somewhat. On "Winds of Change", the band turned to Kevin Beamish, instead, who had produced REO Speedwagon's cheesey megasmash "Hi Infidelity."

The result is what one might expect. Beamish gives the group a more compressed sound which takes the edge off of the guitars and totally eviscerates Aynsley Dunbar's drums. Add to that the fact that Thomas's ultra high voice sounds a lot like Keven Cronin's to the untrained ear, and you've got an album that is indistinguinshable from REO in many places. Lead guitarist Craig Chaquico's two rockers, "Can't Find Love" and "Keep on Dreaming" and bassist/keyboardist Pete Sears' wimpy waltz "Be My Lady" (single #1) sound like weak "Hi Infidelity" outtakes. Sears' rocker "Quit Wasting Time" has a little bit more character, but only because Slick sings it as a duet with Thomas.

Still,all is not lost. The songwriting is more varied than on the previous two albums, which makes for more interesting moments elsewhere. Slick contributes some lyrics and the lead vocals to Chaquico's "Black Widow". It does sound like a reject from her heavy metal solo album "Welcome to the Wrecking Ball", but it did prove to be the best track in live performance. Sears' "I Will Stay" has a beautiful gospel melody and arrangement, perfect for Thomas's Southern rock background.
The title track is remniscent of the Moody Blues, with a swirling keyboard intro and cosmic lyrics sung forcefully by Thomas and Slick.
An odd choice for a second single, though. Finally, the decreasing profile of group founder/rhythm guitarist Paul Kantner is telling, but he contributes the two best songs on the album.His one lead vocal is on "I Came Back From the Jaws of the Dragon" (referring to surviving a cerebral hemorrhage), a passionate, anti-government folk rocker that recalls his Jefferson Airplane rabble rousing days. Finally, he co-writes with Slick "Out of Control", a catchy but crazy New Wave pounder in which Slick sings insanely about the madness of the world. Weird and wild, a welcome break from the generic sound of much of the album.

I'd like to see a remix of the album, removing Beamish's murky production influence. As it is, the album is undermined by its sound to a certain extent and is the least essential of the four JS/Thomas albums. Try "Freedom at Point Zero" first, and move on from there if that one grabs you.

very good early '80's ear candy. not a masterpiece, but.............2006-08-30

in '82, i heard the track "black widow" on my local radio station, and thought, "wow, this is pretty good!" to put it in simple terms. i promptly went out and bought the vinyl lp, and tried it out. i was pleasibly surprised by this album. i was more of a head banger, i guess you could say, into AC/DC, Priest, Motorhead and others at that time, but this was a nice change of pace. i had been into some of Starship's earlier offerings, Freedom at Point Zero, Red Octopus and Spitfire for example, but this was a little different. a new style, if you will. the title track, "be my lady" and "black widow" are my favorite tracks, but they all have something to offer. this is, by no means, a masterpiece, or even Starship' best work, but it is definitely worth owning, as most of my fellow reviewers point out. maybe i'm dating myself, as this cd's tracks, once listened to, may sound a bit hokey, or '80ish (if that's a word), but at that time, it was pretty cool stuff. see my other reviews for cds you should have in your rock and roll collection. peace.

There are 6 Out of 9 Awesome Songs on This Album!.......2006-07-18

I never could understand why Jefferson Starship's 1982 work of art, "Winds of Change," didn't get the credit or the airplay it rightfully deserved/deserves. And then even FINDING this album (especially on CD) became a personal odyssey "mission impossible" quest in itself!

One need look no further than Amazon.Com to see how difficult it can be to secure a copy of this highly underrated masterwork from one of the most seminal rock outfits in music history.

Amazon lists "Winds of Change" as requiring 3 to 6 weeks for delivery, rather than the typical turnaround of "usually available within 24 hours." Why!?! "3 to 6 weeks" sometimes means - "not available at all," at least from my own personal experience with Amazon. I wait 3 to 6 weeks for my item, then I wait a few weeks more. Finally Amazon writes to me with regrets that, in fact, they cannot get me the pristine copy of whatever it is I have ordered in the first place. Like - "Total Bummmer, Dudes!"

Fortunately, Amazon now provides "Used" outlets, including the ability to obtain BRAND SPANKING NEW copies of CDs, DVDs, books and so on forth at sometimes WAY SIGNIFICANTLY reduced prices (hooray!), through third-party, independent vendors, working with Amazon. This is very, VERY GOOD news for us beleaguered buyers in quest of that elusive "media gem," whatever it happens to be. In fact, at last check, "Winds of Change" is currently available now, with a one-to-two business-day turnaround, from "8 used and new" sources independent of Amazon, but accessible (and purchasable) via Amazon's website. Yippee!

Because "Winds of Change" in my book is one of Starship's PREMIER albums of all time, regardless of what anyone else tells you. Whether it was poor marketing or whatever that tanked this brilliant creation, the fact remains: "W.O.C." is probably J.S.'s best kept secret. But I'm telling it to you now.

There are 6 fantastic, rocking, either pop-viable or downright jamming, tightly-written and exuberantly crafted tunes on this album, starting with the eponymous "Winds of Change." A CLASSIC song. Everybody I've played it for loves it (though it got zero play on radio), and Gracie Slick's voice never sounded better, or more powerful and lambent. This is quite simply, a progressive-rock masterpiece that builds to a climactic crescendo of guitars and Gracie's "take no prisoners" clarion vocal chords.

Next is "Keep on Dreamin," a very minor hit single for Starship. This is a great pop ditty, not in the same class as "Winds...," by any stretch of the imagination, but a decent enough song in its own right. Short, sweet, and suitable either for AOR or hit radio. It possesses an infectious quality about it which ends up making it irresistibly hummable!

Okay - fast forward to "Out of Control." Like its title says, this song is an orgiastic romp with Gracie sounding like she's been dipping into the "magic mushroom fondue" again. But it's a GREAT song, regardless - experimental and bold; brash and hard driving; rocking and contagious. Certainly a unique creative departure, and welcome addition to, Starship's collection, and an almost entirely forgotten work of mad genius to this day.

The rest of the GOODIES follow in quick succession. "Can't Find Love" is a progressive-rock gold nugget. I *LOVE* Craig Chaquico's guitars on this album, especially on songs like this one. His distortion level is "Goldilocks" - JUST RIGHT! And the engineers didn't bury his axe in the mix. You almost never think of Airplane, let alone Starship, as a "heavy metal" band, but this album (perhaps the reason why it went so underplayed), proves the group CAN JAM, and they do it here all over the place.

Next up, my ABSOLUTE FAVE when I received this album as an LP for Christmas in 1982: "Black Widow." With Craig's guitars going ALL OUT on this rock classic, and with Gracie's voice so clear and so seductive - by jiminey - you just want to "climb into her web" with her (as the dominatrix, deadly spider) while she's inviting the listener (you!) to do just that in her lyrics. A combination of staccato, stop-time, heavy-amped guitar riffs (think Canadian power trio Rush during their best "metallurgical" work of the 70s), softened by rich refrain, full-out group harmonies, laced with Gracie's interspersed verse lines: all come-hither "take it sucker" vocals that conjure images of the star dressed in a Corinthian-leather, black-and-red teddy, one leg kneeling on a bed, the other planted firmly on the floor in stilletoed high-heel, with a greased cat-o-nine-tails clenched in her fist, whose wrist is wrapped in a platinum bracelet beset with steel spikes! "Take it, Sucker" INDEED! Would that more radio stations had, because "Black Widow" is as good as anything by Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, Kansas or Angel, only with a female lead vocal. This is arguably the BEST song on this album, or TIED for best with "Winds of Change."

Finally, "I Came Back From the Jaws of the Dragon" hearkens us to "Red Octopus" days and the very best of those, with its "Play on Love" feel and "group chant" ethos. This song also rocks and once again, features Gracie Slick in superb form. In fact, one can easily argue that "Winds of Change" IS Gracie's album, with Craig bringing out the powerful beauty, the best AND the BEAST in her.

To wrap this review up, ANY rock-and-roll album, and I mean ANY, that has 6 out of 9 great, listenable, well-written songs and superb production value to boot - DESERVES a place in ANY rock fan's collection. If this is the first time you ever heard of "Winds of Change" by Jefferson Starship, you may be forgiven. But to ignore this review and thereby to bypass this album is a mistake you render at your audial peril.

Get this album now! It will be nigh IMPOSSIBLE, with 6 of 9 stellar rock pieces, and arguably some of Gracie's FINEST work, and arguably some of Craig's BEST of his best work on display as well - for you to NOT listen raptly and intently, with headphones tightly (but comfortably) enconsced over your "salivating ear drums" (talk about a mixed metaphor there), imagining that you're in a fast sports convertible (passenger seat preferred), top down, riding fast with the wind in your hair and lightning coming up over the horizon on a thunderclouded midwest plain, jamming to "The Winds of Change."

Fills missing part of Jefferson Airplane/Starship collection.......2005-03-31

I am one of the rare individuals who likes all incarnations of Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship. A few years ago, they put out a hits compilation that included songs from all three versions of the band. That CD is great, except it does not include one of my favorite songs from Jefferson Airplane, "Winds of Change". That song squeaked into the Top 40, reaching #38 in early 1983. I have scoured every Greatest Hits package issued over the years, and they always leave that song off. Finally, I found this CD used and decided to buy it just for that track. I love "Winds of Change" because it allows Grace to belt out some "White Rabbit" like theatrics to a distinctively early 80's rock beat. Besides "Winds of Change", I enjoyed many of the other songs included. This contains some great early 80's Jefferson Airplane rock. If you like their hard rockers of that era such as "Jane" and "Find Your Way Back", you will like this CD. Some of the other good tunes on this CD include "Quit Wasting Time", "Can't Find Love", and "It Came from the Jaws of the Dragon". Of course, "Be my Lady" was the other hit off of the album, reaching #28 in late '82. One sour note is "Out of Control", which is another Grace song. Now, I love Grace, but that song is pretty awful. Aside from that track, if you love Jefferson Airplane music, you will love this CD.

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