Starship

starship

Track Listings
1. We Built This City
2. Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now
3. Sara
4. Jane
5. Find Your Way Back
6. No Way Out
7. Stranger
8. Winds of Change
9. It's Not Enough
10. It's Not Over
11. Laying It on the Line
12. Wild Again

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Starship
The Very Best of Starship
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Hot CD
  • From Airplanes to Starships
  • Starship is a badge of the 80s!
  • Starship Minus Jefferson...
 The Very Best of Starship
Starship
Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000024TZB
Release Date: 1997-09-15

Tracks:

  1. We Built This City
  2. Jane
  3. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
  4. It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)
  5. Babylon
  6. Set the Night to Music
  7. Sara
  8. Love Among the Cannibals
  9. Rock Myself to Sleep
  10. Hearts of the World (Will Understand)
  11. It's Not Enough
  12. Layin' It on the Line
  13. Find Your Way Back
  14. Stranger
  15. No Way Out
  16. Don't Lose Any Sleep
  17. Good Heart

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars 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

4 out of 5 stars 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.

4 out of 5 stars 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..."

4 out of 5 stars 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
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • 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
Cobra Starship
Manufacturer: Decaydance
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000I2IS0E
Release Date: 2006-10-10

Tracks:

  1. Being From Jersey Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry
  2. Send My Love To The Dancefloor I'll See You In Hell (Hey Mister D.J.)
  3. The Church Of Hot Addiction
  4. The Kids Are All F***ed Up
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  11. You Can't Be Missed If You Never Go Away

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:

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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!

5 out of 5 stars 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!!!!

5 out of 5 stars 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
Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship - Hits
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • One-Stop Shopping
  • Satisfying, but a boxed set would be great!
  • Lives up to its title perfectly
  • An Exhaustive Collection of Jeffersonýs multiple transitions
  • Comprehensive collection of the band in all its incarnations
 Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship - Hits
Jefferson Airplane , Jefferson Starship , and Starship
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000BKJ8
Release Date: 1998-09-29

Tracks:

  1. It's No Secret
  2. Somebody To Love
  3. White Rabbit
  4. Embryonic Journey
  5. Plastic Fantastic Lover
  6. Comin' Back To Me
  7. The Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil
  8. Greasy Heart
  9. Lather
  10. Crown Of Creation
  11. Wooden Ships
  12. Volunteers
  13. Good Shepard
  14. Have You Seen The Saucers
  15. Pretty As You Feel
  16. Third Week In Chelsea
  17. Long John Silver
  18. Caroline
  19. Ride The Tiger

Tracks:

  1. Miracles
  2. With Your Love
  3. Count On Me
  4. Runaway
  5. Jane
  6. Find Your Way Back
  7. Stranger
  8. Be My Lady
  9. No Way Out
  10. Layin' It On The Line
  11. We Built This City
  12. Sara
  13. Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight
  14. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
  15. It's Not Over (Til It's Over)
  16. It's Not Enough

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars 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!

4 out of 5 stars 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...

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.

4 out of 5 stars 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.
Red Octopus
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 Red Octopus
Jefferson Starship
Manufacturer: RCA
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ASIN: B000ANVPJM
Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

  1. Fast Buck Freddie
  2. Miracles
  3. Git Fiddler
  4. Al Garimasu (There Is Love)
  5. Sweeter Than Honey
  6. Play On Love
  7. Tumblin'
  8. I Want To See Another World
  9. Sandalphon
  10. There Will Be Love
  11. Miracles (Singles Version)
  12. Band Introduction (Live)
  13. Fast Buck Freddie (Live)
  14. There Will Be Love (Live)
  15. You're Driving Me Crazy (Live)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.

4 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.
Gold
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • 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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Jefferson Starship
Manufacturer: RCA
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ASIN: B00000637Z
Release Date: 1998-02-24

Tracks:

  1. Ride The Tiger
  2. Caroline
  3. Play On Love
  4. Miracles
  5. Fas Buck Freddie
  6. Light The Sky On Fire
  7. With Your Love
  8. St. Charles
  9. Count On Me
  10. Love Too Good
  11. Runaway
  12. Hyperdrive

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars 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.

4 out of 5 stars 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.

3 out of 5 stars 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.

3 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.

The songs: Ride The Tiger, Hyperdrive and Caroline comes from 1974's Dragon Fly. Play on Love, Fast Buck Freddie and the classic ballad Miracles came from 1975's Red Octopus. With Your Love, St. Charles comes from 1976's Spitfire. Count On Me, Love Too Good, and Runaway from 1978's Earth. Light The Sky On Fire was a single only release from 1978.
Varese Sarabande 25th Anniversary Celebration
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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  • The Sound Track Since Bernard Hermann
  • Good mix of film music
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  • Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens
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ASIN: B00008WI90
Release Date: 2003-04-22

Tracks:

  1. The Man from Snowy River (Bruce Rowland)
  2. The Winds of War (Bob Cobert)
  3. Blue Velvet (Angelo Badalamenti)
  4. Witness (Maurice Jarre)
  5. Raising Arizona (Carter Burwell)
  6. Pee Wees Big Adventure (Danny Elfman)
  7. Halloween (John Carpenter)
  8. A Nightmare On Elm Street (Charles Bernstein)
  9. The Fly (Howard Shore)
  10. RoboCop (Basil Poledouris)
  11. The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
  12. The Right Stuff (Bill Conti)
  13. The Final Conflict (Jerry Goldsmith)
  14. The Abyss (Alan Silvestri)
  15. Brainstorm (James Horner)
  16. Peggy Sue Got Married (John Barry)
  17. My Left Foot (Elmer Bernstein)
  18. The Dead (Alex North)
  19. Stanley & Iris (John Williams)
  20. The Milagro Beanfield War (Dave Grusin)
  21. Driving Miss Daisy (Hans Zimmer)

Tracks:

  1. Steel Magnolias (Georges Delerue)
  2. Unforgiven (Lennie Niehaus and Clint Eastwood)
  3. Raggedy Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
  4. The Grifters (Elmer Bernstein)
  5. Green Card (Hans Zimmer)
  6. City Slickers (Marc Shaiman)
  7. Father Of The Bride (Alan Silvestri)
  8. While You Were Sleeping (Randy Edelman)
  9. Babe (Nigel Westlake)
  10. The Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective (Henry Mancini)
  11. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
  12. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Laurence Rosenthal)
  13. The Secret Garden (Zbigniew Preisner)
  14. A Little Princess (Patrick Doyle)
  15. Rudy (Jerry Goldsmith)
  16. Iron Will (Joel McNeely)
  17. Memphis Belle (George Fenton)
  18. Eye Of The Needle (Mikl)
  19. Total Recall (Jerry Goldsmith)
  20. Back To The Future Part III (Alan Silvestri)

Tracks:

  1. To Die For (Danny Elfman)
  2. The Player (Thomas Newman)
  3. Black Robe (Georges Delerue)
  4. Medicine Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
  5. 2001 (Alex North)
  6. Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire (Joel McNeely)
  7. The Crow (Graeme Revell)
  8. Blade (Mark Isham)
  9. The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith)
  10. Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann)
  11. Scream (Marco Beltrami)
  12. The Sixth Sense (James Newton Howard)
  13. Xena: Warrior Princess (Joseph LoDuca)
  14. Air Force One (Jerry Goldsmith)
  15. Starship Troopers (Basil Poledouris)
  16. The Matrix (Don Davis)
  17. The Iron Giant (Michael Kamen)
  18. Youve Got Mail (George Fenton)
  19. A Little Romance (Georges Delerue)
  20. Pleasantville (Randy Newman)

Tracks:

  1. Sunset Boulevard (Franz Waxman)
  2. L.A. Confidential (Jerry Goldsmith)
  3. Rounders (Christopher Young)
  4. The Score (Howard Shore)
  5. The Replacements (John Debney)
  6. Gone In 60 Seconds (Trevor Rabin)
  7. The Bourne Identity (John Powell)
  8. Rush Hour 2 (Lalo Schifrin)
  9. XXX (Randy Edelman)
  10. Die Hard (Michael Kamen)
  11. The Last of the Mohicans (Trevor Jones)
  12. Moby Dick (Christopher Gordon)
  13. The Mists Of Avalon (Lee Holdridge)
  14. Cleopatra (Alex North)
  15. Life As A House (Mark Isham)
  16. Emma (Rachel Portman)
  17. In The Bedroom (Thomas Newman)
  18. Cast Away (Alan Silvestri)
  19. One True Thing (Cliff Eidelman)
  20. Unfaithful (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek)
  21. Far From Heaven (Elmer Bernstein)
  22. Ice Age (David Newman)
  23. Shrek (Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A good value.......2007-05-17

I wasn't expecting to have 4 discs for this price, and the music is a quality selection of film music, giving a good scope of the genre, and a very listenable transfer.

4 out of 5 stars The Sound Track Since Bernard Hermann.......2006-07-25

This collection is bound to capture your heart and evoke a tin ear on successive tracks. I found much to like and some duds - easy to skip over.
Very good value.

4 out of 5 stars Good mix of film music.......2006-07-02

Good mix of films!
I'm a big fan of this soundtrack music and will be looking for more CD's like this.

4 out of 5 stars A mixed collection of movie music.......2006-02-23

For the price, this CD is a great bargain. The musical selections, as you might expect, are mixed in quality ranging from extraordinary to so so, the balance being worthwhile and interesting. Sonically the CD is excellent.

5 out of 5 stars Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens.......2006-01-06

I have been listening to great scores for many years and this collection is truly inspirational in so far as the choice of different scores takes you on a journey of listening pleasure matched by only a few collections.The price is incredibly reasonable for hours of listening pleasure. Don't pass this one up
Freedom at Point Zero
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • only worthwhile due to Paul Kantner's contribution
  • Not nearly as good as I remembered it.
  • BEST JEFFERSON STARSHIP ALBUM
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  • Jefferson Starship 2.0
 Freedom at Point Zero
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ASIN: B000002WY2
Release Date: 1997-01-28

Tracks:

  1. Jane
  2. Lightning Rose
  3. Things To Come
  4. Awakening
  5. Girl With The Hungry Eyes
  6. Just The Same
  7. Rock Music
  8. Fading Lady Night
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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars 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.

2 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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!

4 out of 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".

3 out of 5 stars 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.
Dragon Fly
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Watch this album "Come To Life" with a fresh CD copy!
  • post-60's hippy jam stuff here. 3 and a half stars
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ASIN: B000002WY4
Release Date: 1997-01-28

Tracks:

  1. Ride The Tiger
  2. That's For Sure
  3. Be Young You
  4. Caroline
  5. Devils Den
  6. Come To Life
  7. All Fly Away
  8. Hyperdrive

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Watch this album "Come To Life" with a fresh CD copy!.......2007-07-11

As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various music supplies and recordings from the 60's and 70's.

1974 saw the release of "Dragon Fly" and it was obvious that the plane would now fly in another direction. The project obviously without Hot Tuna's Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady did encompass original Airplane members Paul Kantner and Marty Balin along with Grace Slick who was present for the entire journey excluding the debut record. An additional dose of J.A. flavor is sprinkled with Papa John Creach (An Airplaner since 10/5/70), David Freiberg (Joined the Airplane after the start of the 1972 tour), and John Barbata (Became part of the fold during 7/72).

Craig Chaquico (guitar) known by the band for his work on Jack Traylor's (Long time friend of Paul) 1973 Steelwind album and Pete Sears (bass and keyboards) friend of the band since his appearance on the 1971 Papa John Creach self-titled LP were never asked to emulate Jorma and Jack. There mission was to play in a new unit with a much different vision.

The idea of a different vision would alienate some of the older Airplane fans but the door would be open to create their own niche.

"Ride The Tiger" to this day remains as one of the finest Jefferson Starship compositions in any of their terrific incarnations. The riff is memorable from the initial listen and the words a powerhouse.

"Be Young You" could stop a herd in their tracks. Grace's inflection and vocal style make everything in the outside world superfluous for 3:46.

"Caroline" demonstrates that in any era Marty Balin's ability to take a ballad to escalating heights can never be questioned. It gave the band what they needed the radio exposure for the hit oriented crowd to go with the airplay of "Ride The Tiger" for the Album Rock segment.

"Come To Life" is a tune I specifically asked Craig about in "Take Me To A Circus Tent." The sound of his guitar is perfect. He told me that between John Barbata (Drums) and Jorma's brother Peter (Guitar) they had instilled upon him the importance of the right equipment for the specific song. He had met Peter in a previous session. To this day "Come To Life" is one of the most underrated tunes the band would ever pen.

"Hyperdrive" with the longest playing time of any of the eight tracks closes the album. The tune written by Sears and Slick takes us in every direction for nearly eight minutes. Grace's vocals resonate with passion and the band jelled as if they had done this for decades. It's a tune people listen to over and over to soak up every nuance they could fine.

There could be only one Airplane but the Jefferson Starship has flown a different fight path and has done it well. Paul Kantner can be proud to carry the torch for the 40th Anniversary of the Summer Of Love!


Enjoy the music and be well,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"

3 out of 5 stars post-60's hippy jam stuff here. 3 and a half stars.......2007-03-05

Craig Chaquico and his guitar work is worth the price of admission on this release. Still, only 3 songs get a 5 star rating,the rest are 3 stars.

4 out of 5 stars AIRPLANE BECOMES STARSHIP.......2006-09-09

Jefferson Airplane evolves into Jefferson Starship in this 1974 album that, despite the name change, seems a natural progression of the Airplane's cosmic minded, hippie drenched music. Marty Balin returns to the band with the stunning and dramatic rock epic, "Caroline"; a 7-minutes plus progressive ballad that soars like a released bird into flight. Paul Katner's "All Fly Away", is a hallucinegenic dream of other worldly horizons that offers H.G. Wells imagery in a world where "we rode a bubble to the sun,... there were men with fiery wings". Grace Slick's "Devil's Den" is a clever jaunting word play with fiddle,(Papa John Creech), assessing time running out on an evil capitalistic nation, that gets slightly sinister in Slick's spoken line followed by a creepy mocking laugh, "he thinks he's born to glory". Opening track, "Ride The Tiger" offers Jefferson's leftist political leanings in a racially divided America that needs to 'ride the tiger' to a better tomorrow, and Grace Slick's "Hyperdrive", (she once cited it as one of her favorite compositions), combines cosmic imagery with scientific logic, in yet another attempt to leave this world for another, asking quite eloquently, "where do you go on a night that is clear and warm?", along with bizarre geometric inclined lines like, "I've heard circles moving right through corners". The song, "That's For Sure", (love that indifferent group harmony), is a windswept hilltop of life and death philosophy, and "Come To Life", comes alive as a catchy rocker with touching nostalgia, "remember the times and places, glass eyed stares from glowing faces?". Dragon Fly is a humble and confident offering from the Jefferson clan, and it's got one of the best cover arts of the '70's.

2 out of 5 stars "Sing! Sing to the sky!".......2006-06-08

A weak freshman effort from the earliest Jefferson Starship iteration, DRAGON FLY suffers, as many J. Airplane/"Solo"/J. Starship/Starship albums do, from overproduction.

This band, in whatever form its taken, has always loved its multipart harmonies and heavy instrumentation. When the formula works it works very well, but when it doesn't, the music tends to have the dissonant sound of rush hour gridlock in Manhattan. And although the Jefferson Airplane "broke up" in 1972, the early Seventies saw a slew of various solo projects by various band members come to fruition, the overall quality of which were uneven. To be fair, it's difficult to write good material consistently, and the more prolific the writing, the more throwaways are created. It's clear that Kantner, Slick, Balin, et. al. all needed individually to take some real time off to find new directions for themselves. The early Seventies albums all seem to be retreads of each other.

So it is with DRAGON FLY. Most of this album consists of eminently forgettable songs with weak lyrics. The band's densely insistent musical aggressiveness does not lift any song on this album up to the status of a true "hit." The best song on the disc is far and away "Ride The Tiger," a piece which would otherwise qualify as a secondary choice on any Greatest Hits compilation.

The only other pieces of note are Grace Slick's "Hyperdrive," overly long and prolix but potentially a good "live" suite; and "Caroline," 'guest star' Marty Balin's lengthy ode to lost love, which anticipates "Miracles" on RED OCTOPUS.

Overall, DRAGON FLY is an unimpressive entry from a "new" band of the 1970s that had played themselves out being an "old" band from the 1960s.

5 out of 5 stars Jefferson Starship Take Off With A Bang.......2004-06-15

With DRAGON FLY, the Jefferson Starship take off with a great album, maintaing the feel of the old Jefferson Airplane with a 70s sound. A couple of songs are not that great, but the rest of the album is, and serves as a dry run for RED OCTOPUS.
Modern Times
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 Modern Times
Jefferson Starship
Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000009H0U
Release Date: 2005-08-01

Tracks:

  1. Find Your Way Back
  2. Stranger
  3. Wildeyes
  4. Save Your Love
  5. Modern Times
  6. Mary
  7. Free
  8. Alien
  9. 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.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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!!!

5 out of 5 stars 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!

5 out of 5 stars 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......
Platinum & Gold Collection
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • not too bad a sampler, but omits several hits
 Platinum & Gold Collection
Jefferson Starship
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009NH6P
Release Date: 2003-06-17

Tracks:

  1. Layin' It On The Line
  2. Jane
  3. Stranger
  4. Miracles
  5. Count On Me
  6. Runaway
  7. Ride The Tiger
  8. Play On Love
  9. Love Too Good
  10. Freedom At Point Zero
  11. Save Your Love
  12. Hot Water

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars not too bad a sampler, but omits several hits.......2004-10-21

Well at least the "BMG Heritage" series did it right when it put out three seperate discs one for each phase of the band's lifespan. Yet each one comes up short of actual hits in favor of a mix of hit singles and album tracks. This one omits "With Your Love"(1976), "Find Your Way Back"(1981) and "Be My Lady"(1982), and instead substitutes them with lesser-known or non-hit tracks like "Hot Water" and "Freedom at Point Zero"?

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