weatherman90 wrote:I haven't listened to much Jefferson Airplane but I am a big "Starship" fan and Jefferson Starship is pretty good too...
"Jane", "Find Your Way Back", and "Layin It on the Line" are three great Jefferson Starship songs to get into.
With Starship, my favorites are "Sarah", "We Built This City", "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", and "It's Not Enough". Mickey Thomas has a great voice and its too bad Grace Slick is nearing that 70 mark or those two vocalists would make a great tour.
I like JA, some JS. For a while, thought I was the only one that hated "We Built This City". Then came across these articles a few years ago. Not criticizing your choices though, seeing the title just reminded me of the articles.
Run for Your Life! It’s the 50 Worst Songs Ever!
#1 - STARSHIP - “We Built This City” 1985
The truly horrible sound of a band taking the corporate dollar while sneering at those who take the corporate dollar
The lyrics of “We Built This City” appear to restate the importance of the band once known as Jefferson Airplane within San Francisco’s ’60s rock scene. Not so, says former leader Grace Slick, who by 1985 had handed her band to singer Mickey Thomas and a shadowy team of outside songwriters.
“Everybody thought we were talking about San Francisco. We weren’t,” Slick says. “It was written by an Englishman, Bernie Taupin, about Los Angeles in the early ’70s. Nobody was telling the truth!”
Certainly not Starship, who spend the song carrying on as if they invented rock & roll rebellion, while churning out music that encapsulates all that was wrong with rock in the ’80s: Sexless and corporate, it sounds less like a song than something built in a lab by a team of record-company executives.
The result was so awful that years afterward, it seems to bring on a personality disorder in the woman who sang it. “This is not me,” Slick remarks when reminded of the 1985 chart-topper. “Now you’re an actor. It’s the same as Meryl Streep playing Joan of Arc.”
Worst Moment “Who cares, they’re always changing corporation names,” sneers Slick — whose band had changed its name three times.
http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=819
"We Built This City' ranks as the worst record ever"
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news ... ongs_x.htm
