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Jefferson Starship Nuclear Furniture (1984)
Originally Released 1984\nCD Edition Released \n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Nuclear Furniture, like the other Jefferson Starship albums of the early '80s, is a competent but rather forgettable collection of radio-friendly dual guitar/keyboard period pop tunes. It holds up better than previous efforts Modern Times and Winds of Change, though, due to improved songwriting and the temporarily revitalized presence of Paul Kantner (who would acrimoniously leave the band, taking the "Jefferson" with him, after this album). Kantner's three efforts -- "Connection," "Rose Goes to Yale," and "Champion" -- paint an intriguing and sometimes humorous picture of sifting through a post-apocalyptic Earth. "Champion," in fact, perfectly synthesizes his dual roles as unapologetic idealist hippie and aging storyteller/mythmaker. The remaining tracks are largely mid-tempo rockers, sounding much like Foreigner filler. "No Way Out" became a Top 40 hit with its catchy keyboard riff, but on most of the other cuts, bandmembers Craig Chaquico, Pete Sears, David Freiberg, and Donny Baldwin are content to go through the motions. The usually thought-provoking Grace Slick commits the almost unpardonable sin of applying cheesy synth drums to her composition "Magician," but acquits herself on the smart, intense "Showdown," one of her finest moments of the '80s, both lyrically and vocally. All told, Nuclear Furniture is most notable in the Jefferson lexicon as the album that made permanent the schism between Paul Kantner's lingering political punditry and Mickey Thomas's desire for disposable arena rock. The tension between the two angles makes for an intriguing if uneven album. ~ Joseph McCombs, All Music Guide\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nFans of "The Jeffersons" unpleased...the rest of us rejoice!, September 13, 2004 \nReviewer: Pearly White "Pearly...~>" (Northwest USA)\nI look at the release of this album by Jefferson Starship in a similar light that I do the mid to late 80's releases by Black Sabbath. Two bands names who garnered so much attention and respect for a particular style and sound in the late 60's and early 70's that when it came time for the band to update their sound and the name remains the same, traditional fans get unruly. I think the album before this called "Modern Times" already had some leanings towards the type of radio-friendly pop rock that makes it's first headstrong and front-to-back appearance on this album. This same group of musicians (mostly anyway) would later cancel the "Jefferson" in their name and become known as just "Starship". This name is synonimous with tunes like "We Built This City", "Sara" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" to those of us who grew up listening to 80's rock. This album, the last one under the old monnicker is filled with the same great style of 80's pop rock music that the later 80's releases were! Only trouble is, some of us never knew about it until later on, because of the band's two name stereotyping (that would be me!). When I finally discovered this record, it was like a dream! I always loved the efforts of the Starship projects like "Knee Deep In Hoopla" and "Love Among The Cannibals" and to find that this was the same style was amazing and wonderful! In fact, other than "It's Not Enough" from the "Love Among The Cannibals" LP, "No Way Out" from "Nuclear Furniture" just might be my favorite (Jefferson) Starship song of all time! Forget the reviews of this album that mention the music as "simplistic" and "thrown together" and talking about them "selling-out" . Music is a funny thing, and times change. Musicians in a group like this are thankfully talented enough to last the span of two decades and change enough so that fans of other styles besides their progressively hybridized 70's stuff and "Jimmy Stewart's performance in Harvey" inspired psychedelic recordings of the 60's can have somehting of our own to enjoy. If you remember the "Jefferson Starship" of old, and are expecting that sound from this record...you will be disappointed. But if you are a fan of the talent and musicianship of members like Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas and are open minded and/or just plain love inventive, synth-energized pop rock with overblown choruses and a little quirk, then I highly recommend "Nuclear Furniture". A classic in my book! \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nJefferson Starship Has An Identity Crisis, August 28, 2003 \nReviewer: A music fan \nThis last album of the group with the name Jefferson Starship is a poorly organized, and badly written album of songs that sound as though they were quickly written just for the sake of getting an album out.\n\nOn the one hand, you have Paul Kanter writing strange songs that are not power pop ballads, most notably about Rose, a character that appears in other songs Kanter has written for other JS albums. And then, you also have songs that sound like they are put together by a team of songwriters for Mickey Thomas to sing just for the sake of FM airplay. This album is not really representative of the group as a whole, and fails to produce a collection of songs that belong together on an album. Unless you already own it, don't buy it. \n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nRon Nevison, Producer\n\nAlbum Notes\nJefferson Starship: Paul Kantner, Mickey Thomas, Grace Slick, Craig Chaquico, David Freiberg, Pete Sears, Donny Baldwin.
This rock cd contains 11 tracks and runs 42min 56sec.
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