I suppose this was the band's debut album ... as Starship, but before this was Jefferson Starship, and before they went into space, they were merely Jefferson Airplane ... then came litigation and the names Jefferson, and Airplane were verboten so they kept their Starship and embarked on their mission to explore strange new sounds and try and hard as possible to be relevant. If you're going to try and go commercial, you need to have a song that can be commercial, and boy howdy doo little did they ever get the perfect vehicle that encapsulated everything cheesy about the '80s in one song, and that song was "We Built This City" written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf (I used to think it he was the guy from J. Geils, but it's not that Peter). I mean it had it all, including a DJ voice over, how awesome. "Cheese Gromit!" As if getting a vocal showcase like "Sara" wasn't enough, Mickey Thomas gets to really stre...
A place where I just blather on about shit that I either miss, or am excited about. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally really don't know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I do. Sometimes this is like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the video ... mostly though it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget