Old Enough to Forget

If push ever came to shove and I had to honestly list my favourite songs "Jane" would be near the top. I can't really describe what it is about the song that just crushes all my buttons, but it did - and still does. When this came out in '79 the sheer number of killer songs that were out that year was astounding (look it up, make your own list). The album though was a different thing all together. Freedom At Point Zero was an album a buddy of mine had, and I remember listening to it once . Expecting more than it could possibly deliver I was profoundly disappointed. I don't know if I even made it to the second side. I borrowed the record and put the song on a mix tape, and then gave it back - he didn't want it back, but I didn't want it either. When the band had another hit with "Find Your Way Back" a couple years later I never even bothered trying to find the record ... I had written the band off. Fickle I know, but my roots didn't go back to...

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...