Old Enough to Forget

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 as 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 do 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 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 stretch out...