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phenix
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help the greggie out
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Nov 15 23:38 UTC 1999 |
hey, there's a song, mid-early eighties, 'round labyrinth, that goes soemthing
like this:
the choros is "sarah
sarah
storms are awake in yoru eyes.."
that's all ican 'member.
if you know the title, or who sings it please help me
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gypsi
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response 1 of 32:
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Nov 16 00:02 UTC 1999 |
The line is "Sara...Sara...storms are brewin' in your eyes". The song is
"Sara" by Starship, who I still haven't forgiven for a) spelling my name wrong
and b) writing a song that people sing to me to this day, trying to be "cute"
and "original". ;-)
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orinoco
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response 2 of 32:
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Nov 16 00:05 UTC 1999 |
(As if that "we built this city on rock and roll" song weren't unforgivable
enough.....)
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mcnally
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response 3 of 32:
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Nov 16 00:47 UTC 1999 |
Indeed. The members of Starship have a *lot* to answer for.
"Sara", at least, was far from the worst thing they did..
re #1: out of curiosity, where do you *find* people who remember
the song well enough to sing it to you? that, in and of itself,
is kind of scary..
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gypsi
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response 4 of 32:
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Nov 16 01:17 UTC 1999 |
We're all children of the 80's. =) That song came out when I was...eight?
My ex used to sing it to me because I have grey eyes...hence "storms are
brewing..."
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otaking
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response 5 of 32:
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Nov 16 14:32 UTC 1999 |
"Sara" was an above-average ballad for its time. Unfortunately, that "we built
this city" song has stuck in my head instead (including the stupid DJ bit).
Gah!
Sometimes it's a curse to be a child of the 80's.
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anderyn
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response 6 of 32:
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Nov 16 15:12 UTC 1999 |
Grin. My kids LOVED "We built this City". I have a taped copy of it from
WIQB
with the stupid DJ bit that they played over and over and over and over
again for YEARS. I am immune to ever disliking Starship from that
experience. (I happen to LIKE the Eighties, musically. Oddly enough,
although that was when I was in my late twenties and early thirties, it
was when I first found out how obsessively I adore music.)
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otaking
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response 7 of 32:
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Nov 16 16:25 UTC 1999 |
"We built this city" was one of those songs I enjoyed the first dozen or so
times I heard it. It was overplayed WAY too much though.
At least it's better than the Jefferson Starship performance on the "Star Wars
Holiday Special." <otaking shudders from the memory of that show>
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gypsi
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response 8 of 32:
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Nov 16 16:58 UTC 1999 |
I like music from the eighties, but "Built This City" falls into the category
of "annoying 80's music that basic amoeba can dance to". Ugh.
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mcnally
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Nov 16 17:13 UTC 1999 |
Anway, at least your name wasn't "Rosanna", or you'd have never emerged
sane from the eighties..
Now that I think about it, women are at a *much* higher level of danger
from annoying songs than men are..
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otaking
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response 10 of 32:
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Nov 16 17:39 UTC 1999 |
It could be worse. You could've been "Christian" and had to deal with that
Night Ranger song. ^_^
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gypsi
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response 11 of 32:
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Nov 16 18:33 UTC 1999 |
No, it was bad enough dealing with fellow parishoners.
(I could NOT resist that pun)
(Okay, I could have, but hey...)
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krj
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response 12 of 32:
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Nov 16 19:01 UTC 1999 |
I've always found it kind of funny where the various pieces of
Jefferson Airplane ended up.
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gypsi
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response 13 of 32:
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Nov 16 19:26 UTC 1999 |
No kidding...yeesh...
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mcnally
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response 14 of 32:
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Nov 16 19:29 UTC 1999 |
Jorma Kaukonen seems to have been the lucky one. Hot Tuna doesn't
really thrill me but at least he'll never have to lie in his deathbed
and ponder his participation in Starship or KBC Band..
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orinoco
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response 15 of 32:
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Nov 16 21:06 UTC 1999 |
Starship is the only one I'd known about. What is KBC Band?
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mcnally
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response 16 of 32:
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Nov 16 22:45 UTC 1999 |
Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, and Jack Cassidy..
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krj
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response 17 of 32:
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Nov 16 23:29 UTC 1999 |
If I remember correctly, when Kantner bailed out of Jefferson
Starship he took the "Jefferson..." part of the name with him.
In her memoirs, Grace Slick was candid about the Starship music
being stuff which was cranked out to make money, pretty much at
the direction of the record company.
Kantner has assembled a new version of Jefferson Starship, with a
new woman singer, recording for a very minor label. I'm curious, but
I haven't been willing to spring for the new recording yet.
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mcnally
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response 18 of 32:
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Nov 17 00:31 UTC 1999 |
What makes the 70s and 80s spinoffs so painful, for me at least,
is that Jefferson Airplane was a genuinely good band during its
heyday. Their hits that are played on "clasic rock" stations
are pretty cliched by now but there's a lot of good music in their
catalog that you don't hear very often..
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dbratman
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response 19 of 32:
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Nov 17 19:37 UTC 1999 |
If this is a topic for asking for the identity of rock standards, I've
got one. It's played on the radio all the time, but I have no idea what
it's called or who did it. I don't remember all the lyrics, but the
chorus ends with the words "That's all", stretched out into three
syllables. Rather catchy tune.
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gypsi
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response 20 of 32:
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Nov 17 20:10 UTC 1999 |
It could be "That's All" by Genesis. =)
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phenix
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response 21 of 32:
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Nov 18 17:29 UTC 1999 |
<poing>
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krj
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response 22 of 32:
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Nov 18 18:32 UTC 1999 |
Shucks, I thought it would be an item for discussing Jefferson Airplane
and its descendants... I never think of the Airplane as cliched;
their most overplayed song, "Somebody to Love," still makes the
hairs on my neck stand up a little bit.
I went on a replacement binge and got CDs of most of the Airplane albums
this summer. Now the question becomes, keep or discard the last two
studio albums, the weaker ones. LONG JOHN SILVER you almost have to keep
for its packaging, which folds into a stash box.
And BARK has one decent song. Grace Slick's memoirs had some interesting
insights into why the band collapsed artistically, though I can't
remember them this morning.
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mcnally
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response 23 of 32:
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Nov 18 18:41 UTC 1999 |
I was thinking of "White Rabbit", which hasn't aged as well as
"Somebody to Love". We can start a Jefferson Airplane item if
you want -- I'm not sure if anyone else besides us is interested
but I'd be happy to discuss them for a while..
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otaking
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response 24 of 32:
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Nov 19 17:49 UTC 1999 |
I love "White Rabbit" but that's mainly because I'm such a Lewis Carroll fan.
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