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 me32 responses total.
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". ;-)
(As if that "we built this city on rock and roll" song weren't unforgivable enough.....)
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..
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..."
"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.
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.)
"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>
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.
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..
It could be worse. You could've been "Christian" and had to deal with that Night Ranger song. ^_^
No, it was bad enough dealing with fellow parishoners. (I could NOT resist that pun) (Okay, I could have, but hey...)
I've always found it kind of funny where the various pieces of Jefferson Airplane ended up.
No kidding...yeesh...
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..
Starship is the only one I'd known about. What is KBC Band?
Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, and Jack Cassidy..
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.
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..
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.
It could be "That's All" by Genesis. =)
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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.
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..
I love "White Rabbit" but that's mainly because I'm such a Lewis Carroll fan.
I'm not generally a huge fan of greatest-hits collections, but I do recommend the 2-disc Jefferson Airplane set "2400 Fulton Street." Along with a fine selection of album tracks, it also includes some amusing stuff, particularly a sequence of Levi commercials which sound exactly as you would imagine Jefferson Airplane doing 60's Levi commercials would sound..
Oh dear....
They're hilarious..
Should I whisper here that I actually rather liked the song "We Built This City"? It was the last decent song I heard on the pop radio during a period of rapid decline in quality. (From what I've heard, the dreck period only lasted about five years, and there has been much excellent pop during the 90s. But I never got back into the habit of radio listening.) Of the classic Airplane songs, besides the obligatory "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", I have two definite favorites, those being "Lather" and "Good Shepherd". That makes five songs I like by one band, which is enough to elevate almost any band to my long list of favorite groups. Oh, and thanks for the ID, guys. If I had ever heard of a song called "That's All" by Genesis, I'm sure it would have occurred to me that it was probably the one I was thinking of; but since I hadn't, someone needed to point it out to me.
"Good Shepherd" is excellent. "Lather" is cute but gets on my nerves.. I think my favorite Airplane song is probably "Martha"..
The whole SURREALISTIC PILLOW album hangs together very well after 22 years. On most of the rest of the albums I find myself kicking the next-track button with a fair bit of regularity; my second favorite album is probably VOLUNTEERS, but that one just has four songs I love: "We Can Be Together," "Good Shepherd," "Wooden Ships" and "Volunteers." The WORST OF JEFFERSON AIRPLANE collection rounds up most of the tracks I love, with the exception of "Wooden Ships." I may just be fixated on that collection because an old girlfriend owned one. I'm always on the lookout for bands whose singing style in any way approaches the attack of the Airplane at its peak.
I somewhere, recently, picked up a copy of "the Worst of Jefferson Airplane" quite cheaply (I think it was Best Buy, for $5.00 or so) with the theory that although I already had all the material elsewhere I could throw it in with the CDs I keep in my car and not worry about it being stolen. You can have it for a few bucks if you'd like a CD copy, I'd already pretty much decicded I prefer to burn my own selection of tracks for the car..
I really liked After Bathing at Baxters. The cover art work has a great airplane with many floors, lots of flags, etc. The music is good too.
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