Two less than stellar albums to say the least!

Description
Friday Music continues the extensive Jefferson Starship & Starship Remaster Series with another deluxe two CD package of their final two albums for RCA/Grunt Records - 1987's No Protection and 1989's Love Among The Cannibals. This unique set includes the mega smash #1 Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now as well as the other big hit singles Set The Night To Music, It's Not Over ('Til It's Over), It's Not Enough and Beat Patrol. Remastered from the original RCA/Grunt Records tapes by Joe Reagoso.

Tracklist
[CD1: No Protection]
1. Beat Patrol
2. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
3. It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)
4. Girl Like You
5. Wings Of A Lie
6. The Children
7. I Don't Know Why
8. Transatlantic
9. Say When
10. Babylon
11. Set The Night To Music

[CD2: Love Among The Cannibals]
1. The Burn
2. It's Not Enough
3. Trouble In Mind
4. I Didn't Mean To Stay All Night
5. Send A Message
6. Wild Again
7. Love Among The Cannibals
8. We Dream In Color
9. Healing Waters
10. Blaze Of Love
11. I'll Be There

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QF31KI/?tag=imwan-20

Even the presence of Grace Slick is not enough to make me buy this dreck.

If stores still had cut out bins (if stores still sold CD's), that is where this one will end up. Can't figure out how a label could believe they will make money selling stuff like this. must be a very low break even point.

No thanks,I'll leave it with Modern Times and Nuclear Furniture.

I'm pretty sure that both of these can be had individually now, for very short money, in any of your local used CD stores. This seems like a pretty pointless reissue. Who is going to buy this? (Besides Jimbo of course.)

Master Hare,

Do you mean you collect only up to Nuclear Furniture, or you don't like Modern Times and Nuclear Furniture either?

GoogaMooga

I only recognize one song on the track lists, "Nothing's gonna stop us now", but I remember seeing these in the used CD shops back in the day.

No Kantner - No Starship

Oh these albums had plenty of hits, but they were total corporate crapola. "It's Not Over ('Til It's Over" was Top 10 and the sickening "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" hit #1 and the pathetic "Beat Patrol" just missed the Top 40 all from No Protection.
The latter album had a big hit with "It's Not Enough" which fell just shy of the Top 10-I actually did like that one sadly.
Just brutal stuff. Mercifully it all ended for Starship in 1991, although Mickey Thomas has his own bogus version of the band playing state fairs and bingo parlors.
There actually was an unusual, but outstanding comp in the late 90's from Legacy I think called "Hits" which was a 2CD set that had Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship hits and was very well done. I used to have it, sold it, and now I'd like it back-is it OOP?

This was the rather good track listing:
1 It's No Secret
2 Somebody To Love
3 White Rabbit
4 Embryonic Journey
5 Plastic Fantastic Lover
6 Comin' Back To Me
7 Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil
8 Greasy Heart
9 Lather
10 Crown Of Creation
11 Wooden Ships
12 Volunteers
13 Good Shepherd
14 Have You Seen The Saucers
15 Pretty As You Feel
16 Third Week In The Chelsea
17 Long John Silver
18 Caroline
19 Ride The Tiger

DISC 2 for Hits (CD) Album By Jefferson Airplane (Artist) Listen

1 Miracles
2 With Your Love
3 Count On Me
4 Runaway
5 Jane
6 Find Your Way Back
7 Stranger
8 Be My Lady
9 No Way Out
10 Layin' It On The Line
11 We Built This City
12 Sara
13 Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight
14 Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
15 It's Not Over (Til It's Over)
16 It's Not Enough

Pete,

Sadly, it is OOP:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000065C74/?tag=imwan-20

Jay:
Thanks-looks like some reasonable and ridiculous prices. I will try to get this again at some point. I sold it a while ago for $25 so it might have been OOP even back then. I forget why I sold it!

Pete,

I agree with you. It's a very nicely chosen compilation that gets one enough Starship to last a lifetime.

I thought "We Built This City" was a crappy song.

Then I heard "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now."

By comparison, WBTC is a freaking masterpiece.

No wonder why Grace Slick woke up from her hangover and left to take part in the ill-fated Jefferson Airplanee reunion!!

Unfortunately, the #38 "Winds Of Change" is missing from that Hits comp.

Everything up to,and including Modern Times/Nuclear Furniture.I would also need "Earth" and "Winds Of Change" to do that then I'd be covered for all the JA and JS albums up to that date.
No Starship for me either.

Artistic merits aside, let's not discourage our friends at Friday Music for getting CD titles back on the market.

I agree wholeheartedly with that. Putting albums back in print is ALWAYS a good thing in my book! Who's to say when someone begins collecting a particular artist?

You're right Jimbo,Friday Music needs all our encouragement !!
They did a fantasic job on Santana's "Marathon" and I will also buy the Jefferson Starship "Modern Times and Nuclear Furniture" two-fer and Blood Sweat and Tears "4" put out by them.

I am happy Friday is continuing reissues, but nothing will make me buy a bad album, and nothing Starship put out was worth buying, and I say that as a huge Jefferson Airplane fan (and could I have a longer run-on sentence).

I do like Starship as a guilty pleasure. The Platinum & Gold collection covers these years (1985-1989) quite well.



1. We Built This City
2. It's Not Over ('Til It's Over) - (Rock mix)
3. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
4. Sara - (single edit)
5. Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight
6. Set the Night to Music
7. Before I Go - (remix)
8. Beat Patrol
9. I Didn't Mean to Stay All Night
10. Wild Again
11. Love Rusts
12. It's Not Enough - (remix)

Besides, who could resist the drummer's mullet?

One of the least good, but formerly great bands of all time.