Why did their legacy go down the shitter? Most people remember them for the abortion that is “We Built This City”
Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 22, 2020 11:01 PM |
Answer: We Built This City.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 22, 2020 7:59 PM |
But that was Starship. Airplane was a different beast.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 22, 2020 8:03 PM |
Yes, but so was Jefferson Starship. This song is sexy.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 22, 2020 8:41 PM |
They had a HUGE hit with "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" in the 80s... but their sound at that point went out of style.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 22, 2020 8:43 PM |
It all went down hill when they dropped "Jefferson".
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 22, 2020 8:45 PM |
But how did they go from this to any of the songs posted above?
["Plastic Fantastic Lover" always seemed like the epitome of 60s psychedelic rock. You can sort of see the hippies with giant joints, tripping their asses off doing weird hippie dances.]
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 22, 2020 8:52 PM |
^^I mean even the lyrics "Data control and IBM and science is mankind's brother" - it's like an SNL skit
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 22, 2020 8:53 PM |
I loved Marty Balin's voice.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 22, 2020 9:01 PM |
I loved Plastic Fantastic Lover. It sounds like they wrote the lyrics while stoned and it's a good song to dance to while stoned.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 22, 2020 9:03 PM |
R11 I loved Marty's voice too. The Airplane was a mess of drugged up people. They would have a great show or they would show up so blasted on drugs they couldn't perform and audiences got pissed. They played a bit of musical beds with each other. It was like they tried to fuck up the band. Their early work was great, later stuff not so much.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 22, 2020 9:55 PM |
Grace always reminded me of Carol Pope.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 22, 2020 11:01 PM |