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(I guess, tbf, when I say Balin singles I'm really just talking about 'Hearts' here but I hold firm on my position nonetheless.)

Fair enough, though JA weren’t really a singles band.

Volunteers is really sick, Jorma rules

Gorillaz is more influential and has better songs than Blur.

l feel like neither one is influential?

this could have been on Fire Of Unknown Origins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BxmjFuF_0

dipping my toes in here it's the singles that are the roughest go tbh

Oh yeah, I love "St. Charles".

Jefferson Starship was a needed clean-up and reboot after the chaos and disorder of the Airplane's Bark and Long John Silver. The real test is, what do you think of Hot Tuna?

I've heard all the Blur albums, both by The Good The Bad and The Queen, and even the Albarn solo album, yet never felt a need to check out Gorillaz besides seeing a couple of videos. Something about "we're actually cartoon characters" clicks a big "NOPE" switch in my head.

I think I like all the big hits from the entire Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship continuum. I like their singers' voices.

I think I like all the big hits from the entire Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship continuum. I like their singers' voices.

I can't remember a single one other than "Somebody to Love" and "We Built This City." They might be the big 60s/70s band that's disappeared from the cultural landscape most completely.

'White Rabbit'!

you don't remember White Rabbit?

Jane?

for years I remembered "Find Your Way Back" as a great single by Boston

who can forget their appearance as a tiny hologram band in the star wars holiday special

Most people nowadays probably think of 'Jane' as 'Theme from Wet Hot American Summer'.

xpost lol, that was actually precisely what prompted this revive, as I finally watched that POS for the first time last night. Their song was pretty good! And I'd been listening to '70s Billboard hits of late and those JS songs were pretty good!

Never heard JS but, for me, JA are the ultimate Band You've Tried To Get Into But Failed, er, band,

feel like White Rabbit from years of movies and documentaries is up there with Turn, Turn, Turn and by the Byrds and Purple Haze by Hendrix as musical shorthand for "The Sixties"

I can hear a narrator saying "... and in San Francisco, a new drug fueled hippie scene emerged in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood"

for years I remembered "Find Your Way Back" as a great single by Boston

me too!

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was a #1 single in the US and UK! Don't remember a thing about it.

Come on, even I know that one.

JA are fucking awesome but nobody ever talks about them so I don’t see how not caring about them in controversial?

The Outfield invented Emo

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was a #1 single in the US and UK! Don't remember a thing about it.

A perfect example; when I read this post, my immediate thought wasn't "Oh yeah, that song!" it was "Wait, that was them?" JA/JS were almost totally anonymous, stylistically speaking.

to date the only jefferson starship song i've heard is the one in the star wars holiday special

i have also never managed to get into jefferson airplane but i wouldn't call them anonymous. starship sans jefferson were def anonymous, they were designed that way

"nothing's gonna stop us now" is sick as hell; "we built this city" is not a good song but i have a weird affection for its tastelessness at this point in my life

I only just now disovered that cursed earworm lyric "knee deep in the hoopla" is also the name of that album

https://external-preview.redd.it/3fwvVSKl9gJodAjBRrL6YPzfRmg8ZgP37GZcEUdRPrE.jpg?auto=webp&s=faaf74f1b6b7fdf81c8ef90ee8844e132e547337

I like "We Built This City" a lot (though ftr, that's Starship)

it was boss when the Bucs drafted Vinny Testaverde in '87 & the local radio played "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". love that boomer optimism.

From the Wiki:

In June 1984, Paul Kantner, the last remaining founding member of Jefferson Airplane, left Jefferson Starship. In October 1984, Kantner took legal action over the Jefferson Starship name against his former bandmates.

The band briefly performed as "Starship Jefferson" while legal proceedings occurred, before settling on the shortened name "Starship".

Starship Jefferson!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTHpfZhfQbk

Nick Cave is turning into Norman Tebbit, looks-wise at least

I assume many of you have read this— ftr, I love this song, and have ahem borrowed a phrase or two for poems throughout my life.

https://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time

I only just now disovered that cursed earworm lyric "knee deep in the hoopla" is also the name of that album

Haha. Lot of competition in that song, "Marconi plays the mamba" being probably the most bizarre earworm lyric.

haha from that GQ oral history

I probably should've tried harder to oppose it. I had a family.

That was the best song on the album, even though it's considered the worst song of all time. The rest were a load of crap.

I'm grateful that it helps renew my health insurance, via SAG-AFTRA.

Among the people who now say they hate it are two band members and the guy who wrote the lyrics.

I know ‘forget it jake, it’s rob tannenbaum’ - but calling this the Worst Song of All Time is such absurd hyperbole, even as a framing conceit for a GQ article.

but calling this the Worst Song of All Time is such absurd hyperbole,

Exhibit A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWHUsOcbv-0

"Sara" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" or goddamn "Miracles" are worse, but I wouldn't call them terrible except "Miracles" and not much more terrible than its contemporaries.

plus JA's own "Planes"

"Sara" is a fucking fantastic song and I will fight you over this

you're fire and ice, the dream won't come true

Storms are brewing in my eyes and my fists

when i worked at a used record store, we would often play purposely bad things to annoy our coworkers. one day, somebody played the longest jimmy buffett album he could find, so i was like, "okay, fine." and i played knee deep in the hoopla. outside of the singles, i'd never heard the rest of the album and i thought it was genuinely "so bad it's good" to the point that i bought the cassette and listened to it in my car for several years afterwards. it's cheesier than the worst cheese you can imagine, but that's why i liked it. haven't heard it in over a decade, but it's an album i can i very much enjoyed the last time i listened to it.

maybe i should revisit.

tbf Tannenbaum isn't relly calling it the worsts song of all time—it's framed up around Blender's determination and subsequent reputation as such

worst

Did he write the Blender article too? (Lol)