Track Listing

1. We Built This City
2. Jane
3. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
4. It's Not Over ('til It's Over)
5. Babylon
6. Set The Night To Music
7. Sara
8. Love Among The Cannibals
9. Rock Myself To Sleep
10. Hearts Of The World (Will Understand)
11. It's Not Enough
12. Lay It On The Line
13. Find Oyur Way Back
14. Stranger
15. No Way Out
16. Don't Lose Any Sleep
17. Good Heart

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2493 in Music
• Released on: 1997-08-23
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Total disgrace
Once upon a time there was a great San Francisco band called Jefferson Airplane, who played a mixture of folk tinged and psychadelic music. They acquired a new girl singer from a local band. She was Grace Slick. Together with Paul Kantner, and to a lesser extent, she took the Airplane in whole new directions, including deeply political songs and hot rocking music as performed by Jorma Kaukkonen and Jack Cassady. Internal strife pulled the band apart, and Grace and Kantner went on to produce a series of fantastic solo and duo albums.
They eventually amalgamated some of the backing musicians from these discs and formed Jefferson Starship. They made about 3 good albums before sliding downhill. Kantner had the good taste to leave. Grace unfortunately didn't. The result was the greatest sell out of all time. The band produced power pop and drearily twee ballads that were an insult to their previous incarnations.
Best of? You have to be joking. If you want to hear what this band is really about, buy anything they produced from 1966 to 1976.Don't touch this dross.
Go ride the music !!

Brilliant!
I bought this album on a whim, mainly for the great track 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now' and have been very pleasantly suprised by all the other tracks on this album. I agree with previous reviewers, this is truly great music which may verge on the cheesy side at times, but is brilliantly done and wholly irresistible.

This is an excellent slice of 80s rock and roll, and well worth the money!

Some Great Power Pop...Then Poodle Rock!
This CD joined my collection on the strength of the two big hits from the eighties, "We Built..." and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" - and what chunky power-pop songs they are, to be sure. OK, so "We Built" won the award for worst pop lyrics in a recent poll ("Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio..." Hmmmm, yesssss), but surely that's not the point. Starship weren't trying to encapsulate anything profound in that song, merely the atmosphere of a west-coast city with a rock music radio station - and that they succeeded in doing splendidly, coupling a superb bassline with a pure power-pop chorus. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is in similar musical territory, and features one of the chunkiest key-changes to grace popular music (Celine Dion could learn a thing or two from that!).

However, it's the latter part of the CD that pulls out the biggest surprises. Suddenly there's track after track of pure, 100% enjoyable eighties L.A. "poodle-perm" metal. This stuff is priceless! Some people might think it was naff, but it can't be denied that it's enormous fun. Put on that poodle wig, reach for the air guitar and - in the immortal words of the late, great Dave Nice - let's rock!