| Earth | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jefferson Starship
Label: RCA
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 172869
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 078636687827
EAN: 0078636687827
ASIN: B000002WY3
Release Date: February 25, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Love Too Good - Jefferson Starship, Chaquico, Craig | | • | Count on Me - Jefferson Starship, Barish, Jesse | | • | Take Your Time - Jefferson Starship, Slick, Grace | | • | Crazy Feelin' - Jefferson Starship, Barish, Jesse | | • | Skateboard - Jefferson Starship, Chaquico, Craig | | • | Fire - Jefferson Starship, Buchwald | | • | Show Yourself - Jefferson Starship, Slick, Grace | | • | Runaway - Jefferson Starship, Dewey, Nicholas | | • | All Nite Long - Jefferson Starship, Barish, Jesse |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Absolutely Out of This World May 9, 2002
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the best and most underrated of all Jefferson Starship albums. Their first four (which are the only ones to include the classic Slick-Balin-Kantner trio)should be more revered than they are today, since these collections accomplished a neat sleight of hand by crossing from pop to a more idiosynchratic musical approach. "Earth" contains many fine moments. The hits "Count On Me" and "Runaway" are pleasant, lilting diversions, but the real goods are held in the songs by Grace Slick. Her cooing and growling on "Love Too Good" open the album with a funkiness not usually attributed to the Starship. "Take Your Time" is about as reflective and personal as Grace gets, and its theme of living life too fast is delivered with a wistful sigh. "Skateboard" is an outre roller that blasts its way out of the speakers, and Grace truly wails. Of course, the album's centerpiece is "Show Yourself", an almost British-rock howler that builds in intensity and musicianship from start to finish. Grace Slick sounds rejuvinated throughout "Earth", coming up with her most cohesive collection of songs in years. The closer, "All Night Long", is another Kantner-Starship anthem in the usual sci-fi tradition that sounds both exuberant and aggressive. The arrangements and approach of the Starship throughout "Earth" bring out the best in every performance. It's worth a visit.
marks the end of an era, but with great song material May 17, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
1978's "Earth" marks the end of an era for Jefferson Starship--both Marty Balin and Grace Slick would leave the band prior to the next album, 1979's "Freedom At Point Zero", which lead to a definite stylistic shift for the band.
It's sort of ironic then that "Earth" very much plays like solo albums from Slick and Balin on shuffle play. Paul Kantner's prescence is barely detectible apart from the album-closing "All Nite Long"--credited to the whole band and Jesse Barish, it rocks out quite nicely, and is an excellent demonstration of Kantner's characteristic long-and-winding anthemic style.
Sonically, the trademark mid-'70s Starship sound is in full force on "Earth", and with the song material being terrific, this ends up being an irresistible, vastly underrated album.
Balin had seemingly become more interested in finding top-flight material from other songwriters--particularly his friend Jesse Barish--than writing his own, something that would continue with his solo career in the '80s.
And Barish delivers the goods. The breezy, feel-good lite rocker "Crazy Feelin'" is well-crafted and top-tappingly catchy. The Top 10 hit "Count On Me" is a lovely, easy-going soft-rock ballad, although I think they went overboard with the amount of reverb on Balin's lead vocal--stripping some of that away would have added an appealing intimacy to the song.
Balin has two more lead vocal features, both of which are terrific. "Fire" is a hilarious, over-the-top hysterical rocker with Balin singing his head off, endlessly wailing the song's title. And the Top 20 hit "Runaway", written by Balin's former Bodacious D.F. bandmate Greg Dewey, is a dreamy, spine-tingling ballad punctuated by a couple of slightly rocked-up bridge sections where Balin adopts a weird, nasally vocal approach.
Grace Slick is in peak form here as well. She sings lead on 4 songs, two of which she co-wrote--"Take Your Time", co-written by keyboardist Pete Sears, is an awesomely tuneful introspective ballad with a brilliantly-nuanced Slick vocal. The rocking "Skateboard", co-written by lead guitarist Craig Chaquico, is an exciting rocker with a marvelous singalong chorus. The album-opening "Love Too Good" finds the Starship slipping into a seductive, extended funky groove and getting great mileage out of it. Slick also offers "Show Yourself", a raging, impassioned anthemic ballad that just can't be denied.
In the end, "Earth" really is NOT just a non-chalant rehash of previous albums as many seem to think--it's a must-have.
 All That Glitters Is Not Gold August 10, 2000
4 out of 17 found this review helpful
"Earth" is easily the worst album by any incarnation of the Jefferson Starship. It boasts a glossy, professional (thus sterile) production job, and much of the material was formulated with or by outside writers. There are really no worthwhile tracks, although fans of mellow MOR rock from the 1970s might have an affection for "Count On Me" or "Love Too Good", sung by Marty Balin and Grace Slick respectively, and written by other people! The songs are very thin musically and lyrically, and even the arrangements are formulaic. The Starship is clearly on cruise-control on this effort. Balin's material here is, while very catchy, also very insipid. Paul Kantner can only muster up one tired attempt at a rock anthem, "All Night Long". Grace Slick is in dangerous self-parody mode with "Show Yourself", but with none of the humour. There is a reason why Slick, then Balin left the now corporate Starship. There was nothing but money to keep them together, and this group was never really about "big bucks". Even Kantner's next incarnation, as evidenced on 1980's energetic hard-rock effort "Freedom At Point Zero", shows that he was weary of formulaic MOR rock. Avoid this pretty-sounding confection at all costs if you're a serious fan of either Airplane or Starship.
 spotty October 13, 2004
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
The 1978 effort "Earth" on the GRUNT lable finds the starship in a very polished, studio friendly environment, writing very middle-aged-friendly soft-rock. Earth, while not the worst JS album in my opinion it suffers from some of the worst lyrics I've ever had to read. These lyrics are coming from the band members themselves, even though outside writers were used for much of the release(which is the ONLY saving grace for this effort). The music, however, is very well written and performed by the band Chaquico and Sears most notably. But the lyrics..... the lyrics! Slick's lyrics for "take your time" are so insipid and phoney they sound as if they were taken from a television commercial and bog down a good Pete Sears score. "Skateboard" is a cliche attempt at making a record for the late 70's fad of skateboarding ...."Good God, that man's a wizard" is just one line of a string of horrible lyrics. Slick's "Show Yourself" is yet again another attempt by Slick to write 'meaningful' lyrics about a personal issue (this one being the tarnished United States)and falling absolutly flat on her face. Jessie Barish's two songs "Count on Me" and "Crazy Feelin'" are easily the best work here. The H.Q. Dewy's "Runaway" is also a cut above the rest of the in-house writing from the band members. Overall, a poor effort from a capable band, but a sign of things to come.
a classic jefferson starship cd July 31, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
if you are a true jefferson starship fan you must add this classic cd to your collection. the cd is chock-full of the beautiful ballads and hard-rocking masterpieces that made the starship one of the best bands of the 70's/80's. do not pass this up. this has been a hard to find gem and we can thank amazon.com for un-"earth"-ing this jewel.
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