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Nuclear Furniture | 
| Artist: Jefferson Starship
Label: Bmg Japan
Category: Music
List Price: $42.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 184634
Format: Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 5.1 x 0.2
EAN: 4988017656389
ASIN: B001031SRU
Release Date: January 22, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Layin' It on the Line | | • | No Way Out | | • | Sorry Me, Sorry You | | • | Live and Let Live | | • | Connection | | • | Rose Goes to Yale | | • | Magician | | • | Assassin | | • | Shining in the Moonlight | | • | Showdown | | • | Champion |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Nuclear Vacation April 20, 2002
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've bought everything JA/JS ever recorded and this is my favorite. It's totally pop metal, but not so completely sold-out that the Jefferson needed to be removed. Actually it's Paul Kantner's last album with the group. "No way out", "Laying it on the Line" were both big hits, and rightly so, and stand up today. However, the best songs on the album are "Rose goes to yale" and "Champion", seemingly parts 2 and 3 from "Freedom at Point Zero's" "lightnight rose". Get it, enjoy and shut it. It's the best.
A True Gem from the 80's June 11, 2005
The Jolly Roger (Kitchener.On Canada)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
,One of the finest albums from the 80's indeed from both musical and sound engineering aspect.I have it on vinyl and was thrilled to see it in cd format.The collaboration between
Slick and Thomas was magical.Favorite cuts,"No Way Out",Layin it on the Line",Sorry Me Sorry You",Magician,The entire works is truly a piece of art.Highly underated.I loved "Freedom at Point Zero" but this one really takes the cake...A definite must Have!
Fans of "The Jeffersons" unpleased...the rest of us rejoice! September 13, 2004
Pearly White (Northwest USA)
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
I look at the release of this album by Jefferson Starship in a similar light that I do the mid to late 80's releases by Black Sabbath. Two bands names who garnered so much attention and respect for a particular style and sound in the late 60's and early 70's that when it came time for the band to update their sound and the name remains the same, traditional fans get unruly. I think the album before this called "Modern Times" already had some leanings towards the type of radio-friendly pop rock that makes it's first headstrong and front-to-back appearance on this album. This same group of musicians (mostly anyway) would later cancel the "Jefferson" in their name and become known as just "Starship". This name is synonimous with tunes like "We Built This City", "Sara" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" to those of us who grew up listening to 80's rock. This album, the last one under the old monnicker is filled with the same great style of 80's pop rock music that the later 80's releases were! Only trouble is, some of us never knew about it until later on, because of the band's two name stereotyping (that would be me!). When I finally discovered this record, it was like a dream! I always loved the efforts of the Starship projects like "Knee Deep In Hoopla" and "Love Among The Cannibals" and to find that this was the same style was amazing and wonderful! In fact, other than "It's Not Enough" from the "Love Among The Cannibals" LP, "No Way Out" from "Nuclear Furniture" just might be my favorite (Jefferson) Starship song of all time! Forget the reviews of this album that mention the music as "simplistic" and "thrown together" and talking about them "selling-out" . Music is a funny thing, and times change. Musicians in a group like this are thankfully talented enough to last the span of two decades and change enough so that fans of other styles besides their progressively hybridized 70's stuff and "Jimmy Stewart's performance in Harvey" inspired psychedelic recordings of the 60's can have somehting of our own to enjoy. If you remember the "Jefferson Starship" of old, and are expecting that sound from this record...you will be disappointed. But if you are a fan of the talent and musicianship of members like Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas and are open minded and/or just plain love inventive, synth-energized pop rock with overblown choruses and a little quirk, then I highly recommend "Nuclear Furniture". A classic in my book!
 Still cruising, but destabilizing in flight November 17, 2008
R. Josef (New Haven, CT United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For better or worse, the Jefferson Airplane/Starship were democratic bands, giving room for a lot of band members to have their say in songwriting. When everyone was more or less on the same page, fans would get diverse yet cohesive albums such as "Surrealstic Pillow", "Volunteers", "Dragonfly" or "Freedom at Point Zero". When they weren't, however, you ended up with disjointed works like "Spitfire" or the disastrous "Bark."
This album, the eighth from the Starship, is somewhere in the middle. By this time, the band had four mostly separate songwriting factions of songwriters: rhythm guitarist/vocalist Paul Kantner's sci-fi/fantasy visions; singer Grace Slick, solo or with outsiders; bassist/keyboardist Pete Sears, providing music to his wife Jeanette's lyrics; and the pair-up of singer Mickey Thomas and lead guitarist Craig Chaquico.
This could have been very messy, but the band made the smart decision to bring back producer Ron Nevison, who had worked on the group's first two albums with Thomas as well as Grace's most recent solo album, "Software". Nevison also brought along Grace's songwriting partner from that album, Austrian keyboardist Peter Wolf.
Wolf provided most of the keyboard parts and arrangements to the album, which results in a signficant change in the JS sound. On "Freedom at Point Zero" and "Modern Times", Nevison let the guitars dominate, with keyboards in a support role. Here, Wolf's synthesizers are on an equal footing with the guitars in the mix. Combining this with new drummer Donny Baldwin's more basic rhythms and some drum machines, we have a slicker, more "80's" sound from the group.
That's not all bad, because it lends a coherence that might have otherwise been missing from the album. For instance, even so, the Searses' songs are all over the place. "Sorry Me, Sorry You" is a bouncy synth-popper that sounds like the Moody Blues' "Gemini Dream", even down to the duet vocals of Slick and Thomas. On the other hand, the spooky synth and booming percussion of "Live and Let Live" are remniscent of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight". Thomas pulls out his best vocal of the album for it, though. Finally, the creeping "Assassin" is Pete's best musical idea, but the trite lyrics undercut it.
Craig and Mickey continue down the generic arena rock path. "Shining in the Moonlight" is a rather blatant rewrite of the hit "Find Your Way Back". "Laying it On the Line" is better, a rousing rocker with some interesting political lyrics.
Grace contributions are stronger then they had been on the previous "Winds of Change" album. She provided the lyrics to Wolf's "Magician", another cute, upbeat synth-pop song. On the opposite end of the spectrum, her solo composition "Showdown" is a dark vision of nuclear war, with the ghostly synths and percussion effectively adding to the atmosphere.
Kantner's tracks are by far the most ambitious. The bizarre, lenghty "Connection" seems to about modern humans reconnecting to caveman roots, or post-apocalyptic primitives remembering pre-war civilization (or something), ending up with a lyrical plea from Thomas for Christian and Muslims to make peace. It rambles musically, but it does work anyway. Finally, "Rose Goes to Yale" and "Champion" form a two part suite, reviving "Freedom.."'s Lightning Rose character as a symbol of the human determination to go on in the face of nuclear devastation. Again, a typically Paul weird combo of sci-fi and 60's radical ranting.
Finally, there's one outside composition. Wolf and his wife Ina contributed "No Way Out", a synth-dominated ballad that sounds like nothing the Starship had yet recorded. Its sound, like Marty Balin's "Miracles" before it, would redefine the band's sound to come for better or for worse.
Paul was unhappy enough with the album to jump ship during the tour,
resulting in lot of changes. Despite some of the songs being sort of generic, there's enough vestiges of the original "Jefferson" sound along with the new 80's "Starship" sound to please both camps of fans. This makes it an improvement over the previous two, although "Freedom at Point Zero" should be the first choice of the Thomas-era albums. Really old line Airplane fans, though, better look elsewhere.
Fantastic Starship May 4, 2005
B. P. Vidrine (Ville Platte, LA United States)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
There are so many great songs on here from Mickey Thomas and Grace Slick that it's not funny. At least four great songs which never made it to a greatest hits collection are: "Shining in the Moonlight" by Mickey Thomas, "Sorry Me, Sorry You", by Thomas and Slick, "Live and Let Live" by Thomas and Slick, and "Magician" by Slick. The vocals and synthesizers are awesome on here. A real 80's gem. This cd is very rare and very hard to find.
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