#120
May 30 1984
Jefferson Starship
Nuclear Furniture
2.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Rose Goes to Yale
Put the word “nuclear” in front of anything and it becomes edgy. Try it.
Nuclear cat food.
Nuclear pizza cutters.
Nuclear catalytic convertors.
See?
No?
Then you will never understand 80s Jefferson Starship.
This album is (nuclear) organization of (nuclear) notes played on (nuclear) instruments and then recorded in a (nuclear) studio.
If big, stadium friendly arena rock is your jam, you won’t notice that this is on. Until you get to the end of Side One and Paul Kantner’s “Connection” arrives. Suddenly you’ll find yourself transported back to an era when bands thought they had a duty to pontificate about the world and what’s gone wrong. It’s sort of awful wannabe-Rush but that’s also due to the fact that Paul’s ideas are fighting against the band’s desire to be radio relevant. Oops, I mean, nuclearelevant.
I did sort of enjoy Kantner’s “Rose Goes to Yale” and it’s dystopia view of the world and poppy presentation. And the album gets downright weird after that, there’s the 3 years too late New Wave “Magician”, before it gets back to it’s mission: Nuclear Generia.
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