The 1981 Listening Post - Grace Slick - Welcome to the Wrecking Ball

 Grace Slick - Welcome to the Wrecking Ball

#19
January 28 1981

Grace Slick

Welcome to the Wrecking Ball

Genre: Jefferson Kiss

2.75 out of 5

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Someone pissed in Grace’s Crunchy Flakes. She is mad, man. She’s angry as all hell and Wendy O. Williams is her spirit animal. 

Grace is game here and her vaulting for the Joan Jett set is admirable but I don’t know that the songwriters are up to it. It comes across as a Jett album by session musicians. Or as on “Shot in the Dark” like 3rd rate Steinman or, actually, leftovers from the Rocky Horror recording sessions. 

So much of this sounds like someone wanted to write a KISS record but wasn’t horny enough. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/welcome-to-the-wrecking-ball/1449156363

The 1980 Listening Post - Grace Slick - Dreams

Grace Slick - Dreams

#103

March 18 1980

Grace Slick

Dreams

Genre: Rock Chanteuse

1 out of 5

Grace Slick is magic. She manages to sound all at once like an accomplished singer and one who can’t hold a note. At the same time!!!

She presents as Grand Dame of TheatriRock but can’t hold a candle to rasp-voiced Bonnie Tyler. 

She wants to be ethereal and wispy and mysterious but concedes that ground always to Stevie Nicks. 

And Slick is left with nothing and no place to go except back to her safe haven of garbage rock of Starship. 

She’s hired a bunch of songwriters or bought a bunch of songs, all of which are twice as long as they should be and then, toward the end of Side One and all through Side Two, gives up on those and fills the record with her own stabs. 

And it just gets worse. One shitty ballad after another. Get back on that Starship, Grace. 

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/grace-slick/199979