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Thread started 01/15/11 11:18am

2freaky4church
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Weepy ballad of the day part 1: Starship, Sara.

Yea, I will enter the breach. As some of you may know, I really do enjoy a good, weepy ballad. Sure, they are sappy, but sometimes that's what is needed. Today we have Starship's one good song, among a pile of shit:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...QLcIG11lxc

Damn, I love that goofy harmonica. lol

No picken on me.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #1 posted 01/15/11 11:30am

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I love this song, and it never fails to bring a tear to my eye. And Rebecca Demornay's in the video!

"Get up off that grey line"
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Reply #2 posted 01/15/11 11:39am

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Made many a young man horny.

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Reply #3 posted 01/15/11 12:31pm

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Guilty pleasure here lol, i know Starship get hated on A LOT!, And have even the supposed worst song of all time with ''We Built This City''

Yes there no where near the great heights of Jefferson Airplane, but they had some good pop/rock tunes

Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener

All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen

Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce

Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive
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Reply #4 posted 01/15/11 2:50pm

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Can't forget this awsome Starship tune...

"Get up off that grey line"
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Reply #5 posted 01/15/11 2:58pm

diamondpearl1

Saaara Saaara

Storms are brewin in your eyes

Saaara Saaara

No time is a good time for goodbye.....

I always liked this song but it got a special place when a "Sara" left me.....

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Reply #6 posted 01/15/11 3:13pm

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Here's a tune by the original version of the band.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #7 posted 01/16/11 10:13am

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Hey, this is about sappy ballads. No junkin my punk ass thread..lol

The best part is that "storm clouds begin in your eyes," then you hear that little guitar riff. Nice.

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Reply #8 posted 01/16/11 10:16am

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2freaky4church1 said:

Hey, this is about sappy ballads. No junkin my punk ass thread..lol

The best part is that "storm clouds begin in your eyes," then you hear that little guitar riff. Nice.

"Storms are brewin' in your eyes..."

"Get up off that grey line"
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Reply #9 posted 01/16/11 10:28am

Cinnie

SEANMAN said:

I love this song, and it never fails to bring a tear to my eye. And Rebecca Demornay's in the video!

I loved this song too. I saw this video so many times back then! Mid 80s=me not quite in school.. watching Much Music.

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Reply #10 posted 01/17/11 3:35pm

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Wow, I remember talking about this song and a few on here ripped into me LOL. Peter Wolf (not the J Geils band member) is a legend to me LOL.

Love Starship, and their "no protection" album is a beast if you like your AOR hi tech and keys/drums programmed heavily.

Other highlights from this album for me are "Hearts of the world (will understand)" and "love rusts", which is blessed by some decent lyrics by Bernie Taupin

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Reply #11 posted 01/17/11 3:48pm

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #12 posted 01/17/11 4:00pm

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MickyDolenz said:

Might as well be a different band LOL. The last Jefferson Starship album ("Nuclear furniture") could be considered a Starship album though if you take out Paul Katner's few contributions...

And their 1989 reunion album on CBS was pretty odd aswell. Odd because most of it was the slick (no pun intended) and poppy rock stuff that made original members Grace Slick and Paul Kantner quit the band in the first place. Further irony happened when the Starship album without Grace Slick released in 1989 called "Love Among the Cannibals", actually rocked harder and was alot more honest then their self titled album from the same year.

By far the best cut on their reuinion album was written by members of Toto LOL. Similar studio veterans played on the album aswell, making it even more corporate then Starships AOR rocking "Love among the cannibals" from that same year.

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Reply #13 posted 01/17/11 4:07pm

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Made up of original members Paul kantner and Marty Balin, as it's mid 80's, this album is very poppy aswell. I do love some of it (as I would do). Even the patriotic, optimistic "America", which is so mid 80's LOL.

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Reply #14 posted 01/17/11 5:46pm

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thesexofit said:

Might as well be a different band LOL. The last Jefferson Starship album ("Nuclear furniture") could be considered a Starship album though if you take out Paul Katner's few contributions...

The OP wanted ballads and Miracles is one. lol

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #15 posted 01/17/11 9:05pm

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Always loved this one. The best part is the "no TIME is a good tiiiime, ooohhh" near the end.

"Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis
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Reply #16 posted 01/18/11 5:30am

SoulAlive

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This is my favorite song by them music

I had a taste of the real world

When I went down on you,girl

hmmm I wonder if these lyrics were controversial back in 1975?

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