Nuclear Furniture

Jefferson Starship | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000008H0N
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196,208 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nuclear Vacation, April 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Nuclear (Reis) (Audio CD)

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.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fans of "The Jeffersons" unpleased...the rest of us rejoice!, September 12, 2004

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Pearly White "Pearly...~>" (Northwest USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nuclear Furniture (Audio CD)

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!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Gem from the 80's, June 10, 2005

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The Jolly Roger "MusicNut" (Kitchener.On Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nuclear (Reis) (Audio CD)

,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!