Modern Times/Nuclear Furniture (2 CD Set) (Original Recording Remastered) [Original recording remastered]

Jefferson Starship | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 21, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Friday Music
• ASIN: B001TW68L8
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,722 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Find Your Way Back

2. Stranger

3. Wild Eyes (Angel)

4. Save Your Love

5. Modern Times

6. Mary

7. Free

8. Alien

9. Stairway to Cleveland (We Do What We Want)

Disc: 2

1. Layin' It on the Line

2. No Way Out

3. Sorry Me, Sorry You

4. Live and Let Live

5. Connection

6. Rose Goes to Yale

7. Magician

8. Assassin

9. Shining in the Moonlight

10. Showdown

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Friday Music begins their extensive Jefferson Starship Remaster Series with this deluxe 2 CD Set of their two of long out of print smash albums Modern Times and Nuclear Furniture. Impeccably remastered by Joe Reagoso, this is the first time in almost two decades that either of these fine albums have been available on compact disc. Featuring the great voices of Grace Slick, Mickey Thomas and Paul Kanter, these great new specially priced remasters arrive complete with the original art elements, lyrics, rare photos, and the smash chart singles Find Your Way Back, Stranger, Layin It On The Line, and No Way Out. The fans have been demanding these for quite awhile, and Friday Music is glad to oblige. A Friday Music Exclusive! TRACK LISTING: Modern Times (Disc One): 1-Find Your Way Back 2-Stranger 3-Wild Eyes 4-Save Your Love 5-Modern Times 6-Mary 7-Free 8-Alien 9-Stairway To Cleveland Nuclear Furniture (Disc Two) 1-Layin It On The Line 2-No Way Out 3-Sorry Me, Sorry You 4-Live And Let Live 5-Connection 6-Rose Goes To Yale 7-Magician 8-Assassin 9-Shining In The Moonlight 10-Showdown 11-Champion

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two classic albums for one great price., June 27, 2009

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Galley (Greenville, South Carolina United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Modern Times/Nuclear Furniture (2 CD Set) (Original Recording Remastered) (Audio CD)

"Modern Times" has never been released on CD by RCA/Grunt except for an expensive Japanese release several years ago. I was leery of this release as I wasn't familiar with the Friday Music label, but they really did a fantastic job. Both albums sound great, although "Nuclear Furniture" has slightly more volume than the original 1986 CD release on Grunt. Even the packaging and design is great.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of Jeff Star's best, September 20, 2009

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Just Fell In "Just Fell In" (LA, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Modern Times/Nuclear Furniture (2 CD Set) (Original Recording Remastered) (Audio CD)

This was an album that took JS one step further in the direction of pop/rock that they would later follow. Many fans malign this incarnation of the Jefferson Starship, although this version of the band is not without its merits. The band indeed took a more commercial approach to their music starting with the arrival of vocalist Mickey Thomas on the previous album, Freedom At Point Zero. Mickey Thomas is a tremendous vocalist with a strong falsetto that could compete with the very best that the times had to offer. Here the band is more Arena-rock sounding than on earlier fan-loved albums such as Dragonfly. The sound is a little shizophrenic with some of the songs written with a more artsy approach, such as Find Your Way Back and Stranger, and other songs with a more 80s sound. Guitarist Craig Chaquico outright rocks and deserves a heap more recognition than he ever got. This album also marks the return of vocalist Grace Slick, albeit in a lesser role than she took in earlier incarnations of the band. Slick was one of the founding members of legends Jefferson Airplane which would later become Jefferson Starship.

These songs are classics from this period in the band's long career.

Find Your Way Back
Stranger
Save Your Love
Mary
Stairway To Cleveland

These 5 out of a total of 9 songs are bona-fide classics, the rest of the songs are less memorable but not too bad. If you like 80s art-rock a la Styx, or Journey, you will love this one.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Great Albums for the Price of One, April 28, 2009

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J. Rye (Hamilton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Modern Times/Nuclear Furniture (2 CD Set) (Original Recording Remastered) (Audio CD)

Friday Music does a great job of remastering and repackaging these two albums from Jefferson's Starship's New Wave/Rock period, before the whole thing degenerated into just Starship. It's good to see the full artwork from both original LPs faithfully represented in the booklet. Unfortunately, those of us old enough to remember this era might have to put on our reading glasses to decipher the tiny print.