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This week we're skipping ahead to 1989 with the 25th anniversary of Starship's "Love Among The Cannibals". You know, first weekend of the month and all that.

To be perfectly honest, I didn't care too much for Starship after their first album "Knee Deep IN The Hoopla". Even though it featured Grace Slick, I personally thought the album sucked plus I was tired of seeing "We Built This City" on MTV. I actually did see Starship on the Hoopla tour and it was very cool seeing Grace Slick live. Luckily they ran thru the Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship catalogue as well as a few Starship songs, so it wasn't a complete waste. 

The opening act was a horridly awful band and when their set was done, people were leaving. I asked a group of people why they were leaving and they said they came just to see The Outfield. When I asked how they could give up a chance to see Grace friggin' Slick, they looked at me dumbly. Youth. Idiots.

I never bought the followup to "Hoopla", but the song or two I heard on the radio weren't to my liking (even though the movie "Mannequin" was pretty good in a so-bad-it's-good way). Sappy ballads weren't what I was looking for, so I gave up on Starship. 

Maybe it was boredom, but for some reason I recently picked this up. It helped that it was cheap, were talking a buck or two. The reviews I read were also not too bad so I splurged. Oh, and it might have to do with me hearing a pretty good Starship song on a radio station, something that actually rocked so I was curious. I thought it was on this album since this was a supposedly rockin' album, but it's not. That's life.

Some of the reviews I've read compared this to Def Leppard. And yes, one of these songs sounds like Def Leppard when they were going thru their sucky phase. So it's a power ballad. From Starship. I'm not too surprised, but it works.

It might seem that I hate this album. Not true. There's something about it that sucks you in, plus the geetar throughout the album is pretty good. It absolutely sounds like an 80's album which is sometimes not a good thing, but here it's kinda......good? Don't know how to explain it, but it works even today.

Sorry, Gordon. Told you this would be EVIL!

Love Among The Cannibals

1. The Burn
2. It's Not Enough
3. Trouble in Mind
4. I Didn't Mean to Stay All Night
5. Send a Message
6. Wild Again
7. Love Among the Cannibals
8. Dream Sequence/We Dream In Color
9. Healing Waters
10. Blaze of Love
11. I'll Be There

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"Evil" in that it's Starship. 

Don't worry though, I'll have something with plenty of geetar this weekend. Something that'll be hated by a couple people here.

Did Badlands awhile ago, so can't post it again.

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