Grunt
1987
No Protection
About This Album
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond was the third number one hit for Starship, about as far removed as you could get from Marty Balin's composition, "Miracles," which was the biggest hit that emerged from both the Jefferson Airplane and the Jefferson Starship. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is manufactured pop, but as mature bubblegum endorsed by Grace Slick, it didn't need the Oscar nomination to validate its brilliance. As far as techno-rock goes, No Protection is a classic of the genre. The opening "Beat Patrol" is fun, and despite the amalgam of producers -- Peter Wolf (not the J. Geils singer) on six songs including the beautiful "Set the Night to Music" which ends this disc, Farrenheit producer Keith Olsen on the Top 10 philosophical mantra "It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)" along with two other titles, and Narada Michael Walden's aforementioned brilliant gem, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" -- it somehow works as they unite for a concise and consistent package. You have only four band members here, drummer/vocalist Donny Baldwin, guitarist Craig Chaquico, and two vocalists, Slick and Mickey Thomas (who, thankfully, kept his sometimes annoying voice to that range of his first hit with Elvin Bishop, "Fooled Around and Fell in Love"), a far cry from the gypsy atmosphere of the Red Octopus days.
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