TS: Aldo Nova's "Fantasy" vs. Jefferson Starship's "Jane"

I gotta go with Aldo, if only for the guitar ray blast. But ever notice how his Uzi-toting guard doesn't really try to knock down that door at all? He's just tappin' the thing.

"Jane" is great too, though (but probably not as good as "Find Your Way Back").

And "Jane" came before "Fantasy," so give it that.

Life is just a fantasy....

What a poet.

The cool thing was the quadrophonic sound version of "Fantasy, which they played incessantly at the "teen night" bar I went to. At the beginning of the song, it's that helicopter noise and the club would play the song on the quadro hi-fi and DUDE WE HAD LIFTOFF.

http://www.vh1.com/shared/media/images/sn_legacy/addict/AMG_images/artists/P06219.JPG

Aldo.....today

http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/aldo.jpg

The circle is complete.

"Life is just a fantasy / are you ready for this fantasy life!!"

Beeh neeeh neeeh neeeh

"Jane, you're playing a game/playing a game/playing a GAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEE

yeah yeah yeah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GylirgHFqeQ

I'm surprised by the consensus here. "Jane" isn't as good as Red Octopus-era JS but I do actually think it's really good punchy AOR with powerful singing.

I heard "Jane" at the Eagle on jockstrap night last weekend in Manhattan and it really punched in the decadent leatherbar vibe perfectly. Just sayin'

i like jane a lot. and i kind of hate the band.

I'm enjoying "Fantasy" way more than any sane individual has a right to right now.

Oh dear....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6eIPx5S3U

so, so much wrong in that video.

I don't find it at all far-fetched that they were in that glowing ball of evil from Heavy Metal, as this video seems to imply.

If I wouldn't've thought that, at first blush, that the incendiary ballast of the post three places up was actually a post-disco submission including a gothed-out Tommy Shaw-ed Styx, I might've considered the Starship to something more equitable than boar-hogged teets. The only problem I have with Aldo is that he reverted to help from from J. B.Jovi when his career tanked. And, that kinda bothers me too, you know?

Find your way back is probably starship's best song. Also that Aldo video was crazy - the leopard suit, the tongue and hair flip, the hookers...

I've actually got a play list of tunes from the same period as Aldo Nova's "Fantasy" that have that big spacy sometimes synthy intro that kicks in with some big arena rock. I need to add Jane to that list, as I think it would sonically fit.

Joe Walsh- The Confessor
Red Rider- Lunatic Fringe
Billy Squier- All Night Long
Billy Thorpe – Children of the Sun
Zebra- Who’s Behind the Door
Robert Plant- Big Log
David Gilmour- Murder
The Police- Secret Journey
Rush- Distant Early Warning
The Who- Eminence Front
Loverboy- When It’s Over
Billy Idol- Eyes Without a Face

A couple of songs I have in that list that are not really of the same era as they were a few years later, but I think sonically fit with this stuff are "The Kiss" by the Cure and "Under the Milky Way" by the Church.