Bands you loved THEN but just cannot listen to NOW

[Amerigo Vespucci]

I'm a BIG Jefferson Airplane fan. As we all know, they pretty much flamed out with a couple of less-than-spectacular albums ("Bark" and "Long John Silver") and a weak, kiss-off live album ("30 Seconds Over Winterland"), and then came back without Jorma, Jack and Marty as "Jefferson Starship." Marty returned, Grace left, Marty left, Mickey Thomas joined, Grace came back, Kanter left, Jefferson Starship became "Starship," and "We Built This City" became the final nail in the coffin of All Things Jefferson.

Paul Kantner, meanwhile, regained the legal right to call his band "Jefferson Starship" and to this day tours with Marty, sometimes Jack, and every once in a while Grace shows up.

But the four core post-Airplane "Jefferson Starship" albums...Dragon Fly, Red Octopus, Spitfire and Earth...I made a mix CD from those albums yesterday and when I was driving around with it in the car this morning realized "Times have changed and so have I"...the songs were too sugary, too deliberately aimed toward getting airplay. They have a heavy 80s feel, very dated.

What bands did YOU love THEN, and maybe not so much NOW?

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