Winds of Change (Jefferson Starship album)

Winds of Change
Studio album by
Jefferson Starship
ReleasedOctober 4, 1982
Recorded1982 at the Automatt, San Francisco
GenreRock, AOR
Length40:16
LabelGrunt
ProducerKevin Beamish
Jefferson Starship chronology
Modern Times
(1981) 		Winds of Change
(1982) 		Nuclear Furniture
(1984)

Winds of Change is the seventh album by Jefferson Starship and was released in 1982. It was the first studio album produced after Grace Slick rejoined the band as a full member. Aynsley Dunbar plays drums on the album, but was replaced by Donny Baldwin for the supporting tour. The album reached number 26 on the Billboard charts.

Cash Box called the title track "concisely crafted" and called the song a return to Jefferson Airplane's style.[1] Joseph McCombs of AllMusic called the album "one of the weakest entries" in the band's discography and "strikingly unadventurous".[2] Writing for Rolling Stone, Stephen Holden said that the songs sounded like bland, recycled versions of Jefferson Starship's other songs but that "there's still enough of a glimmer from the spark of Red Octopus to keep this ship rattling along".[3]

The LP produced two U.S. Top 40 singles: "Be My Lady" in the fall of 1982 (#28), and "Winds of Change" in the winter of 1983 (#38).

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Winds of Change"Jeannette SearsPete Sears3:52
2."Keep on Dreamin'"Craig ChaquicoChaquico5:00
3."Be My Lady"J. SearsP. Sears3:50
4."I Will Stay"J. SearsP. Sears3:56
5."Out of Control"Paul Kantner, China Wing Kantner, Grace SlickKantner2:53
Side B
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Can't Find Love"Grace Slick, Monica Clemans, Mickey Thomas, ChaquicoChaquico4:48
2."Black Widow"Chaquico, Grace SlickChaquico4:59
3."I Came Back From the Jaws of the Dragon"KantnerKantner5:57
4."Quit Wasting Time"J. SearsP. Sears5:01

Personnel

Production

  • Kevin Beamish – producer for Kevin Beamish Productions, Inc., engineer
  • Maureen Droney – assistant engineer
  • Tom Cummings – assistant mixing engineer
  • Jeff Sanders – mastering
  • Pat Ieraci (Maurice) – production coordinator
  • Andreas Nottebohm – cover art, painting
  • Dyer / Kahn, Inc. – design
  • Paul Tokarski, Visual Promotions, Inc. – special effects photography
  • Recorded at The Automatt, San Francisco
  • Mixed and mastered at Kendun Recorders, Burbank
  • Bill Thompson – manager

Singles and music videos

  • "Be My Lady" (1982) #28 US
  • "Winds of Change" (1983) #38 US Billboard Hot 100; #37 Cash Box Top 100[4]
  • "Can't Find Love" (1983)
  • "Out of Control" (music video only / no single released)

Charts

Chart (1982) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[5] 26

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[6] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Notes

  1. ^ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. January 22, 1983. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  2. ^ McCombs, Joseph. "Winds of Change: Jefferson Starship". AllMusic. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
  3. ^ Holden, Stephen (1982-12-09). "Winds of Change". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
  4. ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, March 26, 1983
  5. ^ "Jefferson Starship Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  6. ^ "American album certifications – Jefferson Starship – Winds of Change". Recording Industry Association of America.

References