Retronaut Selects: Starz - Coliseum Rock (1978)

Published on 29 March 2019 at 09:57

The first two albums I’m going to talk about are going to be the two albums that expanded my mind when it comes to music taste!


The first of these two albums is Starz’ 1978 masterpiece, “Coliseum Rock”. 

I vividly recall sitting upstairs in our music room and I remember my dad putting on his Rykodisc edition of Coliseum Rock and I just sat there in the middle of the room and I just absorbed all of it.

I had listened to rock stuff before, but I was really starting to get into albums more than just single songs at this point in my life. I recall listening to different songs by Starz, but hearing an entire album by them changed things. It was unlike anything I’d ever heard before.

I didn’t realize how much of an effect it would have on me, because once I got into them, it was a whirlwind. I was in full Starz obsession mode and it was amazing.

What really gets me about Coliseum Rock is that it’s a journey. You hear all these elements of life and doing what you love and what comes with it. You get this freedom, but then real life settles in too and it’s a lot to make sense of.

When I was 12 getting into this stuff, they were just a band that was unlike any other to me. I didn’t really think about a lot of lyrics until I was older because I was always focused the tempo of the music over the message being conveyed.

Coliseum Rock is such an adventure and it has such an accurate title because this is music that is meant to played to a stadium full of people. There’s so much to this album from how musically fantastic it is and how real it is too.

I’ll end this post by sharing one of the many fantastic lyrics from that album, “Take it all to the top with no regrets.”


Essential Tracks: Take Me, Last Night I Wrote A Letter, It’s A Riot

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