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Allmusic Biography : Jefferson Airplane was the first of the San Francisco psychedelic rock groups of the 1960s to achieve national recognition. Although the Grateful Dead ultimately proved more long-lived and popular, Jefferson Airplane defined the San Francisco sound in the 1960s, with the acid rock guitar playing of Jorma Kaukonen and the soaring twin vocals of Grace Slick and Marty Balin, scoring hit singles and looking out from the covers of national magazines. They epitomized the drug-taking hippie ethos as well as the left-wing, antiwar political movement of their time, and their history was one of controversy along with hit records. Their personal interactions mirrored those times; the group was a collective with shifting alliances, in which leaders emerged and retreated. But for all the turmoil, Jefferson Airplane was remarkably productive between 1965 and 1972. They toured regularly, being the only band to play at all the major 60s rock festivals -- Monterey, Woodstock, even Altamont -- and they released seven studio albums, five of which went gold, plus two live LPs and a million-selling hits collection that chronicled their eight chart singles. Rather than formally breaking up, they mutated into other configurations, Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship, and went on to further success in the 1970s and 80s, before reuniting for an album and tour in 1989. The initial idea for the group that became Jefferson Airplane came from 23-year-old Marty Balin (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald in Cincinnati, OH, January 30, 1942), a San Francisco-raised singer who had recorded unsuccessfully for Challenge Records in 1962 and been a member of a folk group called the Town Criers in 1963-1964. With the Beatles-led British Invasion of 1964, Balin saw the merging of folk with rock in early 1965 and decided to form a group to play the hybrid style as well as open a club for the group to play in. He interested three investors in converting a pizza restaurant on Fillmore Street into a 100-seat venue called the Matrix, and he began picking potential bandmembers from among the musicians at a folk club called the Drinking Gourd. His first recruit was rhythm guitarist/singer Paul Kantner (born Paul Lorin Kantner in San Francisco, CA, March 17, 1941; died in San Francisco, CA, January 28, 2016), who in turn recommended lead guitarist/singer Jorma Kaukonen (born Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen in Washington, D.C., December 23, 1940). Balin, who possessed a keening tenor, wanted a complementary powerful female voice for the group and found it in Signe Toly (born Signe Ann Toly in Seattle, WA, September 15, 1941; died in Beaverton, OR, January 28, 2016). The six-piece band was completed by bass player Bob Harvey and drummer Jerry Peloquin. The groups unusual name was suggested by Kaukonen, who had once jokingly been dubbed "Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane" by a friend in reference to the blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson. Jefferson Airplane made their debut at the Matrix on August 13, 1965, and began performing at the club regularly. They attracted favorable press attention, which -- at a time when folk-rock performers like Sonny & Cher, We Five, Bob Dylan, the Byrds, the Beau Brummels, and the Turtles were all over the charts -- led to record company interest. By September, Jefferson Airplane was being wooed by several labels. At the same time, the band was already undergoing changes. Peloquin was fired and replaced by Skip Spence (born Alexander Lee Spence, Jr. in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on April 18, 1946; died in Santa Cruz, CA, April 16, 1999). Spence considered himself a guitarist, not a drummer, but he had some drumming experience. Also in September, Signe Toly married Jerry Anderson, who handled lights at the Matrix, becoming known as Signe Anderson. In October, Harvey was fired and replaced by Jack Casady (born John William Casady in Washington, D.C., April 13, 1944), a friend of Kaukonens. On November 15, 1965, this lineup -- Balin, Kantner, Anderson, Kaukonen, Spence, and Casady -- signed to RCA Victor Records. They had their first recording session in Los Angeles on December 16, and RCA released their debut single, Balins composition "Its No Secret," in February 1966; it did not chart. Meanwhile, Jefferson Airplane began to appear at more prestigious venues in San Francisco and even to tour outside the Bay Area. In May 1966, Anderson gave birth to a daughter, and caring for the child while performing with the band became a challenge. Meanwhile, Spence became increasingly unreliable as his appetite for drugs increased, and he was replaced in June by session drummer Spencer Dryden (born Spencer Dryden Wheeler in New York, April 7, 1938; died in Petaluma, CA, January 11, 2005). Spence went on to form the band Moby Grape. Following a second non-charting single, Balin and Kantners "Come Up the Years," in July, Jefferson Airplane released their debut LP, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, on August 15, 1966, just over a year after the bands debut. The album had modest sales, peaking at only number 128 during 11 weeks on the Billboard chart. (A third single, Balin and Kantners "Bringing Me Down," was released from the album, but did not chart.) At this point, Andersons commitment to her family caused her departure from the group. Jefferson Airplane was able to find a strong replacement for her in Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing in or near Chicago, IL, October 30, 1939), the lead singer for the San Francisco rock band the Great Society, which happened to be in the process of breaking up at the same time. Slick joined Jefferson Airplane in mid-October 1966, and by the end of the month was with them in the recording studio. She brought with her two songs from the Great Society repertoire: the rock tune "Somebody to Love," written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick, the Great Societys guitarist, and her own composition, the ballad "White Rabbit," set to a bolero tempo, which used imagery from Alice in Wonderland to discuss the impact of psychedelic drugs. Both songs were recorded for Jefferson Airplanes second album, Surrealistic Pillow. RCA did not release either of them as the advance single from the album, opting instead for the departed Spences "My Best Friend" in January 1967; it became the groups fourth single to miss the charts. Surrealistic Pillow followed in February. It debuted in the charts the last week of March, and its progress was speeded by the release of "Somebody to Love," the first Jefferson Airplane single to feature Grace Slick as lead vocalist. By early May, both the album and single were in the Top 40 of their respective charts; a month later, both were in the Top Ten. With that, RCA released "White Rabbit" as a single, and it too reached the Top Ten. Surrealistic Pillow became Jefferson Airplanes first gold album in July. Meanwhile, the band, which, naturally, had attracted national media attention (much of it focusing on Slicks photogenic looks), began recording a new album and continued to tour. On June 17, 1967, they performed at the Monterey International Pop Festival, which was celebrated for introducing many of the new San Francisco rock bands (as well as the Jimi Hendrix Experience) and launching the "Summer of Love" that the season was touted to be in 1967. Jefferson Airplanes performance was filmed and recorded. Two songs from their show, "High Flying Bird" and "Today," were featured in the documentary film Monterey Pop, released in 1968. The concert recording was heavily bootlegged and over the years has turned up on numerous gray-market releases as well. The nature of Jefferson Airplanes commercial breakthrough, and the nature of the band itself, restricted their commercial appeal thereafter. AM Top 40 radio, in particular, became wary of a group that had scored a hit with a song widely derided for its drug references, and Jefferson Airplane never again enjoyed the kind of widespread radio support they would have needed to score more Top Ten hits. At the same time, the group did not think of itself as a hitmaking machine, and its recordings were becoming more adventurous. Kantners "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil," the bands new single released in August, featured him as lead singer with Slick and Balin harmonizing. It reached number 42 on the strength of the bands prominence, but they never again crossed the halfway mark in the Hot 100. At the same time, the rise of FM radio, attracted to longer cuts and the kind of experimental work the group was starting to do, gave them a new way of exposing their music. Nevertheless, their third album, After Bathing at Baxters, its songs arranged into lengthy suites, was not as successful as Surrealistic Pillow when it appeared on November 27, 1967, reaching the Top 20 but failing to go gold. Also notable was the diminished participation of Marty Balin, who co-wrote only one song, and now was being marginalized in the group he had founded. After Kantners "Watch Her Ride," released as a single from After Bathing at Baxters, stalled at number 61, RCA released a new Jefferson Airplane single written and sung by Slick in the spring of 1968. But radio was even more resistant, and "Greasy Heart" stopped at number 98. It was included in the bands fourth album, Crown of Creation, released in August. The title track got to number 64 as a single, and the LP, which featured more concise, less experimental tracks than After Bathing at Baxters, marked a resurgence in the groups commercial success, reaching the Top Ten and eventually going gold. Jefferson Airplanes live appeal was chronicled on the concert album Bless Its Pointed Little Head, released in February 1969. In August, the group appeared at the Woodstock festival, and it was featured on the million-selling triple-LP soundtrack album to the resulting film in 1970, though it did not appear onscreen in the version initially released. The bands fifth studio album, Volunteers, appeared in October 1969 as its title song became a minor singles chart entry. Volunteers stopped short of the Top Ten, but it went gold in three months. On December 6, 1969, the band played at the Rolling Stones disastrous Altamont free concert in California, its performance (complete with Balins beating at the hands of Hells Angels) captured in the 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter. Jefferson Airplane released one more single, the non-charting marijuana anthem "Mexico," in 1970 in its familiar configuration, but the turn of the 1970s brought great changes in the group. Already, Kaukonen and Casady, with assorted sidemen, had begun to play separately as Hot Tuna while maintaining their membership in Jefferson Airplane; they had recorded shows the previous September for a self-titled debut album issued in May 1970. Spencer Dryden was fired early in the year and replaced by drummer Joey Covington (born Joseph Michno in East Conemaugh, PA, June 27, 1945; died in Palm Springs, CA, June 4, 2013). At shows performed in October 1970, violinist Papa John Creach, who had been performing with Hot Tuna, first played with Jefferson Airplane. Creach (born John Henry Creach in Beaver Falls, PA, May 18, 1917; died February 22, 1994) was a journeyman musician decades older than any of the other members of Jefferson Airplane, and his recruitment was evidence of the ways in which the bands approach was changing. An even more radical change was the departure of Marty Balin, who left the band at the end of the fall tour in November. (His resignation was formally announced in April 1971.) Jefferson Airplane did not have a new album ready for release in 1970, and RCA filled the gap with a compilation, sarcastically dubbed The Worst of Jefferson Airplane and released in November. The album went gold quickly and was later certified platinum. Issued on its heels was Paul Kantners debut solo album, Blows Against the Empire, featuring most of the members of Jefferson Airplane as well as various other musical friends. Due to that long list of sidemen and the albums science fiction theme about a group of hippies hijacking a spaceship, Kantner co-billed the disc to "Jefferson Starship." As yet, there was no such entity, but Kantner would use the name for a real band later. Having completed their recording commitment to RCA, Jefferson Airplane shopped for a new label, but was wooed back when RCA offered them their own imprint, Grunt Records. Grunt bowed with the release of the sixth Jefferson Airplane studio album, Bark, in August 1971. The album stopped just short of the Top Ten and quickly went gold. Covington, Casady, and Kaukonens "Pretty as You Feel," later issued as a single, gave the band its final placing in the Hot 100 at number 60 early in 1972. Grunt issued albums by bandmembers including Creach and Hot Tuna, as well as discs by friends, but Jefferson Airplane remained its most successful act. In the early 70s, the members of Jefferson Airplane became increasingly preoccupied by their side projects. Hot Tuna, having issued a second live album, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down, in the spring of 1971, put out their first studio effort, Burgers, in February 1972. Kantner and Slick, who had become a couple and had a child, China Kantner (who went on to be an MTV VJ in her teens), issued a duo album, Sunfighter, in December 1971. In April 1972, Covington left the band and was replaced by veteran drummer John Barbata (born in Passaic, NJ, April 1, 1945), formerly a member of the Turtles and a backup musician for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The group then recorded its seventh studio album, Long John Silver, which was issued in the summer of 1972. It reached the Top 20 and went gold within six months. For the accompanying tour, they added singer/multi-instrumentalist David Freiberg (born in Boston, MA, August 24, 1938), formerly a member of the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service, to provide the male lead vocals formerly sung by Balin. The tour concluded at the Winterland ballroom in San Francisco on September 22, 1972, in effect marking the end of Jefferson Airplane, although no formal announcement was ever made. Kaukonen and Casady went back to performing as Hot Tuna. Kantner, Slick, and Freiberg recorded a trio album, Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun, issued in the spring of 1973 and featuring the rest of Jefferson Airplane as side musicians. Slicks debut solo album, Manhole, issued in early 1974, also featured many of the same performers. Kantner and Slick then organized a new band along the same lines as Jefferson Airplane, but without Kaukonen and Casady, and called it Jefferson Starship. Meanwhile, a second Jefferson Airplane live album drawn from the 1972 tour, Thirty Seconds Over Winterland, was issued in the spring of 1973. Early Flight, a collection of stray tracks, appeared in the spring of 1974. Grunt issued the compilation Flight Log (1966-1976) at the start of 1977, filling the two LPs with tracks by Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and various other spinoff acts. 2400 Fulton Street: An Anthology, named after the address of a house owned by the band in the 1960s, was a two-disc set released in 1987. All of these albums sold well enough to reach the charts. The various members of Jefferson Airplane went through various solo efforts and group affiliations in the 1970s and 80s, plus considerable litigation with an old manager and each other. This was all cleared up by the late 80s, however, and in 1989 Kantner, Slick, Kaukonen, and Casady (who, with manager Bill Thompson, still owned the rights to use the name Jefferson Airplane) brought in Balin (who had sold out his share in the group in 1971) and reunited as Jefferson Airplane for a tour and album. The tour, which ran from August 18 to October 7, was well received; the album, Jefferson Airplane, released by Epic Records, was only a modest success. After that, the band again became inactive. Slick retired. Kaukonen and Casady resumed performing as Hot Tuna. Kantner eventually resurrected the Jefferson Starship name, sometimes including Balin and even occasionally Slick, and playing Jefferson Airplane songs. RCA continued to release archival recordings, its most interesting issues being the 1992 box set Jefferson Airplane Loves You and the 1998 concert recording Live at the Fillmore East. On January 28, 2016, Kantner died of multiple organ failure in San Francisco at the age of 74 -- the same day, and at the same age, that original Airplane singer Signe Anderson died at her home in Beaverton, Oregon. On September 27, 2018, Marty Balin died in Tampa, Florida at the age of 76.
	Album: 1 of 38 Title:  Jefferson Airplane Takes Off Released:  1966-08-15 Tracks:  12 Duration:  33:21 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Blues From an Airplane  (02:12) 2   Let Me In  (02:59) 3   Bringing Me Down  (02:24) 4   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 5   Tobacco Road  (03:30) 6   Runnin’ ’round This World  (02:25) 7   Come Up the Years  (02:32) 8   Run Around  (02:40) 9   Let’s Get Together  (03:35) 10  Don’t Slip Away  (02:34) 11  Chauffeur Blues  (02:28) 12  And I Like It  (03:20)
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off : Allmusic album Review : The debut Jefferson Airplane album was dominated by singer Marty Balin, who wrote or co-wrote all the original material and sang most of the lead vocals in his heartbreaking tenor with Paul Kantner and Signe Anderson providing harmonies and backup. (Andersons lead vocal on "Chauffeur Blues" indicated she was at least the equal of her successor, Grace Slick, as a belter.) The music consisted mostly of folk-rock love songs, the most memorable of which were "Its No Secret" and "Come up the Years." (There was also a striking version of Dino Valentes "Get Together" recorded years before the Youngbloods hit version.) Jorma Kaukonen already displayed a talent for mixing country, folk, and blues riffs in a rock context, and Jack Casady already had a distinctive bass sound. But the Airplane of Balin-Kantner-Kaukonen-Anderson-Casady-Spence is to be distinguished from the Balin-Kantner-Kaukonen-Casady-Slick-Dryden version of the band that would emerge on record five months later chiefly by Balins dominance. Later, Grace Slick would become the groups vocal and visual focal point. On Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, the Airplane was still Balins group.
	Album: 2 of 38 Title:  Surrealistic Pillow Released:  1967-02 Tracks:  11 Duration:  34:44 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   She Has Funny Cars  (03:12) 2   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 3   My Best Friend  (03:04) 4   Today  (03:02) 5   Comin’ Back to Me  (05:23) 6   3⁄5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (03:44) 7   D.C.B.A.‐25  (02:39) 8   How Do You Feel  (03:34) 9   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 10  White Rabbit  (02:33) 11  Plastic Fantastic Lover  (02:37)
Surrealistic Pillow : Allmusic album Review : The second album by Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow was a groundbreaking piece of folk-rock-based psychedelia, and it hit like a shot heard round the world; where the later efforts from bands like the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and especially, the Charlatans, were initially not too much more than cult successes, Surrealistic Pillow rode the pop charts for most of 1967, soaring into that rarefied Top Five region occupied by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and so on, to which few American rock acts apart from the Byrds had been able to lay claim since 1964. And decades later the album still comes off as strong as any of those artists best work. From the Top Ten singles "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" to the sublime "Embryonic Journey," the sensibilities are fierce, the material manages to be both melodic and complex (and it rocks, too), and the performances, sparked by new member Grace Slick on most of the lead vocals, are inspired, helped along by Jerry Garcia (serving as spiritual and musical advisor and sometimes guitarist). Every song is a perfectly cut diamond, too perfect in the eyes of the bandmembers, who felt that following the direction of producer Rick Jarrard and working within three- and four-minute running times, and delivering carefully sung accompaniments and succinct solos, resulted in a record that didnt represent their real sound. Regardless, they did wonderful things with the music within that framework, and the only pity is that RCA didnt record for official release any of the groups shows from the same era, when this material made up the bulk of their repertory. That way the live versions, with the bands creativity unrestricted, could be compared and contrasted with the record. The songwriting was spread around between Marty Balin, Slick, Paul Kantner, and Jorma Kaukonen, and Slick and Balin (who never had a prettier song than "Today," which hed actually written for Tony Bennett) shared the vocals; the whole album was resplendent in a happy balance of all of these creative elements, before excessive experimentation (musical and chemical) began affecting the bands ability to do a straightforward song. The group never made a better album, and few artists from the era ever did.
	Album: 3 of 38 Title:  After Bathing at Baxters Released:  1967-11-30 Tracks:  11 Duration:  43:54 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil  (04:29) 2   A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly  (01:39) 3   Young Girl Sunday Blues  (03:35) 4   Martha  (03:27) 5   Wild Tyme  (03:11) 6   The Last Wall of the Castle  (02:41) 7   Rejoyce  (04:03) 8   Watch Her Ride  (03:11) 9   Spare Chaynge  (09:15) 10  Two Heads  (03:10) 11  Won’t You Try / Saturday Afternoon  (05:09)
After Bathing at Baxter's : Allmusic album Review : The Jefferson Airplane opened 1967 with Surrealistic Pillow and closed it with After Bathing at Baxters, and what a difference ten months made. Bookending the year that psychedelia emerged in full bloom as a freestanding musical form, After Bathing at Baxters was among the purest of rocks psychedelic albums, offering few concessions to popular taste and none to the needs of AM radio, which made it nowhere remotely as successful as its predecessor, but it was also a lot more daring. The album also showed a band in a state of ferment, as singer/guitarist Marty Balin largely surrendered much of his creative input in the band hed founded, and let Paul Kantner and Grace Slick dominate the songwriting and singing on all but one cut ("Young Girl Sunday Blues"). The group had found the preceding album a little too perfect, and not fully representative of the musicians or what they were about, and they were determined to do the music their way on Baxters; additionally, theyd begun to see how far they could take music (and music could take them) in concert, in terms of capturing variant states of consciousness. Essentially, After Bathing at Baxters was the groups attempt to create music that captured what the psychedelic experience sounded and felt like to them from the inside; on a psychic level, it was an introverted exercise in music-making and a complete reversal of the extroverted experience in putting together Surrealistic Pillow. Toward that end, they were working "without a net," for although Al Schmitt was the nominal producer, he gave the group the freedom to indulge in any experimentation they chose to attempt, effectively letting them produce themselves. Theyd earned the privilege, after two huge hit singles and the Top Five success of the prior album, all of which had constituted RCAs first serious new rock success (and the labels first venture to the musics cutting edge) since Elvis Presley left the Army. The resulting record was startlingly different from their two prior LPs; there were still folk and blues elements present in the music, but these were mostly transmuted into something very far from what any folksinger or bluesman might recognize. Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, and Jack Casady cranked up their instruments; Spencer Dryden hauled out an array of percussive devices that was at least twice as broad as anything used on the previous album; and everybody ignored the length of what they were writing and recording, or how well they sang, or how cleanly their voices meshed. The group emerged four months later with one of the rawest, most in-your-face records to come out of the psychedelic era, and also a maddeningly uneven record, exciting and challenging in long stretches, yet elsewhere very close to stultifyingly boring, delightful in its most fulfilling moments (which were many), but almost deliberately frustrating in its digressions, and amid all of that, very often beautiful. The albums 11 songs formed five loosely constructed "suites," that didnt ease listeners into those structures. Opening "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" (a Kantner-authored tribute to Fred Neil) amid a cascading wash of feedback leading to a slashing guitar figure, the bands three singers struggle to meld their voices and keep up. A softer, almost folk-like interlude, highlighted by Slicks upper-register keening, breaks up the beat until the guitar, bass, and drums crash back in, with a bit of piano embellishment. Then listeners get to the real break, an almost subdued interlude on the guitars, and a return to the song at a more frenzied pitch, the guitar part dividing and evolving into ever more brittle components until a crescendo and more feedback leads to "A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly." This brilliantly comical and clever percussion showcase co-authored by Spencer Dryden and the bands manager, Bill Thompson, is a million miles beyond any drummers featured number in any popular band of that era, and it leads into Marty Balins "Young Girl Sunday Blues," the most rhythmically consistent song here and one of a tiny handful of moments that seem to slightly resemble the bands past work. The aforementioned tracks comprise just the first suite, designated "Steetmasse." "The War Is Over" suite opens with "Martha," the albums folk-style interlude, almost a throwback to the groups original sound, except that the listener suddenly finds himself in the midst of a psychedelic delirium, heralded by the dissonant accompaniment and a high-energy fuzztone guitar solo (spinning out sitar-like notes) coming out of nowhere and a speed change that slows the tempo to zero, as though the tape (or time, or the listeners perception of it) were stretching out, and the pounding, exuberant "Wild Tyme," a celebration of seemingly uninhibited joy. "Hymn to the Older Generation" is made up of Kaukonens "The Last Wall of the Castle," an alternately slashing and chiming guitar pyrotechnic showcase that rivaled anything heard from Jimi Hendrix or the Who that year, and Grace Slicks gorgeous "Rejoyce," a hauntingly beautiful excursion into literary psychedelia, whose James Joyce allusions carry the Lewis Carroll literary allusions of the previous albums "White Rabbit" into startlingly new and wonderful (if discursive) directions and depths. "How Suite It Is" opens with the albums single, the lean, rhythmic "Watch Her Ride," whose pretty harmonies and gently psychedelic lyrics persuaded RCA that this was their best shot at AM airplay and, true to form on an album filled with contradictions, it leads into "Spare Chaynge," the crunching, searing, sometimes dirge-like nine-minute jam by Kaukonen, Dryden, and Casady that wasnt ever going to get on AM radio -- ever -- and, indeed, might well initially repel any Airplane fan who only knew their hit singles. "Shizoforest Love Suite" closes the album with Slicks "Two Heads," with its vocal acrobatics and stop-and-go beat, and "Wont You Try"/"Saturday Afternoon," the latter Kantners musical tribute to the first San Francisco "Be-In" (memorialized more conventionally by the Byrds on "Renaissance Fair"); it features many of the more subdued, relaxed, languid moments on the record, divided by a killer fuzz-laden guitar solo. Needless to say, this is not the album for neophytes -- "Spare Chaynge" remains an acquired taste, a lot more aimless than, say, the extended jams left behind by the Quicksilver Messenger Service, though it did point the way toward what Kaukonen and Casady would aim for more successfully when they formed Hot Tuna. But most of the rest is indisputably among the more alluring musical experimentation of the period, and Kantners "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" and "Watch Her Ride," as well as Balins "Young Girl Sunday Blues," proved that the group could still rock out with a beat, even if not so prettily or cleanly as before.
	Album: 4 of 38 Title:  Crown of Creation Released:  1968 Tracks:  11 Duration:  38:18 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Lather  (02:57) 2   In Time  (04:13) 3   Triad  (04:55) 4   Star Track  (03:10) 5   Share a Little Joke  (03:07) 6   Cushingura  (01:19) 7   If You Feel  (03:21) 8   Crown of Creation  (02:54) 9   Ice Cream Phoenix  (03:01) 10  Greasy Heart  (03:26) 11  The House at Pooneil Corners  (05:52)
Crown of Creation : Allmusic album Review : Crown of Creation appeared ten months after their last album, After Bathing at Baxters, and it doesnt take the same kind of leap forward that Baxters did from Surrealistic Pillow. Indeed, in many ways, Crown of Creation is a more conservative album stylistically, opening with "Lather," a Grace Slick original that was one of the groups very last forays (and certainly their last prominent one) into a folk idiom. Much of what follows is a lot more based in electric rock, as well as steeped in elements of science fiction (specifically author John Wyndhams book The Chrysalids) in several places, but Crown of Creation was still deliberately more accessible musically than its predecessor, even as the playing became more bold and daring within more traditional song structures. Jack Casady by this time had developed one of the most prominent and distinctive bass sounds in American rock, as identifiable (if not quite as bracing) as John Entwistles was with the Who, as demonstrated on "In Time," "Star Track," "Share a Little Joke," "If You Feel" (where hes practically a second lead instrument), and the title song, and Jorma Kaukonens slashing, angular guitar attack was continually surprising as his snaking lead guitar parts wended their way through "Star Track" and "Share a Little Joke." The album also reflected the shifting landscape of West Coast music with its inclusion of "Triad," a David Crosby song that Crosbys own group, the Byrds, had refused to release -- its presence (the only extant version of the song for a number of years) was a forerunner of the sound that would later be heard on Crosbys own debut solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name (on which Slick, Paul Kantner, and Casady would appear). The overall album captured the groups rapidly evolving, very heavy live sound within the confines of some fairly traditional song structures, and left ample room for Slick and Marty Balin to express themselves vocally, with Balin turning in one of his most heartfelt and moving performances on "If You Feel." "Ice Cream Phoenix" pulses with energy and "Greasy Heart" became a concert standard for the group -- the studio original of the latter is notable for Slicks most powerful vocal performance since "Somebody to Love." And the albums big finish, "The House at Pooneil Corners," seemed to fire on all cylinders, their amps cranked up to ten (maybe 11 for Casady), and Balin, Slick, and Kantner stretching out on the disjointed yet oddly compelling tune and lyrics. It didnt work 100 percent of the time, but it made for a shattering finish to the album.
	Album: 5 of 38 Title:  Volunteers Released:  1969-11 Tracks:  10 Duration:  44:31 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   We Can Be Together  (05:47) 2   Good Shepherd  (04:22) 3   The Farm  (03:13) 4   Hey Fredrick  (08:34) 5   Turn My Life Down  (02:56) 6   Wooden Ships  (06:25) 7   Eskimo Blue Day  (06:34) 8   A Song for All Seasons  (03:29) 9   Meadowlands  (01:04) 10  Volunteers  (02:04)
Volunteers : Allmusic album Review : Controversial at the time, delayed because of fights with the record company over lyrical content and the original title (Volunteers of America), Volunteers was a powerful release that neatly closed out and wrapped up the 60s. Here, the Jefferson Airplane presents itself in full revolutionary rhetoric, issuing a call to "tear down the walls" and "get it on together." "We Can Be Together" and "Volunteers" bookend the album, offering musical variations on the same chord progression and lyrical variations on the same theme. Between these politically charged rock anthems, the band offers a mix of words and music that reflect the competing ideals of simplicity and getting "back to the earth," and overthrowing greed and exploitation through political activism, adding a healthy dollop of psychedelic sci-fi for texture. Guitarist Jorma Kaukonens beautiful arrangement of the traditional "Good Shepherd" is a standout here, and Jerry Garcias pedal steel guitar gives "The Farm" an appropriately rural feel. The bands version of "Wooden Ships" is much more eerie than that released earlier in the year by Crosby, Stills & Nash. Oblique psychedelia is offered here via Grace Slicks "Hey Frederick" and ecologically tinged "Eskimo Blue Day." Drummer Spencer Dryden gives an inside look at the state of the band in the country singalong "A Song for All Seasons." The musical arrangements here are quite potent. Nicky Hopkins distinctive piano highlights a number of tracks, and Kaukonens razor-toned lead guitar is the recordings unifying force, blazing through the mix, giving the album its distinctive sound. Although the political bent of the lyrics may seem dated to some, listening to Volunteers is like opening a time capsule on the end of an era, a time when young people still believed music had the power to change the world.
	Album: 6 of 38 Title:  The Worst of Jefferson Airplane Released:  1970-11 Tracks:  15 Duration:  46:42 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic   Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 2   Blues From an Airplane  (02:12) 3   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 4   Today  (03:02) 5   White Rabbit  (02:33) 6   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 7   Martha  (03:27) 8   The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil  (04:39) 9   Crown of Creation  (02:54) 10  Chushingura  (01:20) 11  Lather  (02:57) 12  Plastic Fantastic Lover  (03:48) 13  Good Shepherd  (04:22) 14  We Can Be Together  (05:47) 15  Volunteers  (02:04)
The Worst of Jefferson Airplane : Allmusic album Review : Its smirky title notwithstanding, The Worst of Jefferson Airplane provides a fine recap of the bands first six albums. Released in 1970 shortly before Marty Balins initial departure from the band, the album marked not only the end of the decade but, unwittingly, the end of the groups most stable phase in terms of membership. The track selections are evenly divided among the first-generation albums; only the live Bless Its Pointed Little Head is represented by a single entry. Pains were also taken to include songs featuring lead vocalists Balin, Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. A few omissions are striking, most notably the chart single "Greasy Heart" and the signature Kantner track, "Wooden Ships." Nevertheless, the songs chosen for this album accurately summarize the distinct feel of each Jefferson Airplane album of the 60s, and thus the disc represents an ideal way to introduce oneself to the bands early, most psychedelic material.
	Album: 7 of 38 Title:  Bark Released:  1971-09 Tracks:  11 Duration:  44:18 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   When the Earth Moves Again  (03:53) 2   Feel So Good  (04:36) 3   Crazy Miranda  (03:22) 4   Pretty as You Feel  (04:28) 5   Wild Turkey  (04:44) 6   Law Man  (02:41) 7   Rock and Roll Island  (03:43) 8   Third Week in the Chelsea  (04:33) 9   Never Argue With a German if Youre Tired or European Song  (04:32) 10  Thunk  (02:58) 11  War Movie  (04:42)
Bark : Allmusic album Review : Bark, Jefferson Airplanes seventh album, was an album of firsts: it was the first Airplane album in almost two years, the first made after the arrival of violinist Papa John Creach and the departure of band founder Marty Balin, and the first to be released on the groups own Grunt Records label. It was also the first Airplane album made after the onset of that familiar rock group disease, solo career-itis. Rhythm guitarist Paul Kantner had released his Blows Against the Empire, and Hot Tuna, the band formed by lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady, had released two albums since the last Airplane group release, Volunteers. Bark, perhaps as a result, was not so much a group record as a bunch of songs made by alternating solo artists with backup by the other group members. (Did someone say White Album?) Kantners tunes were science-fiction epics reminiscent of Blows; Kaukonens "Feel So Good" and the instrumental "Wild Turkey" were indistinguishable from Hot Tuna music, while his lilting ballad, "Third Week in the Chelsea," was nothing less than his resignation from the band, rendered in song; while Grace Slicks two contributions were characteristically idiosyncratic. The albums surprise was "Pretty as You Feel," a chart single that emerged out of a jam between new drummer Joey Covington, Casady, and Kaukonen. All of which is to say that there were some excellent songs on Bark (as well as some mediocre ones), even if the whole added up to less than the sum of the parts.
	Album: 8 of 38 Title:  Long John Silver Released:  1972-06 Tracks:  9 Duration:  41:52 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Long John Silver  (04:25) 2   Aerie (Gang of Eagles)  (03:56) 3   Twilight Double Leader  (04:45) 4   Milk Train  (03:22) 5   The Son of Jesus  (05:30) 6   Easter?  (04:02) 7   Trial by Fire  (04:35) 8   Alexander the Medium  (06:40) 9   Eat Starch Mom  (04:34)
Long John Silver : Allmusic album Review : The final Jefferson Airplane studio album -- if their half-hearted reunion from 1989 isnt (and really shouldnt be) counted -- presented yet another alteration in the bands lineup. Not only would Long John Silver (1972) be the second project minus co-founder Marty Balin (vocals), who left after Volunteers (1969), but Joey Covington (drums) also split before the long-player was completed, forming his own combo, the short-lived Black Kangaroo. Covington contributes to a pair of Paul Kantners (guitar/vocals) better offerings "Twilight Double Leader" and "The Son of Jesus," while Hot Tuna kinsman Sammy Piazza (drums) lends a hand to Jorma Kaukonens (guitar/vocals) whimsical "Trial by Fire." Eventually, Turtles and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young percussionist John Barbata (drums) would fill the drummers stool for the remainder of the Airplanes rapid descent. He would likewise make the transition alongside Kantner, Grace Slick (piano/vocals) and Papa John Creach (violin) into the brave new world of Jefferson Starship. Even more so than on their previous platter, Bark (1971), the material featured on Long John Silver rather blatantly exposes the two disparate factions to have emerged from the once unified Airplane. The Kaukonen/Jack Casady (bass) offshoot -- à la Hot Tuna -- and Kantner/Slick, whose Blows Against the Empire (1970) from two years earlier clearly pointed to the exceedingly cerebral approach evident on Slicks indistinct "Aerie (Gang of Eagles)" and "Easter?," or the mid-tempo meandering of Kantners "Alexander the Medium." The edgy, blues-infused rocker "Milk Train" is one of the few standouts on Long John Silver, giving Creach a platform for his ever-adaptable and soaring fiddle. Quite possibly the heaviest selection on the package is the Slick/Kaukonen co-composition "Eat Starch Mom." Appropriately, it concludes the effort on a positive charge with the Airplane hitting on all cylinders before landing the craft (for all intents and purposes) the last time. When the LP hit store shelves in the summer of 1972, it became instantly notorious for the cover that transformed into a cigar (read: stash) box. The inner sleeve went as far as reproducing the image of tightly compressed domestic ganja, replete with sticks, seeds and stems.
	Album: 9 of 38 Title:  Early Flight Released:  1974 Tracks:  9 Duration:  32:23 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic   Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   High Flyin Bird  (02:32) 2   Runnin Round This World  (02:21) 3   Its Alright  (02:14) 4   In the Morning  (06:25) 5   J.P.P. McStep B. Blues  (02:48) 6   Go to Her  (04:00) 7   Up or Down  (06:18) 8   Mexico  (02:06) 9   Have You Seen the Saucers  (03:37)
Early Flight : Allmusic album Review : A beguiling collection of bluesy, druggy, idealistic leftovers from the Airplanes 1965-1970 history, this nine-song album was one of the first instances of a major American rock band plundering its vaults for rarities -- its also as good a record as any of their official original albums. Musically, its full of superb material, including the six-and-a-half minute Jorma Kaukonen-authored blues workout "In the Morning"-- an after-hours jam from the Surrealistic Pillow sessions (with Jerry Garcia on one of the guitars and John Hammond blowing the harp) thats as fine a piece of music as anything that made it onto the album -- the Signe Anderson vocal blow-out "High Flyin Bird," and the Grace Slick-Paul Kantner sung version of "Go to Her" off of Surrealistic Pillow.
	Album: 10 of 38 Title:  Flight Log Released:  1977-01-07 Tracks:  21 Duration:  1:25:07 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   Come Up the Years  (02:30) 2   White Rabbit  (02:27) 3   Comin Back to Me  (05:15) 4   Wont You Try / Saturday Afternoon  (05:05) 5   Greasy Heart  (03:23) 6   If You Feel  (03:30) 7   Somebody to Love  (03:46) 8   Wooden Ships  (06:00) 9   Volunteers  (02:03) 10  Hesitation Blues  (05:05) 11  Have You Seen the Stars Tonite  (03:42) 1   Silver Spoon  (05:40) 2   Feel So Good  (04:35) 3   Pretty as You Feel  (03:07) 4   Milk Train  (03:26) 5   Ja Da (Keep on Truckin)  (03:40) 6   "¿Come Again Toucan?"  (03:13) 7   Sketches of China  (05:13) 8   Genesis  (04:19) 9   Ride the Tiger  (05:06) 10  Please Come Back (live)  (04:02)
	Album: 11 of 38 Title:  2400 Fulton Street Released:  1987 Tracks:  25 Duration:  1:27:50 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   Its No Secret  (02:39) 2   Come Up the Years  (02:32) 3   My Best Friend  (03:02) 4   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 5   Comin Back to Me  (05:22) 6   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 7   She Has Funny Cars  (03:10) 8   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (02:37) 9   Wild Tyme  (03:08) 10  The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil  (04:36) 11  A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly  (01:32) 12  White Rabbit  (02:33) 13  Wont You Try Saturday Afternoon  (05:04) 14  Lather  (02:58) 1   We Can Be Together  (05:50) 2   Crown of Creation  (02:54) 3   Mexico  (01:52) 4   Wooden Ships  (06:23) 5   Rejoyce  (04:02) 6   Volunteers  (03:05) 7   Pretty as You Feel  (03:40) 8   Martha  (03:26) 9   Today  (03:01) 10  Triad  (04:56) 11  Third Week in Chelsea  (04:35)
	Album: 12 of 38 Title:  The Collection Released:  1988 Tracks:  22 Duration:  1:16:01 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Blues from an Airplane  (02:03) 2   Dont Slip Away  (02:34) 3   Somebody to Love  (04:00) 4   3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (04:53) 5   My Best Friend  (03:04) 6   White Rabbit  (02:33) 7   The Last Wall of the Castle  (02:42) 8   Watch Her Ride  (03:11) 9   Lather  (02:57) 10  Crown of Creation  (03:26) 11  Greasy Heart  (03:28) 12  Plastic Fantastic Lover  (03:51) 13  Its No Secret  (03:34) 14  We Can Be Together  (05:51) 15  The Farm  (03:14) 16  Volunteers  (02:04) 17  When the Earth Moves Again  (03:57) 18  Law Man  (02:45) 19  Rock n Roll Island  (03:46) 20  Alexander the Medium  (06:35) 21  Have You Seen the Saucers  (04:18) 22  Meadowlands  (01:05)
	Album: 13 of 38 Title:  Jefferson Airplane Released:  1989-10 Tracks:  13 Duration:  54:49 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   TrackSamples   Wikipedia   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Planes  (04:27) 2   Freedom  (04:54) 3   Solidarity  (05:08) 4   Madeleine Street  (04:15) 5   Ice Age  (04:18) 6   Summer of Love  (04:18) 7   The Wheel  (06:10) 8   Common Market Madrigal  (02:46) 9   True Love  (03:43) 10  Upfront Blues  (02:02) 11  Now Is the Time  (04:53) 12  Too Many Years  (04:11) 13  Panda  (03:38)
Jefferson Airplane : Allmusic album Review : The one-off reunion of Jefferson Airplane in 1989, which consisted of a tour and a new album, got it about half right, which is to say that the groups live performances were fine, but their self-titled album was a disappointment. Jefferson Airplane had always been a musical collective. Though it was founded by singer Marty Balin in 1965, the band consisted of strong personalities -- guitarists Paul Kantner and Jorma Kaukonen, bass player Jack Casady, and singer Grace Slick (who replaced Signe Anderson in 1967). (Drummer Spencer Dryden, who was part of the groups classic 1967-1969 lineup, was not invited to join the reunion.) All but Casady were songwriters and vocalists, and the albums always represented a mixture of prominent talents. In that sense, nothing had changed 20 years later; Balin, Kantner, Kaukonen, and Slick each got his or her songs on Jefferson Airplane. And their familiar proclivities remained in place. Kantners complicated song structures were still at the service of his discursive lyrics, mixing left-wing political sentiments with fanciful personal reflections. Slicks concerns were even more idiosyncratic, as she devoted her lyrical piano ballads to such subjects as the plight of panda bears. Kaukonens songs were, as usual, showcases for his guitar playing. And Balin was still the romantic heart of the band, willing to lead them through the one outside composition, the pop-ish "True Love," contributed by Totos Steve Porcaro and David Paich (who were also session musicians on the album) and also happy to recall the past nostalgically in "Summer of Love." But somehow, this collection of oddballs seemed far less compelling than they had in the late 60s, and Ron Nevisons slick production, which may have been intended to update the sound and give it coherence, was just an annoyance. Thus, Jefferson Airplane, despite some characteristically good and interesting material, failed to make a good and interesting reunion record, and that was that.
	Album: 14 of 38 Title:  Greatest Hits Released:  1990 Tracks:  11 Duration:  34:46 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   White Rabbit  (02:33) 2   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 3   She Has Funny Cars  (03:12) 4   My Best Friend  (03:04) 5   Today  (03:02) 6   Comin Back to Me  (05:24) 7   3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (03:46) 8   D.C.B.A.‐25  (02:39) 9   How Do You Feel  (03:34) 10  Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 11  Plastic Fantastic Lover  (02:37)
Greatest Hits : Allmusic album Review : This two-CD Belgian compilation of the recordings of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship skips a bakers dozen of the protean groups American singles chart entries, but only two of the missing, Jefferson Airplanes "Watch Her Ride" and Jefferson Starships "Winds of Change," scraped into the lower rungs of the Top 40 on one of the national charts. And in their place are some key Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship album tracks ("Embryonic Journey," "Plastic Fantastic Lover," "Wooden Ships," "Third Week in the Chelsea," "Caroline"), plus the occasional rarity -- such as the non-LP Jefferson Airplane B-side "Have You Seen the Saucers" -- that doesnt really belong on an album called Greatest Hits. Of course, the real question, which other collections of this sort have posed, is whether it is really appropriate to put the acid rock 60s hits of Jefferson Airplane on the same album with the arena rock 80s hits of Starship. There is a continuous, chronological line that connects the recordings, and as heard here, the development in the groups sound is gradual. But by the end of the second CD, when none of the members of the group heard at the beginning of the first CD are present anymore, an entirely different entity with entirely different musical goals is performing. Nevertheless, by including all the major hits and many of the best tracks of the three related acts, the album earns its title.
	Album: 15 of 38 Title:  White Rabbit & Other Hits Released:  1990-02 Tracks:  8 Duration:  21:55 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 2   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 3   Today  (03:02) 4   White Rabbit  (02:33) 5   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 6   Crown of Creation  (02:54) 7   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (03:48) 8   Volunteers  (02:04)
	Album: 16 of 38 Title:  Loves You Released:  1992-10-27 Tracks:  51 Duration:  3:42:47 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   I Specialize in Love  (01:59) 2   Go to Her  (04:07) 3   Bringing Me Down  (02:24) 4   Let Me In  (03:30) 5   Chauffeur Blues  (02:28) 6   Free Advice  (02:32) 7   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 8   Today  (03:02) 9   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 10  White Rabbit  (02:33) 11  Come Back Baby  (02:58) 12  Other Side of This Life  (08:01) 13  Runnin Round This World  (02:29) 14  She Has Funny Cars  (03:37) 15  High Flyin Bird  (04:03) 16  Tobacco Road  (03:57) 17  Lets Get Together  (04:04) 18  White Rabbit  (02:23) 19  Comin Back to Me  (07:38) 20  Wont You Try / Saturday Afternoon  (07:01) 1   The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil (Alternate version)  (11:41) 2   Things Are Better in the East  (03:19) 3   Watch Her Ride  (03:11) 4   Two Heads  (03:10) 5   Martha  (03:21) 6   Dont Let Me Down  (02:56) 7   Crown of Creation  (02:54) 8   Lather  (02:57) 9   In Time  (04:13) 10  The House at Pooneil Corners  (05:52) 11  Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum  (01:34) 12  Would You Like a Snack  (02:40) 13  3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (04:52) 14  It’s No Secret  (03:31) 15  Plastic Fantastic Lover (Live)  (04:26) 16  Uncle Sam Blues (Live)  (05:29) 17  Wooden Ships (Alternate mix)  (05:54) 18  Volunteers (Alternate Take)  (02:17) 1   We Can Be Together (Alternate Take)  (06:03) 2   Turn My Life Down  (02:56) 3   Good Shepherd  (04:22) 4   Hey Fredrick (Alternate Take)  (09:07) 5   Emergency  (04:39) 6   When the Earth Moves Again  (03:57) 7   Pretty as You Feel  (03:11) 8   Law Man  (02:45) 9   Feel So Good (Extended version)  (09:26) 10  Twilight Double Leader  (04:45) 11  Aerie (Gang of Eagles)  (03:56) 12  Trial by Fire  (04:54) 13  Dress Rap / You Wear Your Dresses Too Short (Live)  (14:31)
	Album: 17 of 38 Title:  The Best of Jefferson Airplane Released:  1993 Tracks:  10 Duration:  39:37 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   3⁄5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (03:44) 2   White Rabbit  (02:33) 3   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 4   Wild Tyme  (03:10) 5   Wont You Try / Saturday Afternoon  (05:07) 6   Share a Little Joke  (03:07) 7   Greasy Heart  (03:28) 8   Wooden Ships  (06:28) 9   Third Week in the Chelsea  (04:36) 10  Long John Silver  (04:22)
	Album: 18 of 38 Title:  Journey: The Best Of Released:  1996-08-24 Tracks:  21 Duration:  1:11:33 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 2   High Flyin Bird  (02:32) 3   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 4   Come Up the Years  (02:32) 5   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 6   Blues From an Airplane  (02:12) 7   White Rabbit  (02:33) 8   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (02:37) 9   Aerie (Gang of Eagles)  (03:51) 10  The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil  (04:37) 11  Crown of Creation  (02:54) 12  Lather  (02:57) 13  The Last Wall of the Castle  (02:42) 14  Greasy Heart  (03:26) 15  Volunteers  (02:10) 16  When the Earth Moves Again  (03:56) 17  Triad  (04:55) 18  We Can Be Together  (05:51) 19  Wooden Ships  (06:25) 20  Milk Train (live)  (03:31) 21  Have You Seen the Saucers (live)  (04:11)
	Album: 19 of 38 Title:  Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now Released:  1997 Tracks:  19 Duration:  1:17:31 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 2   Volunteers  (02:04) 3   Watch Her Ride  (03:17) 4   The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil  (04:37) 5   White Rabbit  (02:33) 6   Miracles  (03:34) 7   With Your Love  (03:36) 8   Light the Sky on Fire  (04:07) 9   Jane  (04:12) 10  Runaway  (05:24) 11  Count On Me  (03:17) 12  Find Your Way Back  (04:15) 13  Save Your Love  (06:01) 14  We Built This City  (04:54) 15  Sara  (04:52) 16  Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now  (04:30) 17  Transatlantic  (04:19) 18  Babylon  (04:38) 19  It’s Not Over (’Til It’s Over)  (04:19)
	Album: 20 of 38 Title:  The Gold Collection Released:  1997 Tracks:  16 Duration:  1:03:02 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   White Rabbit  (02:33) 2   Today  (02:59) 3   Its No Secret  (03:27) 4   My Best Friend  (03:04) 5   Dont Slip Away  (02:34) 6   Other Side Of This Life  (06:52) 7   High Flyin Bird  (04:02) 8   Somebody to Love  (03:55) 1   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (03:48) 2   3/5 of a Mile in Ten Seconds  (04:44) 3   She Has Funny Cars  (03:23) 4   Youre So Loose  (04:01) 5   What Youre Askin  (05:24) 6   Would You Love Me  (04:07) 7   Ride  (03:05) 8   This Is My Life  (04:55)
	Album: 21 of 38 Title:  The Masters Released:  1997 Tracks:  20 Duration:  1:11:33 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   Watch Her Ride  (03:20) 2   Greasy Heart  (03:25) 3   Pretty as You Feel  (04:31) 4   White Rabbit  (02:33) 5   Medley: Wont You Try / Saturday Afternoon  (05:06) 6   Two Heads  (03:14) 7   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 8   Rock Me Baby  (07:45) 9   Turn Out the Lights  (01:32) 10  Plastic Fantastic Lover  (02:40) 11  Star Track  (03:14) 12  Blues From an Airplane  (02:13) 13  A Song for All Seasons  (03:31) 14  Martha  (03:31) 15  Fat Angel  (07:33) 16  Hymn to an Older Generation  (02:43) 17  Mexico  (02:09) 18  My Best Friend  (03:04) 19  She Has Funny Cars  (03:12) 20  Wild Tyme  (03:10)
	Album: 22 of 38 Title:  Hits Released:  1998-09-29 Tracks:  35 Duration:  2:26:59 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 2   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 3   White Rabbit  (02:33) 4   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 5   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (02:37) 6   Comin’ Back to Me  (05:23) 7   The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil  (04:37) 8   Greasy Heart  (03:28) 9   Lather  (02:57) 10  Crown of Creation  (02:54) 11  Wooden Ships  (06:25) 12  Volunteers  (02:04) 13  Good Shepherd  (04:22) 14  Have You Seen the Saucers  (03:41) 15  Pretty as You Feel  (04:31) 16  Third Week in the Chelsea  (04:36) 17  Long John Silver  (04:25) 18  Caroline  (07:30) 19  Ride the Tiger  (05:11) 1   Miracles  (06:53) 2   With Your Love  (03:36) 3   Count On Me  (03:17) 4   Runaway  (05:24) 5   Jane  (04:12) 6   Find Your Way Back  (04:15) 7   Stranger  (04:45) 8   Be My Lady  (03:52) 9   No Way Out  (04:24) 10  Layin It on the Line  (04:10) 11  We Built This City  (04:54) 12  Sara  (04:52) 13  Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter Tonight  (03:44) 14  Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now  (04:30) 15  It’s Not Over (’Til It’s Over)  (04:19) 16  Its Not Enough  (04:53)
Hits : Allmusic album Review : There has been no dearth of greatest-hits and best-of albums devoted to Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, but this is the first one combining tracks from all three editions of the group that started in San Francisco in the mid-60s and ended its run in the early 90s with entirely different personnel. The band continued to maintain the same basic elements for most of its run, the constants being a soaring male tenor (either Marty Balin or Mickey Thomas) and a stinging lead guitar (either Jorma Kaukonen or Craig Chaquico), even if its best-remembered sound was the icy, stentorian contralto of on-again, off-again member Grace Slick. To say that the elements held constant is not to say that the band continued to sound the same, but if you listen to the chronologically sequenced album through, you can hear the transition clearly. True to its title, the 35-track Hits contains all of the bands most successful singles, omitting only two of its Top 40 entries. All the big hits are here, from "Somebody to Love" through "Miracles" to "We Built This City," accounting for 18 of the tracks. The rest of the album is filled out with less-successful singles and album tracks that became band standards. As this list indicates, compiler Paul Williams is more interested in Jefferson Airplane than Jefferson Starship and Starship, which are represented exclusively by singles, and a more balanced portrait of the later ensembles might have been provided by including illuminating album tracks. But this is the best two-disc summary of a group that, despite dizzying personnel changes, maintained its commercial acumen for over 20 years.
	Album: 23 of 38 Title:  VH1: Behind the Music Collection Released:  2000 Tracks:  18 Duration:  1:12:57 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 2   White Rabbit  (02:33) 3   Comin’ Back to Me  (05:23) 4   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 5   Crown of Creation  (02:54) 6   Volunteers  (02:04) 7   Miracles  (06:53) 8   With Your Love  (03:36) 9   Count On Me  (03:17) 10  Runaway  (05:24) 11  Jane  (04:12) 12  Be My Lady  (03:52) 13  No Way Out  (04:24) 14  We Built This City  (04:54) 15  Sara  (04:52) 16  Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now  (04:30) 17  It’s Not Over (’Til It’s Over)  (04:19) 18  Its Not Enough  (04:53)
	Album: 24 of 38 Title:  The Roar of Jefferson Airplane Released:  2001 Tracks:  14 Duration:  54:29 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic   Wikipedia    AlbumCover	1   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 2   Go to Her  (04:00) 3   Greasy Heart  (03:29) 4   The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil  (04:37) 5   The House at Pooneil Corners  (05:52) 6   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (02:37) 7   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 8   3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (04:44) 9   Long John Silver  (04:25) 10  Feel So Good  (04:39) 11  The Last Wall of the Castle  (02:42) 12  Eat Starch Mom  (04:36) 13  Volunteers  (02:04) 14  The Other Side of This Life  (05:02)
The Roar of Jefferson Airplane : Allmusic album Review : When RCA set out to celebrate their 100 years of music by releasing collection albums, it was only fitting that Jefferson Airplane be among the bands honored by the label. After forming in San Francisco in 1965, they took the music world by storm, experimenting with new sounds and producing several well-known hits. The beauty of this collection is that it allows the listener to see the progression of the band, from their first hit, "Its No Secret" (off their debut album of 1965), onward, as they continued to produce hits. While the quality of their music remained constant into the late 60s, their sound changed moods, which is something that the listener feels during a playing of the album. The intensity jumps up and down, the use of instruments varies, and the vocals fluctuate. Due to this mixture, this album is one of the best ways to enjoy the band during one sitting. The album is highlighted by one of the bands most well-known hits, "Somebody to Love." However, its placed midway through, giving a nice buildup; the album also includes perhaps Grace Slicks most powerful song, "Greasy Heart." This track best exhibits her tremendous vocal ability, which is both intense and soft as the track progresses. Switching from vocals to instruments, "The Last Wall of the Castle," a song in which Slick is absent, contains tremendous guitar compilations matched against group vocals. In particular, halfway through the track listeners are treated with a riveting electric guitar solo by Jorma Kaukonen that best exhibits the all-around talent of the band. The only track that is missing from the collection is "White Rabbit," a Slick song that has been remembered since it debuted on Surrealistic Pillow in 1967. While this example of Slicks stunning vocals is left out, "Eat Starch Mom" isnt. She is at her best as she belts out a socially charged tune in which she, as Jeff Tamarkin writes in the liner notes, "takes digs at back-to-the-land hippie purists." In fact, what makes this album even more worthwhile is the brief insert by Tamarkin, which chronicles the beginnings of the band and speaks of each of the songs and their context in the history of Jefferson Airplane.
	Album: 25 of 38 Title:  Ignition Released:  2001-08-21 Tracks:  68 Duration:  3:37:49 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Blues From an Airplane  (02:12) 2   Let Me In  (02:59) 3   Bringing Me Down  (02:24) 4   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 5   Tobacco Road  (03:30) 6   Runnin round This World  (02:40) 7   Come Up the Years  (02:32) 8   Run Around  (02:40) 9   Let’s Get Together  (03:35) 10  Don’t Slip Away  (02:34) 11  Chauffeur Blues  (02:34) 12  And I Like It  (03:20) 13  Blues From an Airplane (mono)  (02:13) 14  Let Me In (mono)  (02:59) 15  Bringing Me Down (mono)  (02:25) 16  Its No Secret (mono)  (02:40) 17  Tobacco Road (mono)  (03:30) 18  Runnin round This World (mono)  (02:39) 19  Come Up the Years (mono)  (02:35) 20  Run Around (mono)  (02:39) 21  Lets Get Together (mono)  (02:39) 22  Dont Slip Away (mono)  (02:33) 23  Chauffeur Blues (mono)  (02:28) 24  And I Like It (mono)  (03:16) 1   She Has Funny Cars  (03:12) 2   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 3   My Best Friend  (03:04) 4   Today  (03:02) 5   Comin’ Back to Me  (05:23) 6   3⁄5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (03:44) 7   D.C.B.A.‐25  (02:39) 8   How Do You Feel  (03:34) 9   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 10  White Rabbit  (02:33) 11  Plastic Fantastic Lover  (02:37) 12  She Has Funny Cars  (03:05) 13  Somebody to Love  (02:58) 14  My Best Friend  (03:03) 15  Today  (03:01) 16  Comin’ Back to Me  (05:28) 17  3⁄5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (03:45) 18  D.C.B.A.  (02:38) 19  How Do You Feel  (03:32) 20  Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 21  White Rabbit  (02:32) 22  Plastic Fantastic Lover  (02:36) 1   The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil  (04:29) 2   A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly  (01:39) 3   Young Girl Sunday Blues  (03:35) 4   Martha  (03:27) 5   Wild Tyme  (03:11) 6   The Last Wall of the Castle  (02:41) 7   Rejoyce  (04:03) 8   Watch Her Ride  (03:11) 9   Spare Chaynge  (09:15) 10  Two Heads  (03:10) 11  Won’t You Try / Saturday Afternoon  (05:09) 1   Lather  (02:57) 2   In Time  (04:13) 3   Triad  (04:55) 4   Star Track  (03:10) 5   Share a Little Joke  (03:07) 6   Cushingura  (01:19) 7   If You Feel  (03:21) 8   Crown of Creation  (02:54) 9   Ice Cream Phoenix  (03:01) 10  Greasy Heart  (03:26) 11  The House at Pooneil Corners  (05:52)
Ignition : Allmusic album Review : Ignition is RCAs repackaging, in box set form, of Jefferson Airplanes first four albums, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxters, and Crown of Creation. Jefferson Airplane Takes Off and After Bathing at Baxters are presented in their 1996 upgrades, with Jefferson Airplane Takes Off featuring both the stereo and mono versions of the album. (Although there was a mono version of After Bathing at Baxters, RCA did not include it on the upgrade, no doubt because the album was too long to fit both versions on a single CD.) Crown of Creation is presented in its 1998 upgrade. Surrealistic Pillow, which also was upgraded in 1996, is presented in a new upgrading; like the previous one, this one features both the stereo and mono versions of the album. All four albums include liner notes by Jefferson Airplane biographer Jeff Tamarkin. To listen to the four albums together is to hear Jefferson Airplanes development from an electrified folk group into a psychedelic rock band, with all that implies. Founder Marty Balin dominates the first disc with his frequently erotic love songs (the lyrics of which were in some cases censored, with the censored versions, oddly, turning up here). By the time of Surrealistic Pillow, with the crucial addition of Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane has become more of a musical collective and begun to rock harder, though Balins pop-folk style is still the most prominent. The sprawling After Bathing at Baxters finds the psychedelic impulse taking over in stretched-out arrangements, experimentation, and increasingly absurd lyrics, while Crown of Creation splits the difference, retaining the bands imaginative edge within tighter song structures. The only thing wrong with the set is its arbitrary cut-off. The Jefferson Airplane story continued after this; maybe that will be the subject of another box.
	Album: 26 of 38 Title:  Collections Released:  2003 Tracks:  12 Duration:  37:22 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Its No Secret  (02:40) 2   Come Up the Years  (02:34) 3   My Best Friend  (03:04) 4   Somebody to Love  (03:00) 5   Comin Back to Me  (05:23) 6   Embryonic Journey  (01:55) 7   White Rabbit  (02:34) 8   The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil  (04:34) 9   Watch Her Ride  (03:13) 10  Crown of Creations  (02:54) 11  Greasy Heart  (03:27) 12  Volunteers  (02:04)
	Album: 27 of 38 Title:  The Best of Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love Released:  2004 Tracks:  10 Duration:  37:08 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 2   White Rabbit  (02:33) 3   Come Up the Years  (02:33) 4   Today  (03:02) 5   Let’s Get Together  (03:35) 6   Comin Back to Me  (05:22) 7   The House at Pooneil Corners  (05:52) 8   Young Girl Sunday Blues  (03:38) 9   Lather  (02:57) 10  Third Week in the Chelsea  (04:34)
The Best of Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love : Allmusic album Review : The BMG Special Products compilation The Best of Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love is a ten-track, budget-priced set that contains some of the Jefferson Airplanes best-loved hits, mainly from the 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow, including "White Rabbit," "Today," "Comin Back to Me," and "Somebody to Love," plus six album tracks. As budget-line collections go, The Best of Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love isnt bad, especially since it contains the original versions of these tracks, but better collections are available for not much more money. Pick up The Worst of Jefferson Airplane on RCA instead. Please keep in mind that this set has the same track listing as Somebody to Love released on the Collectables label in 2004.
	Album: 28 of 38 Title:  The Essential Jefferson Airplane Released:  2005 Tracks:  32 Duration:  2:05:29 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify    AlbumCover	1   Blues From an Airplane  (02:12) 2   Its No Secret  (02:37) 3   Come Up the Years  (02:30) 4   She Has Funny Cars  (03:07) 5   Somebody to Love  (02:54) 6   Comin Back to Me  (05:14) 7   Embryonic Journey  (01:51) 8   White Rabbit  (02:33) 9   Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil  (04:32) 10  Martha (Mono single version)  (03:26) 11  The Last Wall of the Castle  (02:40) 12  Watch Her Ride  (03:16) 13  Lather  (02:56) 14  Crown of Creation  (02:54) 15  Greasy Heart  (03:25) 16  Share a Little Joke (Mono single version)  (03:06) 1   3/5s of a Mile in 10 Seconds (live)  (04:46) 2   Plastic Fantastic Lover (live)  (03:40) 3   We Can Be Together  (05:48) 4   Good Shepherd  (04:22) 5   Wooden Ships  (06:23) 6   Eskimo Blue Days  (06:31) 7   Volunteers  (02:03) 8   Have You Seen the Saucers  (03:37) 9   Mexico  (02:08) 10  When the Earth Moves Again  (03:56) 11  Pretty as You Feel  (04:30) 12  Third Week in the Chelsea  (04:35) 13  Long John Silver  (04:22) 14  Twilight Double Leader  (04:42) 15  Feel So Good (live)  (11:24) 16  Milk Train (live)  (03:29)
	Album: 29 of 38 Title:  The Essential Released:  2005-04-26 Tracks:  32 Duration:  2:06:19 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Blues From an Airplane  (02:12) 2   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 3   Come Up the Years  (02:32) 4   She Has Funny Cars  (03:12) 5   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 6   Comin Back to Me  (05:15) 7   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 8   White Rabbit  (02:33) 9   The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil  (04:29) 10  Martha (mono single version)  (03:29) 11  The Last Wall of the Castle  (02:41) 12  Watch Her Ride  (03:15) 13  Lather  (02:57) 14  Crown of Creation  (02:54) 15  Greasy Heart  (03:26) 16  Share a Little Joke (mono single version)  (03:06) 1   3/5 of a Mile in Ten Seconds (live)  (04:46) 2   Plastic Fantastic Lover (live)  (03:51) 3   We Can Be Together  (05:47) 4   Good Shepherd  (04:22) 5   Wooden Ships  (06:25) 6   Eskimo Blue Day  (06:34) 7   Volunteers  (02:04) 8   Have You Seen the Saucers  (03:36) 9   Mexico  (02:09) 10  When the Earth Moves Again  (03:56) 11  Pretty as You Feel  (04:31) 12  Third Week in the Chelsea  (04:36) 13  Long John Silver  (04:25) 14  Twilight Double Leaders  (04:44) 15  Feel So Good (live)  (11:23) 16  Milk Train (live)  (03:29)
The Essential : Allmusic album Review : The seminal San Francisco psychedelic band in the heyday of such things, Jefferson Airplane were sassy, political, and generally engaging. The band then morphed into Jefferson Starship, which was a whole other thing, a more polished band aiming at the pop charts. Eventually Jefferson Starship became just Starship, although the sound stayed aimed at the charts. This two-disc set combines the best tracks from all of these incarnations, which is a good thing if one is a fan of all of the approaches here, but not such a good thing if, like many, one prefers one version of the band to the other two. Either way, its nice to have a survey of the Jefferson family tree in one spot, and songs (no matter which version of this outfit did them) like "Somebody to Love," "White Rabbit," "Volunteers," "Ride the Tiger," the beautiful "Miracles," "Count on Me," and the love-it-then-hate-it-sometimes "We Built This City" (its a matter of where you are when you hear it) are all staples on rock oldies stations and they deserve to be. So theres a lot of good stuff here, even if it sounds like its from three different bands -- its how the story went.
	Album: 30 of 38 Title:  Platinum & Gold Collection Released:  2006-05-06 Tracks:  12 Duration:  37:14 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 2   Come Up the Years  (02:32) 3   My Best Friend  (03:04) 4   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 5   Comin’ Back to Me  (05:23) 6   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 7   White Rabbit  (02:33) 8   Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil  (04:32) 9   Watch Her Ride  (03:11) 10  Crown of Creation  (02:54) 11  Greasy Heart  (03:26) 12  Volunteers  (02:04)
Platinum & Gold Collection : Allmusic album Review : As part of the BMG Heritage midline series, Platinum & Gold Collection features a decent collection of two hit singles and ten album tracks from Jefferson Airplane. Recorded for RCA between 1966 and 1969, the disc contains several songs that fall under the category of should have been hits but never were: "Come Up the Years," "My Best Friend," and "Its No Secret." In order to really grasp the intricacies and eclectic nature of Jefferson Airplane, the listener is advised to buy the bands first five studio albums.
	Album: 31 of 38 Title:  Discover Jefferson Airplane Released:  2007 Tracks:  5 Duration:  23:05 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% AlbumCover	1   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 2   Crown of Creation  (02:54) 3   Have You Seen the Saucers  (03:36) 4   Feel So Good  (11:03) 5   White Rabbit  (02:33)
	Album: 32 of 38 Title:  The Very Best Of Released:  2007-09-21 Tracks:  15 Duration:  55:41 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify    AlbumCover	1   White Rabbit  (02:34) 2   Today  (02:59) 3   Its No Secret  (03:27) 4   My Best Friend  (03:04) 5   Dont Slip Away  (02:34) 6   Other Side of Life  (06:52) 7   High Flyin Bird  (04:02) 8   Somebody to Love  (03:55) 1   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (03:46) 2   3/5 of a Mile in Ten Seconds  (04:44) 3   She Has Funny Cars  (03:24) 4   This Is My Life  (04:57) 5   Hellbound Train  (03:54) 6   White Rabbit (Different version)  (02:11) 7   Plastic Fantastic Lover (Different version)  (03:10)
	Album: 33 of 38 Title:  Playlist: The Very Best of Jefferson Airplane Released:  2009 Tracks:  14 Duration:  46:24 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   It’s No Secret  (02:40) 2   Come Up the Years  (02:32) 3   Somebody to Love  (02:59) 4   Today  (03:02) 5   Comin’ Back to Me  (05:23) 6   Embryonic Journey  (01:54) 7   White Rabbit  (02:33) 8   The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil  (04:29) 9   Watch Her Ride  (03:02) 10  Crown of Creation  (02:54) 11  Greasy Heart  (03:26) 12  3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (04:52) 13  Volunteers  (02:04) 14  Pretty as You Feel  (04:31)
Playlist: The Very Best of Jefferson Airplane : Allmusic album Review : Jefferson Airplanes Playlist collection, with eco-friendly packaging, focuses on several of the groups best album tracks recorded between 1966 and 1971. Among the 14 tracks, five of them are from Surrealistic Pillow, including "White Rabbit," "Today," "Embryonic Journey," "Comin Back to Me," and "Somebody to Love." As budget-line collections go, Playlist isnt bad, especially since it contains the original versions of these tracks, but better collections are available for not much more money.
	Album: 34 of 38 Title:  The Woodstock Experience Released:  2009-06-30 Tracks:  24 Duration:  2:23:53 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   We Can Be Together  (05:47) 2   Good Shepherd  (04:22) 3   The Farm  (03:13) 4   Hey Frederick  (08:33) 5   Turn My Life Down  (02:57) 6   Wooden Ships  (06:25) 7   Eskimo Blue Day  (06:34) 8   A Song for All Seasons  (03:29) 9   Meadowlands  (01:04) 10  Volunteers  (02:04) 11  Introduction  (00:23) 12  The Other Side of This Life  (08:17) 13  Somebody to Love  (04:31) 14  3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds  (05:30) 15  Wont You Try / Saturday Afternoon  (05:06) 16  Eskimo Blue Day  (06:55) 1   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (04:35) 2   Wooden Ships  (21:25) 3   Uncle Sam Blues  (06:12) 4   Volunteers  (03:05) 5   The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil  (15:29) 6   Come Back Baby  (06:05) 7   White Rabbit  (02:27) 8   The House at Pooneil Corners  (09:17)
The Woodstock Experience : Allmusic album Review : Sony/BMGs Legacy imprint decided to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock by issuing a slew of double-disc deluxe packages by catalog artists who played the festival. Each slipcase contains the featured artists entire performance at Woodstock and as a bonus, an LP sleeve reproduction of a classic album issued near the time the festival occurred, as well as fine, individually designed 16" X 24" double-sided posters. Of the five volumes in the Woodstock Experience series, the Jefferson Airplanes volumes is simultaneously one of the most compelling and frustrating. Musically, this is one of, if not the greatest live performances we have on tape of the band at the peak of their ability and creativity, prefacing the release of their Volunteers album (included here as well) three months after this gig. There are five previously unissued tracks in this set -- six if you include the introduction. They include Fred Neils "The Other Side of This Life,"(that kicks off the set), "3/5 of A Mile in 10 Seconds" "Wooden Ships," "The Ballad of You, Me & Pooneil," the traditional blues "Come Back Baby," and the Airplanes set closer "The House at Pooneil Corners." The Airplanes set is a long one, the longest in the Woodstock Experience series, clocking in at over 90 minutes, but its enthralling throughout. Whether its the electrified versions of the tunes from Surrealistic Pillow -- "Plastic Fantastic Lover," "White Rabbit," and "Somebody to Love," or the 14-minute space rock in "The Ballad of You, Me & Pooneil," from After Bathing at Baxters with its massive bass solo by Jack Casady, or the ragged but righteous "House at Pooneil Corners" from Crown of Creation, the Airplane prove here that they could rock with the best of them. Their set as a whole is explosive and full of surprises, with excellent vocal work from Grace Slick and Marty Balin, and very sophisticated interplay between Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Kantner, Casady, guest pianist Nicky Hopkins, and drummer Spencer Dryden. Thats the good news. The bad news is the package itself: Sony Legacy blew it by following a format rather than considering the music first. The other volumes in the series also include a catalog album. And its always the first disc. This presented a problem because the Airplanes set was so long. The labels design department chose to follow format rather than serve the music properly. They sequenced the bands concert performance to begin after the last track of Volunteers on disc one -- it can be a complete buzzkill unless you just begin disc one at track 11. What would have made more sense would have been to either issue these CDs by themselves, or to begin Volunteers after the last song of the Woodstock gig to better preserve the integrity of the gig itself. Its true that the concert would still have been broken up on two discs, but the break would have come at the beginning of the long encore. Marks off for this, but the music itself is simply stellar throughout.
	Album: 35 of 38 Title:  Early Flight / Thirty Seconds Over Winterland Released:  2010 Tracks:  16 Duration:  1:10:46 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   High Flyin’ Bird  (02:33) 2   Runnin’ Round This World  (02:23) 3   It’s Alright  (02:14) 4   In the Morning  (06:26) 5   J.P.P. McStep B. Blues  (02:50) 6   Go to Her  (04:00) 7   Up or Down  (06:19) 8   Mexico  (02:06) 9   Have You Seen the Saucers  (03:40) 10  Have You Seen the Saucers  (04:19) 11  Feel So Good  (11:29) 12  Crown of Creation  (03:24) 13  When the Earth Moves Again  (04:20) 14  Milk Train  (04:01) 15  Trial by Fire  (05:05) 16  Twilight Double Leader  (05:31)
Early Flight / Thirty Seconds Over Winterland : Allmusic album Review : This package combines the final two albums released during the Jefferson Airplanes initial flight on a single disc. They were clearly contract-fulfilling, vault-clearing sets but both contain plenty of gems belying their shabby packaging, nearly non-existent liner notes, and commercially driven existence. The misleadingly titled Early Flight, originally available in 1971, is not live, but a collection of Airplane odds, ends, B-sides, and rarities. It ranges from material recorded before the bands 1966 debut with original lead singer Signe Anderson to a track waxed after the groups breakup. With a span of that many years, it cant help but be a mish-mash, but its a charming one that rescues some great cuts, such as the Marty Balin-sung Jorma Kaukonen gem "Up or Down." Its for collectors of course, who at this late stage probably already own all the selections, but the 2010 remastering is clean and warm, even on the earliest music. It closes with a studio take of "Have You Seen the Saucers" which, not coincidentally, is the opening track of the accompanying live portion. By the time of this 1972 tour, Marty Balin had been replaced by ex-Quicksilver Messenger Services David Freiberg (who is practically inaudible throughout) and fiddle player Papa John Creach was a full-fledged member. The Airplanes sound changed, arguably for the better, even if the lineup was short-lived. Despite, or maybe because of, Creachs involvement, the groups live work remained top-notch and his playing on an 11-minute version of Kaukonens "Feel so Good" is one of the highlights of this part of the disc. The release also rescues some later period songs that might have otherwise been forgotten, such as "Milk Train" and "Twilight Double Leader," both of which are captured in spirited performances better than the studio versions.
	Album: 36 of 38 Title:  Setlist: The Very Best of Jefferson Airplane Live Released:  2010-07-13 Tracks:  12 Duration:  1:05:55 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Spotify   Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   Somebody to Love  (04:05) 2   She Has Funny Cars  (03:41) 3   White Rabbit  (02:35) 4   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (03:49) 5   Its No Secret  (03:29) 6   Feel So Good  (11:23) 7   Comin Back to Me  (07:43) 8   Have You Seen the Saucers  (04:20) 9   Good Shepard  (07:21) 10  Volunteers  (03:36) 11  Crown of Creation  (03:26) 12  The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil  (10:27)
Setlist: The Very Best of Jefferson Airplane Live : Allmusic album Review : Sony’s Setlist series isn’t a standard budget-line compilation: these discs bypass hits in favor of live tracks cut throughout the years, mixing up highlights from classic live albums with a handful of rarities, including some unreleased cuts. In the case of Jefferson Airplane’s entry, it’s culled from several sources -- cuts from 1969’s Bless Its Pointed Little Head and 1973’s Thirty Seconds Over Winterland rub shoulders with the archival releases of Jefferson Airplane Loves You and Sweeping Up the Spotlight -- and includes two previously unreleased cuts recorded at the Fillmore in San Francisco: “White Rabbit” from 1966, “It’s No Secret” from 1967. Every cut here derives from 1966-1973, so it winds up being an excellent live sampler of the band at their peak.
	Album: 37 of 38 Title:  White Rabbit Released:  2010-08-30 Tracks:  18 Duration:  1:11:32 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   White Rabbit  (02:29) 2   Today  (02:54) 3   Its No Secret  (03:30) 4   My Best Friend  (03:04) 5   Dont Slip Away  (02:34) 6   Other Side of This Life  (06:49) 7   High Flyin Bird  (04:02) 8   Somebody to Love  (03:57) 9   Plastic Fantastic Lover  (03:48) 10  3/5 of a Mile in Ten Seconds  (04:43) 11  She Has Funny Cars  (03:23) 12  Youre So Loose  (04:00) 13  What Youre Askin  (05:23) 14  Would You Love Me  (04:07) 15  Ride  (03:04) 16  This Is My Life  (04:57) 17  What Do You Want With Me  (03:11) 18  Get Together  (05:31)
White Rabbit : Allmusic album Review : White Rabbit & Other Hits is a budget-priced, eight-track collection that contains several of Jefferson Airplanes most familiar songs ("Somebody to Love," "White Rabbit," "Embryonic Journey," "Plastic Fantastic Lover," "Volunteers"), but these very songs are available on better, more thorough compilations that arent much more expensive than this, so the purpose of this collection is a little mystifying.
	Album: 38 of 38 Title:  Original Album Classics Released:  2011-01-28 Tracks:  35 Duration:  2:36:39 Scroll:  Up   Down   Top   Bottom   25%   50%   75% Allmusic    AlbumCover	1   We Can Be Together  (05:47) 2   Good Shepherd  (04:22) 3   The Farm  (03:13) 4   Hey Fredrick  (08:34) 5   Turn My Life Down  (02:57) 6   Wooden Ships  (06:28) 7   Eskimo Blue Day  (06:34) 8   A Song for All Seasons  (03:29) 9   Meadowlands  (01:04) 10  Volunteers  (02:04) 11  Good Shepherd (live, 1969-11: Fillmore East)  (07:20) 12  Somebody to Love (live, 1969-11: Fillmore East)  (04:10) 13  Plastic Fantastic Lover (live, 1969-11: Fillmore East)  (03:21) 14  Wooden Ships (live, 1969-11: Fillmore East)  (07:00) 15  Volunteers (live, 1969-11: Fillmore East)  (03:26) 1   When the Earth Moves Again  (03:57) 2   Feel So Good  (04:39) 3   Crazy Miranda  (03:26) 4   Pretty as You Feel  (04:31) 5   Wild Turkey  (04:49) 6   Law Man  (02:45) 7   Rock and Roll Island  (03:46) 8   Third Week in the Chelsea  (04:36) 9   Never Argue With a German If You’re Tired or European Song  (04:35) 10  Thunk  (03:01) 11  War Movie  (04:41) 1   Long John Silver  (04:25) 2   Aerie (Gang of Eagles)  (03:56) 3   Twilight Double Leader  (04:45) 4   Milk Train  (03:22) 5   The Son of Jesus  (05:30) 6   Easter?  (04:02) 7   Trial by Fire  (04:35) 8   Alexander the Medium  (06:40) 9   Eat Starch Mom  (04:34)
Original Album Classics : Allmusic album Review : This five-disc, U.K.-only box set collects the first five albums from influential American folk-psych-rockers Jefferson Airplane in their entireties. The albums include Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (1966), Surrealistic Pillow (1967), After Bathing at Baxters (1967), Crown of Creation (1968), and Bless Its Pointed Little Head (1969).