Best Jefferson Airplane song?

[Deja Q]

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Other-ReJoyce

"War's good for business so give your son
but I'd rather have my country die for me"

Can't beat a lyric like that...

[Deja Q]

6. Oooh! Excellent choice!

On the "After Bathing At Baxter's" album, I'm definitely giving that one another listen-to. Thanks!

[baldingrockwarlord]

7. other - Ride The Tiger

n/t

[punpirate]

10. One of my favorites...

... as well--the snippets from Ulysses are lots of fun.

[Jade Fox]

2. Embryonic Journey. Not exactly a song.....

but some of the most amazing acoustic guitar work I've ever heard.

[ET Awful]

20. Jorma ruled back then.

I'm not as impressed with his later stuff, but the stuff he did with Airplane, and the old Hot Tuna stuff was awesome :)

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. Volunteers...

was probably their best, but Somebody to Love is my favorite to sing loudly while alone in my car

[Deja Q]

4. Definitely their most political album, and one to go out on too.

Then they built the city on rock and roll (and later felt embarrassed about it, how great can life get! :7 )

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. We built this city...

is a perfect example of what drugs can do to a person. I feel that they should scrap the DARE programs in schools and instead play an album like volunteers and immediately follow it with that song. It would leave a strong impression on me!

[Deja Q]

11. Quite!

[hickman1937]

5. White Rabbit

Love that song.

[Deja Q]

8. The 'video' on Smothers Brothers is impressive too.

I just got that "Fly Jefferson Airplane" DVD because I'd always wanted to see it. Yeah, it's a capitalism thing but at least I've seen it now. O8) Man, people were lively and creative back then... what the fuck happened?!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

15. We went underground

We became your parents, and we have to pretend - in front of you and your friends - that we're grownups.

But you should hear us when you're not around.

And you would not BELIEVE what we DO when we're alone.

heh heh heh

kids ........................

[punpirate]

19. To paraphrase...

... JA, that generation got old, and the next generation didn't get soul....

Which is not exactly fair--there are plenty of creative people out there now. When I think back to the `50s, `60s and `70s, the music business in the `50s seems to me very compartmentalized--a few small labels meeting the desires of niche markets. Jazz was that way, as was soul and R&B. The large labels pushed music, often through payola, that wasn't all that good, to a teeny-bopper radio audience. After all, if you didn't have much money for records, you could always listen to the radio. That was cheap. Combine that with typical American insulatedness, the effect was a lot of homogeneity.

Then that biggest of American generations got to college, where people started thinking a bit more, mixed with people a bit more and next thing one knew, there was all kinds of different music happening. Drugs had something to do with it, yes, but I still remember walking into a dorm room where a guy was playing a twelve-string, just stomping away on some Leadbelly tune. I'd never heard anything like, started asking questions, and got a virtual library catalog of records to hear--country blues players almost no one then had heard of, people like Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt.

Kind of a wonderful shock for someone who came of age in the early `60s in a small town and had never heard anything like it.

By the late `60s, record companies had smelled lots of money (mostly, thanks to British bands), and were trying out just about everyone with a release.

By the `70s, record companies thought they knew what would sell to audiences, drugs were on the wane, both through increasing government interest and the fact that people were getting burned out on them. So, what did the record companies do? Dance music again. Disco.

Ah, well. The good singer-songwriters stayed away from the big, big studios through the `80s and started their own labels and toured enough to pay the bills. Those labels now supported interesting new people through the `90s.

Now, lessee, what did Garrison Keillor say about New Age music? "Play New Age music backwards, and what do you get? New Age music." :)

[LiberalEsto]

12. Whenever my college-age kids annoy me, I sing it

"One pill makes you larger...."

By the time I'm on the second line, they've vanished

[OldLeftieLawyer]

13. "Coming Back To Me"

Oh, man, it is truly one of the most romantic songs ever written.

Now I'm gonna be playing old JA all day tomorrow. The memories, the memories...................

Thanks.

[last_texas_dem]

25. I love that one, too

Also like "Lather", "Crown of Creation", "Volunteers", "My Best Friend", "Embryonic Journey", and "Pretty as You Feel" a lot, too.

And for what it's worth, I love Jefferson Starship's "Runaway"...

[On the Road]

14. "Have You Seen the Saucers"

followed by "We Should be Together" and "The House at Pooneil Corners."

Nods to lots of other songs. Don't particularly care for "Somebody to Love" -- the hits are never the best. Their best work features vocal harmonies, like the the end of "Crown of Creation."

Love the band. And I think their best came on "Dragonfly," shortly after they became Jefferson Starship.

[Zen Democrat]

16. Wooden Ships - Definitely

[ET Awful]

22. Great song, but I liked the way CSN&Y did it much better :) n/t

[johnnie]

17. I went with Plastic Fantastic Lover

I felt sorry for it. It is a great tune though. I don't know if it is the best, but I always love to put it on.

[bobthedrummer]

18. Other:"Ballad of You & Me &Pooneil"

[ET Awful]

21. I always liked "Today" despite its sappiness

We Can Be Together (Up against the wall motherfuckers)

Volunteers (Look what's happening out in the streets, got a revolution, got to revolution).

A Song for All Seasons was fun :)

[Doc_Technical]

23. "three fifths of a mile in ten seconds"

n/t

[Deja Q]

24. Meadowlands is a song that's much ahead of its time too...

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