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Crown of Creation (Upgrade Version) [Import] [Limited Edition]
Track Listings
| 1. Lather |
| 2. In Time |
| 3. Triad |
| 4. Star Track |
| 5. Share a Little Joke |
| 6. Chushingura |
| 7. If You Feel |
| 8. Crown of Creation |
| 9. Ice Cream Phoenix |
| 10. Greasy Heart |
| 11. House at Pooneil Corners |
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese pressing. Reissue of the 1968 original release will include the bonus tracks 'Ribumo Ba Bap Dum Dum', 'Would You Like A Snack', 'Share A Little Joke' (mono single version) and 'Saga Of Sydney Spacepig'. This limited edition comes packaged in a paper sleeve. RCA. 2005.
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ASIN: B0000A0DRZ Release Date: 2003-08-19 |
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Originally released in 1968, this RCA/BMG Heritage remastered reissue adds 4 bonus tracks 'Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum', 'Would You like A Snack', 'Share A Little Joke' (single version-mono) & 'The Saga Of Sydney Spacepig' (previously unreleased). Includes 12-page booklet with extensive liner notes, detailed track listing & rare photos. 2003.Customer Reviews:
Another turning point.......2007-05-29
My favourite Airplane album.......2007-04-19
I Don't Really See-Why Can't We Go On As Free?.......2007-01-15
Doesn't Hold Up In the 2000's.......2006-07-15
Thank God for Digital Re-Mastering.......2006-01-23
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ASIN: B0009S8EWY Release Date: 2005-08-23 |
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Japanese pressing. Reissue of the 1968 original release will include the bonus tracks 'Ribumo Ba Bap Dum Dum', 'Would You Like A Snack', 'Share A Little Joke' (mono single version) and 'Saga Of Sydney Spacepig'. This limited edition comes packaged in a paper sleeve. RCA. 2005.Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition Issue in a Deluxe LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Album Artwork.
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ASIN: B00005B74U Release Date: 2001-04-12 |
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2001 Digitally Remastered Edition of their Classic 1968 Album Now Witth Two Bonus Tracks: 'ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum' and 'would You Like a Snack'.Customer Reviews:
more about bonus tracks.......2002-06-07
For Airplane fans, the bonus tracks are interesting and amusing to hear, but as another reviewer suggests, they aren't songs so much as ramblings. "Snack" is an ad-hoc collaboration between Grace Slick and Frank Zappa(!)...tape running while they were goofing around, nothing they planned, I'm sure. I think she was probably hungry at the time. "Ribump" is more percussive, but still basically a goofing around thing.
Both "Snack" and "Ribump" are also available on the box set "Jefferson Airplane Loves You". Neither piece would inspire you to check out the band if you never heard them, but it's fun to hear something different from the band in their prime anyway.
bonus tracks.......2002-01-15
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Japanese 20bit remaster.Customer Reviews:
Essential 60's Recording.......2005-08-31
El vuelo continúa a menor altura.......2004-05-16
El álbum arranca con 3 números con tendencia folk, donde In Time es lo mejor. De allí en adelante lo que predomina es la canción rock de 3 minutos, con ese inconfundible estilo en las guitarras y siempre respaldadas por el profundo bajo de Jack Cassidy. Una especie de vuelta hacia los días de Surrealistic Pillow, aunque el sonido es más denso y completo. Aquí vale la pena mencionar If You Feel y Greasy Heart.
Cerrando y con 6 minutos, House At Pooneil Corner muestra al grupo en su lado más sicodélico, con una insistente presencia de guitarras y órgano, un perturbador final como para demostrar que el grupo puede seguir transgrediendo fronteras, y de paso es el fondo sonoro perfecto para esa fantástica portada.
A classic of its time.......2004-02-20
This was, in my opinion, the Airplane's best album, sandwiched as it was between two other very good ones, the often overlooked "After Bathing at Baxter's" and "Volunteers." As had been true since "Surrealistic Pillow," the record is largely Grace Slick's and Paul Kantner's, not Marty Balin's, although the latter contributes one fine song, "Share a Little Joke," and the instrumentally satisfying "If You Feel." But the strength of the album is in the dark colors woven by Slick and Kantner.
Slick's "Lather" a mocking but strangely tender ode to those who refuse to grow up, and "Greasy Heart," a harsh attack on a valueless society, rank among the best songs the band produced. Kantner's "Another Country" lyrically paints a world different than the one he evidently regrets living in. One must also mention Jorma Kaukonen's angst-ridden "Star Track," with the memorably chilling line "You'll wander 'round from place to place/disappear without a trace/and someone else will take your place in line." Don't listen to that one on your way to work on Monday morning. On the other hand, its definitive wah-wah solo never loses its charm.
The album reaches a fitting conclusion with "The House on Pooneil Corners," a sequel to "Baxter's" "Ballad of You and Me Pooneil." Few songs capture the now nearly forgotten existential anxiety of the late sixties like this one, a portrait of a world ready to dissolve into fire and death. Balin's pleading vocal captures this: "From here to heaven/Is a scar/Dead center, deep as death..." and then Slick's cry, "All the idiots have left."
Some will find all of this hopelessly dated, but even if one finds the ideas to be thus, the music, for me at least, remains vibrant, the vocals stirring, and the imaginative effort compelling. Highly recommended.
The Crown Jewels.......2002-12-11
Regal and majestic, instruments and voices present us with one of the most powerful documents of an era.A group of young people fired and inspired by the times they were living in producing an anthem for those times and ours.A time capsule of joy and wonder poisoned by the reality of the war in Vietnam and the war at home.
Continues the work of 'Baxters', further raising the bar.......2002-07-03
Those vestiges of folk rock that had been expunged from the sound of 'Baxters' again flicker in 'Crown', but this is still their new sound. JA changed engineers after 'Pillow'; the new guy (who lasted at least through the 5th album, 'Volunteers') was seriously enamored of a higher horsepower feel, which here (whether the group is playing hard or acoustic rock) never lets up. From the vantage of his control room ('conning tower'), he sonically crafted the Airplane into a different sort of band, quite likely at their behest.
Here JA continued to make a strong case for being the greatest of the 'revolutionary' bands [the MC5, and CJ & the Fish notwithstanding]. They plumbed a wider gamut of emotion, invoking a deeper sense of tragedy, also rejoicing in the [somewhat tarnished?] beauty of it all, than probably any similar band, other than [possibly] the United States of America. [The USofA album, amazing as it is, was but a one-off'er.]
The youthful exuberance and idealism of 'Pillow' and 'Baxters' is still present here in transfigured form. With 'Crown', the Airplane gain greater mastery [to paraphrase Blake*] of the craft of metaphorically using corrosives to cleanse the doors and windows of perception, thereby revealing and reveling in a world beyond our customary boundaries [and not just those prevalent around 1969]. "Don't change before the Empire falls . . . you'll laugh so hard you'll crack the walls!" ["Greasy Heart"]
*[E.g. see "Auguries of Innocence" and "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", in 'William Blake: Complete Writings', edited by Geoffrey Keynes.]
"Lather" Satire that is both biting and tearful. The lead guitarist approaches genius in his ability to mirror the mournfulness of the moment via his instrument's tone settings and his expressive playing. Slick's vocal manages to convey the private sort of horror of the events taking place.
"In Time" Not necessarily a drug song . . . it could be meditation, lovemaking, the beginnings of a waking dream . . . this one progresses slowly, passionately, beautifully. "Look further on past the surface . . . orange, blue, red & green are the colors of what I feel, and my mind you know it starts to reel in time."
"Triad" A Byrds' song which never made it onto their albums, with wondrous, slow acoustic guitar accompaniment; singer Grace really shows us the love.
"Star Track": "If your head spins 'round, try to see the ground if you can". 'Nuff said.
"Share A Little Joke" Exceedingly mournful song [sung by Balin]. Recollection of loss of innocence begins its recovery.
"Chushingura" Short, marvelous space-rock instrumental, rivaling the Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home".
"If You Feel" Great up-tempo [acid-dance] tune. Things turn optimistic on this one, though destructive at the same time [as in the idea that one thing must be destroyed, that the 'new' might emerge]. This song is a strange and stunning psychological mix, as lead singer Marty Balin simultaneously conveys mournfulness with a sense of overarching joy. Revel in this one if you will, as things really let loose from the get-go.
"Crown Of Creation" Begins the Airplane's own miniaturized 'Book of Revelation': a brilliant song drenched to the bone with their own brand of counter-cultural, apocalyptic imagery.
"Ice Cream Phoenix" More hints of an impending apocalypse [personal or universal?].This one is a little ponderous melodically, the lyrics are a bit prosaic in spots; but the messages they lay on us glow with a seeming immense importance.
"Greasy Heart" Grace gets funky and very satirical! "Woman with a greasy heart . . . automatic man!"
"The House At Pooneil Corners" Pithy, probing psychological tour de force. Steps up the tone of "Crown of Creation" in terms of the massiveness of its message, but here it's turning more personally hopeful at junctures. As tremendous an ending as was "Lather" a great beginning.
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Japanese 20bit remaster.Customer Reviews:
Essential 60's Recording.......2005-08-31
El vuelo continúa a menor altura.......2004-05-16
El álbum arranca con 3 números con tendencia folk, donde In Time es lo mejor. De allí en adelante lo que predomina es la canción rock de 3 minutos, con ese inconfundible estilo en las guitarras y siempre respaldadas por el profundo bajo de Jack Cassidy. Una especie de vuelta hacia los días de Surrealistic Pillow, aunque el sonido es más denso y completo. Aquí vale la pena mencionar If You Feel y Greasy Heart.
Cerrando y con 6 minutos, House At Pooneil Corner muestra al grupo en su lado más sicodélico, con una insistente presencia de guitarras y órgano, un perturbador final como para demostrar que el grupo puede seguir transgrediendo fronteras, y de paso es el fondo sonoro perfecto para esa fantástica portada.
A classic of its time.......2004-02-20
This was, in my opinion, the Airplane's best album, sandwiched as it was between two other very good ones, the often overlooked "After Bathing at Baxter's" and "Volunteers." As had been true since "Surrealistic Pillow," the record is largely Grace Slick's and Paul Kantner's, not Marty Balin's, although the latter contributes one fine song, "Share a Little Joke," and the instrumentally satisfying "If You Feel." But the strength of the album is in the dark colors woven by Slick and Kantner.
Slick's "Lather" a mocking but strangely tender ode to those who refuse to grow up, and "Greasy Heart," a harsh attack on a valueless society, rank among the best songs the band produced. Kantner's "Another Country" lyrically paints a world different than the one he evidently regrets living in. One must also mention Jorma Kaukonen's angst-ridden "Star Track," with the memorably chilling line "You'll wander 'round from place to place/disappear without a trace/and someone else will take your place in line." Don't listen to that one on your way to work on Monday morning. On the other hand, its definitive wah-wah solo never loses its charm.
The album reaches a fitting conclusion with "The House on Pooneil Corners," a sequel to "Baxter's" "Ballad of You and Me Pooneil." Few songs capture the now nearly forgotten existential anxiety of the late sixties like this one, a portrait of a world ready to dissolve into fire and death. Balin's pleading vocal captures this: "From here to heaven/Is a scar/Dead center, deep as death..." and then Slick's cry, "All the idiots have left."
Some will find all of this hopelessly dated, but even if one finds the ideas to be thus, the music, for me at least, remains vibrant, the vocals stirring, and the imaginative effort compelling. Highly recommended.
The Crown Jewels.......2002-12-11
Regal and majestic, instruments and voices present us with one of the most powerful documents of an era.A group of young people fired and inspired by the times they were living in producing an anthem for those times and ours.A time capsule of joy and wonder poisoned by the reality of the war in Vietnam and the war at home.
Continues the work of 'Baxters', further raising the bar.......2002-07-03
Those vestiges of folk rock that had been expunged from the sound of 'Baxters' again flicker in 'Crown', but this is still their new sound. JA changed engineers after 'Pillow'; the new guy (who lasted at least through the 5th album, 'Volunteers') was seriously enamored of a higher horsepower feel, which here (whether the group is playing hard or acoustic rock) never lets up. From the vantage of his control room ('conning tower'), he sonically crafted the Airplane into a different sort of band, quite likely at their behest.
Here JA continued to make a strong case for being the greatest of the 'revolutionary' bands [the MC5, and CJ & the Fish notwithstanding]. They plumbed a wider gamut of emotion, invoking a deeper sense of tragedy, also rejoicing in the [somewhat tarnished?] beauty of it all, than probably any similar band, other than [possibly] the United States of America. [The USofA album, amazing as it is, was but a one-off'er.]
The youthful exuberance and idealism of 'Pillow' and 'Baxters' is still present here in transfigured form. With 'Crown', the Airplane gain greater mastery [to paraphrase Blake*] of the craft of metaphorically using corrosives to cleanse the doors and windows of perception, thereby revealing and reveling in a world beyond our customary boundaries [and not just those prevalent around 1969]. "Don't change before the Empire falls . . . you'll laugh so hard you'll crack the walls!" ["Greasy Heart"]
*[E.g. see "Auguries of Innocence" and "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", in 'William Blake: Complete Writings', edited by Geoffrey Keynes.]
"Lather" Satire that is both biting and tearful. The lead guitarist approaches genius in his ability to mirror the mournfulness of the moment via his instrument's tone settings and his expressive playing. Slick's vocal manages to convey the private sort of horror of the events taking place.
"In Time" Not necessarily a drug song . . . it could be meditation, lovemaking, the beginnings of a waking dream . . . this one progresses slowly, passionately, beautifully. "Look further on past the surface . . . orange, blue, red & green are the colors of what I feel, and my mind you know it starts to reel in time."
"Triad" A Byrds' song which never made it onto their albums, with wondrous, slow acoustic guitar accompaniment; singer Grace really shows us the love.
"Star Track": "If your head spins 'round, try to see the ground if you can". 'Nuff said.
"Share A Little Joke" Exceedingly mournful song [sung by Balin]. Recollection of loss of innocence begins its recovery.
"Chushingura" Short, marvelous space-rock instrumental, rivaling the Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home".
"If You Feel" Great up-tempo [acid-dance] tune. Things turn optimistic on this one, though destructive at the same time [as in the idea that one thing must be destroyed, that the 'new' might emerge]. This song is a strange and stunning psychological mix, as lead singer Marty Balin simultaneously conveys mournfulness with a sense of overarching joy. Revel in this one if you will, as things really let loose from the get-go.
"Crown Of Creation" Begins the Airplane's own miniaturized 'Book of Revelation': a brilliant song drenched to the bone with their own brand of counter-cultural, apocalyptic imagery.
"Ice Cream Phoenix" More hints of an impending apocalypse [personal or universal?].This one is a little ponderous melodically, the lyrics are a bit prosaic in spots; but the messages they lay on us glow with a seeming immense importance.
"Greasy Heart" Grace gets funky and very satirical! "Woman with a greasy heart . . . automatic man!"
"The House At Pooneil Corners" Pithy, probing psychological tour de force. Steps up the tone of "Crown of Creation" in terms of the massiveness of its message, but here it's turning more personally hopeful at junctures. As tremendous an ending as was "Lather" a great beginning.
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Japanese 20bit remaster.Customer Reviews:
Essential 60's Recording.......2005-08-31
El vuelo continúa a menor altura.......2004-05-16
El álbum arranca con 3 números con tendencia folk, donde In Time es lo mejor. De allí en adelante lo que predomina es la canción rock de 3 minutos, con ese inconfundible estilo en las guitarras y siempre respaldadas por el profundo bajo de Jack Cassidy. Una especie de vuelta hacia los días de Surrealistic Pillow, aunque el sonido es más denso y completo. Aquí vale la pena mencionar If You Feel y Greasy Heart.
Cerrando y con 6 minutos, House At Pooneil Corner muestra al grupo en su lado más sicodélico, con una insistente presencia de guitarras y órgano, un perturbador final como para demostrar que el grupo puede seguir transgrediendo fronteras, y de paso es el fondo sonoro perfecto para esa fantástica portada.
A classic of its time.......2004-02-20
This was, in my opinion, the Airplane's best album, sandwiched as it was between two other very good ones, the often overlooked "After Bathing at Baxter's" and "Volunteers." As had been true since "Surrealistic Pillow," the record is largely Grace Slick's and Paul Kantner's, not Marty Balin's, although the latter contributes one fine song, "Share a Little Joke," and the instrumentally satisfying "If You Feel." But the strength of the album is in the dark colors woven by Slick and Kantner.
Slick's "Lather" a mocking but strangely tender ode to those who refuse to grow up, and "Greasy Heart," a harsh attack on a valueless society, rank among the best songs the band produced. Kantner's "Another Country" lyrically paints a world different than the one he evidently regrets living in. One must also mention Jorma Kaukonen's angst-ridden "Star Track," with the memorably chilling line "You'll wander 'round from place to place/disappear without a trace/and someone else will take your place in line." Don't listen to that one on your way to work on Monday morning. On the other hand, its definitive wah-wah solo never loses its charm.
The album reaches a fitting conclusion with "The House on Pooneil Corners," a sequel to "Baxter's" "Ballad of You and Me Pooneil." Few songs capture the now nearly forgotten existential anxiety of the late sixties like this one, a portrait of a world ready to dissolve into fire and death. Balin's pleading vocal captures this: "From here to heaven/Is a scar/Dead center, deep as death..." and then Slick's cry, "All the idiots have left."
Some will find all of this hopelessly dated, but even if one finds the ideas to be thus, the music, for me at least, remains vibrant, the vocals stirring, and the imaginative effort compelling. Highly recommended.
The Crown Jewels.......2002-12-11
Regal and majestic, instruments and voices present us with one of the most powerful documents of an era.A group of young people fired and inspired by the times they were living in producing an anthem for those times and ours.A time capsule of joy and wonder poisoned by the reality of the war in Vietnam and the war at home.
Continues the work of 'Baxters', further raising the bar.......2002-07-03
Those vestiges of folk rock that had been expunged from the sound of 'Baxters' again flicker in 'Crown', but this is still their new sound. JA changed engineers after 'Pillow'; the new guy (who lasted at least through the 5th album, 'Volunteers') was seriously enamored of a higher horsepower feel, which here (whether the group is playing hard or acoustic rock) never lets up. From the vantage of his control room ('conning tower'), he sonically crafted the Airplane into a different sort of band, quite likely at their behest.
Here JA continued to make a strong case for being the greatest of the 'revolutionary' bands [the MC5, and CJ & the Fish notwithstanding]. They plumbed a wider gamut of emotion, invoking a deeper sense of tragedy, also rejoicing in the [somewhat tarnished?] beauty of it all, than probably any similar band, other than [possibly] the United States of America. [The USofA album, amazing as it is, was but a one-off'er.]
The youthful exuberance and idealism of 'Pillow' and 'Baxters' is still present here in transfigured form. With 'Crown', the Airplane gain greater mastery [to paraphrase Blake*] of the craft of metaphorically using corrosives to cleanse the doors and windows of perception, thereby revealing and reveling in a world beyond our customary boundaries [and not just those prevalent around 1969]. "Don't change before the Empire falls . . . you'll laugh so hard you'll crack the walls!" ["Greasy Heart"]
*[E.g. see "Auguries of Innocence" and "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", in 'William Blake: Complete Writings', edited by Geoffrey Keynes.]
"Lather" Satire that is both biting and tearful. The lead guitarist approaches genius in his ability to mirror the mournfulness of the moment via his instrument's tone settings and his expressive playing. Slick's vocal manages to convey the private sort of horror of the events taking place.
"In Time" Not necessarily a drug song . . . it could be meditation, lovemaking, the beginnings of a waking dream . . . this one progresses slowly, passionately, beautifully. "Look further on past the surface . . . orange, blue, red & green are the colors of what I feel, and my mind you know it starts to reel in time."
"Triad" A Byrds' song which never made it onto their albums, with wondrous, slow acoustic guitar accompaniment; singer Grace really shows us the love.
"Star Track": "If your head spins 'round, try to see the ground if you can". 'Nuff said.
"Share A Little Joke" Exceedingly mournful song [sung by Balin]. Recollection of loss of innocence begins its recovery.
"Chushingura" Short, marvelous space-rock instrumental, rivaling the Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home".
"If You Feel" Great up-tempo [acid-dance] tune. Things turn optimistic on this one, though destructive at the same time [as in the idea that one thing must be destroyed, that the 'new' might emerge]. This song is a strange and stunning psychological mix, as lead singer Marty Balin simultaneously conveys mournfulness with a sense of overarching joy. Revel in this one if you will, as things really let loose from the get-go.
"Crown Of Creation" Begins the Airplane's own miniaturized 'Book of Revelation': a brilliant song drenched to the bone with their own brand of counter-cultural, apocalyptic imagery.
"Ice Cream Phoenix" More hints of an impending apocalypse [personal or universal?].This one is a little ponderous melodically, the lyrics are a bit prosaic in spots; but the messages they lay on us glow with a seeming immense importance.
"Greasy Heart" Grace gets funky and very satirical! "Woman with a greasy heart . . . automatic man!"
"The House At Pooneil Corners" Pithy, probing psychological tour de force. Steps up the tone of "Crown of Creation" in terms of the massiveness of its message, but here it's turning more personally hopeful at junctures. As tremendous an ending as was "Lather" a great beginning.
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Crown of Creation
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ASIN: B000007VPV Release Date: 1998-01-06 |
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Japanese 20bit remaster.Customer Reviews:
Essential 60's Recording.......2005-08-31
El vuelo continúa a menor altura.......2004-05-16
El álbum arranca con 3 números con tendencia folk, donde In Time es lo mejor. De allí en adelante lo que predomina es la canción rock de 3 minutos, con ese inconfundible estilo en las guitarras y siempre respaldadas por el profundo bajo de Jack Cassidy. Una especie de vuelta hacia los días de Surrealistic Pillow, aunque el sonido es más denso y completo. Aquí vale la pena mencionar If You Feel y Greasy Heart.
Cerrando y con 6 minutos, House At Pooneil Corner muestra al grupo en su lado más sicodélico, con una insistente presencia de guitarras y órgano, un perturbador final como para demostrar que el grupo puede seguir transgrediendo fronteras, y de paso es el fondo sonoro perfecto para esa fantástica portada.
A classic of its time.......2004-02-20
This was, in my opinion, the Airplane's best album, sandwiched as it was between two other very good ones, the often overlooked "After Bathing at Baxter's" and "Volunteers." As had been true since "Surrealistic Pillow," the record is largely Grace Slick's and Paul Kantner's, not Marty Balin's, although the latter contributes one fine song, "Share a Little Joke," and the instrumentally satisfying "If You Feel." But the strength of the album is in the dark colors woven by Slick and Kantner.
Slick's "Lather" a mocking but strangely tender ode to those who refuse to grow up, and "Greasy Heart," a harsh attack on a valueless society, rank among the best songs the band produced. Kantner's "Another Country" lyrically paints a world different than the one he evidently regrets living in. One must also mention Jorma Kaukonen's angst-ridden "Star Track," with the memorably chilling line "You'll wander 'round from place to place/disappear without a trace/and someone else will take your place in line." Don't listen to that one on your way to work on Monday morning. On the other hand, its definitive wah-wah solo never loses its charm.
The album reaches a fitting conclusion with "The House on Pooneil Corners," a sequel to "Baxter's" "Ballad of You and Me Pooneil." Few songs capture the now nearly forgotten existential anxiety of the late sixties like this one, a portrait of a world ready to dissolve into fire and death. Balin's pleading vocal captures this: "From here to heaven/Is a scar/Dead center, deep as death..." and then Slick's cry, "All the idiots have left."
Some will find all of this hopelessly dated, but even if one finds the ideas to be thus, the music, for me at least, remains vibrant, the vocals stirring, and the imaginative effort compelling. Highly recommended.
The Crown Jewels.......2002-12-11
Regal and majestic, instruments and voices present us with one of the most powerful documents of an era.A group of young people fired and inspired by the times they were living in producing an anthem for those times and ours.A time capsule of joy and wonder poisoned by the reality of the war in Vietnam and the war at home.
Continues the work of 'Baxters', further raising the bar.......2002-07-03
Those vestiges of folk rock that had been expunged from the sound of 'Baxters' again flicker in 'Crown', but this is still their new sound. JA changed engineers after 'Pillow'; the new guy (who lasted at least through the 5th album, 'Volunteers') was seriously enamored of a higher horsepower feel, which here (whether the group is playing hard or acoustic rock) never lets up. From the vantage of his control room ('conning tower'), he sonically crafted the Airplane into a different sort of band, quite likely at their behest.
Here JA continued to make a strong case for being the greatest of the 'revolutionary' bands [the MC5, and CJ & the Fish notwithstanding]. They plumbed a wider gamut of emotion, invoking a deeper sense of tragedy, also rejoicing in the [somewhat tarnished?] beauty of it all, than probably any similar band, other than [possibly] the United States of America. [The USofA album, amazing as it is, was but a one-off'er.]
The youthful exuberance and idealism of 'Pillow' and 'Baxters' is still present here in transfigured form. With 'Crown', the Airplane gain greater mastery [to paraphrase Blake*] of the craft of metaphorically using corrosives to cleanse the doors and windows of perception, thereby revealing and reveling in a world beyond our customary boundaries [and not just those prevalent around 1969]. "Don't change before the Empire falls . . . you'll laugh so hard you'll crack the walls!" ["Greasy Heart"]
*[E.g. see "Auguries of Innocence" and "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", in 'William Blake: Complete Writings', edited by Geoffrey Keynes.]
"Lather" Satire that is both biting and tearful. The lead guitarist approaches genius in his ability to mirror the mournfulness of the moment via his instrument's tone settings and his expressive playing. Slick's vocal manages to convey the private sort of horror of the events taking place.
"In Time" Not necessarily a drug song . . . it could be meditation, lovemaking, the beginnings of a waking dream . . . this one progresses slowly, passionately, beautifully. "Look further on past the surface . . . orange, blue, red & green are the colors of what I feel, and my mind you know it starts to reel in time."
"Triad" A Byrds' song which never made it onto their albums, with wondrous, slow acoustic guitar accompaniment; singer Grace really shows us the love.
"Star Track": "If your head spins 'round, try to see the ground if you can". 'Nuff said.
"Share A Little Joke" Exceedingly mournful song [sung by Balin]. Recollection of loss of innocence begins its recovery.
"Chushingura" Short, marvelous space-rock instrumental, rivaling the Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home".
"If You Feel" Great up-tempo [acid-dance] tune. Things turn optimistic on this one, though destructive at the same time [as in the idea that one thing must be destroyed, that the 'new' might emerge]. This song is a strange and stunning psychological mix, as lead singer Marty Balin simultaneously conveys mournfulness with a sense of overarching joy. Revel in this one if you will, as things really let loose from the get-go.
"Crown Of Creation" Begins the Airplane's own miniaturized 'Book of Revelation': a brilliant song drenched to the bone with their own brand of counter-cultural, apocalyptic imagery.
"Ice Cream Phoenix" More hints of an impending apocalypse [personal or universal?].This one is a little ponderous melodically, the lyrics are a bit prosaic in spots; but the messages they lay on us glow with a seeming immense importance.
"Greasy Heart" Grace gets funky and very satirical! "Woman with a greasy heart . . . automatic man!"
"The House At Pooneil Corners" Pithy, probing psychological tour de force. Steps up the tone of "Crown of Creation" in terms of the massiveness of its message, but here it's turning more personally hopeful at junctures. As tremendous an ending as was "Lather" a great beginning.
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The Mystery
Alexi Manufacturer: New Millennium Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B00000I0PO Release Date: 1999-01-26 |
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"The Mystery" is a unique weave of orchestration. It is created with multiple tracks of electric cello, electric violin, keyboards and samples sounds including electronic bass and unusual exotic beats. _ A Futuristic Symphony.Customer Reviews:
fabulous.......1999-04-07
A Totally Enlightening Encounter Through Lifes Mysteries..........1999-03-14
A Totally Enlightening Encounter Through Lifes Mysteries..........1999-03-14
Superb Musicianship.Unusual Exotic sounds and melodies........1999-02-22
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