01. When The Earth Moves Again (Paul Kantner) - 3:54
02. Feel So Good (Jorma Kaukonen) - 4:36
03. Crazy Miranda (Grace Slick) - 3:23
04. Pretty As You Feel (Joey Covington, Jack Casady, Kaukonen) - 4:28
05. Wild Turkey (Kaukonen) - 4:43
06. Law Man (Slick) - 2:41
07. Rock And Roll Island (Kantner) - 3:43
08. Third Week In The Chelsea (Kaukonen) - 4:33
09. Never Argue With A German If You're Tired Or European Song (Slick) - 4:31
10. Thunk (Covington) -	2:58
11. War Movie (Kantner) - 4:41

Personnel:
- Grace Slick – piano, female vocals
- Paul Kantner – guitar, vocals
- Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar, vocals
- Jack Casady – bass
- Joey Covington – percussion, drums, vocals
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- Papa John Creach – violin (01,04,05)
- Bill Laudner – vocals (11)

By the time of Bark, personnel changes had gutted much of the original version of Jefferson Airplane, especially with the departure of Marty Balin. Paul Kantner and Grace Slick remained, but their compositions were growing increasingly ill-focused, and Jorma Kaukonen and new drummer Joey Covington were ill-equipped to pick up the songwriting slack. The result was an album that bore hallmarks of the classic Airplane sound, but lacked any classic Airplane songs. That said, the record isn't as bad as many reviewers have made it out to be. It's just mediocre, with little that sticks in the memory, despite occasional nice moments in cuts like Covington's "Pretty as You Feel" and Kaukonen's delicate "Third Week in the Chelsea." --- Richie Unterberger, allmusic

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01. Lather (Grace Slick) - 2:57
02. In Time (Paul Kantner, Marty Balin) - 4:13
03. Triad (David Crosby) - 4:54
04. Star Track (Jorma Kaukonen) - 3:09
05. Share A Little Joke (Marty Balin) - 3:06
06. Chushingura (Spencer Dryden) - 1:18
07. If You Feel (Marty Balin, Gary Blackman) - 3:20
08. Crown Of Creation (Paul Kantner) - 2:53
09. Ice Cream Phoenix (Jorma Kaukonen, Charles Cockey) - 3:00
10. Greasy Heart (Grace Slick) - 3:24
11. The House at Pooneil Corners (Paul Kantner, Marty Balin) - 5:49

Personnel:
- Grace Slick - piano, organ, female vocals 
- Marty Balin - rhythm guitar, vocals 
- Paul Kantner - rhythm guitar, vocals 
- Jorma Kaukonen - lead guitar, electric chicken, vocals 
- Spencer Dryden - steel balls, piano, organ, vocals 
- Jack Casady - bass 
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- Charles Cockey - guitar, vocals
- Gary Blackman - nose solo 
- David Crosby - guitar 
- Tim Davis - congas 
- Bill Goodwin - talking drums 
- Dan Woody – bongos

The group's fourth album, appearing ten months following After Bathing at Baxter's, isn't the same kind of leap forward that Baxter's represented 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 group's 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 Wyndham's 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 Entwistle's was with the Who, as demonstrated on "In Time," "Star Track," "Share a Little Joke," "If You Feel," (where he's practically a second lead instrument), and the title song, and Jorma Kaukonen's 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 Crosby's 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 Crosby's 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 group's 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 Slick's most powerful vocal performance since "Somebody to Love." And the album's 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 didn't work 100 percent, but it made for a shattering finish to the album. Crown of Creation has been reissued on CD several times, including a Mobile Fidelity audiophile edition at the start of the '90s, but in 2003, RCA released a remastered edition with four bonus tracks from the same sessions including the mono single mix of "Share a Little Joke," the previously unreleased 8 minute "The Saga of Sydney Spacepig," Spencer Dryden's co-authored "Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum," which is a spaced-out assembly of noises, effects, and pop-culture catch-phrases, and the more accessible "Would You Like a Snack?," an atonal piece of musical scatology featuring Grace Slick and co-authored by Slick and Frank Zappa. ---Bruce Eder, allmusic.com

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01. Intro/The Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil (Paul Kantner) -	8:36
02. She Has Funny Cars (Marty Balin/Jorma Kaukonen) - 3:56
03. It's No Secret (Balin) - 3:41
04. Won't You Try (Kantner)/Saturday Afternoon (Kantner) - 5:07
05. Greasy Heart (Grace Slick) - 4:06
06. Star Track (Kaukonen) - 7:36
07. Wild Tyme (Kantner) - 3:21
08. White Rabbit (Slick) - 2:58
09. Thing (Jack Casady/Kaukonen/Spencer Dryden/Kantner) - 11:30
10. Today (Balin/Kantner) - 3:41
11. The Other Side Of This Life (Fred Neil) - 5:12
12. Fat Angel (Donovan Phillips Leitch) - 9:04
13. Watch Her Ride (Kantner) - 3:12
14. Closing Comments - 0:46
15. Somebody To Love (Darby Slick) - 3:21

Personnel:
- Grace Slick - lead female vocals, piano
- Marty Balin - lead vocals, guitar, bass (12)
- Jorma Kaukonen - lead guitar, vocals
- Paul Kantner - rhythm guitar, vocals
- Jack Casady - bass, rhythm guitar (12)
- Spencer Dryden - drums, percussion

RCA Records released Live at the Fillmore East in April 1998, nearly 30 years after it was recorded. At the time, Jefferson Airplane was coming down from the peak of Takes Off, Surrealistic Pillow and After Bathing at Baxter's, and they were performing material form their forthcoming record, Crown of Creation. In other words, they were at a peak, and the record has a raw, exciting energy that illustrates why the group were considered one of the greatest bands of their era. ---Thom Owens, allmusic

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01. Embryonic Journey
02. High Flyin' Bird
03. It's No Secret
04. Come Up The Years
05. Somebody To Love
06. Blues From An Airplane        play
07. White Rabbit                  play
08. Plastic Fantastic Lover
09. Aerie (Gang Of Eagles)
10. The Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil
11. Crown Of Creation
12. Lather
13. The Last Wall Of The Castle
14. Greasy Heart
15. Volunteers
16. When The Earth Moves Again
17. Triad
18. We Can Be Together
19. Wooden Ships
20. Milk Train (live)
21. Have You Seen The Saucers (live)

Personnel
Marty Balin - vocals, guitar, 
Grace Slick - vocals, piano
Jorma Kaukonen - lead guitar, vocals
Paul Kantner - rhythm guitar, vocals
Jack Casady - bass
Spencer Dryden - drums, percussion

This 71-minute, 21-song European-released collection is a good -- though not nearly perfect -- survey of the Jefferson Airplane's work from 1966 through 1972. It beats the Worst of the Jefferson Airplane for sheer comprehensiveness, and is a good compromise between that collection and 2400 Fulton Street, though as a compromise it also sacrifices some good tracks that appear on both -- "Martha," "Good Shepherd," and "Chushingura," all of which were on Worst of Jefferson Airplane, are absent here, for example. On the other hand, the producers have reached beyond the singles and the best-known album tracks, going back to the group's debut album and up as far as Thirty Seconds Over Winterland, and have drawn on many of the better songs off of each LP. The only major drawback is that no real effort has been made at putting any of this material in strict chronological order -- the tracks generally (though not always) bounce around a span of a year or two at a time; but with the absence of any detailed annotation, the uninitiated might also mistakenly believe that the track "High Flyin' Bird" was recorded in 1974 (the year of its official release, on Early Flight), and not 1966. On the positive side, the mastering is clean, and the best transfers circa 1996 were used to put this collection together. The annotation, oddly enough, follows a chronological sequence, year by year, and the budget price makes it a definite if not ideal candidate for any collection of the group's work, casual or comprehensive. ---Bruce Eder, AllMusic Review

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01. Blues From An Airplane (Marty Balin/Alex Spence) - 2:10
02. Let Me In (Balin/Paul Kantner) - 2:55 (lead vocals - Paul Kantner) 
03. Bringing Me Down (Balin/Kantner) - 2:21
04. It's No Secret (Balin) - 2:36
05. Tobacco Road (John D.Loudermilk) - 3:27
06. Come Up The Years (Balin/Kantner) - 2:29
07. Run Around (Balin/Kantner) - 2:36 (lead vocals - Paul Kantner) 
08. Let's Get Together (Chet Powers) - 3:32 (lead vocals - Paul Kantner, Signe Toly Anderson, Marty Balin)
09. Don't Slip Away (Balin/Spence) - 2:31
10. Chauffeur Blues (Lester Melrose) - 2:25 (lead vocals - Signe Toly Anderson) 
11. And I Like It (Balin/Jorma Kaukonen) - 3:15

Personnel:
- Marty Balin (Martyn Jerel Buchwald) – vocals, rhythm guitar
- Signe Toly Anderson – female vocals, percussion
- Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. – lead guitar
- Paul Lorin Kantner – rhythm guitar, vocals
- John William "Jack" Casady – bass
- Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence drums

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. (Anderson's 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 "It's No Secret" and "Come up the Years." (There was also a striking version of Dino Valente's "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 Balin's dominance. Later, Grace Slick would become the group's vocal and visual focal point. On Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, the Airplane was Balin's group. (Jefferson Airplane Takes Off was released as RCA 3584 on August 15, 1966. It was reissued as RCA 66797 on January 30, 1996, as a CD that contained both the stereo and mono versions, and that added back the track "Runnin' 'Round This World," which had been deleted from all but initial copies due to the sexual and perceived drug references of the line "The nights I've spent with you have been fantastic trips." But the included version still eliminated the word "trips.") --- William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com

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01. She Has Funny Cars (Jorma Kaukonen/Marty Balin) – 3:07
02. Somebody To Love (Darby Slick) – 2:54
03. My Best Friend (Skip Spence) – 2:58
04. Today (Balin/Paul Kantner) – 2:56
05. Comin' Back To Me (Balin) – 5:14
06. 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds (Balin) – 3:39
07. D.C.B.A.-25 (Kantner) – 2:34
08. How Do You Feel (Tom Mastin) – 3:27
09. Embryonic Journey (Kaukonen) – 1:51
10. White Rabbit (Grace Slick) – 2:29
11. Plastic Fantastic Lover (Balin) – 2:32
Bonuses:
12. In The Morning (Kaukonen) - 6:18
13. J.P.P. McStep B.Blues (Alex Spence) - 2:34
14. Go To Her (version two) (Kantner/Irving Estes) - 4:00
15. Come Back Baby (traditional) - 2:54
16. Somebody To Love (mono single version) (Darby Slick) - 2:56
17. White Rabbit (mono single version) (Grace Slick) - 2:30

Personnel:
- Marty Balin – vocals, guitar
- Grace Slick – female vocals, piano, organ, recorder
- Paul Kantner – rhythm guitar, vocals
- Jorma Kaukonen – lead & rhythm guitar, vocals
- Jack Casady – bass, fuzz bass, rhythm guitar
- Spencer Dryden – drums, percussion
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- Jerry Garcia - musical and spiritual adviser

The second album by Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow was a groundbreaking piece of folk-rock-based psychedelia, and it hit -- literally -- 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 didn't represent their real sound. Regardless, they did wonderful things with the music within that framework, and the only pity is that RCA didn't record for official release any of the group's shows from the same era, when this material made up the bulk of their repertory. That way the live versions, with the band's 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 he'd 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 band's ability to do a straightforward song. The group never made a better album, and few artists from the era ever did.

[Surrealistic Pillow on CD has been problematic -- actually, make that a real pain in the ass. It's been reissued numerous times on compact disc, in distinctly different editions -- a plain 11-song disc from the 1980s that sounded wretched and was an embarrassment; a high-priced RCA-BMG gold-disc upgrade, with significantly better sound from the mid-'90s that encompassed the stereo and mono mixes of the album; a European version from 2000/2001 (with four bonus tracks but no mono mix or liner notes) that got into the U.S. as an import; a U.S.-issued 2001 upgrade, initially available in the bizarre four-CD box Ignition, which encompassed the stereo and mono mixes in a brighter, sharper, louder remastering than the 1996 version, but still -- in some listeners' eyes -- lacking the presence and the soaring sound of the original LP; and a 2003 reissue (on the BMG Heritage label), mastered by renowned reissue producer Bob Irwin (of Sundazed Records fame), including the mono single versions of "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love," along with the related bonus tracks "Come Back Baby," "In the Morning," "J.P.P. McStep B. Blues," and "Go to Her," which have previously been scattered around various anthologies and other expanded editions. Those tracks generally push Kaukonen even more to the fore and give the balance of the material a bluesier feel. ---Bruce Eder, allmusic.com

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