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Crown of Creation

Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation Audio CD

A fair review of the Jefferson Airplane "Crown of Creation" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Jefferson Airplane reviews here, or go back to the Jefferson Airplane tabs.

Band: Jefferson Airplane
Title: Crown of Creation
Rating:

Release Date: 1998-01-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 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

Their most sophisticated record
Like their debut from two years before, it is often overlooked. Jefferson Airplane's 1968 album 'Crown Of Creation' is a classic. And that is a shame, because this is easily one of their best albums.

One of the things that has always stood out to me about this album was the album cover. The "explosion" on the front with the band members trapped inside is a very interesting cover, perhaps one of the most interesting and definitely one of the most original covers of the '60s.

And, the music is superb. 'In Time,' 'Greasy Heart,' 'The House At Pooneil Corners' (essentially 'Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil, Pt. 2'), 'Lather' and 'Ice Cream Phoenix' have always been standouts in the Airplane catalogue.

Overall, if you've never listened to 'Crown Of Creation,' you need to. If you like Jefferson Airplane even a little bit, than you will appreciate 'Crown Of Creation. ' It's not their most famous album by any means, but it should definitely earn a place in your record collection.

I highly recommend this to any Jefferson Airplane fan. It's a very underrated classic.

Highly recommended. A must-listen.

ENJOY!!!.

Essential 60's Recording
Jefferson Airplane reached a peak with this album, and never was as good again. This is one of the essential recordings of the 60's. Any genius that the Airplane had is contained herein. It contains perhaps the greatest collection of songs most people have never heard. Great writing, incredible guitar licks, and inspired singing and drumming characterize this album. .

El vuelo contin�a a menor altura

El �lbum arranca con 3 n�meros con tendencia folk, donde In Time es lo mejor. Pasada ya su fase de m�xima experimentaci�n con After Bathing, los Airplane retoman un enfoque m�s convencional en Crown of Creation, logrando un s�lido �lbum que mezcla elementos anteriores de folk y rock con sonoridades pesadas, sin dejar a un lado los siempre bienvenidos toques lis�rgicos. De all� en adelante lo que predomina es la canci�n 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 d�as de Surrealistic Pillow, aunque el sonido es m�s denso y completo. Aqu� 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 m�s sicod�lico, con una insistente presencia de guitarras y �rgano, un perturbador final como para demostrar que el grupo puede seguir transgrediendo fronteras, y de paso es el fondo sonoro perfecto para esa fant�stica portada.

A classic of its time
"Crown of Creation," released in 1968, when apocalyptic visions were not uncommon, creates a musical world of angst, fear, anger and rebellion, and does so quite effectively. The apocalyptic vision on the album's cover is not accidental.

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
More elegant, complex and cohesive than "After Bathing at Baxters" (although that is indeed a fine album)and simply having better songs and purpose than "Volunteers" this disc is a must have. Crown of Creation represents the high water mark of San Fransisco's Jefferson Airplane.
The thing that really seperated the Airplane from the rest was the fact that everyone in the band was exceptional at what they did ( and I have still yet to hear a better, more original and more important bass player than Jack Casady) and all were at the top of their game at the same time, and this disc was recorded just before it all began to fall apart.

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.

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