The Essential Jefferson Airplane | ||||
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Released | April 26, 2005 | |||
Recorded | 1965 – 1972 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 2:06:06 | |||
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The Essential Jefferson Airplane is a compilation of music from San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane spanning its entire career, excluding the brief reunion in 1989.
It follows their development from their beginnings in folk-rock through psychedelia to conventional rock genres.
Track listing
[edit]Disc one
[edit]- "Blues from an Airplane" – 2:12 from Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (1966)
- "It's No Secret" – 2:39 from Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
- "Come Up the Years" – 2:32 from Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
- "She Has Funny Cars" – 3:09 from Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
- "Somebody to Love" – 2:56 from Surrealistic Pillow
- "Comin' Back to Me" – 5:15 from Surrealistic Pillow
- "Embryonic Journey" – 1:54 from Surrealistic Pillow
- "White Rabbit" – 2:32 from Surrealistic Pillow
- "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" – 4:32 from After Bathing at Baxter's (1967)
- "Martha" (mono single version) – 3:27 from After Bathing at Baxter's
- "The Last Wall of the Castle" – 2:42 from After Bathing at Baxter's
- "Watch Her Ride" – 3:17 from After Bathing at Baxter's
- "Lather" – 2:57 from Crown of Creation (1968)
- "Crown of Creation" – 2:54 from Crown of Creation
- "Greasy Heart" – 3:27 from Crown of Creation
- "Share a Little Joke" (mono single version) – 3:06 from Crown of Creation
Disc two
[edit]- "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds" (live) – 4:46 from Bless Its Pointed Little Head (1969)
- "Plastic Fantastic Lover" (live) – 3:51 from Bless Its Pointed Little Head
- "We Can Be Together" – 5:47 from Volunteers (1969)
- "Good Shepherd" – 4:21 from Volunteers
- "Wooden Ships" – 6:25 from Volunteers
- "Eskimo Blue Day" – 6:33 from Volunteers
- "Volunteers" – 2:04 from Volunteers
- "Have You Seen the Saucers?" – 3:36 b-side to "Mexico" (1970)
- "Mexico" (single version) – 2:09 non-album single
- "When the Earth Moves Again" – 3:56 from Bark (1971)
- "Pretty as You Feel" – 4:30 from Bark
- "Third Week in the Chelsea" – 4:36 from Bark
- "Long John Silver" – 4:26 from Long John Silver (1972)
- "Twilight Double Leader" – 4:44 from Long John Silver
- "Feel So Good" (live) – 11:23 from Thirty Seconds Over Winterland (1973)
- "Milk Train" (live) – 3:28 from Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
References
[edit]- ^ Monger, James Christopher. The Essential Jefferson Airplane at AllMusic
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Metzger, John (June 2005). "Jefferson Airplane The Essential Jefferson Airplane". The Music Box. Retrieved 27 January 2019.