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65-72=hawt n' slue-tay!
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― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I recently got into "Takes Off" (the one I slept on) -- it's KICK ASS. I thought it would be good but sorta generic folk rock (there's a touch of that, like in their version of Dino Valenti's "Get Together"), but it's really this dynamite debut rock album! The original (Balin et al.) songs are terrific... I love the swaggering, self-actualized-rock-guy attitude. A must-hear is "Come Up the Years" - a hilarious tale of hipster chutzpah, embellished with cute bells that mock the narrator's pain (Google the lyrics for Marty & Paul's sad plight!).
― morris pavilion, Friday, 14 September 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I love these guys 90% of the time, but I went to listen to a concert of theirs at Wolfgang's Vault and thought it was the most horriblest shit in the world. I like them a lot better in the studio than live.
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 15 September 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
mebbe so but i recently (finally) watched monterey pop, and they're great in that.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 15 September 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
"Volunteers" is a great song and great album.
And I'm not normally into West Coast hippie stuff. JA always seem to take several listens before they yield anything of value. But the value is definitely there.
― PhilK, Saturday, 15 September 2007 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Grace Slick was fucking hot
― President Evil, Saturday, 15 September 2007 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i love volunteers
SO FUCKING MUCH
at first i thought it could never compare to Crown of Creation -- too modernized and different -- but the piano, textures and melodies are FUCKING AMAZING. dammit what is that one song? number 4 i think? i always forget the name, where she goes
"how many [something something] before you
stop your believing?
and the [something something] down on you..."
i swear, that is one of the most beautiful bits of songwriting ever. it's so rallying.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 15 September 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
and BTW morris Takes Off, i don't think i've ever heard but have you heard Early Flight? so good! Mexico is a killer song.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 15 September 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hey Frederick"?
I dunno, there's loads I love on this album - "We Can Be Together", "Good Shepherd", "Turn My Life Down", "Eskimo Blue Day".....
It's a very emotional non-BS album. It's got a feeling of persecution about it - that these people are standing for a political vision that's about to be erased. So the fervour is tinged (and oddly heightened) by the first murmurs of defeatism.
Is "Early Flight" a comp.?
― PhilK, Saturday, 15 September 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, "Hey Fredrick". Google says these are the lyrics
One more pair of Wire wheels bear down on you Gear stripping the willow How many machine men will you see before you Stop believing that speed Will slide down on you Like brakes in bad weather
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 15 September 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Surmounter - "Mexico" IS a killer song! Especially when it kicks into that middle section - "I MEAN IT'S NOT AS IF YOU WERE ALOOOONE..." (I think it was the first post-"Volunteers" single, yeah? about a Nixon plot to poison marijunana coming up from Mexico...?)
"Volunteers" is my favorite album too, and I'm with you guys about "Hey Frederick"! Anyone who's into, like, heavy progressive rock and Dagmar Krause stuff (doesn't Grace kind of sound like her in that "Machine Men" part?) NEEDS to hear that song.
― morris pavilion, Saturday, 15 September 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>It's got a feeling of persecution about it - that these people are standing for a political vision that's about to be erased. So the fervour is tinged (and oddly heightened) by the first murmurs of defeatism.</i>
Yeah, and it's interesting how the "decay" of everything in the last few JA albums, after "Volunteers," sort of parallels the general "decay" of the "Sixties scene" in the early '70s... everything getting more self-indulgent, confused, self-destructive, into heavier drugs... (or at least that cliche; I wasn't there).
Plus, at the same time, you have the emerging space commune mentality of the Kantner/Slick albums, with the "get the government off our backs, we have shotguns, let's build our own world," in place of the tarnished idea of "changing" the wider world... which leads into big, new success with Jefferson Starship, and what that eventually becomes ("We Built This City")... it's all like a perfect microcosm of a certain idea of how the '60s/'70s/'80s progressed for a whole "generation"...
― morris pavilion, Saturday, 15 September 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
...or more of an idealized, rock-star-sized, real-time "working out" of a generational "mythology"... even helping to provide the basis for the mythology (which may not apply in its entirety to too many "real" people at all), both in the progression of their "career" and the development of their lyrics/ideas, played out over the REAL '60s, '70s, '80s...
― morris pavilion, Saturday, 15 September 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hey Frederick" -- thank you! Stunning.
YES morris the middle section of Mexico is gold. Mexico was post-Volunteers?? Huh I guess so (just checked Wiki) but that's SO weird - I could have sworn it sounded like something much earlier.
WHOA actually this really confuses me! 1974 was when Early Flight came out, but it sounds like such a step back (in time, not quality) from Volunteers, no? Also it's fucking GREAT - i'm impressed it came out so late. wow.
― Surmounter, Saturday, 15 September 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link