Search - Jefferson Airplane :: Crown of Creation

Bonus tracks

01/14/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"if you already have this album without the bonus tracks, i wouldn't bother to buy it again, for the bonus tracks. the two extra tracks aren't songs, just, well, jefferson airplane random ramblings..."

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Mark Colan | Medford, MA USA | 06/06/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This album finds the Airplane at the peak of their career. Along with "Baxters", "Pointed Head", and "Volunteers", this is among their finest albums (my favorite is "Baxters"). I like the psychedelic and sometimes angry, sometimes playful revolutionary spirit on these albums more than the earlier, more pop-chart/love-song oriented classic "Surrealistic Pillow"... although there are also a few ballads on "Crown of Creation".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."