Favorite Airplane Album?

[plasticfantastic]

Mine is After Bathing at Baxter's. Volunteers is a close second. I love part of Surrealistic Pillow, but I'm not crazy about the pop stuff.

What do you guys think?

[Dormouse]

I have to say Surrealistic Pillow, just because it was the first Airplane album I heard. From the first song, I was forever hooked.

But nothing about it strikes me as Pop.

[Susan Butcher]

Crown of Creation, by a whisker over Surrealistic Pillow. Though it's brilliant in places, I think Baxters is slapdash.

[Steve]

Baxters, with LJS #2.

[42wenty]

Crown of Creation, although if theirs some strong 'mind alterations' Baxter's for sure

[Susan Butcher]

That's amusing, because it was 'strong mind alterations' that told me 'slapdash'. Maybe I've just heard Baxters too often; people with novelty-seeking ears have that problem.

[Jerald]

Changes weekly. This week--Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience. Newly released songs in great fidelity from an impressive performance despite the conditions. Wow.

[Lilla]

I love them all, I can't choose..
I love 'Takes Off' because of the great folk tunes, there are a couple of very nice songs on it. 'Surrealistic Pillow' has something special, you know if you listen to that album, that the band made something great. 'Baxter's' is a very trippy one, it's a speciel one in an another way..'Crown of Creation' is a bit moody, a great mixture of folk&psychedelic tunes, I love it.
And 'Volunteers'..that's a strong stuff, you can hear the maturity in the music. On 'Bark' they continued a great job, I love the psychedelic tunes from Grace. Maybe 'Long John Silver' is the only exception..

[TakeMeOnYourFlight]

Volunteers, to me it's the group at their peak, it has a lot of the elements that made the previous albums great but also increased musicianship, some excellent longform tracks and some good country rock. There's some really underrated tracks on the album like Hey Frederick and Turn My Life Down.

[bear melter420]

After Bathing at Baxter's and Crown of Creation are two of my favorites, but I'm gonna have to go with Bless Its Pointed Little Head. I love live airplane!

[okeedoe]

Surrealistic pilow. I like that folk-rock-based psychedelia combined with the 3 minute pop sound songs.The album is a perfect indicator of early west coast psychedelia and identifier of the mid to late 60's countrecultural movement-you can feel it while listening to the music. The material is both melodic and integrated in one consistent unity.However there are a couple of weak points. Every song would have been a treasure had they replaced ''D.C.B.A.''and ''How Do You Feel with '' Other Side Of This Life and ''High Flying Bird''(Good point ,redrabid).They should had been more carfeull when they made the song selection.Even ''J.P.P.Mc.Step N. Blues'' is more applicable to the album than ''How Do You Feel .Leaving out '' Go To Her'' was a flaw too.Perhaps they had too much fun during the recording sessions.

''Crown Of Creation'' is my second Favorite.

Yes, The Airplane sometimes could make you mad.

[Lilla]

There's some really underrated tracks on the album like Hey Frederick and Turn My Life Down.

Hey Fredrick and Turn my life down are my favourite songs from Volunteers, and they are in my top10 favourite Airplane songs. I just don't know why they are so underrated.

[plasticfantastic]

Surrealistic Pillow might have been their best album, if they hadn't included those three godawful songs: DCBA 25, My Best Friend and, worst of all, How Do You Feel. Those songs made the album almost unlistenable for me. So I made my own copy of that album, replacing these tracks by Go To Her, Other Side and High Flying Bird. Now that makes a very good album. They came so close to perfection, why didn't they use these tunes, that they were playing live so well, on Pillow?
The Airplane could make you mad.

Okeedoe and Redrabid, I totally agree with you... If it weren't for those three, Surrealistic Pillow would be my favorite. Those songs are most godawful. Although I must say, I think that Best Friend is worse than How Do You Feel.

I really love Jerry Garcia's guitar on Coming Back to Me. And he also came up with the album title. Honestly, somebody was very seriously pushing the title of "Honorary Seventh Airplane Member"...

[Susan Butcher]

I love "DCBA" and "My Best Friend". I think the words have a secret side to them. "How Do You Feel" I could do without.

[EmbryonicRabbit68]

I have to say Crown of Creation, it was my first, and a masterpiece it is.After Bathing at Baxters is a second, although there are times i have favoured it, but Crown of Creation just has that...something about it very magical.Surrealistic Pillow is good, but just not as heavy as later albums, not enough Jorma .A mystery for me has always been Volunteers though...just seems too scattered.I even find myself liking Bark and Long John Silver over it sometimes...