Jefferson Airplane

I guess it's all in what you look for in a rock and roll record. Now, I happen to think that the
Jefferson Airplane, on the basis of what they have done on Bathing at Baxters' and now
Volunteers, are musical pioneers. But tell this to some people and they tell you that the
Airplane is dull, leaden. They don't swing, for chrissakes. And on Volunteers, man, the
politics ... But there is most assuredly something there with the Airplane, someth... More >

A puzzler: I've listened many times and cannot make contact. Every time Grace lilts out "Up against the wall, motherf*ckers" ( a phrase which has long since lost its currency and dubious usefulness) I want to laugh, and I don't find the instrumental cuts very inspired. Everybody else seems to dig it a lot, and of course it's far from bad, but everybody may be wrong. (Grade: B)