Original Album Classics

Jefferson Airplane

Sony/BMG

Budget box set release of the first 5 Jefferson Airplane albums; Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing At Baxter's, Crown Of Creation and Bless Its Pointed Little Head. The CDs in the box set are the 2003 expanded versions. Jerry Garcia was heavily involved with the recording of Surrealistic Pillow and plays on at least two of the songs on that album.

Tracks

Jefferson Airplane Takes Off

• Blues From An Airplane (Balin/Spence)
• Let Me In (Balin/Kantner)
• Bringing Me Down (Balin/Kantner)
• It's No Secret (Balin)
• Tobacco Road (Loudermilk)
• Runnin' 'Round This World (Balin/Kantner)*
• Come Up The Years (Balin/Kantner)
• Run Around (Balin/Kantner)
• Let's Get Together (Powers)
• Don't Slip Away (Balin/Spence)
• Chauffeur Blues (Melrose)
• And I Like It (Balin/Kaukonen)
• High Flyin' Bird (Wheeler)
• That's Alright (Kantner/Spence)
• Go to Her (Estes/Kantner)
• Let Me In (Balin/Kantner)
• Run Around (Balin/Kantner)
• Chauffeur Blues (Melrose)
• And I Like It (Balin/Kaukonen)

• She Has Funny Cars (Balin/Kaukonen)
• Somebody to Love (Slick/Slick)
• My Best Friend (Spence)
• Today (Balin/Kantner)
• Comin' Back to Me (Balin)
• 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds (Balin)
• D.C.B.A. 25 (Kantner)
• How Do You Feel? (Mastin)
• Embryonic Journey (Kaukonen)
• White Rabbit (Slick)
• Plastic Fantastic Lover (Balin)
• In the Morning (Kaukonen)
• J.P.P. McStep B. Blues (Spence)
• Go to Her (Estes / Kantner)
• Come Back Baby (Traditional arr. Kaukonen)
• Somebody to Love (mono single version) (Slick/Slick)
• White Rabbit (mono single version) (Slick)

• Streetmasse
  The Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil (Kantner)
  A Small Package Of Value Will Come To You, Shortly (Dryden / Blackman / Thompson)
  Young Girl Sunday Blues (Balin / Kantner)
• The War Is Over
  Martha (Kantner)
  Wild Tyme (Kantner)
• Hymn To An Older Generation
  The Last Wall Of The Castle (Kaukonen)
  rejoyce(Slick)
• How Suite It Is
  Watch Her Ride (Kantner)
  Spare Chaynge (Casady/Dryden/Kaukonen)
• Shizoforest Love Suite
  Two Heads (Slick)
  Won't You Try Saturday Afternoon (Kantner)
• The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil (live) (Kantner)
• Martha (single edit) (Kantner)
• Two Heads (alt take) (Slick)
• Things Are Better in the East (demo version) (Balin)
• Young Girl Sunday Blues (instrumental) (Balin / Kantner)

• Lather (Slick)
• In Time (Kantner / Balin)
• Triad (Crosby)
• Star Track (Kantner)
• Share A Little Joke (Balin)
• Chushingura (Dryden)
• If You Feel (Blackman / Balin)
• Crown Of Creation (Kantner)
• Ice Cream Phoenix (Kaukonen / Cockey)
• Greasy Heart (Slick)
• The House At Pooneil Corner (Kantner / Balin)
• Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum (studio recording) (Dryden / Goodwin)
• Would You Like a Snack? (studio recording) (Slick / Zappa)
• Share a Little Joke (single version) (Balin)
• The Saga of Sydney Spacepig (studio recording) (Dryden)

• Clergy
• 3/5 Mile In 10 Seconds (Balin)
• Somebody To Love (Darby Slick)
• Fat Angel (Leitch)
• Rock Me Baby (Traditional arr. Jefferson Airplane)
• Other Side Of This Life (Neil)
• Its No Secret (Balin)
• Plastic Fantastic Lover (Balin)
• Turn Out The Lights (Kantner/Casady/Kaukonen/Slick/Dryden)
• Bear Melt (Kantner/Casady/Kaukonen/Slick/Dryden)
• Today (Balin / Kantner)
• Watch Her Ride (Kantner)
• Won't You Try (Kantner)

For further information about the musicians on these tracks see the discography entry for the individual albums.

Related releases

The music in this box set comprises expanded versions of the following albums;

• Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, Jefferson Airplane, 1966
• Surrealistic Pillow, Jefferson Airplane, 1967
• After Bathing At Baxter's, Jefferson Airplane, 1967
• Crown Of Creation, Jefferson Airplane, 1968
• Bless Its Pointed Little Head, Jefferson Airplane, 1969