Jefferson Airplane - When The Earth Moves Again

[pouchfreeman]

Love it, but love the live version from Thirty Seconds Over Winterland better. Why? Cause there's no Joey Covington stumbling around on drums, and David Freiberg is there to fill in for the 3rd harmony. Johnny Barbata was a waaay better drummer.

[island5o]

we saw grace slick sing that song topless at an outdoor concert in ny.

[jackhillty]

I saw Lady Antebellum on SNL this weekend and heard the Airplane influence

[irishace11]

@jackhillty Oh fucking please!!!

[jackhillty]

@irishace11 yeah I know, sounds dopey but you gotcher tenor, controlto and yer baritone in there. ok. Crown of Creation in ain't.

[SongHooks1993]

the vocals together like this remind me of yes vocals oldschool yes like ,"we have heaven", "and you and i". Looks like yes borrowed from this band maybe? possibly an influence that you could speculate

[albatross7677]

"if you care to see the future look into the eyes

of your young dancing children don't be afraid of our ways!!!"

[boxfitter]

Damn, the cover reminds me of the A & P supermarket chain.

[ioriorioriorio]

paul song....science fiction science truth...'cuz the earth will soon move again

[sandinyourshoes]

The fiddle from "The Creach" sure carried a trademark. Loved his work with Tuna and The Plane. Too bad he is now gone. R.I.P., Pappa.

[threefive00]

Yeah. This song is a paean to the transfer of power from one empire to another. Thus the reference to Carthage and the Roman Empire. Currently, it's most certainly relevant to the American 'Empire'. Where will the power go next, when America disintegrates like every other similar empire before it?

[ambianimaton]

@threefive00 unless we were to get rid of the word america, it means nothing, its the police state that is wrong and bush implemented this with satellites. that a republican could get elected and republican influence in governing bodies, making nothing able to get done by a ghost puppett party of the republicans, the democrats, that the current political system shouldbe abolished totally, it makes everything useless and evil

[JoeyRobinson83]

I'd have to say it's referring to, yes, life on other planets, but moreover the movement of the zodiacal procession into the Age of Aquarius.

[54taqiyya]

30 seconds over winterland has the best version of this!

[patmottin]

When the earth moves again my friend!! TESAO de musica!!

[jamesactor]

This is an awesome album!

[chouans35]

@jamesactor

absolutely

[Abrohill]

when i ears this song in my house in Viña del Mar, Chile, I feel the earth move again, cause a réplica of the big earthquake of 26/02/10. It's like a soundtrack

[californiaportugee]

Did the Earth move before? If so...when? Where did it move to? I could never find the right drugs to figure this one out...or Twilight Double Leader either for that matter.

[danielw1245]

the song is about the progression of humans and the transfer of power. In this case they are talking about the transfer of power from one generation to the next. It's not about the earth actually physically moving.

[Aubreynjason]

LOL! :)

[formsofthingsunknown]

Twilight Double Leader is about baseball. The title was supposed to read Twilight Double Header. Paul Kantner remains a big Giants fan.

[hellswinter]

@californiaportugee lol. people who can't get metaphors will never get Jefferson Airplane. "If you've only lived on EARTH, you've never seen the SUN, or the promise of a thousand other SUNS that glow beyond here"

[island5o]

has anyone ever heard the activia yogurt commercial they used part of this song ja better sue

JoeyMo

[paleyoungman]

This album was blasted by one and all when it was released. I guess the Airplane without Marty just wasn't the Airplane to them. Some of it is pretty weak, but at least half of it, this song included, is pretty damn good.

And, yes, "chaotic sloppy beauty" is a PERFECT description of Jefferson Airplane.

[WillInNewHaven]

@paleyoungman Almost everyone I know loved it. Marty had a great voice and imposed a certain order on the group. But order was never their strong suit.

[warkun]

Great song! It came in the grocery bag and the cardboard cover had a picture of a fish next to the word 'bark".....nothing else. Plus, I think this was the first album where the Airplane featured Papa John Creach on the fiddle. After the Airplane days, it wasn't the same..........good stuff!!!!

[y54tub]

I loved it -the hippie days were numbered but the spirit of beyond was in music -the spirit of overcoming-raise your beer mugs to Anacreon in Heaven. Salud !!!

[hommerzero]

great song, I love Jefferson's songs

[codyki]

boliverful1, that's a great story and yeah, "chaotic sloppy beauty" fits the album well...couldna said it better myself.

Rock on!

[boliverful1]

Thanks, codyki, much appreciated. An unbelievably great song, yes? ..."don't be afraid of our ways..."

[boliverful1]

I first heard this album around 12 years of age...I remember falling in love with this album's chaotic sloppy beauty, and experiencing both captivation and intimidation by the power of Grace Slick's voice. The album came in a large brown paper bag. My friend and I were so inspired we recorded a cassette of our own and put it in a lunch bag. We called it "Meow."

[Volantix]

I just wanted to compliment your poetic command of language; "chaotic sloppy beauty" is not only a lovely turn-of-phrase but describes JA perfectly! Your comment is working to heal the great pain inflicted by the vast majority on Youtube.

[boliverful1]

Thank you, Volantix! That's the nicest thing anybody's said to me in quite a while...

[oldaxekid]

sea foam glass is sand

[catrionajoyce]

It's nothing to do with animal garbage heads.

In golden Hannibal's Carthage days...Punic War.

And what a great song.

[pyrophore]

"So now I go to where I come from. Now I go home to the Sun."

Stardust waiting to coalesce and move once again. Watch Her Ride and sigh.

[jackhillty]

i think kantner's Bark songs were his best composed pieces - the Baxter's songs were brilliant pieces for jack/jorma to play thru - but the Bark songs are elegant - an odd word but true

[ambianimaton]

oh god I hate squares

[ambianimaton]

animalgarbageheads-

you are not christian and that is exactly what the bible says

[ambianimaton]

I should clarify that the pope is avoiding a bust

[ambianimaton]

dude anyone could see all the stars in the sky in ancient times

1,000 living planets around a single sun is right but in those times their ways were to posit such haha how clever they've seen it...any dmt head will tell you that and it is real we live behind a light filter

[ambianimaton]

Garbage heads marching on to rome knocking on the door and finding nobody home...perfect!!!

the pope can't admit to being on lsd or its analogs even though it is the christian sacrament and explicitly written in the bible.

I saw starship perform this with Grace Slick's daughter and the Quicksilver Messenger service singer at the 40th anniversary summer of love reunion

it was great even though I didn't have any of the sacrament of all religion

[weckalini]

Prescient in the positing of a "1000 other suns that glow beyond here" long before the Hubble & spitzer telescopes.

[cadeneaux]

Adolescent dans ma chambre en boucle et amoureux de Grace

[yieldyieldyield]

What I love about the Airplane is that they were all so deep and prolific, their words were not only relevant to the times, but they told stories of rich history and invoked participation in greater truths, so much more than today's music, songs about pimps and hos, and somebody's dog dying or some shit like that. WAY before their time.

[ambianimaton]

@yieldyieldyield definitly some of the deepest music thats out there for sure, but in reality everything sucks and is not all about peace and love some people need to wake up to reality, id stop having kids, not in this world

[ioriorioriorio]

@ambianimaton this song is not about piece and love

[ioriorioriorio]

@yieldyieldyield Right..... about my dog dying.... they wrote some serious tunes....about rome, carthage and the like

[jstraw4]

A song which anticipates the fall of the American Empire, which we are now witnessing. Kantner is a prophet.

[bluefromanairplane]

and if you care to see the future look into the eyes

of your young dancing children don't be afraid of our ways-ahhh what a beautiul song

[island5o]

@bluefromanairplane we saw grace sing that song topless at a concert in ny one time and a groupie named sunshine was also topless on stage and when they sand the line young dancing children grace pointed to sunshine. It was raining at the concert and paul kantner told everyone that all the women would show their tits to the sky  it would stop raining and it did.WE were on pink acid and grace had pink nipples. lol

[bluefromanairplane]

@island5o i hate you i would cut my left tit to see them even now when they are all old and shit...now the closest thing i have to that experience are rave which arnt bad edc was the time of my life but i wuld give anything to live in the 60's

[eyezonthepryz]

The Bark album had its moments.

[billebrock]

yeah my buddy has the original paper bag album...and we still play it!! i love the live version as well on 30 seconds over winterland

[JG300Ascout]

One of the lesser known, but really rebellious JA albums. I still have mine in that "A&P" grocery bag album folder (which is what that is). It really came in a folded paper grocery bag.