Jefferson Airplane - A Small Package/Young Girl Sunday Blues

[Posvaful]

acid fever

[messedupmuffins]

This album is saposta capture the psychedelic experience. Basically it's acid in an album.

[Salzilloin2036]

I don't get this album. Every other album of their's makes sense (for the most part, you have to take into account the fact that I'm fourteen and listening to this music drug-free), but this is just a little too whacked. I like this song and Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon, but everything else is quite confusing. Volunteers comes close to this album in terms of tripiness, but even some of that makes sense (before anyone jumps on me, I own an original copy of it: I know what I'm talking about).

[jackhillty]

@Salzilloin2036 yes, true, but stay with it. grace slick once said "we thought we were going to make the most brilliant rock and roll record ever made - instead we made the most obscure and chaotic." but still, stay with it - it'll pay you back in the end.

[hesteaeble]

@Salzilloin2036 Maybe you should do more drugs xD But yeah, they must have been really tripped out when they made this... Or maybe you should turn the volume up... That makes it a lot better hehe... Anyway............... Surham

[TheOneartist]

@Salzilloin2036 If you ever come across pot or mushrooms, try them. They're physically non-toxic and non-addictive. The safest drugs you can hope to do. You'll thank yourself.

Personally to me this makes sense, but I've always been into psychedelic/experimental music. Try Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" for example. Examine the lyrics, too.

[ancientears1]

Any punk rock fans agree the vocals kinda sound like X?

[jackhillty]

@ancientears1 absolutely. there's an old story that china wing kantner heard X on the radio and thought it was her parents

[alezander666]

truly like a old prussian march round 3;00,I COULD SEE BEAUTIFUL GRACE,A MARSHALLIN,in top hat garb dancing into infinity,thank god we were able to trip then,now,i'd be down,and never leave the house,then,you could HITCHHIKE,LIVE FOR NOTHING,NOT REALLY WORK,GET FOOD,WEED,GOOD ACID,HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE,GOING ALL OVER THE WORLD,now we are scarred addicts to OIL,A HORRIBLE REPUBLICAN WORLD OF NO HEALTH CARE OR FUTURE,IT'S ALL FOR OIL,CHINA,BILLIONAIRES,and the world will riot,god help us

[stevevandien]

For me, the non-musical noises and their increasing use by the top bands ultimately hurt the MUSIC. The theory at the time, I guess, was that the addition of such sounds expanded the music. To my mind, it had the opposite effect. It suggested that rock music was so shallow that it required help from such non-musical noises. One man's opinion, of course:) --

[MegaSoulSearcher]

PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT MUSIC TODAY READ UP: DON'T RELY ON THE RADIO AS YOUR PRIMARY SOURCE FOR "GOOD" MUSIC. GET OUT THERE AND EXPLORE MUSIC. THIS IS WHAT YOU DID AS A KID IN THE 60s ANYWAY.

[ioriorioriorio]

@MegaSoulSearcher me too

[ioriorioriorio]

@MegaSoulSearcher me too far out

[kingmanboyz]

Its a lost era.

[MrWarbells]

great music to wake up to, after a long stange trip.  No man is

an island...

[harrypisme]

trippy old intro on that!

[wellspout]

probably along with revolver the best studio albums ever

[49kasey]

Young Girl Sunday Blues: my favorite Airplane. Absolute Acidic Joy! There's only one thing I always think of when I hear this...

[pq02lamzo]

tiffany, don't blame rap. Music was dying long before rap got there.

[tiffanyxI3]

TRULY MUSIC SUCKS TODAY!!! RAP BROUGHT THE CRAP AND THE SO CALLED OTHER MUSIC THEY ALL SAMPLE THE PAST.... IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BE A PART OF THE 60'S 70'S AWESOME MUSIC!!!!

[ivycompton]

Another incredible ending on Young Girl Sunday blues. Jorma's guitar with Jack's bass with Marty's vocal -- well the whole damn thing is incredible. At their best, the Airplane was untouchable.

[leapinlizzardz]

Blast from the Past...........THANK YOU!!!

[zombiestars42]

aaaaah, come into my mind, let yourself wander free and easy :-)

[thedon420333]

is a small package a filler?

[yhenry77]

@thedon420333 Exploration of sound, editing and recording? Checkout Beatle's White Album "Revolution 9", which came out in '69, two years later after this album. It looks like the Beatles were influenced by JA. Did you know that JA played live on a rooftop (Manhattan), months before the Beatle's "Let it Be" live performance. 

[thedon420333]

@yhenry77 I don't believe you.

[bwanna23]

my grandson likes this song so much that he goes to his pre-school and tells his classmates that "no man's an island, he's a peninsula!"

[Cianaodh1]

No Man is an Island - He's a Peninsula

Born in 1968 - Thanks JA for rescuing me from the 80's

[Lewis1key]

One of the best leads of all time!

[moriluk]

@Lewis1key We used to have a saying: "Jorma for President", then it became "Jorma for God", then to avoid confusion it was "Jorma is God" to counter Clapton fanboys. But you are right. Great lead!

[freepeoplenow]

Small package is BY FAR, the MOST psychedelic piece of "music" ever created. As a teenager I used to take LSD and look for the most extreme psychedelic sequences I could find. This was the one that was the most trippy, in timing and mixing. Also check out the Barbed Wire Whipping party by the dead. Aoxoa outtake.

[daddybug101]

@freepeoplenow Time has come today, the extended version, was a trip, too. I agree with you this was the best trip cut ever.

[yhenry77]

They were correct when they invited them to Monterey Jazz Festival. The band thought it was a mistake. Their music will hold up to time, like "Kind of Blue" - Miles Davis has over the past fifty years.

[goldberrysusan]

no man is an island-- hes a penninsula-----lmfao

[threefive00]

It's quite ironic that people in 1967 said that the Airplane had left behind their folk side with the release of ABAB, especially in "loud, raucous rock numbers" like Young Girl Sunday Blues, when the chords in this song are actually something that only someone VERY well skilled in American folk music (cough, Kantner and Kaukonen) would know about.

[pbesmer]

ABAB is one of the great rock albums of all time... applauded, but vastly underrated

[jwalsh671]

One of the Airplane's best! "A Small Package.." is stupid and a waste of studio time, but fortunately it is followed by this Balin/Kantner classic! Thanks for the post!

[blingshevik]

"If rain slides down the sides of my face, must be a rainy day..."

[threefive00]

this is bad ass to listen to when on certain substances. :P

[JimmyPage968]

i just love these songs, they're two of my favorites on this album.

[louiseduvee]

This is probably the one album I love best, of all the albums in the world... Probably.

[thechewydude]

4:26

aahhh, f-ing brilliant

[iorioriorio]

No frank zappa influence whatsoever....

[palapescada]

dig the Jack Cassady bass line on Young Girl Sunday Blues...he was truly awesome!

[palapescada]

Ahhh, memories!

Sitting around with my friends after school and smoking/ingesting psychedelic substances. What grand and glorious days they were. Was it really 40+ years ago? Armadillo.

[iorioriorio]

Armadillo, it was

[SupernalOne]

no man is an island! ...he's a peninsula -

very protuberant observation

[nwrayne]

Owsley never sounded like this to me... more like HIjacked on Blows Against the Empire. I will say this is one of my favorite Airplane songs... up LOUD!

[flamesounds]

The opening to this reminds me very much of coming on to Owsley, all the echoing, panning and confusion/merging of sentences. laughing, noises etc. and I think that's what they were trying to simulate.

Very lysergic album from the Golden Age.

[negtype13]

AHHH Yes! Kid Charlemange! \m/

[keyboardwhiz]

Baxter's is very strong. Ballad of you and Me and Pooneil, Young Girl Sunday Blues, Martha, Watch Her Ride and ReJoyce and everything else is unique. I think they peaked here although I love

Crown of Creation and Volunteers. Things decayed after that but out of the chaos came Blows Against the Empire, Hot Tuna and best of all, Quah, Jorma's solo album from 1974.

[49kasey]

@keyboardwhiz You and I exactly.

[DocGeorge4U]

I've got four (vinyl) copies of "After Bathing At Baxter's", one of them in Mono, but as a friend once said, "You can't have too many copies of 'After bathing At Baxter's'...."

[glimmer2158]

huge frank zappa influence here

[49kasey]

@glimmer2158 Are you talking about the instrumental break? This was very prog music.

[martin1226]

L-25

[qsergyuko]

fucking druggie,piss off youtube DRUG FIEND FREAK!!

[Elcerritogooze]

WTF?

[thechewydude]

Young Girl Sunday Blues..

aaawesome intro..

[bobksf]

Just about my favorite Airplane song. And possibly the best editing of any track by anyone ever. As it opens all tracks are at the center and they unfold before the first words; during the break there is some movement back and forth and as the song winds up, it compresses to the center again. You only get the full effect by listening on headphones or earbuds but it's truly incredible and just brilliant. And it's a kickass song too.

[thedove76]

This has always been my favorite Airplane album despite the fact that poor Marty is largely missing outside of this gem. He has never received the proper credit for the wonderful songs he penned. Stuff like this and "Comin' Back to Me" rank with nearly anyone's work from that time period.

[pyrophore]

"When I tell you I dream it might seem like silence but so much can be heard."

Marty at his most poetic period.

[lamparalaptopiaguita]

no

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[louiseduvee]

Grace Slick edited 'Package'.

[LaveseLasManos]

At one point they used to cook bacon onstage and play music to it until the bacon was done. Followed by the presumed consumption of the bacon. yummy acid laced bacon.

Psychedelic music is a trip man.

"No man is an island. It's a penninsula." hahaha

[andymaster12]

The key change during the end of Jormas solo gives my chills everytime. Nobody else makes music like these guys

[Anarchofalafel]

Born in the wrong decade!!

[Atoyota]

no man is an island has been one of my favorite jokes...

But yeah this album is classic

[ioriorioriorio]

reminds me of east villge 1973 ro or so! trippin in the east village about then!!!!!!! pre- punk rea

[54rocketman54]

i checked this album out of the library in mt vernon ky in 1969. never did get an overdue notice! but when it does come the late fee is gonna be huge!!! great album

[ORELUR]

Jormas short solo still thrills me.Psychedelic to the hilt.

[VeryEvilPettingZoo]

Yeah, psychedelic to the hilt, and not just the solo, but throughout. I've heard this a hundred times, and yet every time, from that fade in, and then... that first hard strum... whoa!

[ivycompton]

I read years ago that this song ("Young Girl Sunday Blues") was done live - the only live one on the album. Apparently they could never get a better version in the studio. And I agree - just wonderful in every way.

[andymaster12]

yea the instrumental part is from a live show, and they just sang over it in the studio. Definatly the best live version i have ever heard

[Kaiserr]

"no man is an island!...he's a peninsula"

[tommartyn]

"rain slides down the sides of my face... must be a rainy day." :) awesome!

[kdonofrio22]

My favorite JA album.

[jackhillty]

marty

[louiseduvee]

This album is my favorite by the Airplane, and---HARD to find. Man, you are now dubbed "The Archives"! Thanks for posting (TFP)!~

[METALisLOUDER]

"A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly" and "Young Girl Sunday Blues" are two separate tracks. "A Small Package..." being #2 and "Young Girl Sunday Blues" being #3.

[Darweesh84]

Gr8 band... gr8 music

[willminkorea]

Wow

[louiseduvee]

That's still the way I feel about it after 30 years. Talk about "and one to grow on"!