Jefferson Airplane - Plastic Fantastic Lover

[rocketmail217881755]

Great song about our obsession with the TV...Technically, most TV's around 1966-67 were encased in wood or metal, not plastic...Could Jefferson Airplane have retitled the song 'Wood Fantastic Lover' or 'Metal Fantastic Lover' (lol) since most TV cabinets of the 1960's were either wood or metal?

[dayummxmichelle]

@dutchdutch11 it's not about a vibrator, it's about the television. "her rattlin cough never shuts off"? its mocking people's love affair with TV.

[sonicsteev]

JORMA!!!

[nathanalexander28]

garcia on acoustic guitar??

[BobDylansPet]

the vocals on this sound so much like paul simon!

[MrBenbaruch]

They look good and baked very nice

[toadabc]

Hearing this reminds me how bad the "starship" became in later years.

[rootsongjc]

Space Age and Modernlize.IBM竟然也出现在这首歌里。

[canyonlovertoo]

Is this Rap? Can anyone point to earlier

Rap?

[RGFoster1]

@canyonlovertoo Bob Dylan's Subterrenean Homesick Blues, released in 1965 i think

[ZeppelinFloydRoses]

@canyonlovertoo this ain't rap boy

[OrangeSaint420]

@canyonlovertoo

hip hop actually formed out of disco

[imthefly]

@OrangeSaint420 No, hip hop formed out of funk and soul.

[ViaggioFM]

@canyonlovertoo You can't be serious.

[ColdOasisU2]

the organ in this song remindes of the song smash mouth - walking in the sun

[MoonPisces029]

they're so fuckin good

[HoulihanFryingPan]

yum yum treacle bun let me get howard the duck jeally

[EccentricRichard]

The one thing I don't like about Grace Slick was her suggestion that all 60-something rockers are embarrassing (John-Paul Jones and Jimmy Page aren't, Dio wasn't and the rest of Sabbath/Heaven & Hell weren't either). Otherwise, what a girl, what a voice, and bloody good-looking too... even if she is nearly 52 years older than me LOL!

[Fooliccini]

@EccentricRichard

No offense but I most of those people were pretty embarrassing. Jimmy Page with his stupid double guitar and obsession with the occult nonsense. Look at the cover of Heaven and Hell's album. Sabbath have loads of stupid stories like how they would snort coke off the side of hot tubs when they were supposed to be in the studio. Plus, the TV programme The Osbournes. All you need to do is take one look at Ronnie James Dio.

Have you heard Starship? Slick can be embarrassing too.

[XenophonZolatta]

@Fooliccini jimmy page was embarrassing? you know alot about music....

[Fooliccini]

@XenophonZolatta But I never commented on the music?

[XenophonZolatta]

@Fooliccini idiot

[EccentricRichard]

@Fooliccini - Jimmy Page, embarrassing? OK, he got addicted to drugs, the occult is dangerous, his playing could be sloppy, but he could be brilliant. The double-neck Gibson was born of necessity: the first bit of Stairway calls for a 12-string guitar, the second bit (including the solo) a 6-stringer. He needed not to change guitars in the middle of a live performance. Yeah, Sabbath have stupid stories, so does every band. Yeah, that 'reality' show was/is(?) awful.

[EccentricRichard]

@Fooliccini - BTW, don't you DARE insult Dio. He had a fabulous voice, was a great songwriter and a complete gentleman to boot. No, I haven't heard Starship.

[mjbrns241972]

Best acid rock of it's time

[marcos94santiago]

so cool, this is what you listne to when you take your harley out, your girl's arms tight around your hips, meet up with your friends and just go for a midnight drive

[JGxBAxLR]

this is a song about our television sets

[slippery396]

Great lyrics !

[WildManWillis1]

Lets not forget San Francisco 1968!!!!-W

[pmfzero]

Mine is this old beat-up laptop ;)

[peacemake678]

its about TV's broseph

[dutchdutch11]

greatest song ever sung about a vibrator lol, her rattlin cough never shuts off nothin but a used machine, her aluminum finish slightly deminished, the best i ever have seen... Cosmetic baby, plugged into me never ever find another, n I suppose noone knows about my plastic fantastic lover!!

[EIFanGirl]

@dutchdutch11 A vibrator? In Grace's book, she says this song is about television obsession.

[derekismature]

@EIFanGirl Shhh, it's more fun to imagine it's a sex toy.

[sonicsteev]

grooves!

[hesteaeble]

this is rap!

[alcofridy]

Asian sugar babies # lushfmlk.info#

[HeyManYouFeelThat]

I listen to every style and decade of music but when it comes down to it nothing beats the 60s I wish I would have been around back then

[ShinDigNumber7]

may some good person fill me in ?

whats the name of the lovely mister sitting down, on the farthest left?

(in the surrealistic pillow photograph.)

horizontal stripes and a swift smile.

[MattHatter]

My mom just got a T-shirt that states, "I MAY BE OLD BUT I GOT TO SEE ALL THE COOL BANDS." And she did, The Beatles, The Doors, Hendrix, CCR, and Airplane along with many, many more.

[grickard319582010]

I haven't heard this song in a long, long time! The FM classic rock in my area stations very rarely play this song anymore.

[gorickard319582010]

@grickard319582010 I strongly agree. One must subscribe to Sirius or other satellite radio service to hear lost classics such as this great song. Thank goodness some YouTubers have the great sense to upload these lost classics.

[smurfman95]

@gorickard319582010 Idk I mean, some local radios in certain places are good like I live in Peterborough Ontario Canada and most of the radio is shit but Kruz on thursdays and fridays while Im at work we blair it and its all oldies like The Stones, Jefferson Airplane, The DOors, Steppenwolf, Neil Diamond, Jimi Hendrix etc. etc.

[MsOogieBoogie]

She's fucking hot. And I love how she sings.

[KDaltonIrish]

HOW I WISHED I LIVED BACK THEN!

[breeze321]

@KDaltonIrish . I lived through it as teenager and it was exciting, although I took it for granted. The music scene was literally exploding with the British invasion, Motown explosion, the Psychedelic and, anti-war movement, etc. Creativity was at its highest. I saw the Jefferson Airplane at this time and it was exhilerating.

[jerumwolf]

@breeze321 lucky bastard, I can't believe the current music I'm supposed to be growing up to.

[JBurd16]

They're really are no bands today to do this. What bands are there? Alice In Chains just released a great album, well, for the tracks I have listened to, but they aren't seeing any mainstream popularity.

[flyinstew]

How I wish ---any group today----could produce a sound as authentic--and original like this. Not happening---sorry, the music today is generic muzak. How lucky I am to have witnessed all this genius...the JA and many others. The groups today are like cold coffee and lukewarm pizza. JMHO.

[Blackbirdsingsinme13]

@flyinstew im replying to you for two reasons. your right. and you use the term 'muzac' you just gained a thousand respect points from me =] peace love and happiness to yalls ♥♥♥

[pietro994]

to Soundstage:

it's not gracie who's singing, wonka!

[pietro994]

@Soundstage:

it's not gracie who's singing, wonka!

[eziekial101]

@pietro994

Doesn't make her less of a fox! Hell yeah!

[pheildcorn]

mod

[LisergicoRojo]

sorry can it actually be "Science is mankind, brother"?

[LisergicoRojo]

great nice wonderful! underrated j.a. song iVE ALWAYS LOVED IT! NAMASTE STAY PSYCHEDELIC!

[sheresa212b]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaa

[honkingantalope]

now i know why i have such good taste in music i listened to this when i was like fourteen.

[BrandiECoyote]

you can say she has an individual style she's a part of a colorful time

[jeffrogasket1992]

my favorite song by Jefferson Airplane

[Plasticsoul]

@jeffrogasket1992 same here

[steve7138]

"....The electrical dust is starting to rust

Her trapezoid thermometer taste

All the red tape is mechanical rape

Of the TV program waste......

Data control and IBM

Science is mankind's brother

But all I see is drainin' me

On myPLASTIC FANTSTIC LOVER...."

[kralkemo]

they made real music not like these days

[salinagrrrl69]

Everything is a blurrrr these days in music. It can stay on their IPODs Don't need to hear it.

[wheelinthesky300]

The live version from

"Go Ride The Music" is better

-faster, harder, more energy.

This is more psychedelic.

[Madoriko]

love this song! thanks for uploading!

:D

[laurensadriaanse]

we were so very high

[karlbertiljohnsson]

All the red tapes is mechanical rape of the tv-program waste!

[zjkrone]

Those were the days man!!! I'm so sad I missed them, i'm just glad i've experienced the psychedelic music even though now all you hear is bullshit on the radio i'm only 21 and this brings back memories:) drivin on the back roads with bestfriends sparking up joint after joint just driving like there was no tommorow, and after this we popped in a little janis a little jimi and a little morrison! ahhhhhhhhh

[kingcal]

no, fuck you

[wolfdavid1]

typical Winterland ballroom show in SF late 60's was Airplane, Quicksilver, and the Dead. Sometimes Santana. The whole crowd on orange sunshine. Woah..........

[COPMMUSIC]

i remember dropping acid to this song and getting head from two BOMB ass 20 year old hot chick. yes (they were white) and very hot.

I had the song on repeat all night while i was getting dome.

[Soundstage8]

That was the greatest comment I've ever read

[sirgregory52]

what a flashback.  freshman in high school. wonder memories

[gemainchains]

Fantastic Bass Line!

Amazingly trippy song about a radio!

[Soundstage8]

Gracie Slick is so damn hot

[SkopTeocratico]

Fantastic and pure LSD song.

[wolfdavid1]

Saw these guys a million times at Fillmore West. Or the greatest venue. The triple bills they had with the Dead and Quicksiver in the late 60's. Orange sunshine acid, and hours of incredible music. Winterland forever.

[burkspatrick]

a gun is a killing weapon while television is pure Sun Tzu the ability to influence people

[rtruss40]

Ha what a great song

[R81ful]

I AM THE WALRUS!

[heythatoneperson]

Wrong band bud, but John Lennon was the best

(:

[klitzhoff]

Pure LSD pop. I love it.

[glimmer2158]

"Television is the most powerful weapon mankind has ever invented" - Howard Beale

[circle43cm]

Sadly, the quote is most likely correct. Well, unless one counts a .357 Magnum.

[andhemills]

Or the internet, but it's hard to beat a Magnum!

[porfavormeudeus]

AK-47

[BabyBoomr]

Wow! I haven't heard this in years and years! Thanks for sharing this.

[Vesnicie]

Hey Boomer,

I am jealous of your generation. You were young in a better time, and by better I mean more alive, more vibrant, more AWAKE. You also had the best rock music. You can die happy.

[EarthsAngels]

Thank you for the great comment! My "generation" is still young, alive, vibrant, awake and loving new and old music, like many of us today! :o)

[ForgottenClown]

one of their best besides white rabbit, crown of creation, comin back to me, and lather;) Bless them old ages!

[SlaytanicWarrior420]

Those are great songs but id say MY favorite is "Today".

[maciej1961]

It is super actually- a.d.2008`

[mobyboy]

more fantastic than plastic. love it !

[blestemp]

No, very Balin

[jackhillty]

fuck yer tv