Grace Slick - The Best of Grace Slick
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Artist: Grace SlickEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-02-23
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Somebody To Love
- White Rabbit
- Rejoyce
- Lather
- Triad
- Eskimo Blue Day
- Sunrise
- Mexico
- Law Man
- Across The Board
- Better Lying Down
- Hyperdrive
- Fast Buck Freddie
- All The Machines
- Wrecking Ball
- We Built This City
- Do You Remember Me?
- Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Free Music Notes for The Best of Grace Slick
Free Music Review: Paging Rhino For A Box Set
Hit: 3 Stars
It pains me to only give this collection 3 stars. Don't get me wrong. If you have absolutely nothing by Grace Slick in your collection feel free to upgrade to 5 stars. Nothing wrong with the material but there's simply not enough of it. Adding insult to injury, many, many classic, groundbreaking Slick compositions & stellar vocals are missing.
I first saw the Jefferson Airplane when I was 14 years old in 1967 at Hunter College. Grace, in particular, was a role model for me. She was, is, and shall remain a template for women - smart, sassy, sarcastic, no flies on her. Oh yeah, beautiful. She broke the mold - the first true ROCK singer. No victimization, no wimpy folkie whining, no "my man done left me," no pidgeon-holing. In my opinion, she inspired the next two generations of women rock performers. She was the original Riot Grrrl (in more than one way recalling the Germany Incident.)
What is striking about listening to Grace Slick's catalog of songs is they haven't dated. She was flat out weird in the '60's. She's flat out weird today.
The only cringe-inducing songs are the ones where she bends to somebody else's attempts to sound "modern." "All the Machines" has that dreadful '80's synthesizer electronic drum bilge that instantly dates it. Thank heaven for the garage movement and Nirvana in the '90's to get drummers off the unemployment lines at the musician's union halls! It's hard to take in repeated listenings. I'm not even going to mention the Starship era, especially since Grace herself has 'fessed up to doing it for the paycheck. It must have been substantial since she retired shortly after "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now."
Grace deserves, has earned, a proper remastered box set that spans her entire career. I created my own "box set" just from the material I own. In addition to the classics on this CD, I've compiled 3 CDs, by the time I'm fully done it will be a solid 4 CDs (thanks to the suggestions of some of the reviewers here. I need to research some of the Starship suggestions, which I don't own.) My set includes: Silver Spoon, Eat Starch Mom, Milk Train (live,) Aerie, Long John Silver, China, Two Heads, Rejoyce, Eskimo Blue Day, Greasy Heart (live,)Ballad of the Chrome Nun, Look at the Wood, When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves (OK, it's with Paul but Grace takes a blistering verse that is pure Slick, and it's a great song!) Fat, Fishman, Hyperdrive, Bear Melt, Hot Water, Devil's Den, Freedom, Common Market Madrigal, El Diablo, Face to the Wind, Dreams.
To fully amuse myself I included my own "rareties" - the Levis Commercials, the possibly one & only time Grace sang "Good Shepard" solo from a concert on 5/7/1969 (courtesty of Craig Fenton, author of Take Me To A Circus Tent, the definitive book on all things Jefferson-related,) Go To Her with Grace singing the Signe Anderson verses, and the alternative take of Hey Frederick. I included the duet with Linda Perry, Knock Me Out.
No true Grace Slick anthology could forget the Great Society, so I didn't - included in my version are Free Advice, Sally Go Round the Roses, Outlaw Blues, and the original White Rabbit. (The original Somebody to Love is pretty dreadful so I left it off. Feel free to add to your own Best Of with my blessings.)
I escewed the "chronological" arrangements for the sonically similar. Amazingly, these songs all fit together nicely. Grace has held firm to stylistic consistencies - the surreal & oft incomprehensible lyrics, the Spanish / Middle Eastern influences, using her voice as a wordless instrument where she just throws her head back & wails, her sparse but muscular piano accompaniment (altoghether different than the Nicky Hopkins flourishes on Volunteers, and particularly nice when paired with Jerry Garcia on guitar.)
Paging Rhino! Come and do it the right way! Give this woman the box set she deserves. Try as I might I still can't get my hands on Software, alas, my "Best of" remains incomplete. Rhino, you can do it!
But for now, I've done it for myself. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
The Best of Grace Slick Poster
There's an episode in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where the author's acid-twisted companion demands that a plugged-in tape deck be dropped in his bath at the same moment Grace Slick's voice peaks in "White Rabbit." That, for him, was the way to go--electrocuted as Slick wailed, "Feed your head!" That zenith in Jefferson Airplane's 1966 hit may have also represented Slick's apex. This 18-song overview of the rock goddess's 20-year recording career starts out in high gear and loses momentum with each passing track. The aforementioned "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" represent the icy-voiced thrush in all her San Francisco Sound glory. "Lather," "Mexico," and "Eskimo Blue Day" (an eco rant with the great Slick line "The human dream doesn't mean shit to a tree") come from a period when the Airplane was arguably the most significant American rock band in the land. And the honed-for-radio "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" betray a woefully compromised artist with little left to say. --Steven StolderRock Music CDs
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