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Music : Blows Against the Empire
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Blows Against the Empire by: Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship List Price: £9.99 Price: £8.33 You Save: £1.66 (17%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0078635386820 Format: Import Label: RCA Manufacturer: RCA Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: RCA Release Date: October 25, 1990 Studio: RCA Sales Rank: 657305 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Dream OnI must admit to a long standing fondness for this album. I originally owned it on incredibly crackly vinyl and played it to death when I was 17. Now that I'm regrettably more mature I'm happy to stand by my youthful opinion of it. The Airplane were bombastic, and the later Starship bland but this sits happily somewhere in between. Of course the whole premise of the lyrics is absurd - most of Kanters lyrics are - but what saves it is the great playing and it's relaxed charm and humour. I urge you to give it a listen and drift away into sci fi heaven circa 1970 (Apollo and all) Rating:  - MajesticEvery time I play this CD it's always from start to finish without interruptions. Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Jerry Garcia and a host of others have produced one of the greatest piece's of music I have had the pleasure to listen to. The playing is perfect and tracks 5-10 merge together as one majestic song with all the instruments swirling and coming together to form music at it's most beautiful. I hear the stars calling....... Rating: - Paul Kantner's greatest workRecorded in 1970, Paul Kantner's "Blows against the Empire" epitomises the best of American West coast "Hippy" music. Nominally by "Jefferson Starship" this album expands the themes of many Jefferson Airplane albums of anti-establishmentism and postulates the theory of escaping from authority in a space craft. Recorded in an era when musicians guested (offically or unofficially) on each others albums, the musicians read like a "who's who" of San Fransico muscians of the time. They include such notables as Jerry Garcia, Graham Nash & David Crosby plus many others. The album starts with the rather angry "Mau Mau (Amerikon)" which sets the scene of defiance and escape, through the more hopeful "The Baby Tree", "Let's Go Together", "A Child ... Read More: |
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