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The Best of Grace Slick
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 Stolder
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Tracks| 1 | Somebody to Love | | 2 | White Rabbit | | 3 | Rejoyce | | 4 | Lather | | 5 | Triad | | 6 | Eskimo Blue Day | | 7 | Sunrise | | 8 | Mexico | | 9 | Lawman | | 10 | Across the Board | | 11 | Better Lying Down | | 12 | Hyperdrive | | 13 | Fast Buck Freddie | | 14 | All the Machines | | 15 | Wrecking Ball | | 16 | We Built This City | | 17 | Do You Remember Me [#] | | 18 | Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now |
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