Sunday, November 26, 2017

Song of the Day # 1,407 Jefferson Airplane


In American Pastoral, the recently released and unfairly maligned Ewan McGregor film, (he directed and starred in it), there's a memorable scene where the main couple return to their family home in the mid-sixties to find their rebellious and defiant teenage daughter playing this song at top volume on her stereo. It's a good illustration of the violent generation schism that opened up at that point in time in America. Jefferson Airplane are as good a representation of that moment in time as any, and it's a credit to the film-makers that they chose this fine  example of their early fire, a slightly obscure song, rather than the likes of Somebody to Love. The song is on Jefferson Airplane Loves You, a compilation of their material.



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