Up against the wall, motherfuckers!

Volunteers [RCA Victor, 1969]
A puzzler--no matter how many times I listen, I can't connect. Every time Grace Slick lilts out "Up against the wall, motherfuckers", a phrase I think we can all agree has lost its currency by now, I want to laugh out loud and I don't find the instrumental cuts very inspired, either. It's hardly a bad album of course and everyone seems to dig it a lot but everyone may be wrong. B

>>127119010 (OP)
boy their music did not age well

If these guys were Millenials they would be some super boring buttindie band hyped up by P4k.

Outside of their two big songs they kinda got forgotten by time which is a shame since the run fron Takes Off to Volunteers is pretty good. Even Bark has some good songs and the Kantner/Slick/Freiberg stuff is also well worth discovering.

>>127119087
After about 1972 though...yeah.

>>127119120
Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun is the cutoff point for me

>>127119120
Pretty much all of Airplane's contemporaries (barring Neil Young and 1-2 exceptions) lost it once the counterculture era was over and turned into increasingly lame buttrock.