Worst of Jefferson Airplane
937869
I've listened to the Jefferson Airplane since the late 60's and I once had the Vynal of this albumn.  I wanted to listen again and did the deed and purchased it again.  I still like this music and I am now 62 and beyond some of the music I listened to in the 60's and 70's.
4811885
As in the awful "BJS" album, the singer tries to find out what all the fuss is about in the youth market. The result sounds like a parody album. On some tracks, it sounds like a bad Karaoke performance.
  In particular, "Free the People" is painful, especially when compared with the Delaney and Bonnie original. Bonnie Bramlett, as idiosyncratic a singer as she is, still shows much better range than the famous Barbara.
 Likewise, the Randy Newman covers are vapidly done, with none of the menace or energy that Randy brings to his songs.
  This album is basically a form of Muzak. Live high energy music filtered and sanitized for the housefrau set.
  Barbra sounds much better when she sticks to corn and schmaltz.
  Fer cryin out loud, this piece of crap was in stores RIGHT NEXT TO THE ORIGINALS!

 Do yourself a favor and listen to the originals. If you can stand her versions, you might find something new to enjoy as well!
1504624
This is one of the worse recordings I have ever heard. To even think of comparing this CD to JB is ridiculous.
3704095
This album is a genuinely horrible display of musicianship. Every tune has the same tacky synth chords, and every time I hear Dennis Chambers hit the high ride I want to rip my hair out. Overall disaster. Not to mention Joe Wesson's rap. A quick google search reveals that he is now homeless in Texas.
2531922
I am a huge yes fan but this one is one of their weakest effort.

Hard to believe it has been done just a year after "Going for the One"

"One the silent wings of freedom" is a good track. The only other good tracks are "Onward" (the live version on Keys to ascension is better)

and "Future times-Rejoice"

"Don't kill the whale", "Madrigal", "Arriving UFO", and "Circus of heaven" are horrible.

A dark period in the band's history.
2413613
I really tried to give Geoff the benefit of the doubt, but I'm sorry, this album is horrible.  I've listened to it 10 times today, trying to like it.  I was even excited about the re-recordings, but sadly, his voice is going.  Jet City Woman was horribly remade.  Several times in the song, he goes off key and it made me shudder, like listening to a bad karaoke singer.  I'm very sad to hear this.  The songs sound like a hate letter to the rest of the original band that has their album coming out soon.  Even the rings on the fist on the album cover say it all.  I'm sure he wanted to use the other word instead of Frequency.  In fact, this sounded like it was thrown together to get it on the shelf to spite them.  We all know the back story of what's happened, we all know that these kind of things happen in the music world, but this whole story just makes me sad.  I'll still always admire the old Queensryche and probably like the new singer as well, but not this release.  I'd even qualify this as worse than Q2K.

On last note about the remake of Silent Lucidity, it sounds like Katherine Hepburn singing it.

Buy it if you want folks, but I can't listen to it anymore.
1961220
This album is mostly a huge dissapointment. Most of the songs sound like the Bros. have mailed it in...with the exception of'High Falls'. This is simply the greatest instrumental the Allmans have ever recorded, and possibly the greatest song ever recorded by the Allman Brothers Band. At fifteen minutes long, it rescues the album, and then some. The soaring solos sound like eagles...I sing this song in my mind whenever I visit my favorite waterfall in the Adirondacks...rarely do you encounter something as spellbinding as this on such a mediocre album. It just might make my list of desert island recordings...
2761734
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out and did like it more than I thought I would based on the reviews and having expected a really terrible set of tunes.  I even bought it on Laserdisc after getting it on tape and the soundtrack on CD because there are a couple gems on there.

But also having the soundtrack and hearing the various tunes come up in random play on my iPod against U2s whole catalog among other assorted artists from all genres, it is really apparent how bad most of the songs are and especially the cover tunes (Helter Skelter, All Along the Watchtower), Bono's embarrasing imbecilic banter nothwithstanding.

The band is best in the studio and especially under the direction of Eno and Lanois (the guys really responsible for improving their sound) as they are not very good live musicians and that juxtaposed with their self important preachiness has not worn well through the years.

The best tracks are the "Van Dieman's Land" and "All I Want is You" along with the BB King "When Love Comes to Town" duet.  But for the Joshua Tree era essence of this band that the movie/soundtrack is supposed to capture, your best bet is the Joshua Tree studio album and its predecessor, The Unforgettable Fire.
725975
Out of all the smooth jazz and acid jazz compilations I have bought this is quite definitely the worst. It's not so much that it's boring(Although it is boring!),because you run the risk of getting slightly boring tracks on such compilations but that's usually the result of an attempt to get a clean mellow sound. But these tracks are boring without the mellow vibes and worst of all their annoying. The only half decent track on this album is ruined by a guy who must have the most annoying voice in the world saying "Happy time, happy time.." Quite ironic really because this CD made me very unhappy. There are hundreds of better Jazz Fusion albums out there. Don't waste your money!
644794
Its one of those in the mood listening groups. It is much more of a mellow sound from the sixties. Kind of trippin' music if catch my drift. I first got into Jefferson Airplane back around 70' along with other similar groups and artists as well.
4722845
This is the worst CD I have ever listened to. I thought it was the soundtrack from "On Golden Pond",(the movie). After being irate that it wasn't, my husband & I laughed hysterically as each track sounder like a wildlife refuge. The major sound on each track sounded like someone with their hand in a bucket of water making swooshing sounds, accompanied by a frog doing the ribit thing. Absolutely terrible.
Aone star rating is way too high for this one!
1863506
Although this CD has some wonderful old time harmonies, the producers did not take great pains to professionaly transfer the acrhives from the analog format to digital.
Throughout most of the CD the record player hum and hiss greatly overwhelms the actual music you are able to hear and enjoy.  Not to mention the boring and long at times interviews between each track.
Unless you were a groupie for this quartet in your youth, and it will bring back pleasant memories looking at the very poor quality photos on the CD cover, then I would recommend skipping this album.
742873
There's nothing more annoying than a teen movie that gets it all wrong.  I was seventeen when this flick came out and had teenage sisters at the time.  These aren't teenagers but adults mouthing what some studio hack thinks is teenspeak.  Calling John Hughes!!!  What's even more annoying is they get the music wrong.  Angel!!! What did they do hold cattle call for every mediocre hair-metal band signed to Casablanca records?  "On the Radio" as an anthem for a generation?  In my school it was "Stairway to Heaven" and "Freebird".  Joan Jett should have kicked Cherie Currie's behind for being associated with this dreck.  Jodie Foster isn't annoying here just wooden.  Disney put better use to her acting chops.  Pretty pathetic when the most appealing character is the one played by Scott "Chachi" Baio.  Makes me long for "Little Darlings".
984034
My wife and I never missed an episode of this show when it originally aired and could not wait to pick up the DVD. Went out and picked it up today, popped it in my DVD, fired up the plasma and yikes an old VHS tape looks better than this. Nothing was done to clean this up for the DVD and by todays standards this is almost unwatchable. Universal did a much better job on the DVD transfer of the almost decade older Magnum PI series. CBS/Paramount should be ashamed, Wings deserves better.
2283503
This guy was a Beatle?  You'd never know it listening to this garbage.  "Flaming Pie" was a surprise hit with many people when it was released because it had a few good songs on it, unlike the typical McCartney album which usually has none.  Paul returns true to form with this disaster.  "Freedom" is one of the worst songs ever written.  "Your Loving Flame" is a half-baked love song which never gets off the ground.  "Driving Rain" is the epitome of dumb lyrics combined with a forgettable embarrassing tune.  Of all the four Beatles, Paul has had the most disappointing solo career.  In the 70's he sold well, but he has never had an album like "All Things Must Pass" and "Plastic Ono Band" that was withstood the test of time.  I know I was not expecting much, but I was hoping for better than this.
305245
I bought the vinyl when it was a recent release & have enjoyed it for decades.  I bought this CD (remastered by Esoteric) because they still don't have record players in automobiles.  I wanted to throw it out after listening to the first two songs.  My favorite tune 'Token' is absolutely awful to listen to.  Whoever the bright-star was that remastered it, took away the deep driving beat of Corky Laing & thinned it out.  That driving beat, in my opinion, was the best part of the song.  They also trebled out Bruce's bass.  They added echo to Leslie West's solo.  The vinyl version of this production reveals Leslie West with a clear, choppy, precise solo. much like what he played in songs with Mountain such as 'Mississippi Queen', 'Never in My Life', etc.  There was no reverb on the original vinyl of 'Whatever Turns You On'.  On this cruddy remaster CD, there are now vocals which can be heard in parts that I cannot hear/have never heard on the vinyl.  I don't mind remasters when they enhance a little here & there, but this remaster completely changed the song.  The original vinyl version is well enough & well enough should have been left alone.  It has historical value.  To me, it was WEST, BRUCE, LAING.  A mix of Mountain & Cream.  This new remaster stinks so bad, I refuse to listen to it any further.  There is no other word to describe it besides AWFUL.  I hope someone issues a CD of the original sounding vinyl.
3170230
I got this MP3 soundtrack free with the Blu-ray and only previously heard "Live To Rise" by Soundgarden. This is their first new song done together but they should have stayed dead. The song is good until the chorus; it's really weak just like the rest of this album. Some big names in there but I'm very disappointed. It's all just a bunch of crap/butt rock with no emotion and emptiness. The first and last song on the album ("Live To Rise and "Shake The Ground" by Cherri Bomb, respectively) and the only decent songs on the album, but that's not saying much. It's crap but not as crappy as the rest. This is just a huge cash-in to the movie.