Line #59 Music/CrownOfCreation


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2	[[caption-width-right:342:''Crown of Creation''.]]
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4	''Crown of Creation'' is the fourth studio album by Music/JeffersonAirplane, released in 1968 through Creator/RCARecords. The album marked the band's psychedelic peak, for they would begin to move away from the genre subsequently, as evident on ''Volunteers'' from the following year.
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6	Hits and fan favourites include the title track, "Lather" and "Triad".
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9	!! Tracklist:
10	[[AC: Side One]]
11	# "Lather" (2:57)
12	# "In Time" (4:14)
13	# "Triad" (4:55)
14	# "Star Track" (3:11)
15	# "Share a Little Joke" (3:09)
16	# "Chushingura" (1:20)
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18	[[AC: Side Two]]
19	[numlist:7]
20	# "If You Feel" (3:21)
21	# "Crown of Creation" (2:54)
22	# "Ice Cream Phoenix" (3:02)
23	# "Greasy Heart" (3:26)
24	# "The House at Pooneil Corners" (5:54)
25	[/numlist]
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27	!! Bonus Tracks (2003 Reissue):
28	[numlist:12]
29	# "Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum" (1:32)
30	# "Would You Like a Snack?" (2:40)
31	# "Share a Little Joke (Single Version)" (3:09)
32	# "The Saga of Sydney Spacepig" (7:55)
33	# "Candy Man" (2:25)
34	[/numlist]
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36	!!Principal Members:
37	* Marty Balin - lead vocals, guitar
38	* Jack Casady - bass
39	* Spencer Dryden - drums, piano, organ, steel balls, vocals
40	* Paul Kantner - guitar, vocals
41	* Jorma Kaukonen - guitar, vocals, electric chicken
42	* Grace Slick - lead vocals, piano, organ
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45	!! Share a Little Trope:
46	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''C'''rown Of '''C'''reation".
47	* AtomicHate: Implied by the album cover, which depicts a mushroom cloud. The picture was taken during one of the US army nuclear tests in the desert.
48	* AvantGardeMusic: "Chushingura" is a short experimental electronic composition.
49	** To say many of the bonus tracks (i.e. "Would You Like a Snack?") are avant-garde would be an understatement. Simply put, there's a reason why these bonus tracks went unreleased for years.
50	* CoverVersion: "Triad", which was originally by Music/TheByrds, although their version went unreleased for several decades and David Crosby ended up being given to Jefferson Airplane.
51	** Also, the bonus track "Candy Man", originally by Reverend Gary Davis.
52	* EpicRocking: The bonus track "The Saga of Sydney Spacepig".
53	* FaceOnTheCover: The band can be seen in the mushroom cloud on the cover.
54	* ElectronicMusic: "Chushingura" is an experimental electronic composition, surprisingly enough written by their drummer Spencer Dryden.
55	* {{Instrumentals}}: "Chushingura" and the bonus track "Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum".
56	* HopeSpot: "House at Pooneil Corners" has a musical one. The song is primarily built around a two-chord vamp meant to sound ominous and tense, with lyrics describing a post-nuclear CrapsackWorld. At the 0:55 mark, however, the progression shifts to an all-major-chord typically-rock chord progression before plunging back into the vamp at 1:10 and staying there for the rest of the song.
57	* ManChild: "Lather" was mainly inspired by Spencer Dryden, who was Grace Slick's lover at the time and the first of the band's members to turn 30. Yet, despite his old age, many perceived him as child-like.
58	** "Lather" isn't just about Dryden either. It is also said to be partially about Jack Casady as well, particularly with these lines (which were [[TruthInTelevision based on an actual incident with Casady]]):
59	--> ''But Lather still finds it a nice thing to do''
60	--> ''To lie about nude in the sand"''
61	* MinisculeRocking: "Chushingura", which only goes for 1:20.
62	* NewSoundAlbum: The sound of this album moves away from the more progressive sound found on ''After Bathing at Baxter's''. "Chushinguta" in particular was arguably the first electronic music sound on a rock album.
63	* OneWordTitle: "Lather", "Triad" and "Chushingura".
64	* QuestioningTitle: The bonus track "Would You Like a Snack?".
65	* RuleOfThree: "Triad" is about a ménage à trois.
66	* ShoutOut:
67	** The lyrics of the title track were taken (with permission) entirely from the novel ''Literature/TheChrysalids'' by British SF author Creator/JohnWyndham.
68	** "Triad" contains a couple of references to Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'', with references to "sister lovers" and "water brothers". But it was actually written by [[Music/TheByrds David Crosby]].
69	* SpecialGuest: David Crosby appears as a guitarist and wrote the lyrics to "Triad" and was originally intended for Music/TheByrds, but was rejected for being too risqué. So it [[RepurposedPopSong ended up on this album instead]].
70	** Also, Music/FrankZappa and several members of The Mothers Of Invention (Don Preston, Art Tripp and Ian Underwood) appears on the bonus track "Would You Like A Snack?", with Zappa being credited as co-writer along with Slick. Zappa would release a song of the same name on ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'', but is an otherwise completely different song.
71	* SpiritualSuccessor: "The House at Pooneil Corners" to "The Ballad Of You and Me and Pooneil" from ''After Bathing at Baxter's''.
72	* WarIsHell: The mushroom cloud in the cover implies this.
73	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: "Lather", which is about a 30 year old man with that name.

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