2400 Fulton Street

Jefferson Airplane | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000008H0J
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,208 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This CD set is an out of print collectible! It is both discs.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I do care, that you do see..., April 11, 2002

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allah (McLemore Ave) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 2400 Fulton Street (Audio CD)

It really wouldn't require much effort for RCA to assemble a better-sounding version of this set; after all, the individual albums were nicely remastered in 1995. Apparently they lack the neccessary motivation to do so, however, since they continue to sell this rather murky-sounding edition, which dates back to 1987. It's a shame, because it _is_ the best Airplane compilation on the market, better than the too-slender _Worst Of_ or the moronic _Airplane/Starship Hits_.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive (un-remastered) Jefferson Airplane collection, June 30, 2003

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Andy Agree "jackrabbit79" (Omaha, NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 2400 Fulton Street (Audio CD)

Jefferson Airplane was the greatest of the late sixties San Francisco bands, of which there were many (hold your horses and read on, Dead fans). They developed over their brief career a deliberately loose, almost ramshackle sound that was integral to their appeal. It was emblematic of the "San Francisco sound" that they helped create, but no other band of that time and place produced such energetic unpredictability with such tight musicianship, or with such a strong sense of melody, harmony and drama. Sure, the Grateful Dead emerged from the same scene and mastered that tight looseness too, but it took them longer to get good at it, and they never came close to the Airplane on intra-band vocal interplay. The Dead, of course, established a much greater legacy over three decades, but if we're talking San Francisco bands of the Airplane's creative era (roughly 1966-1970), then the Airplane is the champ. Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady were among the very best lead guitar-bass combinations in the rock era (comparable to the fully mature Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh), and no other female rock singer ever equaled Grace Slick. She's in a league of her own, vocally, and she composed some of the most strikingly original songs of the rock era (think White Rabbit, Lather, Greasy Heart, Eskimo Blue Day, Mexico).

This collection, while lacking the remastering of the Airplane's music that occurred in the mid 90s, is still the most comprehensive collection of their best material available to this day. Of course it does not include all their good songs, but it includes all of their very best. And naturally, not all of the material here is equally good, but most of it is very high caliber. So if you love their music, this collection is the only reasonable alternative to buying each of their albums individually. It's debatable whether Jefferson Airplane ever produced a five-star album (I tend to think "Surrealistic Pillow' and "Volunteers" were, but barely). But four of their consecutive albums are worthy of at least four stars (the above two, plus "Crown of Creation" and "After Bathing at Baxter's"). In my scheme of rating, that is a phenomenal output for a band, and since this collection draws richly from all four of these, it seems obvious that Fulton Street should rate 5+ stars.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice Comp, Lousy Sound, November 14, 2003

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Thomas Bumbera (Maplewood, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2400 Fulton Street (Audio CD)

This excellent compilation is severely undercut by truly poor sound quality. Even vinyl played on a good system sounds WAYYY better. But, now that the original albums have been nicely remastered from the original multitrack tapes, there is happily no need for you to shell out your bucks for this relic of the Dark Ages of digital remastering! Start with the reissue of "...Takes Off" and work your way up through the catalogue. Your head will be nicely fed.