Best of Grace Slick

It pains me to only give this collection 3 stars. Don't get me wrong. If you have absolutely nothing by Grace Slick in your collection feel free to upgrade to 5 stars. Nothing wrong with the material but there's simply not enough of it. Adding insult to injury, many, many classic, groundbreaking Slick compositions & stellar vocals are missing.I first saw the Jefferson Airplane when I was 14 years old in 1967 at Hunter College. Grace, in particular, was a role model for me. She was, is, and shall remain a template for women - smart, sassy, sarcastic, no flies on her. Oh yeah, beautiful. She broke the mold - the first true ROCK singer. No victimization, no wimpy folkie whining, no "my man done left me," no pidgeon-holing. In my opinion, she inspired the next two generations of women rock performers. She was the original Riot Grrrl (in more than one way recalling the Germany Incident.)What is striking about listening to Grace Slick's catalog of songs is they haven't dated. She was flat out weird in the '60's. She's flat out weird today.The only cringe-inducing songs are the ones where she bends to somebody else's attempts to sound "modern." "All the Machines" has that dreadful '80's synthesizer electronic drum bilge that instantly dates it. Thank heaven for the garage movement and Nirvana in the '90's to get drummers off the unemployment lines at the musician's union halls! It's hard to take in repeated listenings. I'm not even going to mention the Starship era, especially since Grace herself has 'fessed up to doing it for the paycheck. It must have been substantial since she retired shortly after "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now."Grace deserves, has earned, a proper remastered box set that spans her entire career. I created my own "box set" just from the material I own. In addition to the classics on this CD, I've compiled 3 CDs, by the time I'm fully done it will be a solid 4 CDs (thanks to the suggestions of some of the reviewers here. I need to research some of the Starship suggestions, which I don't own.) My set includes: Silver Spoon, Eat Starch Mom, Milk Train (live,) Aerie, Long John Silver, China, Two Heads, Rejoyce, Eskimo Blue Day, Greasy Heart (live,)Ballad of the Chrome Nun, Look at the Wood, When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves (OK, it's with Paul but Grace takes a blistering verse that is pure Slick, and it's a great song!) Fat, Fishman, Hyperdrive, Bear Melt, Hot Water, Devil's Den, Freedom, Common Market Madrigal, El Diablo, Face to the Wind, Dreams.To fully amuse myself I included my own "rareties" - the Levis Commercials, the possibly one & only time Grace sang "Good Shepard" solo from a concert on 5/7/1969 (courtesty of Craig Fenton, author of Take Me To A Circus Tent, the definitive book on all things Jefferson-related,) Go To Her with Grace singing the Signe Anderson verses, and the alternative take of Hey Frederick. I included the duet with Linda Perry, Knock Me Out.No true Grace Slick anthology could forget the Great Society, so I didn't - included in my version are Free Advice, Sally Go Round the Roses, Outlaw Blues, and the original White Rabbit. (The original Somebody to Love is pretty dreadful so I left it off. Feel free to add to your own Best Of with my blessings.)I escewed the "chronological" arrangements for the sonically similar. Amazingly, these songs all fit together nicely. Grace has held firm to stylistic consistencies - the surreal & oft incomprehensible lyrics, the Spanish / Middle Eastern influences, using her voice as a wordless instrument where she just throws her head back & wails, her sparse but muscular piano accompaniment (altoghether different than the Nicky Hopkins flourishes on Volunteers, and particularly nice when paired with Jerry Garcia on guitar.)Paging Rhino! Come and do it the right way! Give this woman the box set she deserves. Try as I might I still can't get my hands on Software, alas, my "Best of" remains incomplete. Rhino, you can do it!But for now, I've done it for myself. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

"Slick Hits" and important album cuts selected by Grace herself and manager Bill Thompson is a doggone good overview for beginners and longtime followers. After attending hundreds of concerts, I've never heard a more powerful female voice live in concert than Grace Slick. Her volume is fully felt on "Best" because she's the pilot singing lead vocals on all but two songs. On the regular albums Grace was the back seat passenger taking over the wheel. Not here. For one CD they got it right since she was more successful as a group singer than solo. I also like the blue eyed picture disc and liner notes. Now that being said Ms. Slick did have outstanding songs that deserve a 2nd disc or companion "Best 2". Because of record labels and politics that will never happen. My 2nd disc songs are: Someone To Love, Father Bruce, Sally Go Round The Roses, White Rabbit (Great Society), Two Heads, Greasy Heart, Milk Train, Freedom, Play On Love, Come Again? Toucan, Dreams, Face To The Wind, El Diablo, Sea Of Love and Bikini Atoll. Since 2015 will be Jefferson Airplane's 50th anniversary maybe RCA will do the right thing and give the group and also Grace some justice in a box set. I'm sorry to say classic rock radio is intent on playing only these songs: "Somebody To Love", "White Rabbit", "Miracles", "Jane", "Sara" and "We Built This City".

I Enjoy that this Album is a Collection & Documentary of Grace Slick's Musical career when she was a Member of "The Great Society / Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship / & Starship".A year or 2 years ago, I just Discovered that Grace Slick sang "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". The only 2 Songs I listen to or had of Grace Slick growing up in the '90's were "Somebody To Love" & "White Rabbit".

Well, this is Grace Slick. What else can I say as someone who followed the Airplane since the late 60s. I even have her GREAT Society band...before the Airplane. What a great career.

If you are a product of the 70'sThe Jefferson starship and the fab Grace slick must be in your music library

What else can you say, either your a fan or not. I am

Loved the songs and her singing solo

love her !the airplane,starship,if you grew up in the 1960'and 70's.like classic rock young people ? get this one !!!!!!

Item ( cd) received promptly & as described, plays perfectly, very pleased, would use seller again.Thank you.

If you love this ladies voice, then this album is definitely for you. Grace just got better with age and the mix of tracks covers a wide range over the years from Airplane to Starship.

really good music from the rock woman of the 60's&70.

Some of the best tracks in one place - having listened to it all the first time round this is a great refresher or introduction for anyone made curious by the recent appearance of Airplane tracks ona range of TV commercials.

Love it as a fan