Volunteers
by Jefferson Airplane
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Volunteers is ranked 3rd best out of 25 albums by Jefferson Airplane on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jefferson Airplane is Surrealistic Pillow which is ranked number 293 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,647.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 01/10/2026 21:13 | Pluto11 | 12,032 | 72/100 |
| ! | 08/24/2025 22:44 | machiaj | 789 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/24/2025 18:33 | traistboar | 1,580 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2025 15:09 | MarkusKosmo | 610 | 85/100 |
| ! | 02/07/2025 08:26 | cicadelic | 11,947 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.7/100, a mean average of 77.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.0.
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Excellent psychedelic album. Can almost smell the incense and other concoctions on the air. Recording quality not the best but that kind of adds to the experience. Tough call between this and Crown of Creation.
An indelible part of the spring and summer of 1970, yet I can't quite call it a favorite- this most unstable of all the great bands was cracking up, and the fissures are everywhere. Still, "Good Shepherd," "Eskimo Blue Day," "Wooden Ships..."
Amazing album. The Airplane's best. A brilliant social/political commentary and easily their most consistent set of songs. Classic. Should get much more attention than it does.
VictorVale 06/10/2021 22:08 | #270528
Clássico um pouco esquecido!
It's not their most compelling release, but it has its moments. I preferred side 2, which really captures a mood that 1969 must have invoked on the Airplane, fittingly concluding with a signature-sounding title track "Volunteers".
But, overall, probably a record that same-era collectors could pass on in favour of Jefferson Airplane's earlier albums.
RoundTheBend 02/26/2016 01:51 | #160739
Volunteers and Sheppard are worth listening to, but the rest I'd be ok if I didn't hear it again. Not bad, just not good.
NickVolos 10/02/2013 08:23 | #87430
Best Airplane album, in my opinion, epitomizes the group's compositional maturity and playing ability. A "No Frills" political statement with some explicit lyrical references to top that: "Up against the wall (motherfucker)".
junodog4 08/07/2012 16:38 | #48040
The Airplane's second best. A great last gasp at the end of the 60s. The 70s and 80s were not kind to this band. Starship? Bleh....
More hardline politically and 'earthy' musically than the utopianism of 'Baxter's', this album marks the band's transition from the latter to the former. The band is still able to capture the mood of a generation stuck between the fatigue represented by idealism of peace on the one hand, and socio-political optimism on the other. In my view, this doesn't quite grab me as much as 'Baxter's, but its still brilliant.
telefunker 06/01/2009 19:30 | #4505
some beautiful moments, fantastically atmospheric, quintessential 60s counter-culture, pacifist music.. just not musically as striking as surrealistic pillow though.. my 2nd favourite airplane album
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