“Plastic Fantastic Lover” (1967) is not about what you think it is…* It was authored by Marty Balin as an ode to his new stereo sound system, which was a novelty at the time. Jefferson Airplane played this during their set at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. The iconic festival is remembered for peace and love ☮️, but not for its timeliness : the band didn’t go on until 8:00 a.m. on the second day❕ 💚☮️💙 * If you do not have the slightest clue, YOU SHOULD NOT EVEN READ THIS, for Pete’s sake‼️
Heard this in the mid-'80s, and that's only because my stepfather had this album (he was a fan of theirs.) I found it by playing the album---for some silly reason, I never sat down and listened to the whole thing---mainly because Jefferson Airplane got played all the time on classic rock radio anyway. Always liked this one,though, no matter how weird it was,lol.
I have to come listen to this everytime I hear White Rabbit somewhere else, the two must be listened to together. The marching rhythm and smack of reality pulls you right out of the dream White Rabbit puts you into.
The first time i saw this album was when a high school classmate smuggled a copy into English class. It was passed around surreptitiously from desk to desk. It blew our little minds!
@@xXxMOLTARxXx the Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during mid-1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.
I downloaded it with the album, love a airplane, grew up with them. Appreciate them a so much more now, especially this little tune. This is really really cool when you listen. Love the airplane, and following groups, no one close to grace BTW. BEAUTIFUL VOICE. LOOKS AND PERSONA. never got the credit she deserved.
Went to the Field House off campus by USC. It was billed as San Francisco Review or bands. Showed up that night it was Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Canned Heat and Quicksilver and the Messenger Service. I think this was 1966 before Monterey Pop Festival. They all played stuff from their 1st albums that hadn't come out yet. I believe Airplane came out first and it was unbelievable with White Rabbit ect. Then big Brother came out and the lead singer was arm length from me on an 3 foot elevated stage. She was dressed in a black shrouded dress that I never seen anyone wear before. This was the first of many 1st that night. When she started singing I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I had no reference to that kind of blue's nor that voice. One of a kind experience and that was Janis Joplin. Can Heat was next then Quicksilver all were great, all were on but Janis was unbelievable. I kept thinking this lady can sure sing but she wasn't the most handsome girl borderline ugly im sorry to say. I didn't understand how special that night was until much later. Glad to have the memories.
One of my favorite Airplane songs on my favorite Airplane album. The live version on Pointed Little Head is really good, but it’s too fast and frantic, and lessens the acidic vibe of the studio version. I believe the live version was recorded after members of the band had seen Cream at the Fillmore and decided they needed to rock harder. I think the studio version of this song is actually paced better and is more trippy. Anyway, a fabulous song!!
Her neon mouth with the blinkers-off smile Nothing but an electric sign You could say she has an individual style She's part of a colorful time Secrecy of lady-chrome-covered clothes You wear cause you have no other But I suppose no one knows You're my plastic fantastic lover Her rattlin' cough never shuts off Is nothin' but a used machine Her aluminum finish, slightly diminished Is the best I ever have seen Cosmetic baby plugged into me I'd never ever find another I realize no one's wise To my plastic fantastic lover The electrical dust is starting to rust Her trapezoid thermometer taste All the red tape is mechanical rape Of the TV program waste Data control and IBM Science is mankind's brother But all I see is drainin' me On my plastic fantastic lover
Your rattlin' cough never shuts off Is nothing but a used machine Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished Is the best I've ever seenStill kicks ass in 2018!
wow! no shit man! Your very astute! much more than that, God bless all our ww2 vets! without your supreme sacrifice all this great music we enjoy and take for granted does not happen. THANK YOU!!!!!
2016 was a horrible year for celebrities. So many great performers passed on, and some of them younger than I. It reminds me that I could step in front of a bus at any moment, or eat something in a restaurant, or something similar. BTW, I'm 67, and not ready to buy the farm quite yet. RIP, all who left us in '16. Maybe 2017 won't be quite as bad, but consider the ages of some of the big names in music. I won't list them, but some are well into their 70s. :(
Know your history. Young people think they invented rap music. If you don’t know history, you’ll walk around clueless. A song from Jefferson Airplane’s album was released October 31, 1966 - March 6, 1967, “Plastic Fantastic Lover.”
When dissonant chords work, it's a gem. When they don't...it isn't pretty. Their imperfections made it work, which is why it would be so hard to recreate. If all the bends were spot on, this song wouldn't be as great as it is.
Its Plastic,so fantastic,its my Lover the POS Cells on their phonies & Phonies on their cells. Travelled to ALL 48 States contiguosly 1969 never made a call. Post Cards .05 sents...get it
Balin wrote this song as a ballad to his TV set, that's where the plastic comes from. I prefer the live versions of this tune around '69-70 when Jorma tears it up.
cnedwick I listened to this album on lsd recently. Totally life changing! I guess I never gave the Airplane the credit they deserved. I could hear a lot of similarities with the Grateful Dead's self titled debut. I was wondering how much Jerry had to do with the way this record swings rhythmically. Also hear some echoes of Dark Star in Today.
i´m a 70´s kid so we kicked on this in the 90´s why cause of the sixties revival in the nineties all these great tracks and vibes me my friends and a lot of others taking acid our main drugs were acid xtc shrooms weed afterwards a shitload of coke and sometimes just chillin´with salvia truffels or downers and uppers and a truckload of beer and booze blending the sixties music with nineties psycedelic trance-music and also on the regular totaly out.of.your.plate hardcore-raves but most people don´t like that anyway in that timeperiod ´plastic fantastic lover´ and ´truckin´from the gratefull dead i always played like in the last two hours of the 80 hours we were straight awake some of us also went to hardcorepunkfestivals that was interresting the correlation between hardcorePunk and hardcoreHouse besides the totally wild dancing and the mdma pills and the mda pills those salmiaks beige with black dots do they still make those havent seen them in ages i don´t like nowadays house-music i mean the big names in the biz i don´t get it mayby i´m crazy i check it now and then what´s going on but it´s total shit there´s nothing to put you in a groove luckily the smaller clubs you can go for a good time i mean here in holland but the festivals is fokk the young people love it it sound like funfair-rides and every other 30 sec a different ride i know it always has funfair sounds but this is getting crazy it´s almost anti-music must be i´m getting old or something
[Verse 1] Her neon mouth with the blinkers-off smile Nothing but an electric sign You could say she has an individual style She's a part of a colorful time Secrecy of lady-chrome-covered clothes You wear 'cause you have no other But I suppose no one knows You're my plastic fantastic lover [Verse 2] Her rattlin' cough never shuts off Is nothin' but a used machine Her aluminum finish, slightly diminished Is the best I ever have seen Cosmetic baby plugged into me I'd never ever find another And I realize no one's wise To my plastic fantastic lover [Verse 3] The electrical dust is starting to rust Her trapezoid thermometer taste All the red tape is mechanical rape Of the TV program waste Data control and IBM Science is mankind's brother But all I see is drainin' me On my plastic fantastic lover
I dedicate this to Gloucesters Patsy Clark,, aka rick..where the people and money doesn't stop. But the voices did..the silence of the majority.. Dungeon babies.. Don't break down on the road...
It was written by Marty Balin as an ode to his new stereo system, which was a novelty item at the time. Or so I've been told. I suppose a hippie rock star in 1967 free-love San Fran would have no need for a sex toy.
Her neon mouth with a bleeding talk smile Is nothing but electric sign You could say she has an individual style She's a part of a colorful timeSuper-sealed lady, chrome-color clothes You wear 'cause you have no other But I suppose no one knows You're my plastic fantastic loverYour rattlin' cough never shuts off Is nothing but a used machine Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished Is the best I've ever seenCosmetic baby, plug into me And never, ever find another And I realize no one's wise To my plastic fantastic loverThe electrical dust is starting to rust Her trapezoid thermometer taste All the red tape is mechanical rape Of the TV program wasteData control and I.B.M. Science is mankind's brother But all I see is draining me On my plastic fantastic lover
Patchouli Oil ~ Paisley ~ mini dress ~ pink smoke ~ light show ~ 12 years old ~ sneak in ~ long long blonde hair ~ tight tight jeans ~ 18 year old guys ~ Whoa ~ get autograph ~ daydream about him forever ~
We sure grew up in great times! This album is one of the reasons!
Thank you! Some of us still here, and out there!
This album is one of the greatest albums ever created period a shame airplane didn't last longer together
By the time of this album they had already replaced two personnel from their FIRST album, JA Takes Off!
Everyone in this house agrees with you.
Absolutely!
Starship is pretty awesome too.
@@benkleschinsky no way, I feel it's nothing more than pop rock , weakest of the 80s pop music, not judging at all just my take on it
This is one of those tunes which grabbed me the first time I heard it and has become a tiny piece of me hanging around in the attic of my mind
One of my favorite albums of all time. Fantastic tunes throughout the entire album.
This was rap, decades before rap!!
But this eould be rap that you could actually listen to.
“Plastic Fantastic Lover” (1967) is not about what you think it is…* It was authored by Marty Balin as an ode to his new stereo sound system, which was a novelty at the time.
Jefferson Airplane played this during their set at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. The iconic festival is remembered for peace and love ☮️, but not for its timeliness : the band didn’t go on until 8:00 a.m. on the second day❕ 💚☮️💙
* If you do not have the slightest clue, YOU SHOULD NOT EVEN READ THIS, for Pete’s sake‼️
why can't ANYONE write music this good anymore???!!
Tame Impala.....Innerspeaker
It's simple people don't have imaginations anymore they're like robots that's the problem with the world today 😞😥😴
such a kick ass song .... I first heard it in the mid 90s when still in HS..... love it since....
Heard this in the mid-'80s, and that's only because my stepfather had this album (he was a fan of theirs.) I found it by playing the album---for some silly reason, I never sat down and listened to the whole thing---mainly because Jefferson Airplane got played all the time on classic rock radio anyway. Always liked this one,though, no matter how weird it was,lol.
It's really something isn't it.
waay retro,,,,good music
JORMA's guitar is haunting,JACK's Bass right with it...with Marty singing of the TV program waste...1,000 channels of it now....mindmelding
I damn near wore this album out when I got hold of it! This one is a gem!
yuppers
I have to come listen to this everytime I hear White Rabbit somewhere else, the two must be listened to together. The marching rhythm and smack of reality pulls you right out of the dream White Rabbit puts you into.
A true "Psychedelic" song !!
Why the quot marks?
@@BilisNegra Why the abbrev.?
Y the abbreviation/period?@@hectormugwump5530
The first time i saw this album was when a high school classmate smuggled a copy into English class. It was passed around surreptitiously from desk to desk. It blew our little minds!
I was with my dad and we were listening to underground 60’s 70’s music, and this song came on, and now I’m stuck to it
Oh, 1967, what a year.
the Summer of Love
@@xXxMOLTARxXx the Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during mid-1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.
Fuck yeah I can't even imagine what it would meant to be 20 in the 67s but i surely know that being young in 2021 it's fucking horrible
This album was the first vinyl I ever bought. Worth every penny :)
I downloaded it with the album, love a airplane, grew up with them. Appreciate them a so much more now, especially this little tune. This is really really cool when you listen. Love the airplane, and following groups, no one close to grace BTW. BEAUTIFUL VOICE. LOOKS AND PERSONA. never got the credit she deserved.
what a great group or band or both. RIP Paul K. You're music Lives.!!!
Damn, I love the SF sound.......................
1966-1967 years were eye opening experiences, thanks JA !
This tune is the pinnacle of acid rock!
Went to the Field House off campus by USC. It was billed as San Francisco Review or bands. Showed up that night it was Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Canned Heat and Quicksilver and the Messenger Service. I think this was 1966 before Monterey Pop Festival. They all played stuff from their 1st albums that hadn't come out yet. I believe Airplane came out first and it was unbelievable with White Rabbit ect. Then big Brother came out and the lead singer was arm length from me on an 3 foot elevated stage. She was dressed in a black shrouded dress that I never seen anyone wear before. This was the first of many 1st that night. When she started singing I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I had no reference to that kind of blue's nor that voice. One of a kind experience and that was Janis Joplin. Can Heat was next then Quicksilver all were great, all were on but Janis was unbelievable. I kept thinking this lady can sure sing but she wasn't the most handsome girl borderline ugly im sorry to say. I didn't understand how special that night was until much later. Glad to have the memories.
I love this version song... pure acid song.
One of my favorite Airplane songs on my favorite Airplane album. The live version on Pointed Little Head is really good, but it’s too fast and frantic, and lessens the acidic vibe of the studio version. I believe the live version was recorded after members of the band had seen Cream at the Fillmore and decided they needed to rock harder. I think the studio version of this song is actually paced better and is more trippy. Anyway, a fabulous song!!
Paul and Marty orchestrated this at a perfectly timed pace.
Her neon mouth with the blinkers-off smile
Nothing but an electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's part of a colorful time
Secrecy of lady-chrome-covered clothes
You wear cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic lover
Her rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothin' but a used machine
Her aluminum finish, slightly diminished
Is the best I ever have seen
Cosmetic baby plugged into me
I'd never ever find another
I realize no one's wise
To my plastic fantastic lover
The electrical dust is starting to rust
Her trapezoid thermometer taste
All the red tape is mechanical rape
Of the TV program waste
Data control and IBM
Science is mankind's brother
But all I see is drainin' me
On my plastic fantastic lover
This song & in a gada da vida best pyschedelic songs of all time
Thanx4 the lyrics.
@Tony Harris I lol'd.
Beat Poetry set to music, so groovy baby...
great lyrics! 📺 💻
Sooo much fun!!! Thanks once more, Marty!
Love the tone that Jack's getting on that bass. Sounds almost acoustic-like.
Grace said she couldnt sing once in concert tripping on Jacks bass line
@@MichaelTobin-m1d That's really interesting.
Your rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothing but a used machine
Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished
Is the best I've ever seenStill kicks ass in 2018!
wow!
no shit man!
Your very astute!
much more than that, God bless all our ww2 vets!
without your supreme sacrifice all this great music we
enjoy and take for granted does not happen.
THANK YOU!!!!!
Flip side of White Rabbit.- RCA-Victor 45 1 July 1967
To think that Jerry Garcia helped out making this album is just wow! One of the best albums hands down
Jerry "Captain Trips" Garcia", spiritual advisor on this album.
Jer plays flat top guitar on this track
Wow you have a "Love" pic
Marty Balin, always Marty Balin.
RIP
Right when I heard this I knew this was next on my list to learn on guitar and sing
I heard this a a child. It high-ly influenced me. I'm kind of proud that I self-delayed taking acid until I was 16.
Jefferson Jukebox, a real find. Thanks for putting on all the early J.A.!!!!
First David Bowie, then Glen Frey, now Paul Kantner, DAMN!!!
You do realize Grace Slick died on the same day as Paul Katner, right
Hunter Brewer It wasin't Grace Slick, it was Signe Toly Anderson, their first singer.
oh yes sorry
2016 was a horrible year for celebrities. So many great performers passed on, and some of them younger than I. It reminds me that I could step in front of a bus at any moment, or eat something in a restaurant, or something similar. BTW, I'm 67, and not ready to buy the farm quite yet. RIP, all who left us in '16. Maybe 2017 won't be quite as bad, but consider the ages of some of the big names in music. I won't list them, but some are well into their 70s. :(
Hunter Brewe ???!!! It was Signe. Amazing singer and a beautiful human being. RIP.
Some people really love this song. ❤❤❤
RIP PAUL KANTNER
RIP Balin and Kantner... Spencer Charles Dryden as well. Giid and weird (period)
So this is the song that Jim Morrison collapsed on stage and Manzarek took over on the whole set. AMAZING!
Ummmm. This is Jefferson Airplane, what about the Doors?
Know your history. Young people think they invented rap music. If you don’t know history, you’ll walk around clueless. A song from Jefferson Airplane’s album was released October 31, 1966 - March 6, 1967, “Plastic Fantastic Lover.”
Pigmeat Markham still did it first, though.
Some people really love this song. ❤❤❤
GREAT SONG!!
That bass lines 🤙
Favorite Airplane song.
Groovy man!
Best name for a song ever.
Wonderful song.
When dissonant chords work, it's a gem. When they don't...it isn't pretty. Their imperfections made it work, which is why it would be so hard to recreate. If all the bends were spot on, this song wouldn't be as great as it is.
MAN !!!!!!! , The "A" musta been SOooo Damn gooood back then !!!!!!
im ready for takeoff,.... NOW !!!!!!
First RAP song! jk Best San Francisco group of ALL TIME!
Great song.
I like this version best.
What other versions are you thinking of?
Wow! Awesome! Thanks for sharing part of the history on this! Mahalo!
I wonder if the 1968 Airplane could have imagined how much more plastic the world would become?
Recorded 1966, released 1967.
So?
The song is about a T V set
‘Moonlighting’ TV show brought me here 🙌🏾
Thanks for the upload. This song was used in a 1989 episode of moonlighting..XD
To funny,I have this CD,I got this CD when I was seventeen in 1997 but it hasn't been relevant until I was over thirty years of age. 😁
Great !
Jefferson still 😃
Jefferson Airplane
Album: Surrealistic Pillow
Data di uscita: 1967
Its Plastic,so fantastic,its my Lover the POS Cells on their phonies & Phonies on their cells. Travelled to ALL 48 States contiguosly 1969 never made a call. Post Cards .05 sents...get it
RIP, Marty
If i ever start a band, I would definitely center the style around the jeffair formula
Our World 2 DAY !
Great story involving Jim Morrison regarding this song, while on stage in Amsterdam…. Look it up
RIP Marty Balin
Αυτά ειναι φανταστικά πράγματα όλα τα υπόλοιπα είναι αλήθεια!
RIP Marty Balin.
Balin wrote this song as a ballad to his TV set, that's where the plastic comes from. I prefer the live versions of this tune around '69-70 when Jorma tears it up.
I once had one.
2nd best psychedelic song of all time.In a gada da vida #1
Hah, Marty rappin'. Good call.
My favorite cut on my favorite Airplane LP.
Calling someone "plastic" in the '60's was a real downer.
The plastic radiator part in the cars motor just burst...real downer...one week old part. Down with plastic in general.
@cnedwick he also helped write someone to love. I think he also might have produced it.
few people are aware that jerry garcia plays acoustic six string on this number.
And in lots of other places on this album!
cnedwick I listened to this album on lsd recently. Totally life changing! I guess I never gave the Airplane the credit they deserved. I could hear a lot of similarities with the Grateful Dead's self titled debut. I was wondering how much Jerry had to do with the way this record swings rhythmically. Also hear some echoes of Dark Star in Today.
If you bought the White Rabbit 45, this was on the flipside 😎
ROCK ON! D_ LDO
The first album I bought with my own money. I was 12
12/22/18 thank you sweetie 💚
@cnedwick It surely does have that Viola Lee groove at the beginning, no?
RIP Marty
i´m a 70´s kid so we kicked on this in the 90´s why cause of the sixties revival in the nineties
all these great tracks and vibes me my friends and a lot of others taking acid our main drugs were acid
xtc shrooms weed afterwards a shitload of coke and sometimes just chillin´with salvia truffels or downers and uppers and a truckload of beer and booze blending the sixties music with nineties psycedelic trance-music
and also on the regular totaly out.of.your.plate hardcore-raves but most people don´t like that
anyway in that timeperiod ´plastic fantastic lover´ and ´truckin´from the gratefull dead i always played like in the last two hours of the 80 hours we were straight awake some of us also went to hardcorepunkfestivals
that was interresting the correlation between hardcorePunk and hardcoreHouse
besides the totally wild dancing
and the mdma pills and the mda pills those salmiaks beige with black dots
do they still make those havent seen them in ages
i don´t like nowadays house-music i mean the big names in the biz i don´t get it mayby i´m crazy i check it now and then what´s going on but it´s total shit there´s nothing to put you in a groove
luckily the smaller clubs you can go for a good time i mean here in holland
but the festivals is fokk the young people love it it sound like funfair-rides and every other 30 sec a different ride
i know it always has funfair sounds but this is getting crazy it´s almost anti-music
must be i´m getting old or something
[Verse 1]
Her neon mouth with the blinkers-off smile
Nothing but an electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's a part of a colorful time
Secrecy of lady-chrome-covered clothes
You wear 'cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic lover
[Verse 2]
Her rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothin' but a used machine
Her aluminum finish, slightly diminished
Is the best I ever have seen
Cosmetic baby plugged into me
I'd never ever find another
And I realize no one's wise
To my plastic fantastic lover
[Verse 3]
The electrical dust is starting to rust
Her trapezoid thermometer taste
All the red tape is mechanical rape
Of the TV program waste
Data control and IBM
Science is mankind's brother
But all I see is drainin' me
On my plastic fantastic lover
Reading a review of the Barbie movie I had to revisit this song...
I dedicate this to Gloucesters Patsy Clark,, aka rick..where the people and money doesn't stop. But the voices did..the silence of the majority.. Dungeon babies.. Don't break down on the road...
Just be careful of that tower of power, William.
While this song was impressive in early 1967, the live version on "Bless Its Pointed Head," from 18 months later, clearly transcends this rendition.
I know this us si but this slbum blew our minfs.
Strsight kids in philly.
The only time I liked rap music.
Used in a 1989 episode of moonlighting...XD
Recyclable sex partners, what a concept. Way ahead of thier time..........
It was written by Marty Balin as an ode to his new stereo system, which was a novelty item at the time. Or so I've been told. I suppose a hippie rock star in 1967 free-love San Fran would have no need for a sex toy.
Fantastic song buy any standard. ya eh
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Walk This Way Aerosmisth and Run DMC
54 sec. mark. Har!
Her neon mouth with a bleeding talk smile
Is nothing but electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's a part of a colorful timeSuper-sealed lady, chrome-color clothes
You wear 'cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic loverYour rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothing but a used machine
Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished
Is the best I've ever seenCosmetic baby, plug into me
And never, ever find another
And I realize no one's wise
To my plastic fantastic loverThe electrical dust is starting to rust
Her trapezoid thermometer taste
All the red tape is mechanical rape
Of the TV program wasteData control and I.B.M.
Science is mankind's brother
But all I see is draining me
On my plastic fantastic lover
I came here looking for New Order ...ha ha
LoLol.
Patchouli Oil ~ Paisley ~ mini dress ~ pink smoke ~ light show ~ 12 years old ~ sneak in ~ long long blonde hair ~ tight tight jeans ~ 18 year old guys ~ Whoa ~ get autograph ~ daydream about him forever ~
Ja sam plasticni hirurg plastik fantastik
@kingsuji so a "plastic" person was pretty much a dead beat right?
lsd trippin