After Bathing at Baxter's

50 Essential Albums of 1967 (50 music items)

"Singer Marty Balin was so alienated by the acid-fueled indulgence of the sessions for the Airplane's third album – four months in Los Angeles, where the band stayed in a mansion that once housed the Beatles – that he co-wrote only one song, "Young Girl Sunday Blues." Yet Baxter's was the Airplane at their most defiantly psychedelic, exploring outer limits of despair and song form in the dark urgency of "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil," Grace Slick's "Rejoyce" – a protest-cabaret adap"