1967
Hunter S. Thompson likes it and so should you. It's too cheesy at times. But at other times, it's too GOOD!
1969
Even if this album was crap, the packaging would make up for everything. I don't know what the CD version looks like, but I don't see how it can compare to the full glory of the record. Funny fake newspaper on the front cover, back cover, a big squished peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the gatefold, and just when you've fallen in complete LOVE with the album forever without even hearing it, you find another two-sided newspaper sheet inside with more funny.
On top of all this is the best Jefferson Airplane since Surrealistic Pillow, and I like it better. I have most of the Airplane's 60's stuff but I'm not going to review much more of it because it's so... so... Blah. But this album is great and I never even listen to side two! I hear side two is good though. Every song on side one is wonderful, and just when Hey Frederick starts out like it's going to be a bad song, it changes rapidly into a GOOD SONG.
Really, I'm totally right about Volunteers. It's the best Jefferson Airplane album by far, even if nobody else thinks so and I only ever listen to the first side. I have listened to the second side, I just don't remember much about it except "Wooden Ships" and that Grace Slick sings about various things that "doesn't mean shit to a tree."
Nurse Flounder is too young to marry.