Hits (1998)

About this title: There has been no dearth of greatest-hits and best-of albums devoted to Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, but this is the first one combining tracks from all three editions of the group that started in San Francisco in the mid-'60s and ended its run in the early '90s with entirely different personnel. The band continued to maintain the same basic elements for most of its run, the constants being a soaring male tenor (either Marty Balin or Mickey Thomas) and a stinging lead guitar (either Jorma Kaukonen or Craig Chaquico), even if its best-remembered sound was the icy, ... read more

Tracks:

1. It's No Secret [Balin]
2. Somebody to Love [Slick/Slick]
3. White Rabbit [Slick]
4. Embryonic Journey [Kaukonen]
5. Plastic Fantastic Lover [Balin]
6. Comin' Back to Me [Balin]
7. The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil [Kantner]
8. Greasy Heart [Slick]
9. Lather [Slick]
10. Crown of Creation [Kantner]
11. Wooden Ships [Crosby/Kantner/Stil]
12. Volunteers [Balin/Kantner]
13. Good Shepherd [Kaukonen/Traditiona]
14. Have You Seen the Saucers [Kantner]
15. Pretty as You Feel [Covington/Casady/Ka]
16. Third Week in the Chelsea [Kaukonen]
17. Long John Silver [Casady/Slick]
18. Caroline [Kantner/Balin]
19. Ride the Tiger [Kantner/Slick/Yu]
20. Miracles [Balin]
21. With Your Love [Balin/Covington/Smi]
22. Count on Me [Barish]
23. Runaway [Dewey]
24. Jane [Freiberg/McPherson/]
25. Find Your Way Back [Borsdorf/Chaquico]
26. Stranger [Sears/Sears]
27. Be My Lady [Sears/Sears]
28. No Way Out [Wolf/Wolf]
29. Layin' It on the Line [Chaquico/Thomas]
30. We Built This City [Taupin/Page/Lambert]
31. Sara [Wolf/Wolf]
32. Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight [Cristol/Randall]
33. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now [Warren/Hammond]
34. It's Not Over ('Til It's Over) [Galdston/Nevil/VanT]
35. It's Not Enough [Page/Funderburk]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.