Description:Surrealistic Pillow is the second album by American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in February 1967.
Original drummer Alexander 'Skip' Spence had left the band in mid-1966, replaced by a jazz drummer from Los Angeles, Spencer Dryden. New lead vocalist Grace Slick joined the band in 1966. Both Slick and Dryden deSurrealistic Pillow is the second album by American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in February 1967.
Original drummer Alexander 'Skip' Spence had left the band in mid-1966, replaced by a jazz drummer from Los Angeles, Spencer Dryden. New lead vocalist Grace Slick joined the band in 1966. Both Slick and Dryden debuted with the band on records with this album and its attendant singles, thus completing the best-known line-up of the group, which would remain stable until Dryden's departure in 1970. It is also considered to be one of the quintessential albums of the 1960s counterculture movement.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : RCA Victor Release date : 1 February 1967 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 0828765035125 UPC: 828765035125
"5th Febraury
Despite how good their debut album from the previous year was, this is where Jefferson Airplane truly took off. With the most well-known line-up now in place with Grace Slick as the new (and now iconic) female vocalist and Spencer Dryden as the new drummer. With wonderful song progressions, a balanced track list of both soft and harder rock and reflective, philosophical and romantic, it has rightfully become a classic album. A defining release that helped start the summer of love.
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""White Rabbit" the most known song from this album has become the soundtrack to drug use everywhere, so if that doesn't show you it's influence I don't know what will. It's a brilliant album made by gods in the psychedelic music industry."
"Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Based on the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just h"
John Homer added this to a list 6 months, 1 week ago
"By: Jefferson Airplane
Release date: 1967
Standing track: Today
Often considered as the quintessential 60's album, Pillow is one of the easiest album to fall in love with. The vocals are beautiful, check out Today and She Has Funny Cars, the music is enchanting in some and the lyrics are also great, especially in White Rabbit and Somebody to Love.
These qualities make Surrealistic Pillow one of the best efforts in music history."
joelarocca added this to a list 1 year, 1 month ago
""Psychedelic scholar have long tried to pin down just what the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia did on this album (besides contribute some guitar playing) to earn a credit as "musical and spiritual adviser." But the real trip is the Airplane's musical sorcery: a hallucinatory distillation of folk-blues vocals, garage-rock guitar and crisp pop songwriting. The effects were felt nationwide. Grace Slick's vocal showcases, "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love," made Surrealistic Pillow a commercial smas"
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