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Surrealistic Pillow

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Jefferson Airplane Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

1	She Has Funny Cars
2	Somebody to Love
3	My Best Friend
4	Today
5	Comin' Back to Me
6	3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
7	D. C. B. A.-25
8	How Do You Feel
9	Embryonic Journey
10	White Rabbit
11	Plastic Fantastic Lover
12	In The Morning
13	J. P. P. Mc Step B. Blues
14	Go To Her
15	Come Back Baby
16	Somebody to Love (Mono Single Version)
17	White Rabbit (Mono Single Version)

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2193798
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2003
Run time ‏ : ‎ 58 minutes
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 10, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000A0DRY
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #1,066 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #15 in Classic Psychedelic Rock
- #27 in Folk Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #28 in Vocal Pop (CDs & Vinyl)

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Steven Perry

Just gets better with age

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2024

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Hadn't listened to this album in years, and was amazed at how good it is, especially considering the recording equipment they had back then. Grace and Jorma are great, of course, but I had forgotten how beautifully gut-wrenching Marty's songs were. Arguably the best Bay Area band of all time. Only wish that it had been packaged better so that the jewel box wasn't crushed.

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Larry Smolarz

A blast from the past!

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2024

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Was surprised that I didn’t have this on CD already.
Great price!

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Konrei

"...too many days I've left unstoned..."

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2006

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Most of the members of Jefferson Airplane have always said that Jerry Garcia played on, sang on, named and produced SURREALISTIC PILLOW, facts denied by RCA's named producer Rick Jarrard and Airplane drummer Spencer Dryden. Hence, Garcia was never given producer's credit; but he was named as "spiritual advisor" to the album. As metaphysician to the acid-rock age, Dr. Garcia did a great job. SURREALISTIC PILLOW spawned not one but two classic anthems of the Summer of Love (for those of you too young to know, that would be 1967), "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit," covers of songs originally sung by The Great Society. Thus, not only did Jefferson Airplane attain flight speed (their first album, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF literally got them off the ground), but it ensured them a permanent place in the Rock pantheon as the definitive interpreters of "the San Francisco sound."

While SURREALISTIC PILLOW is not the prime example of the band's preferred overtly political, dense musical style (that would be their fourth album, CROWN OF CREATION), SURREALISTIC PILLOW is, far and away, their best work. A group with intense internal stresses, this album found the band in a fleeting moment of dynamic suspension. The Airplane would never sound so unified and yet so eclectic ever again. SURREALISTIC PILLOW has wandered, but not too far, from Jefferson Airplane's folk/blues/vocal harmony roots. Although they sing and play together, each member of the band has a distinctive sound, all of which mesh perfectly on this album.

"She Has Funny Cars" opens the album with a jungle beat, wailing guitars, and offbeat lyrics, immediately followed by the anthematic "Somebody To Love" (written by Darby Slick but sung by Grace Slick). Grace's voice has been described by some as "steely" and by others as "a silken-sailed clipper ship," and everyone is both right and wrong. The former I. Magnin model's powerful contralto both challenges and invites her bandmates (and the listener) to keep pace, being all at once playful, petulant, demanding, ingenuous, and erotic.

"My Best Friend" is a nice vocal harmony number that goes well with whatever everybody was smoking that long-ago summer; and "Today" and "Comin' Back To Me" are paeans to lost love, the former from the perspective of the leaving party, and the latter from the one left behind (and still tear-inducing).

The oddly named "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds" and "DCBA-25" are drug songs, pure and simple, from that innocently luminescent time where no harm was done to anyone, the consciousness expanded, and God was seen on a daily basis. Both songs presage the Airplane's emergent distinctive style, musically and thematically.

"How Do You Feel" revisits the tenor of "My Best Friend," to be followed by what many people consider the best song on the album, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen's brief (less than two minutes), beautiful, complex, finger-picking instrumental masterpiece, "Embryonic Journey."

The original album closes with the Lewis Carroll-inspired cautionary drug anthem, "White Rabbit" and then singer Marty Balin's "Plastic Fantastic Lover," which he claims to be about television, but transcends itself into a song about free love.

The bonus tracks "In The Morning," "JPP McStep B. Blues," "Go To Her," "Come Back Baby" and mono AM radio mixes of "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love" were all recorded during the SURREALISTIC PILLOW sessions, but never used. Each spotlights and highlights the amazing talents of the members of Jefferson Airplane, and each has its rightful home on this disc.

SURREALISTIC PILLOW belongs next to The Beatles' SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, the Beach Boys' PET SOUNDS, Jimi Hendrix's ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?, Cream's DISRAELI GEARS, and The Doors' THE DOORS as a definitive addition to the canon of ageless rock albums released in that one amazing year of 1967.

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Mark

One of the best Albums by Jefferson Airplane

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024

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I used to listen to this album when I was in my teens. Great Album, brings back lots of memories...

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Missing Person

uneven and overrated; not as great as the debut

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2007

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After all the hype, it's hard to not be considerably disappointed with Jefferson Airplane's second album, 1967's "Surrealistic Pillow". It doesn't have the cohesiveness of the first album, "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off", where even the covers of "Tobacco Road" and "Chauffeur Blues" had been rendered brilliantly and fit right in. With "Surrealistic Pillow", several of the tracks reek of lightweight filler, specifically Paul Kantner's jangly, Byrds-ish throwaway "D.C.B.A.-25", as well as a couple of sugary folk-rockers--"My Best Friend", written by Skip Spence (who played drums on the first album but was already out of the band), would have been right up the Mamas and the Papas' alley (no, that's not a compliment); and there's also the dippy ode to infatuation "How Do You Feel". Plus, Marty Balin's ultra-hazy ballad "Comin' Back To Me", despite some eloquent lyrics, feels like a strained attempt to pull the heartstrings, and it drags too, running on for over 5 minutes, and I also don't like having it positioned in the track listing directly before "3/5 of a Mile In 10 Seconds".

Now, don't get me wrong--despite everything I just said, many of the individual tracks are fantastic. "She Has Funny Cars" is a brilliantly-crafted and nicely rocking opener. Balin gets in a pair of stomping rockers with the roaring, edgy "3/5 of a Mile In 10 Seconds", and the ultra-witty, insinuating, Dylan-esque "Plastic Fantastic Lover". Jorma Kaukonen is spotlighted with his uplifting, solo acoustic guitar instrumental "Embryonic Journey". And of course, there are the two well-known hits, "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit", both of which feature Grace Slick on lead vocals. This was Grace's first album with the band, and both "Somebody To Love" (originally titled "Someone To Love") and "White Rabbit" had been part of the repertoire of her previous band, The Great Society, with the former having been written by her then brother-in-law Darby Slick, and the latter written by Grace herself.

The Balin/Kantner ballad "Today" is sort of a mixed bag, featuring a captivating electric guitar line, but again feeling melodramatic, albeit not as much as "Comin' Back To Me". It's kind of incredible that Balin wanted to get this song to Tony Bennett who was working in a nearby studio at the time.

As for the bonus tracks on this 2003 reissue, the most significant addition, not counting the mono single mixes of "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit", is the pleading rocker "Go To Her" which also appears on the 2003 "...Takes Off" reissue in a version that was recorded with Signe Anderson (the female singer on their first album before Grace joined), but the version here with Grace is clearly more powerful, and perhaps the fact that the band HAD recorded the song with Signe has something to do with why it was left off the original album. Spence's "J.P.P. McStep B. Blues" is another insubstantial folk-rocker, although it would have made a better choice for the main album than "My Best Friend". Jorma's "In The Morning" is a dull, 6+ minute slow-blues, although his rocked-up arrangement of the traditional "Come Back Baby" is enjoyable.

There's been some controversy regarding Jerry Garcia's role in the making of the album. Garcia is credited on the album sleeve as "Musical and Spiritual Advisor", and Kantner, Balin, Slick, Kaukonen, Jack Casady, and Spencer Dryden all confirm that Garcia was prominently involved in the recording sessions. However, producer Rick Jarrard, along with longtime Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship associate Pat "Maurice" Ieraci, agree that Garcia played no guitar on the album and that he wasn't present at any of the album's recording sessions.

All in all, "Surrealistic Pillow" is uneven and overrated. If you're new to the Airplane, I recommend starting with the 2003 CD reissue of "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off", although you'll certainly want to move onto "...Pillow" before long.

(P.S. I've received two different copies of this 2003 reissue of "Surrealistic Pillow", and both of them feature botched liner notes. After the cover and first page of text, it bafflingly switches over to the liner notes for the 2004 "Volunteers" reissue, continuing all the way up to the track listing page which then goes back to "...Pillow".)

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