Surrealistic pillow

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Surrealistic pillow
Jefferson Airplane studio album

Publication
(s)

February 1967

Label (s) RCA

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Psychedelic rock

Title (number)

11

running time

34 min 48 sec

production

  • Rick Jarrard
  • David Hassinger - Engineer

Studio (s)

RCA Studio A, Hollywood CA, Los Angeles

chronology
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
(1966) 		Surrealistic pillow After Bathing at Baxter’s
(1967)

Surrealistic Pillow is the second album by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane . It is also the first with Grace Slick . The album, released in February 1967, contains the two most famous songs by Jefferson Airplane, Somebody to Love and White Rabbit . Surrealistic Pillow reached number 3 on the American Billboard charts.

music

Like the Byrds on their Fifth Dimension album , Jefferson Airplane fused psychedelic rock and folk . This was unique at the time and spawned several imitators over the next few years. Surrealistic Pillow was perhaps the first psychedelic blockbuster album.

Track list

  1. She Has Funny Cars (Balin / Kaukonen) - 3:13
  2. Somebody to Love (Slick / Slick) - 3:01
  3. My Best Friend (Spence) - 3:04
  4. Today (Balin / Kantner) - 3:02
  5. Comin 'Back to Me (Balin) - 5:24
  6. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds (Balin) - 3:45
  7. DCBA 25 (Kantner) - 2:39
  8. How Do You Feel (Tom Mastin) - 3:34
  9. Embryonic Journey (chewing cones) - 1:55
  10. White Rabbit (Slick) - 2:33
  11. Plastic Fantastic Lover (Balin) - 2:38

CD versions

There are different versions of the album on CD . The first publication with the RCA logo on the cover and the track listing of the LP edition appeared in 1987. In 1995 RCA also released a gold CD of it, a remastered edition was released in 1996. In 2003 a remastered edition with 6 bonus tracks was released under the leadership of BMG Heritage:

  • In the Morning (Kaukonen) - 6:20
  • JPP McStep B. Blues (Spence) - 2:36
  • Go to Her (Kantner, Estes) - 4:01
  • Come Back Baby (Trad., Arr.Kaukonen) - 2:55
  • Somebody to Love (Mono Single-Version) (Slick) - 2:57
  • White Rabbit (Mono Single Version) (Slick) - 2:30

On this basis with the bonus tracks, a black CD with vinyl grooved optics on the label side in a gray cardboard slipcase with a punched window was published in the series "SPIEGEL Edition - The Vinyl Classics" in 2005.

occupation

tape
Additional contributions
  • Jerry García : "Spiritual and musical adviser" , guitar for Today , Comin 'Back to Me , In the Morning and JPP McStep B. Blues

Some sources suggest Garcia also starred on My Best Friend and Plastic Fantastic Lover , while others doubt it. In the credits, Garcia is only referred to as "Spiritual and musical adviser", since Grateful Dead were signed by Warner Brothers for their debut album The Grateful Dead before Surrealistic Pillow .

proof

  1. ↑ Surrealistic Pillow in the US charts
  2. ↑ Cast list for the compilation Loves You at discogs.com
  3. ↑ Supplement on page 15 of Flight Log compilation at discogs.com
  4. ↑ Cast list for the compilation Early Flight at discogs.com
  5. ↑ Surrealistic Pillow at deaddisc.com

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