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Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane
Release Date: 08/19/2003
Original Release:  1967
# of Discs:   1
J&R Item # 490704_CD
UPC # 828765035125
Label: BMG Heritage
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Disc: 1
1. She Has Funny Cars sound samples  real  |  windows media
2. Somebody to Love sound samples  real  |  windows media
3. My Best Friend sound samples  real  |  windows media
4. Today sound samples  real  |  windows media
5. Comin' Back to Me sound samples  real  |  windows media
6. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds sound samples  real  |  windows media
7. D.C.B.A.-25 sound samples  real  |  windows media
8. How Do You Feel sound samples  real  |  windows media
9. Embryonic Journey sound samples  real  |  windows media
10. White Rabbit sound samples  real  |  windows media
11. Plastic Fantastic Lover sound samples  real  |  windows media
12. In the Morning sound samples  real  |  windows media
13. J.P.P. McStep B. Blues sound samples  real  |  windows media
14. Go to Her - (version two) sound samples  real  |  windows media
15. Come Back Baby sound samples  real  |  windows media
16. Somebody to Love - (mono, single version) sound samples  real  |  windows media
17. White Rabbit - (mono, single version) sound samples  real  |  windows media

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Performer: Jefferson Airplane
Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Producer: Rick Jarrard
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Jefferson Airplane: Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen (vocals, guitar); Grace Slick (vocals, piano, organ, recorder); Jack Cassady (guitar, bass); Spencer Dryden (percussion). Recorded at RCA Victor's Music Center Of The World, Hollywood, California. This newly remastered 2003 deluxe edition contains bonus tracks. Jefferson Airplane: Grace Slick (vocals, recorder, piano, organ); Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Marty Balin (vocals, guitar); Jack Casady (guitar, bass); Spencer Dryden (percussion). Recorded at RCA Victor's Music Center Of The World, Hollywood, California. Originally released on RCA Victor (3766). Includes liner notes by Jeff Tamarkin and Bill Thompson. From the opening, hard-edged chords of "She Has Funny Cars," it's apparent that SURREALISTIC PILLOW, Jefferson Airplane's sophomore effort, is a far more spiky beast than the band's debut. It became not only San Francisco's soundtrack to the Summer Of Love, but all of America's. It spawned two Top Ten classics ("Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit") and established the Airplane as one of the main pop voices of the cultural revolution. Some of the newfound dynamism can be attributed to personnel changes. Singer-keyboardist Grace Slick, who joined the Airplane following a stint in the mildly successful Great Society, had a unique artistic gleam her predecessor, Signe Anderson, never possessed--both of the aforementioned hits were songs she'd written for her former band. And new drummer Spencer Dryden could make the music shake with heretofore-unheard polyrhythms, or walk a straight line with militaristic precision. SURREALISTIC PILLOW's other strengths lay in the band's boldly diverse sound. Effortlessly gliding from twisted Motown (the electrified "3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds"), to Dylanesque rock (Balin's "Plastic Fantastic Lover") to an acoustic, psychedelic bluegrass instrumental (Kaukonen's "Embryonic Journey"), the Airplane proved themselves able to at once interpret the cultural tide and make it radio-friendly.
Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.136) - Ranked # 39 in Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" - "...A hard-hitting - yet tuneful - call to arms..." Q (8/99) - Included in Q's "Best Psychedelic Albums of All Time." Q (12/03, p.153) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Their music stands among the psychedelic era's most powerful and enduring..."
One of the quintessential San Francisco psychedelic bands, the Jefferson Airplane brought together interests in acoustic blues, folk, and rock music. Add political topicality and modal improvisations, and you have an inspired, mind-bending sound that could have only sprung forth from the late '60s. In their initial, most beloved phase, they were powered by the powerful dual lead vocals of Grace Slick and Marty Balin and the serpentine guitar of Jorma Kaukonen. They went through a traumatic series of personnel and name changes over the decades (they ventured into commercial AOR in the late '70s and early '80s) but their early work retains its seminal power.
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