Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (Full Album) (1967)

someone said it had been a surrealistic couple of weeks, and "surrealistic pillow" came to mind, and what's incredible is, I remember all the words and the music, and i remember feeling that same way the first time I heard this album. It all just felt 'right'. That's what the new music used to be like.

I was a 15 year old aspiring musician when this album came out. With a ton of work, study, and great teachers I played live shows, made recordings, learned live and studio sound reinforcement, and supported myself for 40 years doing it all. This album is fantastic, and unforgetable.

What a wonderful journey down memory lane. 1967 a young 20 year old serving in S Korea, a year later in Vietnam. One thing about the music of the era, not just the peace, flower children, drugs, was the production of these albums. Songwriting was so important back then, but the production of these albums, experimenting and using whatever they could to add creativity to a recording. It was a great time to be young and see the worst and best of the world.

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow. One of the 33 1/3rd vinyl record albums ever made. The band's second album, their first with vocalist Grace Slick who brought with her two songs her brother wrote for their previous band The Great Society: Somebody To Love and White Rabbit. If you didn't have this record in 1967 you weren't born yet, you were too young or too old or just plain wrong. A lot of bands were performing within the psychedelic era "San Francisco Sound" - Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Love, Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin and many others... but Jefferson Airplane was the first to score two major top 40 radio smash hits - the afore-mentioned Somebody To Love and White Rabbit. They continued to improve with their subsequent albums - Crown of Creation, the intensely psychedelic After Bathing At Baxters, their live album Bless It's Pointed Little Head and the revolutionary Volunteers. This era of the band was bookended with the ironically entitled Worst of Jefferson Airplane. Following this the band's energies may have disippated with Slick and Kantner doing solo projects like Blows Against the Empire while guitar and bass players Jorma Kakaunen and Jack Cassidy formed a more basic blues group called Hot Tuna. The group sound was revitalized though with the addition of an electric violin played by an elderly black musician named Papa John Creach. Years later in the mid-70s after the majority of the group's members had departed those who remained refined a more "commercial" sound in an attempt to recapture their 1967 successes, and renamed the group Jefferson Starship (a name previously used by one of the Slick/Kantner spin off albums). Starship, as they later were known, had some success but is often listed at the top of "worst songs ever" lists for "We Built This City On Rock and Roll". Honestly I never understood why some people didn't like this song, any more than I understand why people now mock the once popular mullet hair style. If we assume that the "this city" referred to by the song title and chorus is San Francisco... well, geologically a city is built on rocks and soil and not a musical style. If they are suggesting they "put the San Francisco sound" on the map, well, Tony Bennett was singing about leaving his heart there back when Jorma Kakaunen was playing guitar in bars or on park benches using the name Blind Jefferson Airplane, and The Grateful Dead eventually had a larger and more dedicated fan base and a longer career than The Jefferson Airplane. But not all rock and roll songs are meant to be historical documents and just because Starship or it's previous identity did not, in fact, build San Francisco or any other city on rock and roll does not make it a bad song. But I digress. While spending about thirty four and a half minutes of your precious life encountering or re-listening to this remarkable musical document, feel free to be astounded by the variety of musical styles and genres they seamlessly incorporate into their distinctive style.

The 70's and 80's were the best part of being young the music, the environment, and lots of dancing talk about happiness. EVEN IF TIMES WERE TOUGH, YOU COULD PUT YOURSELF IN ANOTHER MOMENT.

When it was New and Fresh. When I was Young.

If power gave me a return to those days I still would buy that record. The magic of recording at the ballroom is the trip.

A most iconic 60's psychedelic album..it still holds up today !

🎉this album totally kicks ass,i believe its thier best!rip,marty and paul!

They have a strong psychedelic tone, but I think they're packed with charm. Songs that sing about love and capture the days of youth in a refreshing way, are the type of songs that push me forward.

This music is well before my time, it's still awesome

I haven't queued this album up in oh about a million years on a Pioneer PL-560 turntable. Now that's listenin'!

YEAH JEFFERSON AIRPLANE I HAVE THIS ALBUM WHEN I WAS YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS YOU ARE THE LEGENDS

One of my parents' favorite albums. It was on the turntable weekly.

We love you Grace Slick

Only record on my turntable for my first Psychedelic awakening..🍄🍄🍄 unforgettable memories..

Esse disco é incrível em qualquer época. Simples assim. Excelente.

I know every song! I've had My Pillow for years! 🙂 And Record Town covers have it in Great Shape. :-)

One of my first albums from when I was a kid. Still one of my favorites 50+ years later.

Like the song says when we was young 🌱.. set every decade every generation you know from here out