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This landmark psychedelic album from Jefferson Airplane heralded the more serious direction popular music would take during the late sixties and early seventies, combining socially relevant lyrics with more complex forms of musical expression. Featuring new vocalist Grace Slick, Surrealistic Pillow includes two memorable US top ten hit singles, Somebody To Love and White Rabbit. (US:3)
"Probably the defining album of 1960s psychedelia, the entire freak-out, mind-trip, free your consciousness psychedelic movement in music hit it's apex right here. This album defines the word trippy. If you haven't gotten high while listening to White Rabbit you haven't lived. Grace Slick's powerhouse vocals on Somebody To Love established her as one of the greatest female vocalists of all time."
"Now we're talking Airplane! This is the Airplane of legend and accolades, and it's easy to see why they gained a following based on this. The first and most immediate change from the debut album is that Grace Slick has now joined them and brought her formidable voice with her. It's funny how she sounds, it's both a sort of serene clear vocal style but used in such a way as to be very forceful and aggressive."
"This is truly one of the greatest albums not only of the sixties and the folk-rock/psychedelic era, but of the entire pop music era."
"Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane is a classic rock album from 1967. A lot of these songs have a psychedelic feel to them, and how can you not love the hit singles Somebody To Love and White Rabbit. Front woman Grace Slick's voice is magic, her voice soars, swells and belts like there's no tomorrow."
"Surrealistic Pillow is quite 'serious': a mature, full-blown 'psychedelic' album with a band clearly writing music for the soul, not for the body. The greatest hippie album of all time. At this stage, they were perfectly able to balance the acid streams with enough pop catchiness to provide their psycho fantasies with a solid musical base."
"Sometimes you just need a dose of the hippie, acid drenched sixties, and this is where I will keep returning for that purpose. This is a powerful trip."
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