Wednesday, March 31, 2010

#18 Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (February 1967)


Get out the mushrooms and drop that acid like it's hot. It's time to go ask Alice something while she's ten feet tall. This journey just got a lot trippier. If you need proof, on the back cover Jerry Garcia is credited as "Musical and Spiritual Adviser." And hey, they also have a mailing address for the fan club!

I studied Grace Slick in a Women in Pop Music course in college. I already knew about her intense vocals but I learned that she also wrote the hypnotic lucid dream, "White Rabbit." It has taken my record collection from the baby steps of The Byrds and A Quick One into the realm of full fledged psychedelic adulthood.

This is the first time I've listened to this record since seeing A Serious Man and the anthemic anti-loneliness of "Somebody to Love" is exponentially more poignant. And "She Has Funny Cars" uses a Bo Diddley beat. This record is a lot cooler than I remember.

favorite song: "White Rabbit"

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