Album Of The Day

Carried largely by the two big hits, the rest is great if I’ll be having a little somethin somethin beforehand

Nice...

Muy de los 60-70's. Buenas melodías y voz con personalidad

3.5

Overall it was a solid album. Good background music but a lot of it sounded the same. There weren't many standouts. 3/5 stars.

A few classic songs

Many of the tracks weren't available on Spotify. Skipped a few that I didn't like because it just wasn't my style. I really liked Embryonic (featured in the finale of Friends!) and White Rabbit. Mixed feelings on this album. The ones liked I really liked, the ones I didn't like I REALLY didn't like.

America, 60s, Psychedelic rock + Charming, Wonderful, Dreaming, Romantic, Hits, Complexed, Bluesy, Progressive = Relaxed, Long-play, Fe/Male, Various - Old-fashioned, NFM & Come Back Baby {0/17} [3/5]

No recordaba a esa banda. Pero me encanta "Somebody to love", una gran canción escrita e interpretada por Grace Slick Una muestra super lograda del llamado pop psicodélico

I know it's a cliche, but it's a sound of a moment in time Listening to this makes me think Woodstock, hippies free love

De liedjes met meer tempo zijn wel oké, maar de tragere vond ik wat saai. 50/50 album, naar boven afgerond

I love the cable guy!

other than Somebody to Love and White Rabbit, this is pretty standard 60s sounding stuff

Original track listing: 3.75, maybe 4. I was expecting more psychedelia and less Mamas & Papas.

Acid fried psychedelic blues rock. This has some stone cold classic songs of the era on it and is surprisingly brief considering the penchant for acid jams. It still has that obviously the sixties production though. Best Tracks: Someone To Love, Today, White Rabbit

I've just never been able to get into them.

Good album…nothing spectacular or special

White Rabbit is a 5 star tune. The rest are a bit boring but you can hear the roots of the big psychedelic movement to follow so you've gotta appreciate that.

Most of the tracks on this album were really good. There were a couple that was a bit boring and tedious. Overall I enjoyed this for the most part.

With quite some iconic singles on Surrealistic Pillow, I understand the record's impact on the music industry as a pioneer of psychedelic rock. Highlights are the epic Somebody to Love, the mellow and beautiful Today and White Rabbit for obvious reasons. I find that on the rest of the album, the vocal style is not perfectly to my liking (vibrato and heavy breathing), or the instrumentals get on my nerves. 3/5.

twas alright

Estaba esperando algo más en la onda de some body to love, pero es más como white rabbit

Two monstrous/timeless songs on this one I am/was very familiar with but didn't think I knew the rest of it. I wasn't too excited about getting through it as I thought it might lose my interest but I'm glad I stuck with it - the excellent blend of vocal harmonies and clearly talented musicianship make this a success. It is however definitely a product of its time; there are a few pace-interrupters (Comin Back To Me, How Do You Feel) which might have worked better [for me] without the very typical-of-the-age huge reverb. Then again, I suppose it's hard to *not* be "of the time" and the high points here make this more enjoyable than many of the era. White Rabbit used to scare the shit out of me as a kid, and is still suitably creepy. Even after hearing it a million times, it's still worthy. 6/10

decent. I went in expecting a 4 but the ones outside the couple bits hits were just kinda there for me. Still enjoyable though.

Some standout songs but mostly forgettable 60s psych pop

fav: white rabbit nice: somebody to love, 3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds

This album shows why Jefferson Airplane was a hugely popular and influential group for their time. With iconic tracks and the gentle stylings of the late 60's it is a shame to see that this resulted in Jefferson Starship.

Interessant. Bo per passar es temps i no prestar gaire atenció. Bln acompanyant.

Overall more chill than I expected from their hits. Prefer the hits over the overall album, a little bit too low energy for me. Pretty cool vibe though

Some absolute classics on here and overall a really enjoyable listen. Great 60s psychedelic rock.

Flying my freak flag baby.

Reportedly, the members of Jefferson Airplane were not pleased with producer Rick Jarrard's efforts to discipline them, feeling that the results were unrepresentative of the band. If you ask me, he's a fucking hero. On opener She Has Funny Cars, the band all but falls apart. The vocals are wobbly, the rhythm section is shaky and the lead guitarist is mediocre both in terms of ideas and execution. The song structure is more complex than the composers can handle. Jefferson Airplane fares better on the more straightforward numbers, like the following Somebody To Love. Grace Slick vocals are passionate and I like her phrasing here, even if she only just pulls it off. My Best Friend is warm and charming, when it could have easily been sloppy, the more shambolic tendencies of the band reined in by the producer. The folk-influenced Today has a fragile arrangement, kept just on the side of coherence by, once again, the producer. Another folk ballad, Comin' Back To Me, much beloved by "sensitive young men" on the make because it was easy to play and sing, doesn't come across as particularly sincere, but then again, maybe I'm being too cynical. 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds is another thankfully straightforward uptempo rocker with some nice hooks. And so it goes. Throughout the album, the carefully pruned arrangements and short running times save the band from themselves time and time again. The selections are evenly split between folkie type numbers, uptempo rockers and mid tempo pop tunes, which was probably wise. It allows different aspects of the band to shine, and paired with the infallible instincts of the canny producer, make Jefferson Airplane seem far more competent than they actually are. Personally, I'd rather listen to a band that has its shit together and doesn't need to be shepherded into making a listenable album, which Surrealistic Pillow admittedly is. Surrealistic Pillow saves it's best song for next to last. White Rabbit has a genuinely innovative structure packed into a harrowing two minutes and thirty-three seconds. Then we're back to the wooly and half-assed psychedelia of Plastic Fantastic Lover. As noted elsewhere, Surrealistic Pillow was a commercial smash. Thanks to producer Rick Jarrard, Jefferson Airplane managed to get away with borderline amateurish performances, songwriting and overall musicianship and come out of it looking like geniuses, at least to the greater public. Ungrateful shmucks. 3.5/5

meh - bit boring psychedelia for moi

Enjoyed the songs I recognised and liked the mixed vocal talents but turned off halfway through

reminded me of a knock off fleetwood mac

Leuk om eens een heel album van deze gasten te luisteren. Uiteraard de 2 hits zijn super en de rest volgt op gepaste afstand.

I enjoyed listening to it. ***

Niet helemaal kunnen luisteren, maar ken dit album vrij goed. Vooral de Grace Slick nummers springen eruit, maar een nummer als Today vind ik ook zeer fraai.

Nooit verder gekomen dan de paar hits. De rest is ook zeker de moeite waard.

Pari hittibiisiä ja sitten vähän sekalainen setti muuta. Bluesit oli turhan junnaavia meikäläisen makuun.

Probably a 2.5, enjoyed it

Some decent tunes, not exactly inspiring.

i enjoyed this one. might seek out some more

5.5

Disc de l'època. Té la facultat de transportar-te a un lloc i un temps que tot i no viure'l el pots sentir a través de les cançons. No és poca cosa. També té dos temes tan mítics com 'Somebody to Love' i 'White Rabbit'

Sounds alright. I like the popular songs off this album and the rest are mostly forgettable.

About what I expected. Some great bangers like White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, but if I had to pick another track I liked I'd go with 'Plastic Fantastic Lover'

Surprisingly coasts on the classics “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit”. 5/10

A review for Haiku Tuesday: Early Psych Rock, Huh? Some fun weird tracks are in here. Still doesn't nail it.

Eh. Not my cup of hallucinogenic tea, but an interesting listen.

Solid. Love some songs and others are so so

Smooth easy listening, straight out of the 60’s. You can definitely hear how they inspired a ton of other bands in that era.

my dad thinks that people who like jefferson airplane are rich kids who dodged the war because they were rich and think they're deeper than they actually are which honestly makes sense but this album was decent

ok I’m bored of doing this when no one else does, so no effort to write my amazing reviews any more 💔

Pleasantly surprised quite enjoyed. Nice beats and tunes

3.5| Acabé conociendo mas rolas de lo que creía, muy buena banda. Tiene cosas muy raras como un tremendo blues en medio de tanta psicodelia. Sin duda una voz icónica la de Grace Silk y ni idea de que fueran los mismos de Starship.

3.5 | Muy buenos momentos de lo más groovy psicodélico: a ratos pesa el estilito de cantar los coros como el que no me gusta de CSNY, pero cuando cantan directo, en particular cuando entra la voz de Grace Slick, suenan muy bien. Además de recordar a Cable Guy con "Somebody To Love" me gustaron "Go To Her", "White Rabbit" y "Come Back Baby" No sé por qué en la cultura pop gringa son tan conocidos y en México a duras penas llegó a sonar una o dos en Universal. ¿Sí cacharon la última rola que suena en el último episodio de Friends?

Surprisingly variable song type/style through the album.

Somebody to love is a banging pop song and White rabbit a memorable slice of Lewis Carroll inspired oddness. The rest was fairly unremarkable - the soundtrack to a sixties teenage bedroom full of long hair, paisley, and hashish.

@@@½ nice early psychedelic sounds. nice guitar too.

Classic old rock. Songs kinda blend together but I can appreciate it. Has the classic song “Somebody to love”

There are some classics off of this album, but I went through my Jefferson Airplane phase in college.

Couple good singles on here. Very organic sounding. Decent enough

Oldie but a goodie. Mixing is definitely dated but the sound is fire

Like this. Great musicianship, good songs, well produced. Definitely one of the better psychedelic records from the 60s.

Not really my cup of tea but certainly listenable.

Cool early psychedelic rock sound. Favorites include "My Best Friend" and "Somebody to Love".

This sounds clearly like an important album in the development of folk rock, and a few tracks are quite good. I found not the singles but the B-side (and bonus tracks) to be most interesting. The relative of blandness of the first half is unfortunate, as there is a clear, incomplete image of excellent pop music. Though I'm tempted, no malus for the cover's violin bait-and-switch.

1967. Key Songs: Somebody to Love, White Rabbit

this isn't too bad, nice lil catchy numbers. Thank fuck it wasn't more turd like iggy pop. Also, Jim Carrey did the best version of somebody to love. 3/5.

A bit hippy dippy.... it’s not my thing but I can appreciate that it is others.

Ok'ish

I feel like we've been on a long string of middling albums where I just don't have a lot to say about them. There are some great songs off this album and it's mainly the ones that got popular (for good reason). Unfortunately, none of the previously-unheard songs for me really hit that much like I had hoped for.

without grace slick this album would've been nothing

She Has Funny Cars - kind of boring, not doing much for me. Somebody to Love - classic song, interesting guitar parts that feel somewhere in between surf rock and psychedelic music. It’s a fine enough song, i know it’s famous, but out of big classic famous songs so far it doesn’t do a ton for me. My Best Friend - is this like a cowboy clomp rhythm? Picks up midway with a fun beat. Today - i like the guitar parts on this one. Comin' Back to Me - fine little folk song, kind of boring. 3/4 of a Mile in 10 Seconds - This song probably went pretty hard in the '60s. *Random break thought: I'm not really into this album, but I think it's probably kind of unfair because the music is fine enough, it's just pretty old. I'm sure that at the time this was pretty great stuff, it just doesn't resonate as hard right now. You can hear the beginnings of psychedelic music here, and the influence of some of the bouncy surf rock guitar stuff. There's some real musical talent here, the guitar parts seem pretty solid and the songwriting seems well thought out. I think it's probably a pretty solid album for its time, so I don't want to rank it lowly, it's just an older style of music I'm less interested in personally. Also why in the world is this album an hour long? Also this album is later than I realized, it's 1967 so kind of right during the Summer of Love which makes a lot of sense. This feels like hippie music. DCBA - 25 - Dreamy, hippy. How Do You Feel - Yeah, this sounds about like 1967. It's folky, hippie, dreamy. Again, not my favorite personally but this is kind of the quintessential sound of the summer of love in my mind. Embryonic Journey - Okay well first of all, this name sucks. Holy cow this is a fingerpicking masterclass though. It's so annoying that this is my favorite song on the album so far and it's got the worst name imaginable. White Rabbit - Obviously one of the most famous Jefferson Airplane songs. The intro is trippy and vibey, definitely more interesting than most of the songs so far. Definitely thought this was going to be White Room by Cream and got all excited and realized my mixup, which was kind of a bummer. Plastic Fantastic Lover - This one is kind of cool, more of a jam than the others. In the Morning - Very bluesy, which is odd because it doesn't really mesh with the rest of the album? Just a complete vibe change. What is going on here? This is like a completely different band? I like it though, it's a decent little blues track. I prefer the bluesy stuff to the hippie stuff. *Note: This album is all over the place, and I don't think in a very good way. JPPMC Step B Blues - This is NOT a blues song what are we doing here. 'In the morning,' a blues song in the middle of the album followed up with a NOT blues song called 'JPPMC Step B Blues,' why is this album so famous? Go to Her - Guitar on this one is pretty sick. The vocals are not my favorite but this one kind of bops. Come Back Baby - Back to the bluesy thing. Cool little solo with some fuzz/crunch tones. Album Highs: Somebody to Love Embryonic Journey White Rabbit Come Back Baby Album Lows: How Do You Feel Comin' Back to Me 3/4 of a Mile in 10 Seconds I think this is a 2/5. I don't hate the album, but I don't really like it. It has a few highs but doesn't fit the 3/5 criteria. There are some cool guitar parts, some interesting trippy/vibey songs on here. I don't know that I love any of the songs enough to put this one as a 3/5, but there's some musical talent in here.

I know White Rabbit (a tour de force), I kinda know Somebody To Love, I don't know the other songs. Reputation of this band/album is big, I find I can't just approach this album as simply music, status in 60s counter-culture mythopoesis looms over me. But I am not here to review the counter-culture's rise and fall, except to any extent this album enacts or prefigures them. I view with jaundiced eye the vague/silly aspects of lyrics, any/all indications of selfishness and sexism, instrumental twangings and ramblings that don't quite fit together, blues I could find anywhere. If I just assess all this from a perspective of whether I want to listen to it in 2026, outside any "history of American popular music" educational purposes, the broad answer is that this album doesn't work for me. It's got a little bit of good and a large serve of mediocre, so I'll say it's Pretty Poor, 3/10. (PS Sometimes I wonder if I am harsh on what the generator serves up - then I step aside and listen to some songs I consider Truly Great - and I feel reinforced that I need not be too generous to pedestrian offerings, however popular they might be.)

The shit thats blaring through my pip boy while Arcade is getting ripped limb from limb by a deathclaw

I'm surprised how mediocre this was. Of course I've heard "Someone To Love" and "White Rabbit" going in, but all the other tracks are really quite average.

There are a couple big hits and the rest is pretty forgettable.

I recognized one song: Somebody To Love. The album wasn’t memorable. It was by no means horrible but also I wouldn’t re-listen to it.

I'm not really one for the Flower Power rock of the 1960s. If I'm being totally honest, the best tracks here by a mile are White Rabbit and Somebody To Love, both of which feature lead vocals from Grace Slick, whose voice contains so much power that she should have just done the whole thing herself. The rest is so-so, but I can see the influence somewhat.

I didn't feel this one that much as others might say, found it somewhat boring tbh

zzzzzzzz

если бы не хитейшие хиты была бы 2

It was nice to put a face on Somebody to Love, but I ain'f felt more after that.

220. ok

This typical, cliché 60's garbage is doing nothing for me.....or maybe I'm just having a bad day

I like 2 songs

Okay.

I don't like this because this sort of early Hippy psychedelic "we all just need to love each other" hopeful kind of nonsense make me want to stab myself in the eye with a salad fork.

Liked one song, wouldn't listen to again

Oh they made that song? The rest was not really notable.

Meh, nie dosłuchałem do końca. Don't you want somebody to love? I do and I have, więc album 2/5.

This is quite nice

옛스럽네...

She Has Funny Cars: 7/10 Somebody To Love: 9/10 My Best Friend: 8/10 Today: 5/10 Comin' Back to Me: 10/10 ⭐️ 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds: 5/10 D. C. B. A.-25: 4/10 How Do You Feel: 5/10 Embryonic Journey: 7/10 White Rabbit: 7/10 Plastic Fantastic Lover: 6/10 In The Morning: 3/10 J. P. P. Mc Step B. Blues: 5/10 Go To Her: 2/10 Come Back Baby: 5/10 Somebody to Love - Mono Single Version: 9/10 White Rabbit - Mono Single Version: 7/10

A little slow for my tastes.

You can almost smell the pot listening to this one. May have enjoyed it more if I'd been under the influence! Not really for me though and considering what else was available to listen to in '67 not surprised this passed me by at the time. Still like the two main singles though and happy they get a lot of radio play even today. So a star each just for those.

Halfway through the album; don’t know what the fuss is about. Most of the songs just sound the same to me. It’s definitely not bad, just monotonous. Just finished the album, my opinion hasn’t changed. I actually want to like it, looking at all the positive reviews, but I just don’t. Maybe I need to listen to this album more to get into it. I’ll give it a solid 2/5.

Fav: today

A poorer version of Mamas and Papas, without the "Monday Monday" or "California Dreamin' " type tracks.

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i know psychadelic rock was really transformational and edgy, but now it just sounds like stuff old people listen to and I don't really get it

disco de doon't youu waant soomebody to looove, dooon't you need somebody to looove, y también el de esa cancion que siempre ponen en rockFM que parece janis joplin, white rabbit, el disco en si es del tipico estilo de los 60. 2 hits y ya. 2/5

At this distance you're really talking about two songs here: "White Rabbit" & "Somebody to Love". I can't imagine too many people pop this on to hear the sound of "Embryonic Journey" Those two songs tower over everything else on this album. It's all over the place really. Monkees style pop in "She Has Funny Cars" and Sun Mommas and Pappas in My Best Friend and all sorts of serious mind expanding 60s silliness in other places. Comin' Back to Me in particular is the of fey, hippy folk nonsense that could only happen at that time. Self important overwritten lyrics combined with a sort of pretend medieval backing. It hasn't aged well. 1 star for each of the two big hits.

One of those instances where the classic songs overshadow everything else so thoroughly. I don't care for earnest, twee psychedelic stuff and the album's full of it. Somebody to Love and White Rabbit demonstrate they're capable of more, and it's unsurprising that Grace Slick is responsible for both. Plastic Fantastic Lover is solid also and ends the album on a good note, but 3 out of 11 tracks is not a good average.

Someone else said "if it ain't Slick give it the Flick". So true. I always felt I was a tripper born into the life of a computer nerd, so Somebody to Love and White Rabbit have always spoken to me at a DNA level. So I was looking forward to this. In reality, there are two absolutely brilliant songs and the rest are drab pop-folk beige.

middara. beatlesi za frajere koji stavljaju dva secera u tursku

Somebody to love and white rabbit are classics of that era. Chugging along interestingly enough. The rest though the pitch and the playing is all over the place. Not a classic but a useful reference album for the times

meh. a long album carried by a couple songs. the alt album cover is also way better than

Gotta admit, I didn't really get the buzz around White Rabbit. Seemed kind of dull.

Another of the 60's bands that I never really got into back in the day. The two songs I knew from classic rock radio were fine in my mind, but not ones I really enjoyed. This was my mindset going into the album today. It turned out that the only two songs I liked were those ones-Somebody to Love and White Rabbit. I preferred songs where Grace Slick sang lead, and these were at least interesting sounding compared with the others. I was thinking while listening that I am a fan of Grateful Dead, so why not Jefferson Airplane. I came up with no answer other than a preference for the actual songs of GD and these being more bland overall.

Interesting, it’s like the Beatles if they were sort of rock. This probably inspired a lot of stuff to follow it. Nothing really stuck with me here but some of the songs were decent, a few kinda pissed me off ngl 😂 they were too happy? Or idk, like the island of misfit toys movie typa songs

Me gusta la vibra pero es un poco parado de más.

Forgettable in the end

Hmm Meh? It was kinda groovy but it didn't grab me by the balls

I can't understand a band with an actual dynamo vocalist choosing to trot out a different singer not just for a one off, but like significant portions of the album. Makes no goddamn sense. It's like, well, what if we only played Tom Brady like half the time so his backup can feel involved. Anyway, this album has two incredible songs that hinge on a phenomenal vocal performance and then a bunch of boring late sixties hippie nonsense. The downside is I've heard both those songs a million times and the impact isn't really there for me any more.

Primera vez que escucho Jefferson Airplane. Surrealistic Pillow es un álbum que me transmite psicodelia sesentera, pero de la suave, de escucha amigable. El problema es que esa misma suavidad lo hace sentir plano. No hubo un momento en que me sorprendiera ni me enganchara de verdad. Probablemente el contexto histórico juega en su contra, fueron pioneros en el estilo, pero escucharlos para alguien que nació en 1996 hace que suene a algo que ya conozco de segunda mano. La influencia llegó antes que ellos. Rescato: "In the Morning" y "White Rabbit". Esas las agrego a la playlist. El resto es prescindible. No creo volver a escuchar el álbum completo.

This is like a collection of at least 3 or 4 different bands, and I don't like any of them much

There are two exceptional songs in this album and neither are JA originals. The rest are kind of snoozers. This band isn't a much without Grace Slick.

Not for me, but Somebody to Love is iconic

Raro. Escuchable. Confuso. No sé que opinar

I'm not sure what annoyed me more, that this album just trundled along in second gear for almost an hour, or that neither Jefferson nor his Airplane seemed to be bothered by this at all.

Cookie cutter 60s music except for when Grace starts to sing. White Rabbit is an awesome song and Somebody to love is just as good.

Not usually a big fan of whenever I have to listen to a psychedelic album. Just not my jam.

kinda sounded all the same to me, it’s really characteristic from the 60’s/70’s therefore it gives the same vibes as the beatles. Wouldn’t listen to it in my everyday routine.

I've never heard the whole album before, just the singles on the radio (and they were certainly not new then). I own a couple of Jefferson Starship/Starship albums, and Grace Slick's voice is always a highlight. However, this album is just okay for me.

não tenho muito oq falar desse infelizmente nao chamou atenção

Alt, Durchschnitt.

Ok

I hadn’t heard much of Jefferson Airplane before but surprised to find was quite familiar with two most well known tracks: somebody to Love and white rabbit (go ask Alice). Style- wise I could hear a range of influences coming through over and above that psychadelia label from Beatles and Doors through Mommas and a Pappas in (with less rich harmony) and even some straightforward blues. I did love Grace’ almost ethereal wail on somebody to love. But I’m afraid other tracks meandered a bit and struggled to keep my attention. I can appreciate the song craft but arrangements felt very much of their time and imho their music hasnt held up as well as some contemporaries.

Decent, but aside from a couple hit singles, it seemed a little weak. Would maybe buy if I saw it at the record shop, but wouldn't seek it out. Enjoyable listen though.

2 familiar songs - liked the bluezy sounds, otherwise snooze 😴

Grace Slick sounds like the name of a Bond girl. The folk instrumentals were quite nice.

Cool to find these songs. Sound like inspirations for Allah Las. One standout song in the album, the rest were kind of okay though. My guess is this is a foundational album for a lot of rock, and I guess I simply do not have the depth of knowledge of this genre's history to fully appreciate this album.

this is sorta the corner of classic rock that i don't mind but have trouble really getting that much out of. White Rabbit is so leaps and bounds above. the rest... inoffensive, which i mean both complimentary and derogatory. if i feel strongly later on that i've underrated this i'll go back and boost it

I enjoyed some songs however not all

Trop vieux Et boring

If it was the 60s and I only had access to like five bands I would probably be into this

A pretty standard late 60s San Francisco psych rock album without much that makes it stand out from the pack. "Somebody to Love" is the highlight thanks to Grace Slick's vocal performance. "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds" is also enjoyable and the most roaring rocker of the bunch. The psychedelic feel comes primarily from the lyrics - which often, even on "White Rabbit," can be more silly than trippy - and the echoing effect on many tracks. And on some tracks that feel is missing entirely, including the limper ballads and pop songs that make up the back half of side one. It's nice to hear flute on some of the sparser tracks, but it doesn't add enough to make them interesting. Lastly, "How Do You Feel" sounds distractingly like "Ticket to Ride." A decent listen, but this scene produced better albums.

Nice. Not my type of music. I enjoyed the blues of one of these songs

I'll be honest, I find this to be a bit boring. It's decent but boring. I do like Somebody to Love though.

Here we go, third or fourth or fifth time listening to this I really don't know it's really that forgettable. My Best Friend and DCBA 25 were pretty fun songs but I can't imagine coming back to this one voluntarily again, because I really tried back when I was into acid. Got to the end of White Rabbit and I thought, "that's it?"

Ok

Too much of that baroque 60s Grace Slick shtick going on for me to get into. Similar to Nico in that respect but at least the underlying VU music is very good. Much prefer the more naturalistic vocals of their contemporary Sandy Denny.

Nothing special

Some strong songs on here but alot of in between songs didnt hit with me

This album is dated. I often like music from the past but this one stayed in the 60s. If this is the rock and roll upon which Starship built this city, then its foundation is pretty shaky. They have two decent singles and one fantastic guitar player in Jorma Kaukonen who I would have liked to hear more from. Embryonic Journey is so short and the rest is so tedious.

I feel like it's missing something. It might be that half of it sounds like it was recorded a room away, idk, this one didn't rub me right, maybe if I listen to it again sometime, some of the tracks were really good, but as you got further into the album, it became a lot more boring, which is sad because Somebody To Love is really catchy and gets you in a confident mood. Can't say the same about the rest of the album.. 4/10 sorry

some of the songs were good non of them made it to the playlist

Somebody to Love is great, the rest not so much .most arenot very distinctive, but still pleasant psych-folk/rock. While this is a pretty important album embodying the sound of the summer of love it is not actually great - merely distinctive and solid. Weird mixing of the slick vocals make it seem like I’m listening in the next room .

kinda boring, nothing really special about it, it sounds good tho

I really wanted to like it but it was so samey.

not my kinda music :/

liked it, my style, but it bored me a little

Just left me cold. I get why it’s on the list as a key part of the flower power movement….its therefore historically significant. As a listen with modern ears (and a first listen for me) I just find it another one that’s stuck in its moment and hasn’t aged very well. Glad I gave it a go, but won’t be coming back again. 2.5 rounded down to a 2

not gonna lie I’ve tried to listen to this album three different times and I keep getting distracted and not finishing it. I think that means it’s probably not that good bc it can’t keep my attention at all.

blah

⭐⭐÷ Psykadelisk rock. Innehåller två absoluta klassiker i form av Somebody to love och White rabbit som inte går att värja sig ifrån. I övrigt har jag svårt att bli riktigt engagerad och och tycker inte det inte är så mycket som sticker ut, i mina öron upplever jag att den kan ha åldrats dåligt. Om Grace Slick fått ta mer plats hade det möjligtvis kunnat lyfta fler låtar. Hennes röst är grym.

Meh

lol so you're telling me this was nearly 0.90 higher in rating than the Nico album when this was less interesting by a mile in comparison? Yeah, "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" are both amazing songs, but the non-hits kinda suck ass. So much variance in quality across this band's entire career. For every "Jane" or "White Rabbit" there was also a "We Built This City"

Interesantes las guitarras pero siento que no lo disfrute tanto porque no soy una hippie drogada 🫰🏻

I only know two Jefferson Airplane songs, and as luck would have it, both of them happen to be on this album. Neato. Before I started this project, I thought I would enjoy a lot of the psychedelic rock from the sixties, but that hasn’t been the case at all, and I’ve found that a lot of these albums aren’t really my taste. However, Grace Slick is in a category of her own when it comes to rock vocalists, so maybe Jefferson Airplane will be on the bands who really strike a chord with me. Unfortunately, the losing streak for sixties psychedelic rock continues. While Grace Slick’s vocals were certainly fantastic, overall, I thought Surrealistic Pillow was pretty bland. I think one of the things that I don’t care for when it comes to albums like this, is that there’s a certain thin quality to the sound that I don’t care for. I don’t know if that was intentional on this album or not, but I just don’t care for it. There were a few songs that had some good guitar riffs, but I thought that most of this album was run-of-the-mill sixties rock, and I didn’t find anything particularly unique or noteworthy about Jefferson Airplane’s music, other than Grace Slick’s vocals. “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit” were the only two songs I knew prior to listening to this album, and I thought they were easily the best songs. I was really surprised that other than the vocals, I really liked the drumming on both of these songs, and how much those rhythms controlled the sound and mood of the songs. Other than those two songs, I really enjoyed “Embryonic Journey.” I thought it was the most beautiful song on the album, and I didn’t want it to end. What a bummer that it was the shortest song on the album! As influential as Jefferson Airplane might have been on the broader music scene, this album just wasn’t for me.

You know im not really that big a fan of this sort of type of like folk rock stuff. or older music in general tbh. Not that i dont like old music at all but its just not my vibe i think.

great listen, couple really good tracks in there.

Hippy dippy

I quite like a bit of 60s/70s psychedelic pop/rock/blues a la mamas & papas, early Fleetwood Mac, new seekers etc. But this is a poor album with a couple of absolute gems (Somebody to love and White rabbit, obvs). Everything else is a bit filler-y for me,

When I was younger I thought once I do drugs I’ll understand why people like Jefferson Airplane. Now I’ve done drugs and think there’s not enough drugs in the world to get me to understand why people like Jefferson Airplane

pretty boring, but i do like somebody to love

Nä tack, men hitten är en hit

I only really like the songs sung by Grace Slick, maybe three or four on the whole album. That’s not much out of twelve tracks. The rest bores me, it sounds like weak Beatles leftovers. Two stars, just for Grace’s vibe, Go to Her, and the two singles.

4/10 Top track: Somebody To Love

Partly heard before Saved 4/11 Top track: White Rabbit

Not really my sort of thing but fans of 60s rock and roll would love

18/1089 This is very standard 60s rock by today's standards. It was fresh in its time but became such a success that many who were inspired and followed JA made this sound passe'. I've heard white rabbit and somebody to love 100s of time, maybe more, growing up, so they are very familiar songa. Grace Slick's voice is unique and right for the music. This is a 3* album but I can only give 2* because of their We Built This City release 20-something years later. Hits....somebody to love, white rabbit

4-5 standout tracks and a bunch of 60s bs

I’m not sure if it’s just my tastes or the technology of the time, but lots of these 60’s era albums sound like they’re recorded in an empty warehouse. It just doesn’t do it for me.

I'd never taken the time to listen to JA before besides "White Rabbit," and I wasn't too struck by anything here. I liked "3/5 of a Mile," but that was about all that grabbed me. Not offensive, at least. I would say that "White Rabbit" belongs on a list of songs to hear before you die, but I don't know about the rest of this album.

More of a Starship fella myself; name me a better song than “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”; you fuckin can’t. I found this forgettable. I fear the 2 songs on here that I already knew will continue to be the only 2 songs I know.

Very of its time.

7/1089 This is very standard 60s rock by today's standards. It was fresh in its time but became such a success that many who were inspired and followed made this sound passe. I've heard white rabbit and somebody to love 100s of time, maybe more, growing up, so it's pretty a very familiar sounds. Grace Slick's voice is unique and right for the music. This is a 3* album but I can only give 2* because of the release of We Built This City 20-something years later. Hits....somebody to love, white rabbit

found it boring! Did not finish

Not the worst sixties music, but not the best either.

4 - BAD

I wasn’t totally impressed by this album. Probably a classic if you grew up during the psychedelic era. Two classic songs but that’s about it. I’d never buy or download this album. As far as I’m concerned, not worth listening to again and void of any diamonds in the rough.

Better psych rock than the Grateful Dead, and would be even better if the female vocalist was on more tracks. Other than the standout tracks this album was just alright. 2/5.

better than i expected

This 1967 album sports two terrific rock numbers, the punchy "Somebody To Love" and the spacey "White Rabbit", both sung with aplomb by Grace Slick. The rest of this record is fairly undistinguished folk rock with wimpy vocals by the other group members (sorry guys).

Don’t love Neil Young’s voice. After listening to other albums, this one felt the most basic and least entertaining. Wouldn’t do it again.

Side was pretty good

It is elevator music to me

Boring as fuck

mmm io mi aspettavo un disco più lisergico... mi è parso più lungo di quello che è davvero... peccato

Kinda want to watch Cable Guy now.

Couple good songs but 60s hippie psych rock isn’t my jam

I like the two big hits on here, but you’d do much better with Volunteers or even The Worst of Jefferson Airplane

Two absolute 60's bangers with Somebody to Love and White Rabbit - unfortunately everything else is a bit forgettable. Really half arssed album cover also.

It’s fine but it’s boring. I think I like 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds the best. There’s a few songs on here that make you say “oh yeah I know that song” but you’ll never choose to put them on again.

Probably super influential and important to artists that I love, but I feel like it doesn't really hold up without putting into the context of "the sixties, maaan". It is cool in that context, but music shouldn't require a backstory to be enjoyable.

pretty much what i expected, recognized a couple songs

the pro: - there were some interesting guitar and bass parts that accented some of the usual (boring-ish) straight love ballad + extended 12-bar blues jam combination of songs that every band was doing during that time. those occasional instrumental flourishes that caught my attention were like a little bit of seasoning on an otherwise bland, predictable meal - I enjoyed some of the lyrics (if not so much their presentation): "I'm so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry" the cons: - it's hard (for me) to get past her voice. it works in some places but not others, and I'm left feeling like I've just heard a slightly less heinous version of the infamous Yoko Ono/Chuck Berry performance. her vibrato in some places is similar to a car engine trying to start on a cold morning - just not as enjoyable as I'd hoped, which was disappointing (mostly because I wanted to explore more beyond "White Rabbit"), and now my interest just isn't there.

Summer of love-rocken har inte åldrats så bra. De folkcountry-iga spåren är bättre, som How do you feel? och DCBA25.

White Rabbit sticker ut och avslutande plastic fantastic lover är helt ok. I övrigt rätt ordinärt 60-talshippieflum. I mina öron inget vidare album. Två singlar och resten utfyllnad.

Again with the 60s psych - throw it all in a pot and it doesn't matter what band it is

Obviously, it's not all terrible, but a lot of this music is boring to my ear. Maybe it's the modern listening habit, but I find it to not be atmospheric enough to accept into a different mode of listening but not interesting enough to keep me engaged. Have a 'surrealistic' pillow on hand during your flight on the Jefferson Airplane so you can go to sleep until the singles and a couple other standout tracks come on and then you can return to your slumber after they're over. If you can sleep through it, you don't have to have your patience tested in quite the same way.

Hippy slop

If not for some iconic songs this would be a 1. So bloody dreary besides the hits.

I’ve heard this before from the challenge but somehow i like it less than before. Somebody to Love is a banger. The rest are not.

Primo Dad-stolgia record. It’s fine, just not my favorite genre of music.

Underwhelming

Somebody to Love and White Rabbit are classics. Go to Her is an unexpected jam. The rest are pretty forgettable.

I was not prepared for how boring this would be. Obviously 'Someone to Love' and 'White Rabbit' are classic rock standards. And for good reason. But 'Coming Back to Me', what the heck, how can a song this bad actually make it onto a album? Oh jeez, now I just got to 'How do you Feel', it's even worse!

This album bounces around quite a bit between good and bad. Starts out eh with She Has Funny Cars, not sure what's going on in that song. Then the classic Somebody To Love is a blast to hear. My Best Friend is also pretty good. But then it drops back down for a bit. 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds was good, White Rabbit was an interesting Alice in Wonderland song. And Plastic Fantastic Lover was fun. All in all it has its moments, but I can't rate it higher than a 2. Best song: Somebody To Love

Relatively inoffensive, if pretty incoherent as an album. Plenty of filler: rock flute, cowbell, the blooz. Does not make me want to hang with the hippies.

Sorry Balin, Grace Slick is the star here. Her songs are infinitely better, her voice is more powerful, and the songs she doesn't feature on are copycat Brit-folk. Maybe a touch of Mod influence. Regardless, Somebody to Love and White Rabbit are obvious all-time classics. There is virtually nothing else here. It's disjointed as an album because of the conflicting styles of Slick and Balin. Sorry, but I have to round down from 2.5

carino ma niente di eccezionale

It's always worth listening to full albums by iconic groups to familiarize yourself with the non-hits...but you'll often realize that you're good just knowing the hits, as was the case with me and Jefferson Airplane.

Dreamy

Good hits. Not much else

i dont do the drugs that might make me enjoy this album

Not my glass of water

2.5 I was dreading this, just because I generally think giving white people drugs was a mistake for music, but this was fine. The worst stuff was the Grace Slick songs, the singles, the ones everyone knows. The other tracks were sweeter, lighter, kinder. Gentle hippie music. Harmless overall, and very short.

Meget 60er. Fin men ikke noget jeg behøver at høre igen. 2-3

Two hits and one nice blues song. It’s very forgettable otherwise.

I'll give it a 2.75 (the first part had me at 3). But I'll be strict even if I'm in a good mood.

Meh.

Hard to separate from every cliche boomer montage of hippies, the 60s, San Francisco, and all the rest, but it's iconic for a reason. The fuzzy garage blues psych style, gnarly guitars, a bit of a groovy groove and booming pair of pipes are so good. The twee folksy stuff not so much - slow, tepid and meandering. Favorites: DCBA 25, somebody to love, 3/5 of a mile, embryonic journey, plastic fantastic lover

why

This didn’t really do anything for me

Borrrrinngggg

The best part was when it ended

Interesting sounds generally, but only two songs saved on my list of favorites.

bem hippie, ou seja, meia boca

mid

-The hits are the hits for a reason. The deep cuts are deep for a reason. -Comin' Back to Me is worth more than one listen. Lyrically solid.

Inte så spännande, helt ok

Meh

its okay....

Below average and largely forgettable

Not a fan of 60s music :(

There are a few songs on this that are undeniable classics. But I also think more than half this album is a snooze fest. 2.5/5

Jefferson Airplane is mostly fun psychedelic rock. A lot of it is relatively middling, but they have some nuggets sprinkled in. Surrealistic Pillow is overall an OK listen with most of the heavy lifting done by Somebody to Love and White Rabbit which are good enough to elevate the rest of the album. I'll never delve deep into their discography but I'm never upset when they pop up now and then. Middle of the pack album which isn't always a bad thing. 2.32 stars

Not for me.

Really solid musicians and good songs but just boring. Nothing really stood out to me as a gotta come back and listen to this. Somebody to love maybe. More a single you need to hear before you die, not an album.

This album was boring for me. Felt like just another hippie jam band. I don't even love their hits that much. I'm sure white people loved this shit back then. I can imagine listeners of this music clapping on the 1 and 3 of the beat. The album would randomly switch to weird gypsy music that felt off. I won't be actively listening to this album again. I'm giving this a 2

They lost me with the first song. I do not like this it’s old and only on here because it was famous for being some first hippy music. The singles were good but otherwise I do not care for it. Low 2/5, bummed about it because somebody to love and white rabbit are both so good.

White Rabbit is one of my favorite songs ever and was a genuine factor in the naming of my daughter, which should really underline just how boring the rest of this album is. I get why its on here, the defining album of the San Francisco Sound and one of the most important records of the hippie movement, but my god do most of the songs do literally nothing.

Very much of it’s era, nice moments though.

Totally meh. All this 1960s psychedelic stuff just sounds so generic to my modern ears. Don't care if it's historically significant, it's just boring

I started out not really liking this album. After a while though, I found it growing on me.

It was ok.

I'm glad this is an undisputed masterpiece of 1960s psychedelic rock, as it gives me reassurance that I really don't like this style of music. I can get down with most genres and periods, but something about 60s psych music doesn't click with me in the slightest. The sound might have felt "out there" to the village fete crowd in the 60s, but it is essential just a mixture of folk, soft rock, and crooning pop, without keeping any of the good bits. The songwriting seems dull and the vocals range from twee to overwrought to warbling. There are moments of an eerie otherworldliness which are the more interesting moments. But overall I don't get it. Clearly it's a me problem. 2.5*

Was fine but nothing exciting. I had heard the singles before but nothing else really stood out to me.

White Rabbit and Someone to Love aside, listening to this album makes me want to side with the establishment.

meh. it was kinda too mid tempo and folksy for me

This was alright… this just sounds like music… this might of been psych rock in the 60’s but I def prefer newer psych rock

Weird

At some points I felt I liked this a lot more than I typically like 60s psychedelia. At other times, it dragged on and on. This is rounding down, but like… there wasn’t that much chance of it rounding up.

Dos temarracos

Not my jam. Put me to sleep. Would maybe be more fun if I was high.

The two songs people know and like, and then a bunch of poor-to-mid ones. Not helping matters, my copy was labelled “Bonus Track Edition” but appears to have six of them. Maybe the OG would have been less tiresome but now I’m in a bad mood.

Ok

A classic hippy generation album. Grace Slick has that voice that women can lose themselves in and one that could almost make a man murder someone based on the evil sounding harmonizing she dishes out. The slow songs fail in comparison to everything else on the album, which is shocking because I’m a sucker for a slow song. You could call White Rabbit a slow song if you want and then I’d be wrong but let’s face it, White Rabbit is a monster in its own. It has no label. This album does do much in move the needle I feel. It’s just cookie cutter rock that occasionally dips into the pop realm. Choice cut: White Rabbit

Not as Rock 'n' Roll as I expected. More folky, even has a Simon and Garfunkel sounding track.

[4/10] no hate

point7.

It was fine. I felt a lot of the songs were indistinguishable from one another, overall the album fell short.

Acid was better in the 70s. Couple of bangers

Maybe it was more monumental at the time? Idk I’ve always changed the station every time Jefferson Airplane comes on the radio so it might be a personal preference. Jefferson STARSHIP, on the other hand… (kidding!)

The names are so bad it’s crazy. Surrealistic Pillow? Embryonic Journey? Easy on the acid fellas. Music ain’t that bad though. Some of it is 60s schlock, but the blues tracks are fun. My dad said he liked White Rabbit when he was younger, not a huge fan myself

White Rabbit is the only good song on this album.

Man this shit sucks. There's two good songs and then a bunch of nonsense.

White Rabbit is great. The rest is meh.

1 star for somebody to love and 1 star for white rabbit. The rest was annoying hippie folk. Not something I like to listen to. Something about the way the guy sings really rubs me the wrong way.

They sounded very dated. I didn't particularly enjoy this album for some reason.

"somebody to love" is nice "white rabbit" is okay

Some good stuff. Like a bit of good stuff. Two good things. Two really good songs. What more do you need? Favourite track: Somebody to Love.

Not for me. A couple of classics but it really dragged on and on. Didn't have a theme I could get around. Struggled to get through this one.

I love Grace Slick's voice but too many of the tracks (the ones she isn't leading) just blur into one another for me in the most uninteresting way.

Not my thing

A bit outdated

One archetypal San Francisco sound track and two iconic Grace Slick songs surrounded by a ripoff rundown of all the best selling folk rock styles of the period. One star for being famous and a bonus star for Slick’s unmistakably genius contributions.

5/10 This one didn’t land for me. Competent 60s folky psychedelic music, but nothing about it made it stand out in particular. A couple of really nice tunes but a load of quite boring ones. At times reminiscent of the Velvet Underground or Mamas & Papas, just not in their league Best: Somebody to Love

Zwei Hits welche man heute noch kennt, der Rest ein Kind seiner Zeit.

Pari kovaa biisiä, muutama rasittava vässykkäjollotus. Kokonaisuutena en voi sanoa nauttineeni.

I knew a couple of songs but only really like one of them. This album is a drug infused, psychedelic trip. I will never listen again.

The first two songs on the album were my favorites with "Today" being sandwiched between two mediocre songs. The rest of the album just sounded like regular 60s rock.

Good historical perspective. Does not play well today.

A couple of good songs but the rest of it wasn't awfully memorable tbh

not really my thing, was falling asleep

Fängt den Geist der Gegenkultur der 1960er Jahre ein. Das Album verbindet Folk-Rock mit psychedelischen Einflüssen.

I know it is important. But it’s pretty boring. 2/5

An album with a lot of flower power feeling. Somebody To Love and White Rabbit are very well known songs.

The type of classic album that verges on self-parody 50 years later. It's iconic for a reason, but that doesn't make for super enjoyable listening in a modern context. Loved Embryonic Journey, though!

One classic song, the rest not for me

I really like the name Jefferson Airplane. I didn’t really like their album Surrealistic Pillow.

4/10 - I was kind of just bored the whole time. It really sounded like the 60s not in a negative or positive way but in a way that made it a product of its time. Not something I will revisit because it was too boring.

I like Jefferson Starship and all of the terribly awesome 80s radio hits more than Jefferson Airplane. There, I said it. Fight me.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

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