Surrealistic Pillow

Free love and LSD. The band knows how to absorb elements of folk, blues, rock and jazz, but it is the vocal harmonies of Slick (high, majestic voice), Balin (soft, sunny voice) and Kantner (sharp, neurotic voice) that set the tone. (7/10) FT: White Rabbit, Somebody To Love

This has aged much better than a lot of the psychedelic music from this era, much of which has dated poorly. Still sounds very fresh and engaging.

- good bluesy vibe - Interesting array of sounds and instruments - Nice tempo - Relaxing, yet emotional - Excellent guitar solos and melodies - Go To Her is really good for hearing different sounds coming from different speakers - Solid start, excellent end to the album - Noteworthy tracks: In The Morning, Coming Back To Me, Somebody to Love, Go To Her

On the face, it's an album with an eclectic mix of songs, switching between love, drugs, Lewis Carroll, and television. Listening end-to-end, the album works. I think it still stands up all these decades later. 'Today' is in my opinion one of the most beautiful love songs. 'White Rabbit' is one of the most iconic psychedelic rock songs. But it's easy to define this album by it's singles, I don't think there's a bad song on Surrealistic Pillow, even if some are not particularly memorable compared to the more rousing songs. Definitely deserves a 4 in my opinion, the iconic-ness of this album is not enough to push it to 5.

Not entirely sure how to rate this album. Feels very much a product of the time. I'm not sure how much I like it currently but I'm 100% sure this would have been one of my favorite albums if I were around when it was released. I'll split the difference between what I think it is (3) and what I think I my 1967 counterpart would have thought (5). 4 stars. The Spotify suggestions after this album were incredible.

Классный альбом. Много мелодичных вещей, чего я не ожидал. И не знал, что вокалистка не была главной в группе.

first listen a great 60s folk ride

Liked all the songs and will listen again

This was the second JA vinyl I got after “The Worst of…”, and have loved it ever since. Not every track is a winner, but songs like ‘Today’ and ‘DCBA’ are hidden gems

The only Jefferson Airplane album I'm really familiar with. It's sort of inconsistent in tone. I prefer the heavier psychedelic material to the lighter folkier stuff. But man, those iconic songs like "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" are so powerful they give me chills, and certainly make up for the lighter tracks. The folkier stuff isn't necessarily filler, it's just very of it's time. Pleasant enough but just doesn't hold up next to those big anthems. Grace Slick has such an incredible voice. I wish she sang lead on every song.

A lot of hits here. Not something I always wanna listen to but I can't deny that it's great. Somebody to Love and White Rabbit are the cream of the crop.

Grace Slick singing: 5 stars Boring Guy singing: 3 stars Overall: 4 stars

Add a star for Somebody to Love...

4/14/2022 Today's Album: "Surrealistic Pillow" by Jefferson Airplane - This album is a really nice folk blues album and reminds me of Rubber Soul by the Beatles. The vocals feel very Lennon and some of the instrumental choices would fit right in on that record. However, this album sets itself apart with diverse song structures and instrumentation. The first single Somebody to Love is a staple of this generation of music. The vocal is so powerful, but still has this gentle tone to it and the chilled out guitar and harmonizing background vocals add so much flavor to the pounding tambourine and drums. The track Today is a really peaceful ballad about wanting to be everything for your partner, but acknowledging your limits, and the building instrumental adds to this heart-breaking idea. Some of the following tracks don't really impress me in any particular way, but the general sound is pretty solid and all of the instrumental performances feel really well executed and well placed in the mix. Whenever the guitarist gets a chance to solo, it sounds great and those songs sound better for it. The end of 3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds frustrated me because it just fades out when the guitar comes back for another pretty cool sounding solo. Funnily enough, most of these songs sound a lot like a Beach Boys track, but instead of it being falsetto-drenched feel-good bullshit like on Smile, it's like the more subtle chorus vocal stuff with impressive production and solid guitar-work. It may be a little more folky than that, but it's a good way to describe it. Embryonic Journey is just a really nice solo acoustic guitar jam and it really puts a spotlight on the guitar soloing I mentioned before. It's soulful, but also really technically impressive. White Rabbit has the most spins out of any track on this album and it is for good reason. It welcomes back that amazingly powerful female vocal and just has this really strong instrumental backing it up. The final leg of this record are a bunch of songs that fit into that same category as before. They are pretty nice to listen and all have unique ideas, but most of the positive aspects of the tracks are the instrumentals as the woman in the band seems to be the only talented vocalist of the band (as far as I can tell). In The Morning felt notable to me, but then I realized it's because the Beatles basically stole the whole track and made Yer Blues on the White album 1 year later and honestly did it way better. Sidenote: I feel the same way about a bassline in Led Zeppelin 1 that pretty much got lifted for 25 or 6 to for by Chicago and was done leagues better. Anyways, the song has a really solid solo section in the back half of it and I think it's one of the best displays of the band's jamming ability. These last few tracks are really just not as interesting and are nice to listen to, but leave my brain as soon as they're gone. The closer, Come Back Baby, is just sort of dull and doesn't do a lot to thematically close off the record, but it feels like this record really is built around it's hits, so maybe it's just to be expected. I think overall, this album is a really solid listen, especially if you like the Beatles or even Aretha Franklin given the solid vocal work by the female of the band. It's a really pleasant listen all the way through and has a great guitar solo on every track so even though there's only a few highlights here, that's really just what stood out from the all around solid track list. The hits are great and the filler is pretty good so give it a listen if it sounds like your thing. Score: 7.5/10 Late 60s blues-rock with great hits Highlights: Somebody to Love, Today, Comin' Back to Me, How Do You Feel, Embryonic Journey, White Rabbit, In The Morning

This seems to be one of those albums where I hoped to discover new loves, and am leaving with my old favourites. Somebody to Love, My Best Friend, Embryonic Journey, and White Rabbit all exemplify the good kind of psychedelic folk I love.

Of course I knew White Rabbit and Somebody To Love - both good songs. I was quite surprised they're this old though. The album seems ahead of its time. As a whole it's not quite good enough for 5 stars either though.

Psychy

A surprise. I was already in the camp thinking that Jefferson Starship to Starship was a tragedy. This makes it even more so. Though the vibe is definitely rooted in the 60's, this doesn't dwell on cliched elements, but has a great diversity of folk, blues, rock... good melodies and harmonies. Really enjoyable.

Great surround sound and hypnotizing voice of a female vocalist. Somebody to love and White rabbit forever in my heart

Psychedelic rock best rock

Jefferson airplane are in my list of bands I can listen to happily on repeat. This is an album I have on vinyl, and typically would rate 5/5, but as most of the album isn't available on Spotify, it's really just the greatest hits at this point. So 4/5.

They were a tight blues band buried beneath all of the psychedelic murkiness. Excellent vocals by Balin and Slick.

Fantastic vibes.

Plastic Fantastic Lover, I bet SHACKs got some of those. there's a few massive tracks on here so they've done well to keep out of the standard 2 track filler format. there's obviously some nonsense as you'd rightly expect from some wreck heads calling an album surrealist pillow but on the whole its mostly listenable.

Not nearly as dated-sounding or even caricature-ish as I feared it would sound. Perhaps an excess of some go-go-boots sounding hooks and the blues numbers are unconvincing, but the two big singles hold up great and lots of interesting sounds between them. Main reaction is one of disappointment that this group would turn into the perfectly awful Starship.

bop after bop

I like the acoustic guitar in Embryonic Journey.

Great 60s American Psychedelic Rock record.

Nice folk rock. I had only heard White Rabbit previously. Solid Album. Favorite Tracks: She Has Funny Cars, My Best Friend

The Doors, Are You Experienced, Velvet Underground, Magical Mystery Tour, Disraeli Gears. Though it doesn't rise quite to the level of those albums, Surrealistic Pillow is solidly the core of all the modern psychedelic rock that I love and one more reminder why 1967 was one of the best years for music.

There’s no doubt that Grace Slick’s vocals elevate a song. Marty Balin has a fine voice too, but Grace takes it to another world. They should have made her the primary lead vocalist. White Rabbit and Somebody to Love definitely carry this album. But IMHO, there are plenty of other good songs here as well, like She Has Funny Cars. It’s a folk sound twisted and sharpened. Kaukonen’s guitar feature, Embryonic Journey, is inspirational. It’s easy to hear why the band encouraged him to put it on the album. In a historical rarity, the recorder sounds good…on Comin’ Back to Me and How Do You Feel. Comin’ Back to Me has a charming intimacy. Jerry Garcia is credited as a “spiritual advisor”. WTH does that mean? He provided the LSD? Whatever his advisement method was, it worked.

I already knew "White rabbit", but not so much more of the band. I liked it VERY much. I don't have much to say, but it's for sure one of the best psychedelic rock that I've heard until now.

I love the sound of this record. Great example of one of my favorite guitar tones. Fender clean pushed to the point of breakup. Lots of tambourine. A band that understands how to create a mood in the quiet spots, but can also build a wall of psychedelic sound. Lots of reverb too. Really cool. Now, about the songs. They're all pretty solid. But "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" are so ubiquitous that they cast a huge shadow over the others. That has been a barrier to listening to this record in the past. I expect all the songs to be that immediate and catchy. But, they aren't. And that's ok. There are other songs that have a greater depth and more interesting arrangements. The songs "Today" and "Comin' back to Me" stand out in that way. Really happy I had the chance to revisit this record. I appreciate it more after this listen and don't think it's just a drug record that has been used in every documentary about the 60s when it's time to talk about the hippy movement. Is Grace Slick a great singer? No. But that's important too. Because it established the fact that women didn't have to sound pretty all the time to be fronting a band.

Мило

Solid 60s psychedelic work. A pleasure to listen to. Worth reading the band's history, while you're listening: this was the first album with Grace Slick.

Thought I was going to suffer hippiedom but this is a great album - I have got to stop starting with preconceptions. ‘Today’ is a wonderful song and besides ‘Somebody to Love’ and ‘White Rabbit’ all other songs are infused with a gentle blues and folk - reminiscent of Love’s Forever changes

J’adore, rock psuchedelique, des classique somedy to love et white rabbit. Un tres bon album . 4.7

I really enjoyed hearing this album again. I love the song Today. It was such a different sound back in the day.

4.5/5. Nice definitive statement from the 60s acid rock scene. Quite solid

Meh

Definitely my favorite (and only one I actually like) album from Jefferson anything. Great classic songs on this album. I am not a fan of their more dylan-esque folksy sounding songs though. White Rabbit is a masterpiece.

I recognize and acknowledge the revolutionary genius that went into this album, but it's a difficult listen for me.

A few Iconic songs -- amid some very meh fill... Did discover a new jam in "In The Morning" so that's 4 stars!

Relisten? Yes

Would listen again

Liked this a lot more than I thought I was going to! Also, rather surprised at the number of tracks I already knew. I'm more familiar with the later Jefferson Starship. I find the 60s Psychedelic scene to be a little bit... exhausting, but this album was great! Embryonic Journey, Somebody to Love, and White Rabbit were all killer tracks.

Good stuff. Didn't realize so many popular songs came from this band.

Had many singkes I recognized, but had never listened to the whole album. Good to learn this is where songs Like Somebody to Love and White Rabbit were released. Overall vibe was kind of all over the place, some songs just didn't hit for me.

I know the two famous tracks off this, but that's it. Nice at the outset to have a third song, She Has Funny Cars that is also pretty great, clearly they are more than just Somebody To Love and White Rabbit. Though Somebody to Love comes in next and still sounds like little else - a perfect, sinister, pop song. My Best Friend is just average, but the album opened so strong, I feel like it may have done better elsewhere. Today has some Velvet Underground vibes, but gentler. It then gets a bit overlong for a while. Comes back strong with DBCA25 which is deeply lovely. Amazing to hear a West coast psych album where everything is kept so tight - tracks aren't outstaying their welcome. Even Embryonic Journey, a folky instrumental feels welcome. Then it hits White Rabbit - maybe a drug cliche, but still an incredible song. Nothing else sounds like it. It lags a bit as it nears the finish line, but I've come away intending to enjoy a lot more Jefferson Airplane than I did before today. A great album.

Wild ride

Peak psych rock

Good listen

4/5 yeap, that's a good one!

Great album, I think I prefer the UK version, but that may just be because it's the first version I heard. It's incredibly accessible and pop. The delicate, acoustic numbers are the best. Today and Coming back to me are highlights.

Referential 60s acid culture album. Feels very hippy-ish.

Soft 4 stars. A great variety of 70s style on here. As I usually find, ballads hold me back from giving this a higher score.

Surrealistic Pillow is a keystone collection of music for its time, the type of album you might slip into a time capsule as the best example of music to represent its era. The style is diverse across this album, covering a range of sounds from folk to psychedelic to the blues. It’s a bit of a musical compendium of many things that were going on in the late 60s. Jefferson Airplane is very much their own band with their own sound, but you still can hear hints that recall everything from the Mamas and the Papas to the Byrds to the Doors. Yet everything flows beautifully though the album and nothing stands out as being unnecessary or out of place. The musicianship is top notch, with Jorma Kaukonen’s guitar and Spencer Dryden’s drums in particular standing out. The guitar arrangements in songs like “Embryonic Journey” and “How Do you Feel” are gorgeous, a real pleasure to hear. I've heard "White Rabbit" a few too many times in my life and have avoided it in recent years, but coming back to it fresh, I have to acknowledge that it's a striking song. It's beautifully arranged, different from everything else on the album, and Slick's vocal is strong. "Somebody to Love" is also still stunning to hear, the best song on the album and a true rock classic. Grace Slick has an authoritative vocal presence in both songs that's kind of indescribable. She tends gets most of the attention/oxygen in this band, but I'm also really digging Marty Balin's voice myself, which contrasts well with hers. Paul Kantner also makes some solid vocal contributions as well. This is really a well-oiled machine of a band playing at the height of their talents. Fave Songs: Today, Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, Embryonic Journey, She Has Funny Cars

I enjoyed having a chance to hear a whole album from the Jefferson Airplane era. The album includes the psychodelic tracks I am familiar with ("White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love"). The album also contains tracks that draw own the folk and rock of its time. I was reminded of songs sung by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. "How Do You Feel" had some great vocal layers and seemed to echo "She's Got a Ticket to Ride" from the Beatles. "She Has Funny Cars" was a good groovy start to the album, and it is a shame that "Embryonic Journey" (my favorite track on the album) isn't longer. A different relase of this album includes 4 additional tracks that fit in with the original set. This album would be worth a second listen.

A good un love the twists and turns!

A surprisingly poppy album with a ton of variety. Sweet ballads to full-on rockers with, of course,the game-changing White Rabbit at the heart. Lush, rich and dark.

4.5/5. Great album, enjoyed every song. I would definitely pick it up if I saw it at my record store.

Really enjoyed it

Good stuff. Made better by Luke’s research.

I actually enjoyed this, although it was brief

Very cool. Liked the ones I already knew and the others were groovy listens.

Couldn't listen to the whole thing but pretty solid for its time. Favourites: Come back to me, Somebody to love.

This is an excellent album that I only knew the 2 big hits from. The hits are all time classics that I believe are brilliant, however other songs like "Coming Backbto Me", 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds", "Embryobic Journey" Are more than worthy of attention. Hard pressed to find any filler. I'm tempted to rate it a 5 but I will hold back and give it a 4.5.

Actually really good, old hippie music

enjoyable hippie rock

Some good instrumentals and of course the hits, I love her voice.

Rocking album. Everyone knows the two mega classic hits off this one but the rest of the album is great as well. Psychedelic guitar riffs and momentous drums background an album where Grace Slick absolutely destroys. She gives me Stevie Nicks front woman vibes but where you trade out the at times whimsical nature of Nicks for Slicks more punk attitude where she seems to almost spit and yell lyrics at times. A truly wonderful performance by her thats a highlight in an album of highlights.

Wasn't a huge fan on first couple songs, I thought the vocals were kind of strange, but I think they grew on me upon listening more. The riffs were all really unique and pretty catchy, I just wish the sound quality wasn't so harsh on the ears (might be my recording or bad headphones). Ballads and slower songs are extremely pretty, almost haunting, and I think those stood out the most. Still definitely a good listen, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite by any stretch, the ballads like today and coming back to me definitely are going on a playlist. I'm definitely not the biggest fan of psychedelic rock but I'd recommend this to pretty much anyone

Perhaps inessential outside the biggest hits, but I enjoyed it too much to really care.

Early, essential psychedelic rock. Zappa vibes pretty good

Loved this album all the way through. Several gems that I hadn't heard before. Enjoyed the contrast between the male vocal tracks and Grace Slick songs but wish there was a better balance because of course she absolutely killed the two big hit songs.

Girlfriend can sing.

Ako već moram izabrati act koji mi je najdraži sa woodstocka, i općenito u tom razdoblju, rekao bih Jefferson Airplane. Ovaj album mi je odličan, slušao sam ga mnogo puta i ja ne znam šta je sa ovim algoritmom da sve nešta dobro na početku daje, umorile su mi se zvjezdice. Ovo je definitivno kvalitetna psihodelija. Fenomenalan početak albuma sa She Has Funny Cars, pa dalje nastavlja na kultni klasik "Somebody To Love" na dalje, gdje ide s pjesmom Today kojoj se zapravo najviše vraćam na ovom albumu jer je predivnoća, pa dalje na Comin' Back To Me, 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds, Embryonic Journey, White Rabbit naravno iako mi nije u top 3 sa albuma i tako dalje. Jako dobrih naslova, preporuka uvijek! Znam da dajem sve po 4 zvjezdice, al ovo to zaslužuje, pogotovo bar zbog 4-5 pjesama da nose toliki rejting. 4.1/5

Ju betaaa fajiiiiiiiiind <3

A fantastic album from the heyday of psychedelic rock. 8.6/10 Best Tracks: "Somebody to Love" "White Rabbit"

Classic sound of SF, couple of massive hits supported by a bunch of fantastic songs.

Discazo de la banda de rock psicodélico afincada en San Francisco causantes de que se diese a conocer a una escala más internacional la cultura hippie de los 60 y pioneros del movimiento psicodélico motivado por el consumo de LSD. Unos fucking cracks.

Listen man, when White Rabbit peaks, I want you to throw the cassette player into the bathtub. What are you crazy? That'll send you straight through the wall.

Eine Band, die man nur als Radiohörer kannte besser kennengelernt! Hat sich gelohnt!

1967 - USA The album is considered to be one of the quintessential works of the early psychedelic rock and 1960s counterculture eras. Like "Somebody to love"

We've had quite a few 'flower power' records so far and whilst there are some interesting highlights on each of them, they do get a bit lost in surreal and self indulgent LSD expressions. I thought with a title like 'surrealistic pillow' this would be the same but for the most part each song is tightly structured with interesting (and grounded) lyrics. 'comin back to me' is hauntingly beautiful.

Good album - Has had a big impact on modern culture: White Rabbit appears in a great scene in Platoon in the underground bunker and Embryonic Journey is the song in the final scene of Friends, quite seismic cultural moments. The best song for however is Today.

Great psychedelic album that I will revisit again.

Esta madre tiene 54 años. Es como si en 1967 escucharas la versión original de El Condor Pasa, parte de una zarzuela escrita por el peruano Daniel Alomía Robles en 1913. O La Consagración de la Primavera de Stravisinky. Se me hace muy loco que siga siendo parte de la cultura popular, que se siga escuchando. La masificación de la cultura popular y su registro en físico cambiaron las cosas para siempre, ¿no? Suena medio mamón pero es una forma de romper la relación espacio-tiempo. A lo que voy es que los integrantes de Jefferson Airplane no escuchaban cosas de 1913 como nosotros si hacemos con cosas de 1967. Y ciertamente su música no suena a nada de 1913. Y hoy hay millones de bandas que suenan a este disco, por decir, Today suena Brian Jonestown Massacre. Hay mucho blues aquí, hay algo del folk de principios de los 60, la escena niuyurkina de donde salió Dylan, incluso hay algo del Dylan eléctrico. Luego con muchos discos de la época, ya vienen con la asociación a la lisergia de la época, uno los escucha a través de ese prisma de colores aunque no suene a algo que escucharías drogado. Creo que este es uno de esos en donde el ácido no está parejo en todos los tracks. Pero cuando pega, pega duro: Today, 3/5 of a Mile in 10 seconds, Go to Her, D.C.D.A. -25 tiene sus momentos en que suena a R.E.M. También creo que la potencia lisérgica de la banda está en la voz de Grace Slick. Podría escribir un libro sobre Grace Slick. Hay algo en su voz: un entrecruce de lujuria, seducción, belleza, terror y violencia como en White Rabbit. En Embyronic Journey se adelantan años al sonido de country acústico semi pachecón de Dylan en Nashville Skylines. ¡Y todo empieza con un Bo Diddley beat!

Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) listed as spiritual adviser for some album tracks. LOL. These guys were definitely high AF on this album - clearly some shrooms from the Psychedelic tones. I imagine they had a lot of fun and remember none of it when making this album. Late 60's, Summer of Love, Charles Manson + Family vibes.

This album is amazing - so much love for these talents. Genuine soundtrack of the failed social revolution - get your fat pipe out and start groovin' to irrepressible sixities beats and kaleidoscopic riffs.

I really like this album. I knew several of the tunes, of course, but the ones with which I was unfamiliar were really good too.

Kende er meer van ik dacht, erg cool!

Verrassend, juist de nummers die ik nog niet kende.

Van somebody to love. Dit is wel een van de beste jaren 60 albums

Solid album. I especially fell in with it near the end with some of the bluesy guitar jams (“in the morning”, “go to her”, “come back baby”), but there was a lot of good stuff throughout. Some of the stuff felt a little hokie or dated for me (something about the vocal harmonies maybe). Overall quite good

Classic psychedelic album. Beautiful songs, gorgeous harmonies fantastic vibe

Nothing mindblowing here but this was definitely a nice listen with a few standout tracks! This fits right in to what I already know from this genre and time period. (specifically I caught a lot of moments that were reminiscent of Tommy) Vocal performances are good enough that I really don’t mind the some of the goofier lyrical moments, and the female singer reminds me a lot of Florence Welch. Probably will revisit this!

Really enjoyed this. Catchy songs with lovely harmonies. Has a really nice energy.

El clasico rokowania psychodelicznego w stylu hippisowskim, albumik, a moze nawet i grupa pokolenia woodstokowego, ktore rozwinelo ten gatunek rokowania, cecha charakterystyczna tego grania sa gitarki na niektorych trackach nawet x4, nie liczac basu, wiec mocno riffowanie, ale jak dla mnie rzecza ktora wyroznia akurat ten album jest wokal jaki sprzedaje na nim Grace, ktora zasluguje na swoje nazwisko Slick, bo wokal jest tak gladki, ze mozna go sluchac na okraglo, to wlasnie kawalki na ktorych jest ona glownym glosem staly sie punktami rozpoznawalnymi zespolu, bo kto nie zna white rabbit czy somebody to love, ale kolejnym dziwem jest to, ze nie jest to jednak glowny wokal plyty, bo wiecej kawalkow opiera sie na wokalu Balina, tak w ogole to czesto w traku wystepuja 3 wokale dosc rotacyjnie i chorkowo, ale to jest wlasnie jeden z elementow budujacych psychodeliczny klimat, na plejke nie mam co dodac, bo kawalki o ktorych wspominalem juz tam sa, a kolejne today czyli dosc folkowy kawalek z spokojna gitarka szarpana na najwyzszych wokalach balinowych jakie mozna uslyszec tutaj rowniez juz byl na plejliscie, a to wedlug mnie gemy tego odsluchu, na spotifajowej wersji mozna znalesc takze wersje mono white rabbita i somebody to love, fajnie gdyby calosc mozna bylo posluchac nagrane w ten sposob

I really liked the way the music sounded, though there weren't a lot of songs that stood out to me. I definitely want to listen to it again when I am not trying to navigate seatac airport.

Rock sesentero. Un megahit.

good tunes

7/10 bonito, una me gusta por the cable guy, fin.

Really good, so many big hits

Otro álbum con un marcado sonido de su época (?), es de esos que puedo escuchar más como de fondo que involucrarme totalmente. Me gusta, sin embargo, cuando hay pistas instrumentales, "Embryonic Journey" tiene unas guitarras acústicas y su sonido folk le ofrece un buen preámbulo a una canción que sí me gusta mucho (y conocía por su amplio uso en la cultura pop): "White Rabbit". Definitivamente, creo que cuando la voz de Grace Slick se nota más es cuando más me gusta este disco (por ejemplo, el hitazo "Somebody to love"). 7.5/10

A puristic loser will pan this album, but I really liked it, especially Embryonic Journey

Es Jefferson...

this was great.

Always loved psychedelic rock. This is a great record.

Siempre pensé en Jefferson Airplane (o más bien en sus Someone to Love y White Rabbit) como la banda de máxima expresión en todo aquel Summer of Love, mezclando folk, rock bien bien psicodélico y drogas... muchas muchas drogas con un poco de drogas encima. Algo que no sabía es que aquí fue la primera vez que cantó Grace Slick y siento es lo que HACE a la banda. Del inicio de She has Funny Cars se siente la voz fuerte y definida, Somebody to Love pegajosa a madres e icónica. De ahí algo que no esperaba… Hay una buena cantidad de canciones en el disco que le bajan al rock y psicodelia y se regresan a ser mucho mucho más folk. No son mis favoritas y en mi opinión, aunque bastante bien hechas, le quitan un poco el estilo que más me gusta del disco. White Rabbit es impresionante que una marcha española tipo bolero termine siendo la canción más representativa de toda la época de alucinógenos en los 60s, más impresionante aún que siendo tan tocada y quemada ya en tantas películas, series, etc. me sigue encantando. Llegué esperando canciones con el sonido de rock y ácido y terminé escuchando una mezcla de eso con canciones que parecen de los Mamas and Papas y The Byrds.No fue lo que esperaba pero fue un muy buen disco. PD. Igual el disco está lleno de hippies y drogas drogas… Perfecto para espantar padres en ’67. PD2. Grace Slick de verdad impresionante, debería ser más reconocida a la par de Janis, Stevie Nicks o Patti Smith.

i'm loving hearing how these early stereo albums discovered how to work with 2 channels. i'm not a huge fan overall, but the jack casady's bass work on this album is terriffic.

This one was alright. I knew a couple of the songs, but there were some that were a bit strange, lyric-wise. Which I guess is to be expected with the album title.

Yeah totally dug this album! Of course there's Want Somebody To Love and White Rabbit but the rest of the songs were great there was also Comin' Back To Me which was hauntingly beautiful. Would totally put this on at the mammoth house to chill out to. Solid as fuck

Really nice instrumental piece on this album called “Embryonic Journey”. Spotify seems to be missing some tracks, but “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit” remain great tracks and the highlights of this album.

Very good album. Grace Slick’s vocals are distinctive and powerful. Find and check out the isolated vocal track for ‘White Rabbit’.

Classics, really good

Embryonic Journey is one of my favorite pieces of music. Jorma really impresses. A classic psychedelic journey back to the 60s

este é um daqueles que fez 100% parte da minha rotação no secundário/8°-9° mas não o oiço desde essa altura so it will be nice white rabbit still goes so hard bass line come back baby!!! ou nunca tinha o ouvido de uma ponta à outra (possible but doubtful) ou esqueci-me da maior parte. its great tho! 4.5/5

Good album

Classic 60s Sound

Bangin and iconic.

Mochi

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I really rather enjoyed this. There are plenty of good songs and the album has been put together really well, each song in exactly the spot it needed to be. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A fun listen.

Great album! Featuring White Rabbit and Somebody to love.

Classic. Love it.

Good, not as psychedelic as I was expecting. More Beatles/mamas&papas/Simon and Garfunkel folk 60s vibes.

Have already listened

A fun foray into psychedelic rock. A couple bangers.

Didn't realize I knew so many songs! The hits were still my favorite (white rabbit, find somebody to love) but all of it was good

Great album, more than a 2 hit wonder

Monipuolinen levy, muttei liian. Muutama timanttikin joukossa, mut pari tylsää biisiä pudottaa arvosanaa

Got better as it went along. 3.5

Last three songs - “White Rabbit,” especially - go hard.

Better than I expected. Good mix of hard hitting songs and calmer relaxed songs.

6/10

listened to it on Friday, and i forgot it by monday. didn't do much to stick around in my opinion. a few songs that have made their way and stood the test of time, but not enough to give this a super high score.

Classics "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit". Good listen but the rest of the songs are pretty meh.

Oh. My heart just sank. Yeah. Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden make this. What there is of value. Her voice is… instantly recognizable. His drumming is often the element that keeps my interest. Like on Today. His drumming anchors the haunting modality and keeps it grounded. The album is super uneven. But… I’m not going lower than a 3. 3 Boolean: True

Psych folk album with some well-known tunes.

Kinda fun

Not bad! I enjoyed it

Really liked this but maybe not enough for a 4 star.

Best song: Somebody to Love Worst song: Comin' Back to Me

Pretty average 60s album I’d say Couple standouts I wish grace slick was lead on more tracks because she’s the best part of the album Favorites: somebody to love, j.p.p. Mc step b. Blues 3/5 maybe 3.5

- so so sweet but i'm just not the biggest fan of slow songs - comin' back to me was so hauntingly beautiful - not my fav but def not bad

Only album by them that matters

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Pretty good

All these early psychedelic albums sound the same. I guess because of the kinds of music it grew out of. Somebody to Love rocks though. And then back to the folk rock adjacent My Best Friend. The folk songs are awful. Band dynamics are strange. I'm guessing once they got famous, after this record, Grace Slick sang on a lot higher percentage of the songs because so far it's just Somebody to Love. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds is doing it for me for some reason. Embryonic Journey is a good instrumental track. Throw it in the bathtub! White Rabbit is a jam. Plastic Fantastic Lover is like a psychedelic Primus song.

Good album. Somebody to Love and White Rabbit. The rest sounds like the Beatles with Grace Slick singing which isn't a bad thing.

I enjoy a lot of parts of this album. Could definitely creep close to a 4 but again keeping it at a 3

Really enlightening listening, was aware of them but not that some super-popular songs were theirs; will explore further ✨👌

Enjoyment: 6 Replayability: 5 Cohesion: 6 Flow/Pacing: 4 Artistic Merit: 5 Weighted Average: 5.4 Review: I dig the the progressive and psychedelic nature of these tracks, but there are multiple dull stretches where they just mix together with little substance. Overall, an average album. Liked Song(s): She Has Funny Cars, Somebody to Love, 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds, White Rabbit Disliked Song(s): My Best Friends, Plastic Fantastic Lover Recommend? Maybe

There are few albums that manage to capture a decade's atmosphere as much as this one, warts and all. It's got a solid amount of truly spectacular tracks, but it succumbs to psychedelia's worst instincts a few too many times for my liking. For every Somebody to Love, there is an accompanying My Best Friend that completely kills the flow of the album. Anyhow, there is still much to love here. It's certainly leagues better than the horrors that Jefferson Starship and Starship would produce in the future. Favourite track: White Rabbit

A couple really strong songs, a couple ok songs, and several snoozers. I expected to like this a lot more than I did.

actually quite like this 3.5/5

its not bad

Compared to so more modern projects it’s alright but it’s a decent rock album for its time

Every song with Grace Slick is good Every other song except the guitar solo is mid. Simple formula here- more Grace, less everything else. This album is a bit of a mixed bag, but the Grace stuff is great. I had no idea that this Somebody to Love is the original and that Queen covered it in 1976- fantastic songwriting. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Also, I’ve dreamed of the day I could use Grace’s famous quote in a review, so here we go. During a 1998 interview with VH1, the Jefferson Airplane and Starship singer derisively stated, “All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire”. She was right. They are, and do. Grace, of course, was speaking from experience. 15 years after the early successes with Airplane, Jefferson Starship re-recruited Slick back into the group and they had some additional smash hits like We Built This City On Rock N Roll and Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now in 1981/82. These songs are corny and lame as hell, and they knew it. Grace was and is deeply embarrassed by them, and that prompted the famous quote. The old Airplane stuff was real and heartfelt, and this new music just didn’t have the urgency or fire that it did when the band members were in their 20s.

The songs with the lady singing are the best. I wish she took the lead in more of them!

She should sing all these songs. Loses steam toward the end, but overall pretty good.

Hit and miss but some classics

I love when ye come across an album you've never heard and it's full of songs you have heard but didn't know who sang them. Mixed bag this but enjoyed the hits

Det er vel ingen tvil om at denne hører hjemme på lista, men jeg forbeholder 4ern og 5ern til album og låter jeg selv ville satt på av egen maskin. Denne faller ikke inn der.

Vergeten op te schrijven. Ik weet het niet goed meer.

I think I like it slightly more than neutral, but honestly, apart from the hits, not much else sticks. I really loved Today though.

Funky, background music of someone with taste. Highs and mids. I enjoyed some songs and earthy angst that has accompanied my evening of unemployment and internet scrolling. I most likely would not come back to it … Maybe if I’m driving somewhere.

One of those albums where 2 of the tracks are total total classics, and it almost dilutes the rest by comparison which is really quite good and varied

I enjoyed this when I listened to it but outside of someone to love and white rabbit I can’t really remember much else Would definitely put this on again though 3.5

I was only really familiar with the hits from this album (thank you AM radio from my childhood) and it was interesting to listen to the entire thing. I especially enjoyed Embryonic Journey.

better than i'd expect. some tunes i recognize Would I listen again: I'd allow it Deserves to be on this list: i guess 3.4

Quite dated sounding. Nothing particularly stood out, but I wouldn't say that there was anything particularly bad either.

This was ok. white rabbit is always enjoyable to listen to.

From what I hear, I would have absolutely given live JA 5 stars. This album has some gems, but is msotly just okay.

S’alright

A good one. These 60s albums had a lot of layers to the sound.

I didnt expect much of this from this album but was pleasantly suprised. I am not really a fan of psychedelic rock and you can almost smell the LSD and the 'primo grade marijana' on this album (it even features Jerry Garcia as "musical and spiritual advisor"). However, I did actually enjoy it and would even listen again. The standout tracks were the singles White Rabbit and Somebody to Love but I also enjoyed a few of the other (How Do You Feel, My Best Friend and Embryonic Journey). Can we stop using White Rabbit in every single film trailer now.... pretty please!

Good but white rabbit is not nice

I admit I was caught a little off guard with this album. I was expecting it to be more hippie-psych and it just sort of was a little more rock than I'd have guessed. It dragged when it got quiet, and I honestly am unlikely to listen to it again, but I enjoyed it enough. My wife does "White Rabbit" at karaoke semi-often, so it was fun to like actually listen to it and hear the different parts while not surrounded by the clanging of a bar atmosphere.

Psychedelic music has not aged well at all. Three singers: Grace Slick, Paul Kanter and Marty Balin. Lots of filler on the album. Three fantastic songs: Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, Today

Not every song can be, “White Rabbit.” but it is definitely Grace Slick’s vocals that keep this from sounding like a caricature that most psychedelic rock ends up sounding like to me these days. The bluesier numbers were unexpectedly good, too. Rounding down from 3.5* based on unlikelihood of dialing this up for a second listen.

Rating: 3/5 Playlist track: Comin' Back to Me Date listened: 5-6/06/26 Listen when: Slower tracks during sunset walks but the rock tracks on road trips Took me a while to get through for sure. I couldn't get into it and was mostly attracted to the slower tracks which I think are beautiful.

Nice 60’s vibe

Pretty good. But not really my thing.

The recognisable songs are the best on this album. The others are unmemorable but by no means bad. Stand out song: white rabbit..... by a country mile

3

Sólo he escuchado las dos primeras canciones y no me desagradan. De momento, no es un álbum que volvería a escuchar pero le vamos a dar una oportunidad. Vale, ya lo he escuchado entero. No ha estado nada mal. Mis favoritas después de la primera escucha han sido "Comin' Back to Me" y "In The Morning". Para ser el primer disco totalmente aleatorio que escucho, le doy un 3,5/5

Pretty generic 60s psych, the singles hard carry but I enjoy the folky stuff too Favourites: Somebody to Love, Today, Embryonic Journey, White Rabbit

“And your friends, baby, treat you like a guest” are some of the best lyrics in rock and roll. 2 hits are classics, the rest I can leave. Grace Slick! They got lucky when she joined.

It’s actually not as good as I thought. Two hits and a lot of fillers. Hm

first album out of the 1001 Surrealistic Pillow is a pretty neat psychadelic rock joint from the 60s very strawberry fields beatles with some nice vocals pretty good

La música es muy chula, pero me gusta más la melodía en sí que las partes cantadas, y siento que no todas las canciones tienen coherencia con el álbum, y que hay mucha variabilidad de todo. Pero las partes de solo música me parecen chulísimas, y creo que es algo que molaría escuchar en un garito en directo, o en el coche, como la típica escena americana escuchando la radio mientras conducen

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Pretty good this. Good vocals and guitar. Reminded me of Simon & Garfunkel a few times. Somebody to Love is a track I recognised.

A nice psychedelic record that manages to hit a ton of fertile ground. "White Rabbit" has always been a personal favorite and they definitely enjoy getting far out but their folk side and Jorma Kaukkonen's solo effort left me wanting even more of that. Uneven but fun nonetheless.

I knew White Rabbit and Somebody to Love going in. The rest isn’t really my thing but it was decent. The last of the original tracks actually sounded pretty good.

Eh! A few goodies, otherwise one note for me.

Mixed feelings about this one. Somebody to Love and White Rabbit are very good and others like My Best Friend and How Do You Feel have charm. The rest are at best ok.

60s music with two stand out songs.

good

This is exactly what I feel like a psychedelic rock album is supposed to sound like. Run of the mill folky guitars and generally a laid back tone talking about some shit I don't fully understand but had fun listening to. Highlight: Today

Somebody to love - White Rabbit

It's alright. Most of the songs were not quite what I was looking for from this era.

White rabbit

One of the better albums from the SF psychadelia scene that we've gotten so far. Grace Slick sounds great and her voice has a lot of power here. Two huge songs that have stood the test of time, but also some nice quieter and more acoustic moments like Embryonic Journey and Comin Back to Me. Funny to get this a few days after Fleet Foxes as there are a lot of lines to draw between those two bands I think. The more standard blues-y moments are less good. Overall a pretty decent listen.

3 sterne

Doux, nostalgique, beaucoup de jeu de guitare acoustique et des harmonies voix féminines et masculines. Des passages de l’album trop long pour moi. Pleins de sons courts, fortes inspirations indienne ou orientale. Groupe précurseur de psychédélique. Album initiateur du summer of love, mouvement hippie

what a bunch of hippies. Okay but actually I liked it more than I thought. Pleasant psychedelic 60s with some interesting musings about the dangers of television or something.

Jefferson Airplane or Mamas and Papas? Mamas and Papas or Jefferson Airplane? There's only one way to find out.... FIGHT!!!

Kinda cool to finally know where that White Rabbit song comes from. I can't say I'm a fan of that song in particular, maybe just cause I associate it as cliche hippy music, but I can't deny both its own impact, and the impact of this album as a whole on the psych rock sound. As for my own thoughts, it was more hit or miss and I only saved a handful of tracks, but still an overall enjoyable listen and not much to really hate. Also very interesting to see how this band evolved over the years. I had no idea about the whole Jefferson Airplane -> Jefferson Starship -> Starship thing. 3/5

Classic stuff. Good for the era.

Side B is much weaker than Side A

not quite my tempo

Save for a couple of tracks and Grace Slick's singing, there is not much here. Obviously, Somebody to Love is eternal, so worth the listen for that only. Wish it was more rock and guitar, instead of folk and acoustic whisper shit.

dang man

Content d’écouter ce groupe que je connais peu, et d’écouter l’album de somebody to love Comin’ back to me est bien ! Sinon c’est trop hippie pour moi J’aime bien la voix de la chanteuse ! Bah c’était bien, 7/10

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grace knocks those boys outta the water. maybe too sleepy to give this one a proper evaluation. appreciated the production

fun i like it

it's not bad, maybe more interesting in context, but the album still hits

The folky stuff I don’t really care for, but the rockier numbers are well worthwhile. Grace Slick can belt out a tune with the best of them, but sadly she only features heavily on a couple of tracks here. Pity.

Sympa. Pas mauvais je pense. C’est varié, ça s’écoute bien. Pas aimé de dingue non plus. Average

Two absolute classics in White Rabbit and Somebody to Love then a bunch of filler. Album suffers when Grace Slick isn't singing.

goed album

Couple of synonymous hits that JA are known for. A handful of good songs and you get a three.

I liked more than expected. Especially when it takes its time to slow down with the most psychedelic tunes.

Good musicians and well produced but something lacking in the composition for me just not sure what. I feel the same way about these guys as the Kinks - nothing 6 / 10 Best track/s: In The Morning, Somebody To Love, Go To Her

Not really into psychedelic, but I did like this album. "Somebody To Love" is great track and clear stand out. Would be nice to throw on in Laurel Canyon on a Sunday drive.

This airplane runs on Flower Power

Fine, classic, not my favorite

Surprisingly really good, super talented but they can't decide what style to actually settle in to. I hear Led Zepplin, Mamas and Papas, and SImon and Garfunkel, and obviously a lot of "monkees-style 60s fluff"

I listened to a few of these songs in the history of rock n roll (ski u mah). Not to my taste overall but it was fun to revisit, overall good music

Fav: Somebody to love; white rabbit The music gives vibes of far west / cowboy

3/5 Nice Album. Meget 60'erne. Meget syre-rock Kan både høre noget Beatles i instrumentationen og Beach Boys i Harmonierne. Er vild med samspillet mellem den mandlige og kvindelige vokalist. Også nice med et par blues-numre. Hvoraf In The Morning er meget traditionel. Kommer nok til at genbesøge dette album. Nok primært for følgende numre. Standouts: She Has Funny Cars: Sikken en måde at få mig hypet for et album. Nice trommerytme og vildt hooky guitar-riff. Vokalernes mod og samspil på dette nummer er også fedt. Comin' Back To Me: Smukt lille pusterum Somebody to love: Super catchy! How Do you feel: Nok den der giver mig mest Beatles (ticket to ride) + Beach Boys (harmonierne). White Rabbit: Et lille nik til den nok mest syrede børnebog Plastic Fantastic Lover: Plastik Fantastisk nummer!

7/10

Better than I expected.

Is this one star? five? My past and present are at war.

Man I really wanted to love this album more but it honestly had a lot of duds. Somebody to Love has been stuck in my head all day but I wish we had more bangers! The best songs are by far the ones where Grace Slick is the only one singing. LET GRACE SLICK COOK. P.S. never forget that this band spun off Starship which created the song We Built This City.

Pas mal. Quelques titres accrocheurs. Pas une révolution non plus.

Leuk album, luistert makkelijk weg

kind of rock your grandpa listens to in his garage while working on his motorcycle, a good album indeed but not my style

first listen. never been a big JA fan, but respect their place in rock history. this is fine.

Trippy, better than I thought it would be.

When I rode the bus in high school I used to bring my discman with 90 seconds of skip free play. To play music on the bus with some small portable speakers that plugged into the headphone port. I’d bring my book of CDs and some friends would bring theirs. Which helped make the hour long ride to school and home everyday a little more fun. There were these two sisters that rode the bus. That always requested Jefferson Airplane. Not really knowing the band, I thought it was odd how they always requested it. Especially since I wasn’t like a radio station with all songs in my CD book. But I guess they must have listened to them at home with their parents and were familiar with them. Anyways Jefferson Airplane was okay. I’m not crazy about them. But won’t complain if their music is playing.

Just let Grace sing please

could see it being a staple in 60s rocks. fave are today, white rabbit, DCBA -25 and plastic fantastic lover

Sympa, ambiance tikki bar/surf, mais passe pas toujours.

Bonus points for reminding me of the old juke box

not rly great. didnt leave any mark in my mind

Le pongo tres estrellas (si pudiera pondría 3.5) pero siento que está un poquito más arriba que la Luna anterior que era del grupo a Tribe Called Quest. Me hizo acordar mucho a Fleetwood Mac y algunas partecitas a los Rolling Stones. Antes de ver de qué época era el disco sentía que podía llegar a ser de los sesentas setentas y después cuando leí la historia de la banda vi que sí. No me disgustó, y si podría volver a escucharlo alguna que otra canción.

Some classics, some okay stuff

The first album after Skip spence left on drums and Grace Slick rather vitally joined the band, this represents one of the landmarks of the psychedelic rock era and 1967 as an epoch of musical time. White rabbit and Somebody to love were big Billboard hits and the idea that this band morphed into the purveyors of 'we built this city' and 'nothing's gonna stop us now' is quite remarkable. The rest of the album has quite a Mamas and Papas sound to it, surprisingly.

Mostly mediocre, but some highlights on it.

Beautiful late 60s sound, makes me feel very airy in a way, carefree and light. It’s giving woodstock 69 in the best way. Lots of hits, some of which i knew already like Somebody to Love obviously. My favorites from the album are: Somebody to Love, Today, 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds, Plastic Fantastic Lover, In The morning (love the western sound on this one a lot). Great album overall, gets better towards the end in my opinion, very accessible even for people who don’t listen to this genre usually like myself.

Good! Somewhat forgettable/mostly vibey. But I was working when I listened so can't say I was listening very hard

Well it's what I expect from a psych rock album.

Some good classics in here

Nice mix between softer and more psychedelic passages. The lead singer's voice is pushing the songs to become memorable.

some extremely classic songs on this, but a majority of the album is average at best… considering the quantity of great songs vs good/average, probably 3.5 rounded down

Embryonic Journey and Somebody to Love are the highlights for me on this one.

There were some songs that I already knew from this record, but I really enjoyed it, and I didn't expect to. This is a combo of everything cool from the 60s psychedelic stuff. Really fun album.

woooow those hairstyles are something else. I surprisingly really like the singers, they sound ahead of their time. I thought they'd be a country band, but I was pleasantly surprised that I was wrong. The instruments sound really good together, and that female singer pulls it all together. Also, classical instruments in the cover? HELL YEAH!! It's the kind of older music that still slaps, it's aged well. Their sound is unique,and I love that :) some of the slow songs get a little repetitive, but some of those songs are bangers.

Only familiar with the band from their hits, and I like the older ones much better than the 80s bastardization of Starship. This record has Somebody to Love and White Rabbit, both gems. Lots of it sounds silly schlocky to my ears in 2026.

Es como estar escuchando a los beatles americanos. No solamente hay similitudes en la música sino en la estética que se ve en la portada del álbum, y en sus looks. Sabemos perfectamente el impacto que generaron los beatles en la música para los años 60, así que no sorprende en absoluto. Somebody to Love es una canción que ya he escuchado, sin poder identificar muy bien por qué ni dónde (probablemente haya sido la influencia de mi papá). White Rabbit es el tema más escuchado, pero para mi es mejor Somebody to Love. Entiendo que esto puede pegar desde un lado más rock, y quizás el público espera eso de esta banda. Me sorprendieron mucho los vibratos. Es un álbum que cumple con la idea que deberían tener en la cabeza para esa época.

Whatever magic was happening in San Francisco at the time with this band didn’t exactly translate to record, but somewhere in the echo of an echo is a groundbreaking achievement and one of the key links in the transition from flower power folk to psychedelic rock.

Dreamy, but forgettable 3.4

This was better than most psychedelic pop

H Grace Slick κανει elevate καθε τραγούδι που είναι μεσα. Πέρα απο τα τραγούδια που ήξερα ήδη, μ'αρεσε το Comin' Back to Me, Embryonic Journey, In The Morning. Graces carries σε αυτό το album καθώς τα τραγούδια που είναι με αυτήν για vocalist ειναι τα καλύτερα. Θυμίζει αρκετά Beatles με τα πολλαπλά vocals. (3/5)

My rating 2.8

bim erstemal lose bini gar ned überzúgt gsi vode 70er-jahr-frisure-roll-models aber am gmüetliche sunntig namittag im park mit dene flügepeter im ohr pásslets ebe schono. meh wie en airbus 3-puntos chani aber ned geh. I am sorry löve

Highlights: White Rabbit, Embryonic Journey, 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds In a nutshell: "go ask Alice..." Was not expecting folk on this album but here we are. It's indeed an album, an artist, you would easily identify with the 60's. Good work, Jefferson Airplane. Overall: 5/10

Increíble la canción In the Morning🤎

interesting, i can get behind it 7.2/10

Fear and loathing

I'm coming into this one with a bias in favor, as "White Rabbit" has been my bulletproof karaoke track for years. That said, I'm finding the rest of the album to be hit-and-miss for me.

I really tried with this one. I gave it two-and-a-half listened, but if it weren't for "Somebody to Love" and "Come Back Baby", I'd be rating this album 1 or 2 stars. The 60s style, psychedelic, "we're high, so let's drift and expand our minds" vibe is just not my thing. The songs on this album that lean more towards rock and blues are the ones I really enjoyed. When I think of Jefferson Airplane, they are the songs I think of, not the airy, whispy, stare-at-the-ceiling, songs. I've always thought Grace Slick had an interesting voice and it sounds great on the album, but I think this is just a matter of not loving the genre.

A few hits and lots of filler. I enjoy the vibe of the album, unfortunately by the end it is just a lot of the same old sound.

Grace Slick has such an awesome unique voice. It makes the hits, hits. The rest is so boring and plain. It's a shame they hadnt let her lead more.

7/5+ actually is good

You would be sorely tempted to listen to any of Grace Slick's solo albums, but, while she is the greatest contributor here, in every aspect, this strange configuration of piece is absolutely her best moment. The others should consider themselves very lucky to be anywhere near her. 2.5 I love Grace Slick’s voice. It is frustrating that she only takes the lead on two songs on this album. The rest isn’t bad by any means, although there is nothing else with the same edge as those two. Today and Coming’ Back to Me are lovely but feel like a different band. I don’t know how well this holds together as an album - My Best Friend is certainly on the wrong side of the record. Swap that hippy fluff around with Embryonic Journey and White Rabbit on side B and you have something that at least looks like an attempt at an album as two distinct halves. As it is - Surrealistic Pillow is a pile of nice songs, a stupid title, and a rotten cover. 2.5/5

A classic album from the Summer of Love, with a bunch of familiar tunes, that inevitably sounds of its time, from a band that formed six decades ago.

7/10

Meh--the big songs are good but not my jam

A mix of classics and standard late 60s rock songs. The band really comes alive when Grace Slick sings, otherwise it is not very memorable.

full of classics in 33 minutes, but some of the tracks managed to drag on.

I'll round up for Somebody to Love but overall this was Yet Another Proggy Album from the Makers of the 1001 Album List and I'm getting SO tired of them.

Fun, timeless, of its time

me gustó un poco, no lo escuché completo en realidad, pero suena a banda genérica de los 60s

me gustó. algo distinto. Aires a los beatles

Contains three of the greatest songs of the psychedelic era (“Somebody to Love”, “Today”, and “White Rabbit”) and eight more that are merely okay. Works better as a symbol of The Sixties than as a coherent statement. Best track: “Somebody to Love”

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Groovy

Bon album. Somebody to love est la chanson connue de l'album. 3/5 !

Couple of bangers but it got old in between tbh

This wasn’t the brand of flower child hippy music I was raised on, and it turns out not to be my favorite. There’s nothing particularly offensive or bad about the music and it has moments of enjoyment. But I just don’t connect to the energy or message of the songs and the “psychedelic” elements are sorta laughable, “Surrealistic Pillow”?! “Embryonic Journey”?!

Better than I was expecting. Has its moments (Somebody to Love, White Rabbit), and probably a good album for 1967.

White Rabbit, Embyronic Journey, and Somebody to Love are obviously classics. Especially White Rabbit - what a gripping track. But outside of those, the album falls kind of flat for me. Wish we had more of the eeriness that White Rabbit brought, and more of the folk guitar texture of embryonic Journey.

This album is a mix of psychedelic and folk rock. Vocals are fine (sometimes bad). I preferred the singing in the first half. Instrumentals are good and even great at times. My favorite track was "Today". I really liked the instrumentals on "Plastic Fantastic Lover", but the vocals are bad on that track.

Trippy vibes.