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Surrealistic Pillow (Music)
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Surrealistic Pillow is the second studio album by Jefferson Airplane, released in 1967 through RCA Records. It is generally considered to be their strongest album, most popular and critically acclaimed. It is their first album with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden (Nephew of Charlie Chaplin), replacing Signe Toly Anderson and Skip Spence respectively. Spence did write "My Best Friend" for this album, however and he and Anderson appear on "Don't Slip Away", "Come Up The Years" and "Chauffeur Blues" on the UK version of the album. These three songs originally appeared on their previous album Jefferson Airplane Takes Off.Hits include "Somebody to Love", "My Best Friend", "Embryonic Journey" and "White Rabbit". | |
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Alice Allusion | |
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Alice Allusion: "White Rabbit" is one entire shout-out to Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: In the novel Alice drinks medicine that makes her grow and shrink in an instant, this after she followed a white rabbit into the rabbit hole. Alice also meets a caterpillar who smokes from a water pipe. Alice meeting the Red and the White Knight on a giant chessboard is from Through The Looking Glass The Red Queen in the novel orders a lot of decapitations, which is changed into a clever pun here. The Dormouse is a character from when Alice meets the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: A group photo of the band. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Less Folk (The influences are still noticeable, however), More Psychedelic. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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"White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" are also well-used in media. Odds are good that, if you're watching a program or a film about or set in the Sixties, you'll hear one of those two songs. Even if it's the very early Sixties. "White Rabbit" in particular has become the Standard Snippet to play whenever characters are taking hallucinogenic drugs. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Jerry Garcia from The Grateful Dead plays guitar during "Today", "Comin' Back to Me", "Plastic Fantastic Lover" and "J.P.P. McStep B. Blues". | |
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Ode to Intoxication | |
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Ode to Intoxication: "White Rabbit", which has become the Standard Snippet to play whenever a film or TV scene evokes people enjoying hallucinogenic drugs. | |
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Boléro Effect | |
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Boléro Effect: "White Rabbit" uses this effect in the melody. In fact, Grace Slick herself said that Ravel's Boléro was the other major influence on the song (besides Carroll's novels and LSD). | |
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Follow the White Rabbit | |
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Follow the White Rabbit: "White Rabbit" | |
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Psychedelic Rock | |
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Psychedelic Rock: This album is one of several albums that helped to define the sound of the Summer of Love. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Rick Jarrard (who was also working with Harry Nilsson around the same time). | |
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Pep-Talk Song | |
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Pep-Talk Song: "She Has Funny Cars" | |
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Non-Appearing Title: "She Has Funny Cars". The line doesn't appear in the lyrics. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: "Today" "How Do You Feel?" | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: "Somebody to Love" describes nothing but depressing situations and tells the person (s)he needs somebody to love. This may sounds like a Pep-Talk Song about The Power of Love, but when you think of it makes it actually worse since the person to whom the song is addressed to is already in a lot of despair and would probably get even more depressed if someone told him or her that she is also totally alone and without someone to love. | |
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Instrumentals | |
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Instrumental: "Embryonic Journey". | |
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EverythingsBetterWithBunnies | |
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Everything's Better With Bunnies: Especially "if you go chasing rabbits", as "White Rabbit" tells us. | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: "D.C.B.A. - 25" | |
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Questioning Title? | |
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Questioning Title?: "How Do You Feel?" | |
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Second-Person Narration | |
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Second-Person Narration: "Somebody to Love". | |
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Lyrical Cold Open | |
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Lyrical Cold Open: "Somebody to Love". | |
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Word Salad Title | |
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Word Salad Title: The album title, which was allegedly inspired by a comment from Jerry Garcia about the music being "surrealistic as a pillow". | |
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Sexbot | |
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Sexbot: Marty Balin claims that "Plastic Fantastic Lover" was a paean to his new stereo system (or maybe TV—the story varies), but the description of it as a lover with "chrome-coloured clothes", and the references to "Data Control and IBM" make it clear that he was trying to imply a little more — possibly influenced by some of Kantner's SF collection. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "White Rabbit" is a shout-out to Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The band based the melody on Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" and was also inspired by a similar bolero heard on Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain. A line from "White Rabbit" inspired the book "Go Ask Alice" (1971), a book about drug addiction. "Embryonic Journey" was used (among other films) in the series finale of Friends. "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" are also well-used in media. Odds are good that, if you're watching a program or a film about or set in the Sixties, you'll hear one of those two songs. Even if it's the very early Sixties. "White Rabbit" in particular has become the Standard Snippet to play whenever characters are taking hallucinogenic drugs. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: Technically "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" are covers of songs by Slick's previous band The Great Society (though only the former had been released before she left the band). | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover is in black-and-white. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Today". | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: "Somebody to Love" tells the protagonist that since "your friends treat you like a guest" he better find somebody to love. | |
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Bo Diddley Beat | |
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Bo Diddley Beat: "She Has Funny Cars" is based on this beat. | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
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Mushroom Samba: "White Rabbit", where imagery of Lewis Carroll's most famous novels is used as a metaphor for drug hallucinations. | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: "My Best Friend". | |
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