Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Surrealistic Pillow at Amazon.com. She is the reason I got into this band. For example, the gentle voices on “Today” blend to make the sweetest of sounds. Genres: Psychedelic Rock. Her voice was filled with danger and soul. Surrealistic Pillow, an Album by Jefferson Airplane. The song is based on Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice In Wonderland’. Level B1+, Genre: Psychedelic Rock (You’ll find a short vocabulary list at the bottom of this article containing the underlined words. We are not let down. In 1967, 100,000 young hippies took to San Francisco for the “Summer of Love.” Here, psychedelia was all the rage (think paisley-covered hippies stoned on acid, grooving to psych-rock). To me, Grace Slick was the most alluring woman of her era. The album looks at life on the fringe of society and fantasies of love. She believed that parents have double standards when it comes to changing the reality in which we live in, perhaps another challenge to established patterns of authority.This is mixed with several songs such as ‘My Best Friend’ that fit because they feel like the band are on a high – and perhaps a homage to Slick. Arguably the first female rock star. Das, was wir hier erleben, mit "Westcoast" zu beschreiben, ist zu verkürzt und vereinfachend und wird dieser - ich nenne sie mal so - Worldmusic nicht gerecht. Sorry but Jefferson Starship is just a bastardization of the Airplane.Vocal harmonies are partly to blame for my obsession with ’60s music and this album is no exception. But it’s also the ethereal vocals that dance and play off each other (“D.C.B.A” is a prime example). Surrealistic Pillow is the second album by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released by RCA Victor on February 1, 1967.
By The Sheaf January 21, 2011 in Culture. She also is great at making her voice “tremolo” like a guitar. In a time when guys sang girly pop tunes, here was this girl howling over heavy guitars. We hear her echoing voice mocking that of the male singer, possibly Marty Balin or Paul Kantner. Likewise, her departure from the band in 1972 is the reason I refuse to hear Jefferson Starship. The band are churlishly waving goodbye to an uncritical utopia, and confronting a future where young people can drive social change. The major point that enforces the simplicity theme is that the guitar is rarely distorted.
Principally though, it’s Grace Slick who takes you somewhere surreal.Rare is the person who hasn't, by now, at least heard of Jay-Z, let alone downloadedBut the most haunting words and melody are on the ballad “Comin’ Back to Me.” On it, Marty Balin sing-talks with the kind of emotional weight we reserve for solitary reflection. But other harmonies — like those on “She Has Funny Cars” — weave a deep, almost electric sound.Hearing her for the first time, I was paralyzed. We are promised something ridiculously out-of-this-world and are given it with the lyrics: ‘Your mind’s guaranteed / It’s all you’ll ever need / So what do you want with me?’ We’re allowed to think of anything and everything, something or nothing! First, Slick’s ‘White Rabbit’ gives her centre stage for a story of how some pills make you smaller and bigger. (You’ll find a short vocabulary list at the bottom of this article containing the underlined words. It also mentions chasing rabbits, the white knight ‘talking backwards’ and the red queen being ‘off her head’. For starters, it’s how they use enough reverb to drown a small child. Saturated with references to other drugs such as we pick up in ‘D.C.B.A – 25’ – apparently a reference to LSD, a drug that many took to explore a different dimension. Perhaps out of the entire album, this is the only song, which feels like an odd one out.The final track on Surrealistic Pillow is ‘Plastic Fantastic Lover’ written by Balin and it leaves us to work out or imagine what it might be about.
Its harmonies will lift you high and cut you deep. MIKE CUTHBERTSON Arts Writer. It is actually to do with a new stereo system Balin bought, which was brand new at the time of recording this song. Auch "Psychedelic" trifft es nur unter gewissen Aspekten. She was a pretty wild partier, but she also had a sweet, innocent side.From their lyrics, you can tell Jefferson Airplane were hippies. A way everyone escape all of that is giving Surrealistic Pillow a nice peaceful and relaxing listen. Slick would later say this was criticising parents for reading fairy tales and other stories, which would later alter reality. Just hear the ending on “White Rabbit” — she will blow your mind.Headed by the powerful vocals of Madison Erhardt, Harmful Effects are a local metal act thatRare is the person who hasn't, by now, at leastLike many Saskatoon music-listeners, I first heard Shuyler Jansen playThe title comes from Jerry Garcia’s remark: “It sounds as surrealistic as a pillow is soft.” Indeed, the album feels quite supernatural.