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  • I love this song and the album is a good fellow for me

  • Not as good as Tom Scotts version. No disrespect.

  • @BIGGjamzz I like both versions. The Jefferson Airplane gives me a more haunting feeling, but a good haunting feeling. Tom Scott's version has a more upbeat vibe but it retains a certain special impact to the listener. I probably prefer the Jefferson Airplane version, but I don't know whether that makes Tom's version inferior.

  • @SpadeMate Yeah I get you, I can't really say one is better than the other to be fair.. its personal preferance. They both are musicaly very good in there own genre.

  • They were Riding a magnificent Wave and it finally washed against the shore and rolled back. It's about to happen again soon.

  • Jerry on the guitar riff intro is a great touch, plus according to "The History of the Grateful Dead" written by the long time publicist for the dead, Dennis McNally, Jerry was also given credit for creating the name of this album, Surrealistic Pillow.

  • I used to go out with a Native American girl - and - this song would pop into my head. Damn the memories!

  • BEAUTIFUL!

  • godlike.

  • Se emotional, so real. Can't stop listening to this=3

  • this song has so much positive vibes i could literally see happiness floating through the air

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  • I wish I could sing this to my beautiful wife; but I suck at singing so that's out.

  • What if someone came up to you and said: "Out of all Rock n Roll songs, from 1955 to 2012, pick the most beautiful one of all." I would say: "There's several candidates." But if you pressed me, if you insisted i choose just one, I would HAVE to pick this one right here. Because it Truly Is! Just listen. Now write something more beautiful than this. You can't. And no one can. Thank you, Marty and Grace, I am grateful to hear this.

  • I'm gonna give up what I am doing, go back to college, study physics, invent a time machine so I can listen to this one song live

  • @kvrk2000 Can I give up my shitty factory job and travel back with you?! x hehe!

  • Great copy-book hand!

  • Jerry Garcia playing with Jefferson Airplane. Now all we need is Janis Joplin.

  • Tom Scott's was better in my opinion. It just feels too strong in my chest... so strong it's truly indescribable.

  • I can't decide which one is better, the original or the one Tom Scott did.

  • Check out Sludge9509, a band trying to bring back the music everybody in the 60s/70s loved, with it's own unique twist!

  • This song is like a drug

  • im on the crack of music :)

  • BRING BACK WOODSTOCK RAINBOWS!!

  • beeen listenin to this all morning hippie healin

  • im high as fuck

  • Correct Performer Listing for this Song is: Marty Balin - Lead Vocals, Tambourine

    Grace Slick - Vocals

    Jorma Kaukonen - Guitar

    Paul Kantner - Guitar, Vocals

    Jack Casady - Bass

    Spencer Dryden - Drums

    Jerry Garcia - Lead Guitar

  • @dracula9 Jerry Garcia plays in this song? Holy shit, Jerry Garcia + Jefferson Airplane=psychedelic awesomeness

  • What a Minute, that opening lead is played by Jerry Garcia, why is he not listed in the credits? (Yes he was a guest player on this Song)

  • You don't just SEE God when you hear this song. Terrifying.

  • The Most Beautiful Rock 'n Roll Song Ever Written. You can't touch this.

  • Black Sheep - Similak Child

    You're The Woman

  • Very emotional music, this took some talent to write.. that is why no one makes music like this anymore

  • thats all.

  • One of the BEST of all albums, up there with Pepper, White Album, Disraeli Gears, Pet Sounds, Zoso

  • The angels in Heaven are singing. It makes me cry.

  • Devastatingly beautiful. Possibly the most beautiful thing ever written. ;(

  • One long drunk night got it last night when I heard this song.

    You should have heard the house.

    It was bizarre, but it brought so many people closer together.

  • How long will it be until we can not find this? seems this site has gone way too commercial. Too bad for the young ones who may miss this.

  • You're only as pretty as you feel...oh, those fantasies of Grace Slick....

  • Hear that opening riff?/ pure Jerry......later to be used on "friend of devil"......love it when the airplane flew with the dead

  • "We were expecting Haight-Ashbury to be special, a creative and artistic place, filled with Beautiful People, but it was horrible - full of ghastly drop-outs, bums and spotty youths, all out of their brains." George Harrison

  • @probrojeffro I went to Rio de Janerio cause they sold me a Fred and Ginger Ballroom waltz. It was more like a gang rape in a laundromat.. My cabbie said in a moment of repose, "I`m sorry we`re not what they told you we were"...

  • @Kharkovkid Interesting.

  • great tune, a little melancholy for my tastes here but i LOVE the tom scott version.

  • I recommend everyone to check out the Monterey performance of this as well. It has a sublime, psychedelic keyboard riff on it.

  • I've read that Jerry Garcia, unbilled, performed that introductory and then-repeated guitar lick. Anybody know if that's true? Just curious. Either way, this is a lovely record of a lovely song --

  • Got this album when it came out - I was 22. Still listen regularly to my sixth copy. This is a fantastic album, but don't sell "Baxter's" short.

  • In 1975ish at a free concert in SF JA played this, with Marty Balin, and I was10 feet away,will always remember that and this great song.

  • great song, great album

  • great song!

  • This song gives me such a heavy feeling inside,..my heart starts beating hard and all I can think about is surrender.

  • @DZgirl837 very well put, i feel the same. but surrender to whom... or what?

  • @bloodshotcomedy to true love. to a kind of love that only comes once in a lifetime. There is a particular person that comes to mind for me when I hear it.

  • The greatest non Grace Slick song that Jefferson Airplane produced.

  • "to be living for you,... is all I want to do...." Today. Today. (G-D how I wish I could live in that moment. Today. Right now. Forever finding just that moment) "When my dreams come true" But I have never changed. Never changed. I only want to please you. But you imagine I have changed, you imagine... and my words fall cold..... "today".....(I'm in love with you....)
  • This song is the signature song for me of the first real love of my life.

  • Did you know that Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead, if u didn't know) did session musican work on this track?

  • @psychesoap Did work on Baron Von Tollbooth too. Spacey Gracie learned to use her voice as an overlay like Papa John used his fiddle, great stuff on that album.

  • @iowkidd I dunno...I'm an American and I have AT LEAST two bands from your country that are better at psychedelia than we are, here in America. lol (hint: "....hanging on in quiet desperation is the Englsh way" <-- that is their lyric, hope you instantly know it this time)

  • I always expect to hear white rabbit immediately after this song ends per The Worst of JA

  • Why cant the world be like this song , im so in love with this masterpiece ! xxx

  • LISTON TO THIS SONG MARCIA DIANE ARGUELLES I WISH YOU WELL SORRY FOR THE PAST, THIS SONG IS MY SORRY. E-MAIL ME AT davejthomson66@yahoo.ca. I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU. IF YOU CAN WE CAN TALK ON THE E-MAIL OR PHONE. I WISH YOU PEACE AND GOOD WILL. DOWN THERE IN SEATTLE. STILL LOVING YOU DAVE.

  • This is life ....

  • Summer of '67. Living in the Bay Area, just graduated HS, listening to this on KFRC, the draft was a million miles and a couple years away. Listening to this gave me a brief but wonderful "flashback."

  • More reverb!

  • Oh god! Why doesn't music sound like this anymore?

  • @Ayannafuckingnichole They took the soul out of it and trampled it flat, that´s why.

  • @Ayannafuckingnichole Thank you for being on this planet at this time in history--you are glorious

  • @Ayannafuckingnichole -- why? one answer.. computer technology

  • @Ayannafuckingnichole Because it's evolved......Great song, but you can't live in the past...........

  • @Univermag says who so ur saying where stuck in a time warp

  • @cfazekas0441 No....probably stuck on a prolonged acid trip if you're listening to this song...lol

  • @Ayannafuckingnichole because music changes but at the same time it's timless

  • @Ayannafuckingnichole because people don't want to feel emotional and care

  • @Ayannafuckingnichole Times changed...consciousness morphed...I was lucky

    I was there ...and I'll never forget ...

    I'm playing this at my wedding

  • oh how i wish it did

  • gorgeous..a sublime rock song.

  • A *favourite* of mine ♥

  • This is one of my all time favorite songs!!!  Brings back too many memories to count.

  • i just wonna thanks brothers Coen... for a "A Serious Man" cuz probably if not them... i would never heard this song. 

  • @franchi123 SAME HERE. Coen brothers forever. If I had never seen A Serious Man (awesome film BTW) I never would have found Jefferson Airplane.

  • I LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG~~STILL....TODAY.

  • I LOVE how this song has evolved! From this version to Tom Scott and then to Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth...all three are amazing :)

  • so chill :)

  • Grace Slick was a sexy hippy girl.

    Hunter S. Thompson had good taste.

  • @ThePoliticalPugilist I read that he used to drive down to the Matrix all the time because he had a crush on her. Aww

  • What truly wonderful time we had listening to such magical music

  • @stepenwolf7 Today's songwriters should be made to listen to this. The simplicity of it works so well. Don't need alot of "bells and whistles".

  • @iowkidd I don't. u don't have to be high to dig this song..their music resonates with the inner being on an incredible and domestic level , i think someone in that band saw it that way. its no accident..lots of rappers have sampled this song too..it sounds enchanting wherever it goes, whatever length its played, and no matter what accompanies it..even gunshots.

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  • Given this album Surrealistic Pillow as a Christmas present by my older brother around 1970 and got into Jefferson Airplane and the West Coast music scene. I was around 14 years.......and just fell in love with Marty Balin and Jefferson Airplane. Today just fills me with emotion and sadness and all kinda stuff makes me feel about my past life and people I once knew.

  • I love this album, one of my favorites. this song alone is just awesome.

  • Why do I have tears in my eyes when I hear this song?

  • i was born at the wrong time i missed all the greats

  • Yes I was born in '78, but this is music...

  • This song is one of the most beautiful masterpeices ever created for the human ear..

  • @manutdtreble7

    I quite agree! Balin was/is a fine songwriter and WOW, his voice at this time was at its PEAK of beauty and power!

  • Full of love...I could burst apart...If my novel "Still Life" becomes a film---this song will open the credits.

  • thumps up if you are a neo hippie

  • @dhani7165 ...and know that that is not the same as being a hipster, mind you!

  • @HappyHumanism uhm...duh

  • See Black Sheep "Similak Child" (1991)

  • @mjn76 SO GOOD!

    

  • This is my very favorite song from that time... magical, soooo romantic...beautifully executed...brings tears to my eyes.

  • The hippies on that Star Trek episode sounded better than this.

  • Played this song at my wedding when hubby and I were married 2001.

  • Yes, I refuse to outgrow these songs too! Great song to cover.

  • anyone remember the movie "Coming Home", with Jon Voight as the disabled Vietnam vet and Jane Fonda as his lover?...this song played while he ate her out.

  • @rowdymax1 jon voight in a sex scene scares me, i'll pass.

  • @rowdymax1 @joojoojuice  I haven't seen it but think they both won Oscars for that movie

  • I like this...so much emotion so much love...to feel this way about someone is one of the best feelings in the world. Love each other people...

  • Their Most Sacred Love song !

  • Jerry Garcia plays the simple, repetitive but poignant lead guitar riff on the song.[2]

  • beautiful

  • I play... so the harmonics are great. Also check the alternate tuning on Jorma Kaukonen's "The Water Song."I had it at one point and it brings the finger picking in more tightly...go to his website or Google "water song alternate tuning."

    You master this song, you will literally be loving life...my favorite song. Period.

  • I love that intro..very easy yet very fun to play on guitar..the open A to the 12th fret A harmonic part at :05 is so awesome

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  • I saw my teacher dead in a coffin when I was in 2nd grade.This song was on my dad's turntable which at the time was the "The Worst of Jefferson Airplane" -- fast forward, I love this band and they wrote great melody with the most dire themes...to this day, I love every song by JA ...check 2400 Fulton ST. (where they lived in San Fran in 66-69.)

    Bottom line--- gifted songwriters collaborated with great musicians + acid =

    some really thought provoking and soul satisfying music...

  • @lateforthesky61 I actually think Marijuana did more for their music..Marty talks about writing Comin' Back to Me instantly after smoking a joint and I doubt you can write music on acid.. at least not amazingly mellow music like that and this..I'm sure acid was a major part of changing their whole mindset so it would always be part of it but when writing music I bet they were often just smoking joints. Performing live they would more likely be on acid or at least grass but I could be wrong.

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  • @FrequentlyFried

    Good points Fried. A few shots and some very potent weed are always inpirational.

    The stronger stuff creates different reactions in different people. Just making a general statement.

    However, slightly off topic, listen to "3rd Stone from the Sun" by Hendrix or all of "Axis Bold as Love" on the major stuff--- an utterly transformative experience not necessarily accessible without the DCBA-25.

    An "epiphany," but I'm viewing through the lense of a much younger version of myself!

  • @lateforthesky61 yea I could tell you were just making a general statement but I just couldn't help but be a smart ass know it all lol yea I totally agree both 3rd Stone and Are You Experienced are really spacey and trippy definately a good example of acid type songs, Hendrix has alot.. Check out the Wolfgangsvault website for alot of live Airplane and Hendrix if you haven't already discovered it.

  • Haunting. And beautiful.

  • I'm sober and I like this song. And all their other songs,... always have.

  • @aaa567ify Sobriety is for people that can't handle alcohol.

  • @whoopyourasstonite That was real fun to type I bet. Have fun watching the video.

  • Today I realized how much I'm in love with you....gorgeous lyrics - this song means so much to me!

  • amazing.

    

  • una delle canzoni d'amore più belle di sempre.. mi piange il cuore dall'emozione

  • Beautiful!

  • Check out the Tom Scott & the California Dreamers version. The horns are something else.

  • These folks can re-ignite memories so easily. An enjoyable time in my life...no responsibilities, no constraints, and no foreseeable end in sight. Thank you, Jefferson Airplane.

  • This is going to makeme cry forever... I can't avoid... is simple... I start to cry... Today I know what I want to do but I don't know what for To be living for you is all I want to do To be loving you it'll all be there when my dreams come true (...) Today you'll look into my eyes, I'm just not the same To be anymore than all I am would be a lie I'm so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry Today everything you want, I swear it all will come true
  • Tears.

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  • @andredashiznit1

    seriously!?!?! Jefferson Airplane wrote and created this majesty that Tom Scott covered you can pretty much hear their vocals in his song lol

  • Marty Balin fucking rules!  I love this song..pure and simple.

  • i think all the world needs a "reset"...isn't right?

  • blaze it

  • amazing vocal duet with Marty Balin and Grace Slick

  • This is the definition of real, pure love to me. mmhm

  • @fersholol I wish to listen to this song with my woman while on LSD

  • Life has changed, I wished there was an apocalypse in 2000

  • i love weed...........

  • i remember the monterey music festival- this song was poorly miked. only half of the instrumentation is heard. but the music is so well composed- it did not matter... i was only eleven at the time (1967) but i should have left home for frisco. my family was a torture chamber. i live knowing the difference and how we are all surrounded by lies and fear still today.

  • I have the original royaly contract and lead sheet for this and several other JA songs from this album. All with original signatures.

  • @anthonytorelli Wow! How did you come across those??

  • @boomshine87 Auction

  • my god jerry's guitar playing makes this song

  • -I'm the King...

    ...

    apreciatte this music makesme feel like a King of Kings...-

  • This song and others on the album are used to great effect in the movie A Serious Man. 

  • Wow what great song the LP Surealistic Pillow was such a great album.

    Takes me back to 1967 and the Summer of Love.

  • I can't even remember how many times I heard and saw them in concert. They always played their best at the Filmore in SF! Grace was the first person I met in the Haight!

    One of their best songs ever!

  • I can't even remember how many times I heard and saw them in concert. They always played their best at the Filmore in SF! Grace was the first person I met in the Haight!

  • I love getting high to this song

  • @TheCrazydeath1 ..... and making love .... :)

  • @TheCrazydeath1 me too

  • @TheCrazydeath1 The most powerful part is when it's getting to "Today everything you want I swear", do you fell it too?

  • @Lorcar12 Do I fell it? Don't know, but I definitely feel it.

  • @Amhlair I didn't know that... but it makes sense.

  • @TheCrazydeath1 Jefferson airplane and boston are my two favoret bands to listento when im high

  • @TheCrazydeath1 With this song, I get High naturally !

  • @TheCrazydeath1 I don't get high anymore but I can say that this song makes me high! It always takes me back to a special place and time! Glad you love it too!

  • its all ready made for radio bs. only need 5 min of fame to cash in.

  • This is one of my favorite songs by Airplane. They were so awesome!!! I refuse to outgrow the hippy inside me. lol

  • @satellite121362 me to,i live in my mind in the sixties evertime,the sounds of today makes me angry,memories are the best way to travel in our minds and enjoy this everytime!

  • @satellite121362

    Oh so totally... this whole album is a real epiphany!

  • @satellite121362 AMEN!! I can remember standing in the local record shop circa 1967 and only had a couple of dollars, trying to decide whether to buy "Surrealistic Pillow" or "Are You Experienced". I bought the Hendrix album...

  • @fscap811 Ah, you did well.

  • @satellite121362 correction you cant outgrow a hippy thats already inside of you :D

  • I'm so fool of love

  • I think, perhaps, that some of the people incessantly complaining of how modern music is shit simply don't understand the evolution of the modern mind. Sure, older music still feels 'deep', especially if you have a lot of memories tied to it, but music evolves with people. Some people just refuse to evolve.

  • @mhickey84 But back then people actually did put time and hard work into making something good with quality, something they really belivede in. Today there are so many "artist" who's only in it for the money. They don't give two shits about the music they put out there, as long as its selling to the stupid "tweens" and teens who buys it.

  • This song really creates a a powerful mellow vibe throughout my body.

  • Feel the wave