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Surrealistic Pillow

Studio album by Jefferson Airplane
Released February 1967
Recorded October 31, 1966 -- November 22, 19 Surrealistic Pillow

Studio album by Jefferson Airplane
Released February 1967
Recorded October 31, 1966 -- November 22, 1966
Genre Psychedelic rock, folk rock
Length 33:40
Label RCA Victor
Producer Rick Jarrard

Jefferson Airplane's fusion of folk rock and psychedelia was original at the time, in line with musical developments pioneered by The Byrds, The Mamas & the Papas, and Bob Dylan. Surrealistic Pillow was the first blockbuster psychedelic album by a band from San Francisco, announcing to the world the active bohemian scene that had developed there starting with The Beats during the 1950s, extending and changing through the 1960s into the Haight-Ashbury counterculture. Subsequently, the exposure generated by the Airplane and others wrought great changes to that counterculture, and by 1968 the ensuing national media attention had precipitated a very different San Francisco scene than had existed in 1966. San Francisco photographer, Herb Greene photographed the band for the album's cover art.

Some controversy exists as to the role of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia in the making of the album. His reputed presence on several tracks is not corroborated by RCA paperwork and is denied by producer Rick Jarrard. But when performing Comin' Back to Me live with Jefferson Starship, Marty Balin almost always introduced the song with a reference to the Surrealistic Pillow sessions, mentioning Garcia as playing the guitar parts on the original studio version.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 146 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Lyrics: It's time you walked away and set me free--
I must move away, 'n' leave you be.
It has been good to us my friend,
Wait, and see how it will end.
We come and go as we please.
(Grace: We come and go as we please)
(Paul: That's how it has to be).

Here in this ocean, the near and holy,
Too many days I've left unstoned.
If you don't mind, happiness
Purple pleasure-fields in the sun
Ah don't you know I'm runnin' home
(Grace: Don't you know I'm runnin' home)
(Paul: To a place, for you unknown).

I take great peace in your sitting there(1).
Searching for myself, I find a place there(2).
I see the people of the world,
Where they are and what they could be.
I can but dance behind your smile
(Grace: I can but dance behind your smile)
(Paul: To (the) other world---to me, for a while)

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[jesusknudd]

I woke up this morning with this song playing in my head. "Too many days I've left unstoned." blestemp, thanks for this video. This is one of my all time favorite album.

[chazattak]

Favorite album, favorite song... absolutely amazing, blows me away every time... in the greatest way, of course :o)

[linachao5]

Magic song.

[Thaxt]

That beautiful 2nd verse. A Magick cymbal crash hits, & cascading guitar & those incredible voices converge. I always heard the lyric something like: 'You've left the Crystal Chandelier unhoned.." Or is it 'unknown'? Anyone know? The chandelier lyric must have come from the many leftover in the Victorian Haight Ashbury houses lots of those new bands lived & jammed in. Staring at that chandelier for hours & hours, were you, naughty Airplane types? Glad u wrote this, special to me.

[DILCURRIE100]

i love the line "you were the world to me for a while" killer godbye

[elfcarnage2010]

I heard this song once while tripping and i almost orgasmed XD

[Nguli34689]

DCBA-25, DSL-25, just kidding!

[4difference]

Awful

Just kidding

I LOVE IT :D <3 (L)

[singingpretty]

man i loved the way they sounded! i have so many excellent memories tied up in this album LOL...

[tomblah]

I can but dance behind your smile/You were the world to me for a while

[gypsysunerainbow]

this song makes me miss the future