Surrealistic Pillow (from English - "Surreal Pillow") is the second studio album of the American rock band Jefferson Airplane , released in February 1967 on RCA Victor label and became the first for the band with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden . The album reached the 3rd position in the Billboard 200 charts and received the status of the golden disc [3] . Over the years, Surrealistic Pillow was recognized as one of the main counterculture albums of the 1960s .
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| Date of issue | February 1967 |
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| Recorded by | October 31 - November 22, 1966 (RCA Victor's Music Center, Hollywood , California ) |
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| Genre | - Psychedelic Rock [1]
- folk rock [2]
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| Duration | 34:48 |
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| Producer | Rick Jarrard |
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| Language of songs | English |
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| Label | RCA Victor |
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Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
(1966) | Surrealistic pillow
(1967) | After Bathing at Baxter's
(1968) |
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| R s | Position number 146 in the list
500 of the greatest albums of all time according to the magazine Rolling Stone |
This is the first album of the group, recorded with the direct participation of vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden . Drummer Skip Spence left the band in the middle of 1966 and was replaced by jazz shock from Los Angeles by Spencer Dryden, Charlie Chaplin's nephew. New vocalist Grace Slick, after leaving the group The Great Society, joined Jefferson Airplane in the autumn of 1966. With the advent of Slick and Dryden, a "classic" group was formed, which existed until Dryden left in 1970.
Jefferson Airplane stepped aside from the folk-rock that prevailed on their first album, adding to their original sound the rapidly gaining psychedelic fashion. This album is a transition point between Jefferson Airplane Takes Off folk rock and the powerful psychedelic sound of After Bathing at Baxter's . The group's lyrics have become more interesting and original in some places, and the music is more complicated, the number of pop songs has decreased, although the founder of the group was still its founder Marty Balin .
To promote the album, two singles were released: the first one, β Somebody to Love β, took fifth place on the Billboard charts , becoming the most successful single in the entire history of the group, and the second one, β White Rabbit β, ranked eighth, becoming the second of two famous songs of Jefferson Airplane.
