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albummaster
Janitor
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Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 12/30/2013 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1133): Surrealistic Pillow
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Today's album of the day
Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1967.
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Overall rank: 284
Average rating: 80/100 (from 281 votes).
Tracks:
1. She Has Funny Cars
2. Somebody To Love
3. My Best Friend
4. Today
5. Comin' Back To Me
6. 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds
7. D.c.b.a. - 25
8. How Do You Feel
9. Embryonic Journey
10. White Rabbit
11. Plastic Fantastic Lover
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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- #2
- Posted: 12/30/2013 21:23
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Is good, but I've never felt like it's aged well. Still, the highlights are superb.
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- #3
- Posted: 12/30/2013 21:34
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The whole thing's great! My favorite track is White Rabbit.
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drakonium
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- #4
- Posted: 12/30/2013 21:44
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This along with Disraeli Gears are the supposed 67's psychedelic masterpieces I don't quite get. They are good, but I don't see anything truly fabulous in them.
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- #5
- Posted: 12/31/2013 02:34
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This is #7 for me in 1967, which is pretty good considering the strength of that year. White Rabbit is brilliant, though I wish it were longer.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Location: Paris, France
- #6
- Posted: 12/31/2013 09:06
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Don't quite understand the lukewarm reception of this. It's not a favourite of mine, b ut it's still a very strong album, era-defining and all. If you haven't already, go for it.
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- #7
- Posted: 12/31/2013 09:41
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Don't quite understand the lukewarm reception of this. It's not a favourite of mine, b ut it's still a very strong album, era-defining and all. If you haven't already, go for it. |
Oh, I certainly agree it was era-defining.
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Facetious
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Somewhere you've never been 
- #8
- Posted: 12/31/2013 11:50
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| swedenman wrote: | | Is good, but I've never felt like it's aged well. Still, the highlights are superb. |
This. I enjoy After Bathing at Baxter's more.
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TracyJacks
Gender: Female
- #9
- Posted: 12/31/2013 11:59
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It's one of my favourite albums from the 1960s. Jefferson Airplane was one of the first bands that got me into listening to full albums - and Surrealistic Pillow was the first JA album I bought. First I had a compilation album and I loved White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, then I realised these two songs were on the same studio album, so I bought Surrealistic Pillow. Then I bought all their other albums but this one is their best.
The whole album is great, not just the two big hits. They re-recorded Somebody to Love, originally a Great Society song, and it's a better, a faster, a more energetic version what Slick & co. previously recorded.
I like that there are individually written songs on this album, very good songs by Marty Balin (Plastic Fantastic Lover, Today, Comin' Back to Be), songs written by Paul Kantner D.C.B.A - 25) and a beautiful instrumental by Jorma Kaukonen (Embryonic Journey), but it still sounds an album, not just songs by the members. They all captured the sound of early 1967 perfectly on this album.
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NickVolos
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Gender: Male
Location: Land of the Argonauts, Centaurs and other such creatures 
- #10
- Posted: 12/31/2013 12:40
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Fantastic music - it literally put west coast psychedelia on the charts - and just for that is and remains a landmark album.
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