Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

The second album by Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow was a groundbreaking piece of folk-rock-based psychedelia, and it hit -- literally -- like a shot heard round the world; where the later efforts from bands like The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and especially, The Charlatans, were initially not too much more than cult successes, Surrealistic Pillow rode the pop charts for most of 1967, soaring into that rarefied Top Five region occupied by the likes of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and so on, to which few American rock acts apart from The Byrds had been able to lay claim since 1964. Read More