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Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow Audio CD

A fair review of the Jefferson Airplane "Surrealistic Pillow" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Jefferson Airplane reviews here, or go back to the Jefferson Airplane tabs.

Jefferson Airplane Band: Jefferson Airplane
Title: Surrealistic Pillow
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Release Date: 2003-08-19
Media: Audio CD

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 12: In the Morning [*] 13: J.P.P. McStep B. Blues [*] 14: Go to Her [Version Two][*] 15: Come Back Baby [*] 16: Somebody to Love [Mono Version][*][Version] 17: White Rabbit [Mono Version][*][Version]

Sure-it's-'licious pillow--sorry
In reality (!), it's one and a quarter sides of magnificence, and the lesser material isn't bad, definitely much better than that plastic stuff. Whoops: I was expecting plastic bombastic psychedelia. I totally dig Grace Slick, wish she sang more, and I really dig Paul's vocals, or maybe that's Jorma I'm hearing. It's Jorma's riffs I'm feeling, especially on "Somebody to Love," which would have made me turn off the stereo at one time. Not now.


Realistic Is More Like It!
I prefer the mono version because of the added echo that was added to the stereo mix. Just got around to listening to this remaster and it is fantastic! Though I thoughly enjoyed it, I am going whip out my mono CD version and give it a listen again and see if it betters the fantastic mono album mix. I still say this one really is pretty good and the bonus tracks could have easily made the final cut if it was not for the vinyl space alotted in the day. I heard this one, Sgt Pepper and The Doors all around the same time and these were great albums. I played this one the least and The Doors the most, but Pepper, I played "A Day In The Life" the most of any of the songs. Back to this one, Love the tracks "My Best Friend" and "White Rabbit" the most, except the single mono version is better to me. So if you remember this one from your younger days or your a young guy or gal looking for something better then most of the garbage on the radio today, give this one a try, it's simply excellent! Stop by mywebsite sometime. . . It's Googleable Judemac Forever .


a word of caution about remastering
I wanted to address the re-mastering concept, for this album and many, too many others. The album is absolutely brilliant, so that need not be repeated at this late date. Who are all these people raving about various remasters: "the voices are finally clear where they were muddy before," "i am a recording engineer and i know that this. . . " etc. And, of course, you must have high-end components and play the CD loud to hear the differences. In as many as 80% of cases, and this issue of Surrealistic Pillow falls into that percentage, the remastering is plain hokum designed to make money of rabid fans who must have every new improved version, and then convince themselves that it is, indeed, somehow improved. For the most part, the remaster is simply way louder, period. The glitches are still there, only now you can hear them more clearly, and if that doesn't make you think, nothing will. I'm not talking about tape hiss, if that bothers you, you shouldn't even be reading this, and you're condemned to never listen to some of the best music on the planet; there are actual glitches, such as poorly overdubbed words that must have been screwed up originally - there is only so much you can do with original tapes, people. For those of you born into the digital era, understand that there are no pre-mastered tracks that you can simply plunk into the console and master ad nauseam. But in the specific case of Pillow, we have a doozy: hasn't anyone, including the fabled mr. recording engineer, noticed that some of the tracks, if not all, have been speeded up? I don't know why, perhaps at higher speed those glitches I was talking about fly by to quickly to be noticed, perhaps it's part and parcel of compression which allows for loudness, I've no idea. But you can easily check this for yourself: take your old CD and pick a song, for instance DCBA-25, and go to a clear point of reference: say, those final five or six rising guitar notes that end the song. Now look at your CD player's display and note on what second the last note falls. Go to the new, remastered CD, and repeat the process.
For the rest, you should similarly do an A-B comparison; presumably you have a multi-well CD player; load the old and the new CDs, play the songs a bit to figure out exactly how much you have to increase or decrease the volume so that you're playing each song at the same volume level, and compare. I think that you'll find that once the volume is equal, you're left with very little noticeable progress from the old to the new. Certainly not worth the price. Be wary in the future: unless the artist themselves are involved and have decided to remaster in some tangible way, you're just being given a greater dynamic top and bottom end, and taken for a ride.
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Speaks for itself
Gonzo's Samoan lawyer himself wished to be ecstatically bathtub-electrocuted by. This is the album that Dr. If that is not a good endorsement, I don't know what is.


one of my top ten albums not at all just psychedelic
It is brillient. This is one of my top 10 albums not for white rabbit or somebody to love
but the rest of the albums most people dont remember.
Marty Ballin and Grace harmonize superbly, In fact Grace don't do as good without marty

all the songs are put togather beautifully with talented mucicains.


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