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500 Greatest Albums of All Time

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Jefferson Airplane, 'Surrealistic Pillow'


Jefferson Airplane, 'Surrealistic Pillow'
146/500

RCA, 1967

The Airplane's heady debut is a hallucinatory distillation of folk-blues vocals, garage-­rock guitar and crisp pop songwriting. Grace Slick's vocal showcases, "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love," were Summer of Love smash hits, and Marty Balin's spectral "Today" is still the greatest ballad of San Francisco's glory days.


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