 Surrealistic Pillow (1967) [ larger cover art ] |
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Musicbrainz DBWhen the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies
Don't you want somebody to love, don't you
Need somebody to love, wouldn't you
Love somebody to love, you better
Find somebody to love
When the garden flowers baby are dead, yes and
Your mind, your mind is so full of red
Don't you want somebody to love, don't you
Need somebody to love, wouldn't you
Love somebody to love, you better
Find somebody to love
Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
Yeah, but in your head, baby, I'm afraid you don't know where it is
Don't you want somebody to love, don't you
Need somebody to love, wouldn't you
Love somebody to love, you better
Find somebody to love
Tears are running down and down and down your breast
And your friends, baby they treat you like a guest
Don't you want somebody to love, don't you
Need somebody to love, wouldn't you
Love somebody to love, you better
Find somebody to love
| backbeat (El Cerrito) | Posted: May 03, 2013 - 12:07 One of the first five albums I bought. A ten all the way. |
| drivingunit103 (around the 4 western provinces) | Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 20:26 Stingray wrote: 10! ...is that all sir??? |
| k-man (SCruz, CA) | Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 16:45 I was lucky enough to see the Airplane reunion at The Filmore in SF a decade (or so!) ago... They opened with this song, and I'm telling ya, I was instantly transported back to that era, with those crazy sounding amps. It rings San Francisco 60's!!! |
| Stingray | Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 09:38 10! |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Feb 23, 2013 - 14:37 funkyalfonso wrote: I saw them when I was fourteen and they rocked my world. P.S. The Doors were on the same bill. Holy sheepshit, batman! |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Feb 23, 2013 - 14:33 One of my firstest albums. |
| Gajdzin (Warsaw, Poland) | Posted: Feb 23, 2013 - 14:32 What an incredible voice... I have seen her shots recording in a studio, several feet away from a microphone, and still this incredible vocal power comes through... 99% of modern vocalists have to be placed less than a foot from a mike to get any power... |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Feb 01, 2013 - 21:14 What a great song from a "plastic fantastic" album... love it... still have the original vinyl... |
| leafmold | Posted: Jan 29, 2013 - 14:15 So nice to hear a woman who uses her vocal cords! |
| dew34 (Wisconsin-quite woodsy) | Posted: Jan 29, 2013 - 14:13 ziakut wrote: Though I do like this tune and the whole 60s aura...I must say I agree with Proclivities wholeheartedly. Because you weren't there. Now just listen and maybe the ghosts will answer.  |
| suesblues (Sydney, Australia) | Posted: Jan 18, 2013 - 01:04 much as I love this song and Grace Slick's voice, I have to say that Jim Carey's version in The Cable Guy is one of my favourites.. |
| Larry_Rosenow (Bend, OR) | Posted: Dec 17, 2012 - 16:24 Hannio wrote: The 60's hate you. Literally I am 60 and I concur with you, Hannio. Anyone that thinks the sixties was crap would of not been welcomed to those free spirited days of bold idealism. And yes, I still wear my freak flag proudly. |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 23:44 calypsus_1 wrote:
With a beak like that, I'd be pissed off too. |
| joelbb | Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 13:31 This studio cut rocks, but the live version on the Monterrey Pop Festival CD is pretty weak. |
| capandjudy (Huntington, WV) | Posted: Nov 16, 2012 - 07:36 YES!! This got me off the couch. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 06, 2012 - 13:34 Cynaera wrote: I miss the innocence and optimism of that time. I wish they'd known then what they know now about how free love and do your own thing could be twisted into something completely opposite of love and freedom. This song is a good reminder to me of what life used to be like before things went horribly wrong... Miss you so much, Ann... |
| ziakut (Right Here) | Posted: Sep 29, 2012 - 08:48 Proclivities wrote: Great tune, but this sounds exactly like a song from 1967 to me - nothing about this song or this band ever struck me as being very "far ahead of their time". Though I do like this tune and the whole 60s aura...I must say I agree with Proclivities wholeheartedly. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Sep 14, 2012 - 09:58 PA1749 wrote: So far ahead of their time. Great tune, but this sounds exactly like a song from 1967 to me - nothing about this song or this band ever struck me as being very "far ahead of their time". |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Aug 28, 2012 - 19:58 Thank you Calypsus_1 |
| sonicsurfer (Vancouver BC Canada) | Posted: Aug 28, 2012 - 19:56 funkyalfonso wrote: wow I saw them when I was fourteen and they rocked my world. P.S. The Doors were on the same bill. |
| funkyalfonso (Vancouver Island) | Posted: Aug 25, 2012 - 12:41 I saw them when I was fourteen and they rocked my world. P.S. The Doors were on the same bill. |
| Lichenia, | Posted: Jul 28, 2012 - 10:45 Love it every time |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Jul 28, 2012 - 10:03 jaybo234 wrote: hate this 60's crap The 60's hate you. |
| calypsus_1 (East of Eden) | Posted: Jun 17, 2012 - 09:29
Rock and Roll photographer Jim Marshall is photographed while he is taking pictures. Jim Marshall passed away at the age of 74 on March 24th, 2010. He was one of the greatest rock photographers of all time and captured some of the most iconic images in rock and roll history. This is a quick look back at my encounters with the legend. Follow the link above to see the shots I captured of him at work. |
| PA1749 (Room 106) | Posted: May 01, 2012 - 12:30  |
| Dahlia_Gumbo (San Francisco) | Posted: May 01, 2012 - 12:28 Turning on my black light. |
| jaybo234 | Posted: May 01, 2012 - 12:27 hate this 60's crap |
| PA1749 (Room 106) | Posted: May 01, 2012 - 12:25 So far ahead of their time. |
| Deadwing (Cincinnati OH) | Posted: Apr 21, 2012 - 02:54 coloradojohn wrote: Still speaks — melodiously SCREAMS, mind you! — to me so poignantly, so urgently, so spot-on after all these years... Some folks I've known have liked to scoff that the Airplane "just weren't good enough, mate," but I maintain that Kantner and Slick and Co. hit it so right on such certain eternally cool stunners that it made them every bit as good or better in the long run than so many "truly good" bands over the years...and I have observed that Real Passion can trump just about anything else sometimes, and being in a state so well spoken to and of by this masterpiece qualifies as one of those times, and here's the cool part: they occur again and again, for ain't that just the way things are? Rock on with it, RP! Agreed 100% JA doesn't have that many hits, but the ones they do have will kick your ass into next week. |
| Byronape ("post-capitalist wreckageville") | Posted: Apr 14, 2012 - 16:08 TerryS wrote: Slartibartfast. I love random Hitchhiker's Guide references. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Apr 06, 2012 - 12:43 Brilliant. Timeless. Wonderfully played and sung. Grace's finest moment from conception to performance. |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 19:20 nalle wrote: Självklart :) Slartibartfast. |
| coloradojohn (Mile High on the Colorado Vibe, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Mar 20, 2012 - 10:13 Still speaks — melodiously SCREAMS, mind you! — to me so poignantly, so urgently, so spot-on after all these years... Some folks I've known have liked to scoff that the Airplane "just weren't good enough, mate," but I maintain that Kantner and Slick and Co. hit it so right on such certain eternally cool stunners that it made them every bit as good or better in the long run than so many "truly good" bands over the years...and I have observed that Real Passion can trump just about anything else sometimes, and being in a state so well spoken to and of by this masterpiece qualifies as one of those times, and here's the cool part: they occur again and again, for ain't that just the way things are? Rock on with it, RP! |
| stunix (Wales, UK) | Posted: Mar 20, 2012 - 10:04 Lather! |
| emh | Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 10:54 Good, but certainly not one of my favorites from the Airplane. Would love to hear 'We Can Be Together' on RP. "We are forces of chaos and anarchy, everything they say we are, we are..." |
| gillespp (Portland, OR) | Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 10:51 One of my treasured memories of being an 11-year-old kid was having to get up out of bed and tell my parents, who were having a dinner party, to turn the stupid music—this album—down! Only a couple of years later I realized that this was the coolest album around and I played it endlessly. |
| onerb | Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 10:50 Well, don't you? |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 22:15 Baketown wrote: Check the movie by the Cohen Brothers "A Serious Man" and you will have a whole new appreciation for this song Perhaps the worst ever film by the most genius directors ever but the music sure was cool as it is in almost all their films. Speaking of which it must be about time to check out what condition Kenny's condition is in. |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 11:06 This album outsold Disraeli Gears and Sgt Peppers and The Doors in the first year. Still speaks to the loneliness of the spirit in a world of falsehoods and misdirections. |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 11:06 This song holds up...... |
| nalle (Malmo, Sweden) | Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 11:04 mistabird wrote: wenn ich das höre, dann merke ich wieder im grunde meines Herzen bin ich ein HIPPIE geblieben yah man Självklart :) |
| rpdevotee | Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 16:47 #274 of the top 500 rock and roll songs of all time... |
| mistabird (frei republik allgäu) | Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 16:45 wenn ich das höre, dann merke ich wieder im grunde meines Herzen bin ich ein HIPPIE geblieben yah man |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 05:21 in ONE SONG |
| rabaak | Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 05:20 I saw Grace belt this out on Public Tv the other day (I think it was her, as I was channel surfing). She can still bring it. I was more impressed with this song than ever after seeing what she could do after all these years. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 15:07 CYNIC ALERT!!! All y'all cryin' about sellouts, just remember those folks morphed into the Jefferson Starship and produced some of the most dreadful dreck imaginable. THIS album, however, is magnificent. Volunteers, unite! |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 15:06 What an anthem. The whole sound takes me back. |
| GirlFriday (Head for the hills) | Posted: Oct 24, 2011 - 08:53 Baketown wrote: Check the movie by the Cohen Brothers "A Serious Man" and you will have a whole new appreciation for this song Couldn't agree more. Changed my entire outlook on it. |
| Baketown (Maryland) | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 11:18 Check the movie by the Cohen Brothers "A Serious Man" and you will have a whole new appreciation for this song |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 11:16 Cynaera wrote: I miss the innocence and optimism of that time. I wish they'd known then what they know now about how free love and do your own thing could be twisted into something completely opposite of love and freedom. This song is a good reminder to me of what life used to be like before things went horribly wrong... Everybody in my hotel room be dancing right now... love this song... |
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