Monday, March 21, 2011

Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit

White Rabbit is a psychedelic rock/acid rock song from Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It was released as a single and became the band's second top ten success, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was ranked #483 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. One of Grace Slick's earliest songs, written during either late 1965 or early 1966, it includes comparisons of the hallucinatory effects of psychedelic drugs, such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, with the imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carroll: 1865's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

2 comments:

uber crunch said...

Such an awesome song.

umo said...

This song always reminds me of a crazy trip to the Circus Circus in Vegas, with less Fear and Loathing and more Poker and Enjoying.

Doesn't seem so long ago at all :)