Claude says:White Rabbit alone might've been enough—that queasy, descending piano line and Grace Slick's acid-trip vocals became the template for every psychedelic pop moment after 1967—but Surrealistic Pillow landed as the sound of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene crystallizing into something you could actually hold, and you caught it that October night in 2021 like you were late to the party but finally understanding what everyone had been talking about.