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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about White Rabbit (page 3/ 28) ------ performed by Jefferson Airplane Idiots | Reviewer: Alice | 8/7/09 I read a few of the comments until, quite frankly, I got a headache from the stupidity. A few people have got the facts right (interpretation of the song can neither be right nor wrong, as it's somebody's opinion) but unfortunately those with an ounce of intellect are outweighed by the uneducated masses - as per usual. Firstly, as much as some of you may not like it, the song IS about drugs. Whether the books are about drugs could be disputed, they have most likely been adopted by drug culture due to their 'trippy' imagery. The song was written in the 1960's and therefore was created after both the books ('Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' [1875] and 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There' [1871]) AND the Walt Disney adaptation 'Alice in Wonderland' [1951]. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, may or may not have been a recreational drug user - who knows, or more importantly who can prove it? However, as for LSD not being 'invented' until after Lewis Carrol's death: a) LSA is a chemical found naturally occurring in plants and is the precursor to LSD, and b) LSD is not the only hallucinogenic drug in the world! Mushrooms (such as the fly agaric and those of the psilocybin family) have been used recreationally for years - who said the books/film/song were soley about LSD? Lastly (or at least the last point I can be bothered arguing, and actually the most important point), the lyrics are wrong! The last line is 'FEED YOUR HEAD'. I believe all song meanings are open to interpretation, and my personal view is that the line relates to 'feeding' your mind - whether it be by drug use or knowledge. Oh, and the Dormouse (from the books and therefore the original representation) does not say 'feed your head' NOR 'keep your head'. He actually says something considered to be important by the other characters, yet his words are never actually revealed in the narrative: '"But what did the Dormouse say?" one of the jury asked. "That I can't remember", said the Hatter'. I'll leave you to interpret that for yourselves.... The person below me is uninformed. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/4/09 Disney did not come up with Alice In Wonderland. It was a book and Disney decided to make a trippy little kids' movie about it, for some reason. The entire movie is based on an acid trip. All of the pills in the whole movie are LSD. The first time Alice shrinks, it is because she chugs an entire bottle of LSD. Eventually, she eats shrooms, which have similar -- but usually less violent -- side effects to Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. I am pretty sure this song was written after the book, not the movie, because in the movie, it doesn't really explain how her acid trip starts (she doesn't eat any candy, take any pills, or eat mushrooms), and her mother doesn't give her any pills in the movie. Based on this song, I'd say Alice has pills or something with her before anything even happens, and the beginning of the book probably better explains how the whole thing begins. But anyway, the song IS based on Alice In Wonderland, and this song does a really good job of explaining the book. Anyone who doesn't know that Alice In Wonderland is about drugs (a lot of people didn't know this when Alice In Wonderland was first published) could just listen to this song's lyrics and figure out the entire story. And this song helps me as well, because I didn't remember anything about "keep your head" when I was watching the movie, probably because I heard the line and assumed that it was about the drugs, not about Alice's potential decapitation. So 'White Rabbit' is basically a summary of Alice In Wonderland. Alright | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/28/09 I presume that Alice in wonderland was made before this song and in thinking that I'd say walt Disney probably did some drugs to come up with that idea in the first place and Jefferson airplane just made the song to go along with it. That's a presumption. Either way the song is definitely about the ups and downs of tripping on some sort of pyschedelic drug or just uppers and downers in general. But in the end it's all about feeding your head and keeping your head. I also think she sings feed your head keep your head. Listen closely Great! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/12/09 Well, in my point of view i was on a acid trip when i decided to play this song. you may not believe me but when your on a acid trip while hearing this song you will experience a Alice in Wonderland trip. It is awesome all the way until the Red Queen wanted to chop off my head and thats when i ran around my house yelling i have to FEED MY HEAD!!! lol. i was trying to drop more acid because feeding your head with more drugs would ease ya and yea my friends had to stop me before i killed myself. and yea that was my acid trip. fear and loathing | Reviewer: Jeffrey | 6/23/09 It was hilarious on the movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," when fat boy was in the tub, tripping balls, wanting Depp to throw the radio in the tub to finish him off at the peak of this song. Classic. white rabbit | Reviewer: stormy | 6/15/09 I listen to this song everday more then once.I have watched interveiws with grace slick and i am a huge fan of jefferson airplane as well as other artists from the time. I think that theres absolutley no way that this song isnt influenced by drugs of some sort.Yes it is obviously about alice in wonderland but theres also plain as day drug refrences in the song too,"one pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small,and the ones that mother gives you dont do anything at all" and at the end of the song when she sings "feed your head" i dont think shes talking about food.Everbody takes song differently. i would think people who have done drugs and people who havent would both look at this song to completley different ways.Ive also read the book go ask alice which is a really sad book about an unnamed girls downward spiral into drugs.If this song wasnt associated wth drugs why wouls they name the book after its lyrics LSD! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/31/09 This song is OBVIOUSLY about an Alice In Wonderland-esque experience with LSD. C'mon...the white knight talking backwards, the men on the chessboard telling you where to go. Chasing rabbits, The Red Queen, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, etc. The MUSIC in the song is the most important part. It starts out subtle with the bass, then the snare and vocals come in quietly. then the drums pick up and there's some slow guitar. Then it gets gradually louder until it peaks with "FEED YOUR HEAD!!!!" It's meant to simulate the rise and peak of a LSD trip. Amazing song. It's what you make of it | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/29/09 Like any song they lyrics are going to touch people differently. Music is about messages, yes, but they are so open. Sometimes it is obvious to you what the song writer was trying to convey, but to someone else it could be completely different. Peoples minds filter differently. I love this song, but it really doesn't matter what I think it is about, or images and messages I get from it. I think you should just let the music flow to you and speak to you. It is a language all its own. An old fart speaks out | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/29/09 This is all a bit sad. I doubt if people who can't spell or handle even basic punctuation could plough their way through either Alice in Wonderland (the 19th century novel) or Go Ask Alice, which I suspect took its name from the song. Lewis Carrol was almost certainly no stranger to opium. Opium, or various medications containing it(e,g, laudanum), was widely used in Victorian England, obstensibly as a pain killer but 'addiction to prescription medication' is not a new phenomenon. So it's not surprising that Grace Slick should base a song for a drug-using audience around his book. What is fascinating is that contemporary illustrators should show the "hookah-smoking caterpillar" sitting on a fly agaric mushroom - just how did they know? Lewis Carroll is actually a very ambiguous character. He never married, that doesn't necessarily mean he might have been gay. In fact, he was rather exceedingly fond of children, especially pre-pubescent girls. In fact, the mother of Alice Liddell (yes, that Alice) forbade him access to her younger sister when he transferred his attention to her after losing interest in Alice as she entered her teens. Lewis Carroll (real name Rev, Charles Dodgson) was both an Oxford professor of mathematics and a keen amateur photographer in the days when basic photography required degree level chemistry. When one examines the few photographs of young girls he took that are considered suitable for publication, one suspects that Mrs Liddell was a woman possessed of unusual common sense for such a sexually naive period. The Liddell's Guildford (Surrey, England)house backed onto the grounds of the castle - there's a bowling green, a bandstand, a chess board laid out in floor tiles and a little tunnel that is a short cut to the town. I spent my hippy days in Guildford, and many a hazy, summer Saturday afternoon speculating on the connections between what Lewis Carrol wrote and the grounds of Guildford Castle. Is 'White Rabbit' about drugs? Of course. Are Alice in Wonderland and ALice Through the Looking Glass about drugs? Probably not. Drug inspired? I think it's more than likely. Why don't you read them and make your own mind up? But the song! Surely one of the most powerful and emotional songs in a genre that specialised in powerful emotion, and along with 'Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)' and 'Won't Get Fooled Again' a strong contender for the definitive rock song. Take care. Ask Grace Slick | Reviewer: Smegel@aol.com | 5/19/09 OK - to settle all arguments, maybe we should find Grace Slick's email and ask her what she wrote (being that she wrote the song back in the 60's). I am an original fan (from the 60's). My older brother wore out about 4 45 rpm records on this song before he was 18...lol - At Lyrics.com it says the "Remember what the Dormouse said, "Feed your head, feed your head." However, in the book the Dormouse actually says "keep your head" in reference to the red queen trying to do Alice in over her jealousies. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages