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Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane
Surrealistic Pillow is an album by Jefferson Airplane, released in 1967. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 107 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “White Rabbit”, on 53 lists with a best position of #10.
Surrealistic Pillow, Jefferson Airplane's second album, came out on RCA Victor on February 1, 1967, and it's the breakout that carried the San Francisco sound around the world just in time for the Summer of Love. It's also the first Airplane record with Grace Slick singing and Spencer Dryden drumming, and the new blood shows. Marty Balin and Slick trade and tangle vocals, Paul Kantner strums, Jorma Kaukonen's lead guitar stings and snakes, and Jack Casady's bass moves like it has somewhere to be.
"My Best Friend" went out first and went nowhere, but then "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" broke loose, the only Top 40 hits the band ever had, the latter a slow-building, hallucinatory crawl. "Today", never a single, became a college and rock radio favorite anyway. The Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry in 2024.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Surrealistic Pillow on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White Rabbit | 53 | #10 | – | 1976–2026 | |
| 2 | Somebody to Love | 49 | #3 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 3 | Today | 4 | #554 | – | 2004–2026 | |
| 4 | Comin' Back To Me | 1 | #1423 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.