Surrealistic Pillow (studio album)
by Jefferson Airplane
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Surrealistic Pillow is ranked as the best album by Jefferson Airplane.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 11/23/2025 17:44 | Arnio | 10 | 74/100 |
| ! | 11/02/2025 04:26 |  Larcx13 | 2,843 | 74/100 |
| ! | 10/26/2025 18:42 |  VictorVale | 3,685 | 81/100 |
| ! | 10/23/2025 15:18 |  rambleon80 | 2,610 | 76/100 |
| ! | 10/14/2025 20:23 | wizardalien | 760 | 47/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.9/100, a mean average of 80.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.
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An eerie feel to this album with some nice poppy tunes scattered around too. White Rabbit and Somebody to Love are the obvious highlights, but I also like Today and Coming Back To Me.
I got this based on 'Somebody to Love' & 'White Rabbit' which were the only 2 songs I knew, but are such fantastic tracks and are 2 of the greater tracks to emerge from the late 60's. Hence I was hoping to find some deep cut gems but alas, I came away slightly disappointed. Good, but I was hoping for better.
There are some exceptional moments on here that outshine most of the other tracks on the record as the rest feel more like filler. This leads to an inconsistent listen for me as there is quite a bit of music that isn't extremely captivating or engaging. When the music is good it is fantastic however, with She Has Funny Cars, Somebody To Love, Today and White Rabbit being prime examples of this. Overall, this is an up and down release that leads to a pretty good album on the whole.
Great psychedelic pop/rock and White Rabbit sounds like a masterpiece.
Jboy56 12/07/2021 07:50 | #277200
A great representative of the west coast music style. It still has that folksy element, but JP is clearly moving towards more psychedelic rock elements.
Track picks White Rabbit, Today, Somebody to Love, How do you feel.
So not so bad for a second album which quite soon became an essential part of the 1967 movement.
I like it for White Rabbit. The rest I can take or leave.
I'm glad Jefferson Starship has a place this high on the chart, because although this music is not for everybody, it is super cool.
teague 10/01/2021 16:33 | #274540
A surprisingly dynamic album. There's aggressive moments like on Somebody to Love, and then there's moments of tranquility like on Comin' Back to Me. I love White Rabbit, the way it builds, releases, and it ends abruptly. It was also really influential to the burgeoning San Francisco psychedelic rock scene.
planetneutral 02/24/2021 05:02 | #266649
In some ways, this album is the beginning of the end of what was good about 1960s San Francisco's musical influence. But it's a grand pronouncement to the world.
2 smash hits of all time. the rest bluesy jazzy stuff
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