ITT: One of these threads

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>Pleeb
Lies for the Liars
>Contrarian
Imaginary Enemy
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The Used

I never got past the pleb point (Surrealistic Pillow) with JA, but it's such a weak album that I never felt any inclination to explore further

In terms of hippie music Jefferson Airplane seems to be #2 after the Grateful Dead, but from everything I've heard, they seem so far inferior to Love and the MC5

Bamp

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OP here. I feel similarly about SP in the sense that its best songs ('Somebody to Love' and 'White Rabbit', obviously) are very hard-hitters, while others are kinda "meh" ('She Has Funny Cars', '3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds', 'Plastic Fantastic Lover', 'Today') and the rest are just outright misses ('My Best Friend', 'Comin' Back to Me', 'D.C.B.A. -25', 'How Do You Feel'). That seems to be a general theme of the band: they were a product of their time, and their music has not aged well over the years.

However, I feel that Crown of Creation doesn't have songs that miss nearly as hard as some of those on Surrealistic Pillow. It still has some misses, for sure (the opening track 'Lather', for one), but as a whole it feels much stronger and much more balanced than SP. It doesn't really have anything as strong as 'White Rabbit', but it doesn't have anything as weak as 'My Best Friend'. More than that, Jack Casady's bass playing is absolutely spot-on, and it really shows on songs such as 'Share a Little Joke', 'If You Feel' and 'The House at Pooneil Corners'.

It still didn't age very well, but Crown of Creation fared a hell of a lot better than Surrealistic Pillow, in my opinion. It might be worth checking out

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