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Bands with great second albums

Bands that had a great second album. We all know the obvious ones Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Beatles. What are your votes for great second albums. Some of mine are:
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Elvis Costello - This Years Model
Allman Brothers Band - 'Idlewild South'
Badfinger - No Dice
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tseliot
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Jefferson Airplane -- After Bathing at Baxter's (best SF acid rock album EVUH!)
Buffalo Springfield Again

Van Moprrison -- Veedon Fleece
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bdp24
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Good ones tseliot, though After Bathing is The Airplane's 3rd album (the 2nd with Grace; they had a different singer and drummer---Skip Spence, later in Moby Grape---on the 1st album, Takes Off). And Veedon Fleece, from 1974, is Van's 8th album!
wolf_garcia
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Butthole Surfers "Rembrandt Pussyhorse."
loomisjohnson
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waltersalas, vg list, altho i though "leave home" was decidedly weaker than the debut.
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bdp24
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loomis, I agree, and that's why I left in off my list. I feel The Ramones didn't get really good as a band until Marky replaced Tommy on drums. It was on their 4th album---Road To Ruin---that they fulfilled their potential. The earlier albums had great material, but Tommy's weak drumming undermined the power of the songs. Marky is a much "stronger" drummer than was Tommy.
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