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Plenty of groups of the late '60s embraced a sunny outlook of peace, flowers, and consciousness expansion, but some took a harder line on upending the straight society they sought to replace, and like their spiritual brethren , (under the first-among-equals leadership of writer ) saw their music as a vehicle for a Total Assault On The Culture. The only trouble with this was ' ideas were often a lot more exciting than their music, and while they created a sonic approximation of the rage and defiance behind the Freak Culture on their debut album, , their second LP, , lacks focus or direction and sounds like the work of addled would-be revolutionaries who aren't sure jut what they're fighting against this morning. has claimed that he and his bandmates were flying on speed during most of the recording of , but there isn't much energy (artificial or otherwise) in these performances, and many of the tunes collapse into meandering jams performed by musicians who lack the chops or focus to make them into anything more. There are a few exceptions -- a wacky mutation of and called the defiant the only extended jam on the LP that manages to actually find a groove and move. But feels at least twice as long as its 4:24 running time, appears to have been recorded by people who lack the ambition to put on their shoes, let alone liberate needed supplies, and short tracks like play like comic sketches without punch lines. is fascinating as a document of the U.K.'s anarchist hippie scene and where it went both right and wrong, but as entertainment, you're a lot better off listening to . Or looting a supermarket. ~ Mark Deming

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Barnes & Noble does business -- big business -- by the book. As the #1 bookseller in the US, it operates about 720 Barnes & Noble superstores (selling books, music, movies, and gifts) throughout all 50 US states and Washington, DC. The stores are typically 10,000 to 60,000 sq. ft. and stock between 60,000 and 200,000 book titles. Many of its locations contain Starbucks cafes, as well as music departments that carry more than 30,000 titles.

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