I can't believe this song only gets a 5.6 here. Tough crowd. Guess you had to be there. (I was)

Dave - Really groovy, maaaaannnnn. But if you claim to have been there in the 60's, and remember it, then you weren't really there...

This is terrible.  Do mankind a favor and smash this disc .

I can't believe this song only gets a 5.6 here. Tough crowd. Guess you had to be there. (I was)

From the ratings it's clear that there are a lot of people who don't care for this song. Maybe it's warranted, though not from me. I had this album from the time it first came out (I think in 1967) - I picture myself there in my little SoCal bedroom, head between the speakers of a cheesy little RCA portable stereo which my brother (who shared it with me) and I thought was just totally IT at the time. It took me a couple more years to figure out what JA was all about and when I did this song and everything else on Baxter's made considerably more sense to me.

Same here, right down to the cheesy RCA stereo, except the bedroom was in Texas. 

From the ratings it's clear that there are a lot of people who don't care for this song. Maybe it's warranted, though not from me. I had this album from the time it first came out (I think in 1967) - I picture myself there in my little SoCal bedroom, head between the speakers of a cheesy little RCA portable stereo which my brother (who shared it with me) and I thought was just totally IT at the time. It took me a couple more years to figure out what JA was all about and when I did this song and everything else on Baxter's made considerably more sense to me.

JA was my favorite group. OK so it is not as slick and professional as stuff nowadays, but they were in tune with something that has been almost totally lost in today's Plastic Fantastic World. Nowadays every day is like a bad trip. This music got us through a time that was almost as bad as now, and where is all the music that challenges the daily bullsh*T? The JA deliberately scorned the record company when they did this album. It was not as commercially successful as their others, but I think it is also more authentic. Maybe the people who don't like it don't have pimples or wrinkles or bulges. But I hope they still have Somebody to Love. And finally, yes, Two Heads on the same album is emblematic of today's schizoid American consciousness.

on the contrary, it is what reminds me that JA is one of the more overrated 60-70s bands.

This is JAs' very best tune, without a question, and I’ve always loved it. It’s not easy to listen to, not smooth, not soothing. It is warped, yet incredibly lovely, and it is psychedelic rock, an acquired taste; Tuckerman pale ale is a bitter brew, but I enjoy drinking it.

The dissonance skews the feeling evoked, like Aguirre, tilting sideways, lurching, spinning psychotically through the deadly emerald Amazon. It is wrong, I think beautifully, deliberately so, and like a power chord or a live performance, can be legitimately described as less than perfect. To each his own.

Perhaps the mood does not match today’s more sophisticated zeitgeist; after all, the subject of this love song’s lyric was a 15 year old runaway when Kanter wrote of his affair with her. Different times, indeed.

A perfect 10.