Bands with great second albums

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow! San Francisco's best band hits a home run with their new singer Grace Slick! Feed your head!

Procul Harum - Shine On Brightly! British psychedelic blues rockers step up to the plate and deliver a masterpiece! Check out side two's epic "In Held Twas In I"!

Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia! A worthy successor to Horses! The two best releases of the '75-'76 NYC downtown scene!

Tarkus
Desperado
In The Wake Of Poseidon 
The Bends
In Search Of The Lost Chord
Strange Days
Pretzel Logic

Some great nominations, particularly The Band (big surprise ;-), Neil Young, and Procol Harum. I’ll add Bob Dylan’s The Freewheelin’, Buffalo Springfield’s Again, The Byrds’ Turn! Turn! Turn!, Juliana Raye’s Something Peculiar (great album produced by Jeff Lynne), The Traveling Wilbury’s Vol.3, Dave Edmunds’ Subtle As A Flying Mallet, Nick Lowe’s Labour Of Lust, Jellyfish’s Spilt Milk, The Dwight Twilley Band’s Twilley Don’t Mind (not as good as their incredible debut Sincerely, but that was awfully hard to match), Iris Dement’s wonderful My Life, Los Lobos’ How Will The Wolf Survive? (second English-language album), Jackson Browne’s For Everyman, David Lindley’s Win This Record!, The Sons Of Champlin’s (about the only real good Hippie band) The Sons, The Yardbirds’ Having A Rave Up With (ignoring the semi-released live album---as a debut?!), Buddy Miller’s Poison Love, plenty of others.