Conspicuous Only in Its Absence

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{{Infobox album|

| name = Conspicuous Only in Its Absence

| type = Live album

| artist = The Great Society

| cover = Conspicuous Only in Its Absence.jpg

| alt =

| released = March 1968

| recorded = 1966

| venue = The Matrix, San Francisco

| studio =

| genre = Psychedelic rock, raga rock

| length =

| label = Columbia

| producer = Peter Abram

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = How It Was

| next_year = 1968

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}

}}

Conspicuous Only in Its Absence is a live album by the American psychedelic rock band the Great Society, released in 1968 by Columbia Records.{{cite web|title=Conspicuous Only in its Absence review|publisher=Allmusic|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r39360/review|pure_url=yes}}|accessdate=2010-01-27}} It was their first album released and consists of recordings made during a live concert performance by the band at The Matrix club in San Francisco in 1966.{{cite web|title=The Great Society Biography|publisher=Allmusic|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p24366|pure_url=yes}}|accessdate=2010-01-27}} Additional recordings from the same concert were released later in 1968 on the album How It Was.{{cite web|title=How It Was review|publisher=Allmusic|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r39361|pure_url=yes}}|accessdate=2010-01-27}} These two albums were repackaged in 1971 as a double album called Collector's Item.

Upon its initial release in 1968, Conspicuous Only in Its Absence reached No. 166 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.{{cite web|title=Conspicuous Only in its Absence – Billboard chart placing|publisher=Allmusic|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r39360/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}}|accessdate=2010-01-27}} A single featuring "Sally, Go 'Round the Roses" and "Didn't Think So" was released in conjunction with the album by Columbia Records but it failed to chart.{{cite web|title=Conspicuous Only in its Absence|publisher=Deaddisc.com|url=http://www.deaddisc.com/ot/Conspicuous.htm|access-date=2010-01-27}}

Singer Grace Slick took her song "White Rabbit" and Darby Slick's song "Somebody to Love" to her next band, Jefferson Airplane.