LOVE - Forever Changes - ORIGINAL Stereo GOLD LABEL1968 PSYCH Arthur Lee LP
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WOW. INSANELY RARE Hard To Find GOLD LABEL FIRST PRESSING !!!
VINYL is STRONG VG, I almost gave it a VG+ but playing it safe w VG. Plays ok w crackle at times as to be expected. If you're looking for perfection please look elsewhere. Cover is NMINTY GORGEOUS SEE PICS! includes ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE
THIS Love CLASSIC DOES NOT TURN UP OFTEN ESPECIALLY a GOLD LABEL FIRST PRESSING
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Love's Forever Changes made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc's themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is. Sharp electric guitars dominated most of Love's first two albums, and they make occasional appearances here on tunes like "A House Is Not a Motel" and "Live and Let Live," but most of Forever Changes is built around interwoven acoustic guitar textures and subtle orchestrations, with strings and horns both reinforcing and punctuating the melodies. The punky edge of Love's early work gave way to a more gentle, contemplative, and organic sound on Forever Changes, but while Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean wrote some of their most enduring songs for the album, the lovely melodies and inspired arrangements can't disguise an air of malaise that permeates the sessions. A certain amount of this reflects the angst of a group undergoing some severe internal strife, but Forever Changes is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969; images of violence and war haunt "A House Is Not a Motel," the street scenes of "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hillsdale" reflects a jaded mindset that flower power could not ease, the twin specters of race and international strife rise to the surface of "The Red Telephone," romance becomes cynicism in "Bummer in the Summer," the promise of the psychedelic experience decays into hard drug abuse in "Live and Let Live," and even gentle numbers like "Andmoreagain" and "Old Man" sound elegiac, as if the ghosts of Chicago and Altamont were visible over the horizon as Love looked back to brief moments of warmth. Forever Changes is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.
Love ?– Forever Changes
Label: Elektra ?– EKS-74013 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, AllentownCountry: US Released: 1967 Genre: Rock Style: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Tracklist
A1 Alone Again Or Vocals – Bryan Maclean 3:15 A2 A House Is Not A Motel Vocals – Arthur Lee 3:25 A3 Andmoreagain Vocals – Arthur Lee 3:15 A4 The Daily Planet Vocals – Arthur Lee 3:25 A5 Old Man Vocals – Bryan Maclean 2:57 A6 The Red Telephone Vocals – Arthur Lee 4:45 B1 Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale Vocals – Arthur Lee 3:30 B2 Live And Let Live Vocals – Arthur Lee 5:24 B3 The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This Vocals – Arthur Lee 3:00 B4 Bummer In The Summer Vocals – Arthur Lee 2:20 B5 You Set The Scene Vocals – Arthur Lee 6:49 Credits - Arranged By – Arthur Lee (tracks: A2 to A4, A6, B1 to B5), Bryan Maclean (tracks: A1, A5 ), David Angel (3) (tracks: A1, A5 )
- Artwork [Front Cover Art] – Bob Pepper
- Bass – Ken Forssi
- Design [Cover] – William S. Harvey
- Guitar – John Echols
- Guitar, Vocals – Arthur Lee, Bryan Maclean
- Lacquer Cut By – REH*
- Orchestrated By – David Angel (3) (tracks: A2 to A4, A6, B1 to B5)
- Percussion – Michael Stuart*
- Photography By [Back Cover] – Ronnie Haran
- Producer – Arthur Lee, Bruce Botnick
- Supervised By [Production Supervisor] – Jac Holzman
- Written-By – Arthur Lee
Notes
Gold labels with stereo printed on both sides of labels.price rating