Arthur Lee & Love "Forever Changes" Vinyl LP EKS - Gold Label - 74013 Electra

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Arthur Lee & Love "Forever Changes" Vinyl LP EKS - 74013
I graded this LP NM because it is opened but there is not one scratch or scuff on this album meaning the vinyl is mint. Not one on either side. The record sleeve is not torn on any side. It is like new without a fold to any part of it. The album cover is not bumped or marked. It is still in it's shrink wrap with a Stereo sticker to the front cover at top right cover corner (see photo). There is a tear to the shrinkwrap at the front edge and a large "D" in sharpie that has faded to the top rear corner cover. There are two 1" rough edges to the cover at the opening edge (see photo) but they are innocuous. The edges at the opening are yellowed to the interior. This album comes from a smoking house and has some scent to it on the interior. I have cleaned the cover but not the sleeve or the record itself as I am afraid of scratching it. I will leave it to you but from the photos you can see that there is no dust on it. It is really without a scratch. I don't think it was ever played.
The album is marked at top left corner EKS-74013 The word stereo is missing. (see photo)
This album will be shipped in a box so it arrives as you see it pictured. 
Here is the tracking listing from this masterpiece:
1. Alone Again Or
2. A House Is Not a Motel
3. Andmoreagain
4. The Daily Planet
5. Old Man
6. The Red Telephone
7. Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
8. Live and Let Live
9. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything like This
10. Bummer in the Summer
11. You Set the Scene

Album Notes
Love: Arthur Lee, Bryan Maclean (vocals, guitar); John Echols (guitar); Ken Forssi (bass); Michael Stuart (percussion).Includes liner notes by Ben Edmunds.FOREVER CHANGES is also included in its entirety on the 2 disc set LOVE STORY 1966-1972.Love: Arthur Lee, Bryan Maclean (vocals, guitar); John Echols (guitar); Ken Forssi (bass); Michael Stuart (percussion).One of the first pop albums to become a cult classic, Love's 1967 masterpiece, FOREVER CHANGES, is the pinnacle of the L.A. freak (the locals' preferred term over "hippie") scene. Singer/songwriter Arthur Lee's lyrics are increasingly fragmentary and paranoid, foreshadowing the band's eventual drug-fueled collapse. Yet these drop-dead hip tunes are set in arrangements featuring Herb Alpert-style mariachi horns, lush middle-of-the-road strings, and other tropes of the easy listening scene, creating a more unsettling sense of tension than if the songs were given the usual heavy rock instrumentation. Every single track is a stone classic, although second songwriter Bryan MacLean's contributions, the haunted "Old Man" and especially the simply gorgeous opener "Alone Again Or," deserve special consideration. FOREVER CHANGES belongs high on any halfway serious list of the greatest pop albums of the '60s.

The LP is also marked in the dead wax with the catalog number 74013 and " (MON) " in parentheses.