Love "Forever Changes" album-180 gram-Like New

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Excellent copy of the Love "Forever Changes" album; this Sundazed 180-gram reissue is now out-of-print! The record has only been played twice on each side...once as a "test play" and again to be recorded. Actual item being sold is pictured! I always use sturdy cardboard mailers and plenty of packing material!

Label:Sundazed Music – LP 5102
Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country:US
Released:2001
Genre:Rock
Style:Psychedelic Rock


Tracklist

A1         Alone Again Or
A2         A House Is Not A Motel         
A3         Andmoreagain
A4         The Daily Planet
A5         Old Man
A6         The Red Telephone         
B1         Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale         
B2         Live And Let Live         
B3         The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This         
B4         Bummer In The Summer         
B5         You Set The Scene

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.

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