Forever Changes Love

• 1 Alone Again Or 03:18
• 2 A House Is Not A Motel 03:27
• 3 Andmoreagain 03:22
• 4 The Daily Planet 03:24
• 5 Old Man 03:01
• 6 The Red Telephone 04:49
• 7 Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale 03:35
• 8 Live And Let Live 05:30
• 9 The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This 03:10
• 10 Bummer In The Summer 02:23
• 11 You Set The Scene 06:51
• Total Runtime 42:50

Info for Forever Changes

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.

'When I did that album,' singer Arthur Lee said, 'I thought I was going to die at that particular time, so those were my last words.' Lee, who died of cancer in 2006, was still performing this album live well into the '00s. And for good reason: The third record by his biracial L.A. band is wild and funny and totally pioneering: folk rock turned into elegant Armageddon with the symphonic sweep and mariachi-brass drama of 'Alone Again Or' and 'You Set the Scene.' In the late Nineties, Lee served time in prison. After his release, he brought extra pathos to 'Live and Let Live' when he sang, 'Served my time, served it well.'

'...An album of awesome intensity and tenderness....baroque and beautiful folk-rock the like of which had never been heard before - nor been bettered since...' (NME Magazine)

Arthur Lee, vocals, guitar
Bryan MacLean, vocals, guitar
John Echols, guitar
Michael Stuart, drums, percussion

Recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, June-September 1967
Engineered by Bruce Botnick
Produced by Arthur Lee and Bruce Botnick

Digitally remastered

Ranked #40 in Rolling Stone's '500 Greatest Albums Of All Time'

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