Forever Changes
Label : Elektra
Catalogue No: RI 74013
["Alone Again Or\nA House Is Not A Motel\nAndmoreagain\nThe Daily Planet\nOld Man\nThe Red Telephone\nMaybe The People would Be The Times or Between Clark And Hilldale\nLive And Let Live\nThe Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This\nBummer In The Summer\nYou Set The Scene"]
Media Condition : Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition : Mint (M)
One of the first pop albums to become a cult classic, Love's 1967 masterpiece, Forever Changes. This is the pinnacle of the LA freak scene.
Singer / songwriter Arthur Lee's lyrics are increasingly fragmentary and paranoid, foreshadowing the band's eventual drug-fuelled 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, Forever Changes belongs high on any halfway serious list of the greatest pop albums of the '60s.
