False Start

Love | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B0016MJ3FE
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,433 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This album is mostly famous for its first track, 'The Everlasting First', which boasts the long-awaited union of the two black psychedelic superstars of the '60s, Arthur Lee and Jimi Hendrix (who co-wrote the tune and plays on it), but give the whole thing a listen and you'll discover this 1970 release is a severely underrated item in the Love album catalog. More cohesive than 'Out Here', yet more eclectic than anything else the band ever did, 'False Start' includes country rock ('Keep on Shining'), '70s boogie ('Flying'), psychedelic soul ('Stand Out' & 'Anytime') and many points in between. The last hurrah of an iconic band and bandleader.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love's most underrated (and 2nd best) album, April 1, 2002

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the Digital Dinosaur "camkeller" (Roseville, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: False Start (Audio CD)

This album is criminally misunderstood. It is the Anti-Forever Changes. Short songs, tight musicianship, the most controlled screaming in all of rock 'n roll, meaningful/meaningless lyrics, nasty attitude (when not buoyantly hopeful), & Love's best guitarist ever! Takes everything slick & punks it up, and then vice versa. It's brilliant and, 30 some years out, still way ahead of the curve. Defiantly alternative - refuses every mold,label, & classification. Lighten up & enjoy!

p.s. "Stand Out" would be equally at home in a youth mass or a mosh pit.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More funky than melodic, November 18, 2004

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Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: False Start (Audio CD)

This album was a follow-up to Out Here and was recorded mostly in Hollywood in 1970, though a couple of tracks, including one fantastic work-out with Jimi Hendrix, The Everlasting First, were recorded in London.
The songs are simplistic when compared to the majesty of Forever Changes, but then what isn't? I suspect Arthur Lee was undergoing something of a writer's block while simultaneously exploring more closely the black music of the day, and the album as a whole is short and somewhat patchy by his standards.
More funky than melodic, but still eminently worthwhile

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars worst of their records -but has a few gems, September 26, 2000

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Stephen F Mulcahy (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: False Start (Audio CD)

this is easily the worst of the 6 albums love released from 1966 to this one in late 1970. there are a few gems- the everlasting first in particular.this brief (29 minutes) album isn't anywhere as good as four sail ( probably their most underrated album in my opinion) and out here, never mind the 3 classics they put out earlier.its very disjointed and lacks the first rate songwriting that arthur lee was so capable of in earlier works. this is not a bad album: just bad by love's standards.