Forever Changes [Vinyl]

Love | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (April 9, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B0000634JN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,205 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Timeless Masterpiece, April 21, 2000

By 

Kurt Harding "bon vivant" (Boerne TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever Changes (Audio CD)

I was introduced to this album at thirteen by junior high buddy Bill Loftin, who was somewhat more musically advanced than I. We would sit for hours transfixed by a sound that was different from anything else then being played. "Alone Again Or" was the hook, but "Forever Changes" grew on me until it became firmly implanted in my mind as one of the best albums ever recorded. Now we all can think of albums that we liked when young that we can no longer stand and wonder how we ever did. This album, despite what some critics say, is one that stands the test of time. The song-writing duo of Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean are at the peak of their collaborative genius here. Sure, some of the song titles are outrageous and some of the lyrics seem to have been written merely to rhyme; i.e. "All the snot is caked against my pants, it has turned into crystal. There's a bluebird sitting on a branch, I guess I'll take my pistol..." But interspersed with all the seeming nonsense are many serious and cryptic lyrics which give the listener pause. Arthur Lee was "punk" before punk was ever thought of and the music much more agreeable. My favorite cuts are the title song, The Red Telephone, Live and Let Live, You Set the Scene, ...Between Clark and Hilldale (a GREAT song musically), and Old Man. Bryan Maclean once said in an interview that the old man in the song was fictitious. Maybe so, but entirely believable. A lucky kid indeed is one whose life is enriched and horizons expanded by a worldly man such as Maclean wrote about. I don't agree with those who say this album didn't age well. In my estimation, "Forever Changes" continues to stand out from its contemporaries as a masterpiece of 1960s underground music.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Six reasons to like this album, November 24, 2000

By 

Gavin B. (St. Louis MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forever Changes (Audio CD)

Okay, here's the deal...I will not repeat all that pretentious "masterpiece" stuff about this album but I will try and tell you why this album meant a lot to me when it came out and why it is one of the great albums. Here are six reasons to buy this album:

1. Love is the only group that used Bela Lugosi's vampire castle as a back drop for two album covers.

2. The hidden force behind "Forever Changes" was Neil Young, who almost took credit as a producer because he worked with Arthur Lee on the songs up until the moment the band took the songs to the studio and recorded them.

3. Arthur Lee used William Burrough's "cut and paste" technique for lyric writting on most of his songs. This is what gives the album a surreal feel.

4. Bryan McLean was the first composer to bring Braizilian rythyms to the ears of the mainstream.

5. This album almost didn't get cut. Love was in a complete mess at the time. Most of the members weren't even talking to each other. Following this session the band broke up and Love will always be remembered as about the only group that quit when it was still at the top of it's game.

6. All band members went on to live in obscurity: One member is in jail, one is dead, two have disappeared from the face of the earth and one is roaming around South America with a guitar. This is a good reason to support Love. None of these guys hung around for a reunion tour when their shelf life was expired..

Thank you Love for an album that I can sit in a rocking chair at age 69 and drop acid to.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Summing up the Summer of 'Love", October 7, 2000

By 

Bryan Ravitz (Middletown, DE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forever Changes (Audio CD)

For over 20 years this has been my link to a time that affected me greatly but which I did not participate. One often wonders how the Woodstock Generation really felt. Was it really 'Groovie', mellow and just a stoned out trip. This album lets you know the experience was a lot more complex then a simple Dylan lyric or a Hendrix guitar hook. The music is as complex as an ex-teeny bopper singles writer Brian Wilson put to wax on Pet Sounds, even entering the area of the Lovin' Spoonfull's 'Hums of the Lovin' Spoonfull and the Byrd's Sweetheart of the Rodeo' on 'Bummer in the Summer'. Much of the album has the subtlety of Rennaissance era Kinks. Forever Changes doesn't seem to have a direct link to any other album of the period lyrically. The occassional comparison could be made to Dylan, but socially I'd compare it more to 'Beggar's Banquet'. Oh yeah, the horns are really cool too.

I don't claim to know a bloody thing about other Love Albums. Yes, I've heard them, and forgot them almost as quickly. This is truly lightning in a bottle, much like Rod Stewart's 'Every Picture Tells A Story' or even better 'Moby Grape'. Occasionally the gods of music just show up in a studio and possess the bodies therein.

I feel there might be 100 albums made that are must owns. If I had that list in my hand this cd would be in my shopping cart on the first trip to the store.