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Release date: 19 November 1967
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0081227353728 UPC: 081227353728
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"Once unjustly ignored although it charted for 10 weeks, now lionized beyond all reason although it's certainly a minor masterpiece, the third album by Arthur Lee's interracial L.A. pop band voiced Lee's crazy personal paranoia and paradigmatic political paranoia. Its pretty, well-worked, somewhat fussy surface masks lyrics of unfathomable if not unhinged darkness. Rooted in existential despair and occult folderol, its aura of mystery is earned and indelible, its songcraft undeniable and obscure."
"'"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 is still alive — and currently playing this entire record live, with strings and horns. It's about time: Love's third record is his crowning achievement. A biracial cult band from L.A. that rarely gigged out of town in its 1960s heyday, Love were Lee's vehicle for a pioneering folk-rock — paranoid, punky, like the Byrds morphing into the Doors — turned "
"Nineteen sixty-seven certainly wasn’t the summer of love. Los Angeles’s Arthur Lee was your captain here for a surreal, black-magic carpet ride through the paranoid underbelly of hippiedom. Warped and lovely. Standout track: “Alone Again Or”"
"FOREVER CHANGES (1967) LOVE Review coming soon... "