Forever Changes

Best Albums of the 1960s (111 music items)

" Love "

50 Essential Albums of 1967 (50 music items)

"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."

RS 500: Part 1 (100 music items)

"'"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 "

500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)

"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”"

2,000 Albums to Listen to Before Death... (2000 music items)

"FOREVER CHANGES (1967) LOVE Review coming soon... "

Albums Listened to in 2017 (443 music items)

"May 8th Year: 1967 Genre: Psychedelic Rock "