Love - Forever Changes
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Free Music Notes for Forever Changes
Free Music Review: Neglected Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
No album, even Sergeant Pepper's, captures the ambience of the 1960's for me like this one. A bittersweet collection of often tender, Spanish-influenced melodies with a folk psychelic flavor and some sad racial overtones--Arthur Lee, like Jimi Hendrix, was an avant-garde Black artist doing rock at a time when music was segregated and his place uncertain and lonely. A truly great recording. Free Music Review: Forever Changes
Hit: 4 Stars
Love-Forever Changes ****
So I had heard the album a few times from friends and family but never bought it for myself because while I loved most of the album there where parts of the album that left me cold, and honestly still do. However to say that this is an important piece of 1960's culture and San Francisco legend would simply be a great understatement. With Forever Changes Alvin Lee and the gang totally encapsulated the feeling and images of the movement going on at the time and it is nothing short of a bizarre beauty.
'Alone Again Or' is accessible and easy going, yet deprived off life which makes it amazing. 'A House Is Not A Motel' is in short one of the most perfect songs this reviewer has ever heard. 'Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale' adds new flavor to the album with flamenco guitars, Santana like rhythms before they even were, and a wonderful horn chart. I think this song more than any other represents the variety that was San Fran at the time. The rest of the album is good to say the least with two exceptions.
'Live And Let Live' is hippie-yuppie at it's worst, the message is nice and all but I can do with out. Though all is not lost as there is a pretty great guitar solo. 'AndMoreAgain' is one of the most pretentious things I have ever heard and it plays like a bad Moody Blues tune.
Over all it could have been better but even still it is the classic that everyone raves about, and it truly is an album you can get lost in very easily. As for the bonus tracks, this could have done with out. They are mostly just alternate mixes that don't sound much different and the new tracks don't add anything really new, so just stick with the standard release.
Free Music Review: The Best Album of the 60's
Hit: 5 Stars
It has been called quintessential, a masterpiece, the great lost gem. Never has an album so encapsuled the tumultuos times we are living than Love's Forever Changes. From the ultimate strums of Flamenco Guitar on Alone Again Or to Sitting on a hillside watching all the people die on The Red Telephone and to facing each day with a smile on You Set The Scene, the listener is hypnotically bombarded with the most fascinating lyrics that seem to forever change with each listen, amazing orchestration, and barrages of electric guitar that influenced oh so many from Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Move, and The Doors to The Ramones, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, Robyn Hitchcock, Television, Lenny Kravitz, and Urge Overkill. This album, this band, and Arthur Lee, its leader, deserves to be in the Rock Hall of Fame, and they will be when we stop teething.Free Music Review: two Love albums with historical value only
Hit: 1 Stars
This review is for people who are thinking of buying their first Love album and want to get an idea if they should take a chance. I'm offering an opposing opinion to the many cult members whould like to give Love 10 stars. I am reviewing two albums here.
I heard LITTLE RED BOOK, ALONE AGAIN OR, LIVE AND LET LIVE, and YOU SET THE SCENE forty years ago. I wanted to hear them again So I bought LOVE and FOREVER CHANGES, hoping to hear even more good music. What I got for the price of two CDs were the four songs I wanted (very good songs that stand the test of time), a lot of lame flower power folk rock from LOVE, and a prelude to psychadelic music and lyrics from FOREVER CHANGES This is of historical value, but only 3 good song here.
Here's a reason to get an MP3 player. Download those four songs for $3.96, and you will have The Best of Love
Love was an important, influential group in the 60's but thay are also a product of those times. The songs sre irrelevant to today's listeners. Ask my daughter. It's to bad Love wasn't able to evolve into better musicians and grow wit the times.
But I've been stuck in the sixties too long. I want hear new music.
Because most of music is weak and dated, I don't reccomend it. There is far better music fom that era.
P.S. Love's thin vocals and some of their songs remind me of the group named Spirit, and their album THE TWELVE DREAMS OF DR SARDONICUS This a a much better album that FOREVER CHANGES. It is timeless,Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus and it still has meaning today If insist on 60's music, Spirit is a unique high quality group
Free Music Review: One of the all time greats
Hit: 5 Stars
Like Sgt Pepper,Blonde on Blonde, Strange Days,Beggar's Banquet,Layla or Electric Ladyland, this is one of those landmark recordings that - regardless of what generation you are part of - you simply have to have in your life if you love great music.