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Love's Forever Changes made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc's themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is. Sharp electric guitars dominated most of Love's first two albums, and they make occasional appearances here on tunes like "A House Is Not a Motel" and "Live and Let Live," but most of Forever Changes is built around interwoven acoustic guitar textures and subtle orchestrations, with strings and horns both reinforcing and punctuating the melodies. The punky edge of Love's early work gave way to a more gentle, contemplative, and organic sound on Forever Changes, but while Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean wrote some of their most enduring songs for the album, the lovely melodies and inspired arrangements can't disguise an air of malaise that permeates the sessions. A certain amount of this reflects the angst of a group undergoing some severe internal strife, but Forever Changes is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969; images of violence and war haunt "A House Is Not a Motel," the street scenes of "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hillsdale" reflects a jaded mindset that flower power could not ease, the twin specters of race and international strife rise to the surface of "The Red Telephone," romance becomes cynicism in "Bummer in the Summer," the promise of the psychedelic experience decays into hard drug abuse in "Live and Let Live," and even gentle numbers like "Andmoreagain" and "Old Man" sound elegiac, as if the ghosts of Chicago and Altamont were visible over the horizon as Love looked back to brief moments of warmth. Forever Changes is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Producer, Vocals - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion - Andrew MacLean, Writer
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger, Vocals - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger, Vocals - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Producer, Arranger, Vocals, Writer - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Producer, Arranger - Bryan Maclean, Composer, Guitar, Vocals - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger, Vocals - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger, Vocals - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger, Vocals - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger, Vocals - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger, Vocals - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
LOVE, MainArtist - Bruce Botnick, Producer - Jac Holzman, ExecutiveProducer - Arthur Lee, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger, Vocals - Bryan Maclean, Guitar - John Echols, Guitar - Ken Forssi, Bass Guitar - MICHAEL STUART, Percussion
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records
Album review
Love's Forever Changes made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc's themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is. Sharp electric guitars dominated most of Love's first two albums, and they make occasional appearances here on tunes like "A House Is Not a Motel" and "Live and Let Live," but most of Forever Changes is built around interwoven acoustic guitar textures and subtle orchestrations, with strings and horns both reinforcing and punctuating the melodies. The punky edge of Love's early work gave way to a more gentle, contemplative, and organic sound on Forever Changes, but while Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean wrote some of their most enduring songs for the album, the lovely melodies and inspired arrangements can't disguise an air of malaise that permeates the sessions. A certain amount of this reflects the angst of a group undergoing some severe internal strife, but Forever Changes is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969; images of violence and war haunt "A House Is Not a Motel," the street scenes of "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hillsdale" reflects a jaded mindset that flower power could not ease, the twin specters of race and international strife rise to the surface of "The Red Telephone," romance becomes cynicism in "Bummer in the Summer," the promise of the psychedelic experience decays into hard drug abuse in "Live and Let Live," and even gentle numbers like "Andmoreagain" and "Old Man" sound elegiac, as if the ghosts of Chicago and Altamont were visible over the horizon as Love looked back to brief moments of warmth. Forever Changes is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:44
- Main artists: Love
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rhino - Elektra
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1967 Elektra Records. ℗ 1967 Elektra Records. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
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