Comments on: Love “Forever Changes”

By: Mikel-Chas.

Mikel-Chas. — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:21:15 +0000

The world was sent a special man to us to share his talent and genious with way to short a time but the time Arthur was here he gave so many billions of us and still is giving us all and some yet to discover Mr.Lee…I know I am a better person because of his music and the words he left to us all.I will never forget the first time I heard the song :You set the scene” for Forever Changes.I bought the album the same day.Thank you Rhino for doing what you have come to do best Re-release the best of the best from the 60’s to the present.LOVE is one that had to be found and shared with the world once more.I loved the music flutes trumphets and everything you would not expect to find in rock and roll.But he was so much more then that,so much more.His music is timeless and seems to even get better with age.I just listened to a tape I made of the LOVE groupe and It is as fresh as it was just recorded yesterday.The other side “Eyes of the beacon street Union” did not fair as well but I have forever Changes as the best album made ahead of my 2nd best,”Sgt.Pepper.”
To end I will say Thank you God for giving us Arthur Lee for the short time you did,thank you ever so much. Arthur made my life a lot better every day. God Bless you I will be coming to you shortly my old friend.
Thank you for the music now God has you back home..

LOVE Mikel-Chas.Skinner

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:16:52 +0000

Between Clark and Hilldale is my fave tune on this, my fave album of all time. Thanks.

Back in Portland, where I am from originally, I found a really scratched up copy of Da Capo at a thrift store about 1984. I really dug it. Then I found a rather clean copy of the first album, and I thought “this is it, I love this album”. And I had read all the hype surrounding Forever Changes, even in the mid 80’s. But I thought there was no way anything by Love could’ve topped the coolness of their first record. I let this opinion slip out one day to my friend Gene and he looked at me with the most serious face and said “Dude, you have to listen to Forever Changes, nothing compares.”
I did and he was right. I think this album was channeled from another dimension. It is the album for the ages. It knows no time, it knows all time.

By: Stranger

Stranger — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:38:44 +0000

I remember not knowing what to make of F.C. the first time I heard it. It was almost too much to digest in one listen. After a few more spins, it slowly started to crawl under my skin (like so many of the greatest records do…), and I soon found myself listening to it nonstop (sometimes up to 3 times a day) for months. Dark and enigmatic, yet strangely uplifting, this album only gets better and better with each listen.

By: Jordy

Jordy — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:51:39 +0000

Honestly, I first heard “Alone Again Or” as a Calexico cover.
This is a fantastically creative album.
http://sowellremembered.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/239/

By: stardust

stardust — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:06:56 +0000

Lovely post! Forever Changes is such a great album. It makes me fell in love with the 60s. Too bad that nowadays it doesn’t gets the popularity it deserves. Here in Sweden not many people have heard their music.
Well, the first time I heard Love was last year, actually. It clearly depends on me being born 25 years after Forever Changes, but better late than never. Alone Again Or wasn’t the song that got me into Love, it was A House is not A Motel. Fantastic lyrics!
Then I would like to recommend you the movie Bottle Rocket, the one made by Wes Anderson. Alone Agin Or features in it, and it’s such a great scene.

Your blog is a lovely way to get into the “old” music! Thank you!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:33:30 +0000

Great post! I think I probably first heard Love in the 1980s as a result of curiosity arising from the connection between Bryan MacLean (of Love) and his kid sister Maria McKee (the force behind 1980’s L.A. roots band Lone Justice). In addition to Alone Again Or, MacLean also wrote a good country song for Lone Justice called “Don’t Toss Us Away.” I think I’m going to have to do a Lone Justice post over at STWOF now. By the way, Alone Again Or is probably one of my top 25 songs of all time. Not sure, since I never made such a list.