Love: Forever Changes [RHINO / WARNER]

Why you'll love it

This Rhino pressing was cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering from the original analog album master, pressed at RTI on 180g vinyl and packed in a tip-on jacket. Forever Changes is named among the greatest albums of all time by a host of publications.

This edition

• 180g vinyl
• Cut from the original analog master by Chris Bellman
• Pressed at RTI
• Tip-on jacket
• Stereo mix
• Pressed in the USA

About the album

In 1967, while much of the world was in a paisley haze, Arthur Lee was writing songs from his house in the Los Angeles hills that looked at the era with a clearer, cooler eye. Love's third album traded the band's garage-rock punch for acoustic guitars, strings and horns, and the result is one of the most beautiful records of the decade.

Bryan MacLean wrote two of the best-known songs: "Alone Again Or," with its flamenco guitar and mariachi trumpet, and the gentle "Old Man." The rest belongs to Lee, from the delicate "Andmoreagain" and the brooding "A House Is Not a Motel" to "The Red Telephone" and the sweeping closer "You Set the Scene." Lee produced it with Bruce Botnick, and the orchestral arrangements give the songs an eerie, luminous glow.

It was the last album by the original lineup and grew in stature year after year, reaching No. 24 in the UK at the time and much higher in critics' estimation since. Some records come with a long title on side two; "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale" is a street map with a melody.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Elektra / Rhino (cat# R1-74013), a reissue of the 1967 album.