Name: Forever Changes
Brand: Love

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

008122797115

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

UK Import

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-08-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Lasgo

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

081227971151

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Love

Genre US

60s & 70s

Label US

Elektra

Essential

One of the first pop albums to become a cult classic, love's 1967 masterpiece, Forever Changes, is the pinnacle of the L.A. freak scene.

Singer/songwriter Arthur Lee's lyrics are increasingly fragmentary and paranoid, foreshadowing the band's eventual drug-fueled collapse. Yet these drop-dead hip tunes are set in arrangements featuring Herb Alpert-style mariachi horns, lush middle-of-the-road strings, and other tropes of the easy listening scene, creating a more unsettling sense of tension than if the songs were given the usual heavy rock instrumentation. Every single track is a stone classic, Forever Changes belongs high on any halfway serious list of the greatest pop albums of the '60s.

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Forever Changes

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