LizardKing
First Team Regular
What a great album, anybody who hasn't heard it should download/buy it. I can't really describe the style of music, it's just happy music 
Any other Love fans here?
Any other Love fans here?
I would be there in a fecking flash, nailing her down some back alley.
What a great album, anybody who hasn't heard it should download/buy it. I can't really describe the style of music, it's just happy music
Any other Love fans here?
Have you donwloaded the album?
Love were the original Lizard King's favourite band. From LA I think.
A rather disfunctional crowd, whom Arthur Lee essentially fronted. He produced Forever Changes in 1967 with a five-piece after two members were dumped (I may be wrong, but I think they were a nine-piece at one stage). He used session musicians for the first two or three songs of the recording before the rest of the band got their arses in gear. The following year Lee was touring Love with a complete new line-up.
Forever Changes is more acoustically influenced then earlier stuff they'd done. Lee had some kind of morbidity at the time which comes across in some of the lyrics. It pretty much bombed on initial release.
I have an original UK pressing I bought from Woolies in Corby 'cos I read in Rolling Stone, or somewhere, they were Jim Morrison's favourites. Twenty years later the album was regularly featuring in the top five of all-time greats alongside Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds. It's still up there with the best I'd say and well worth tracking down on CD.
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