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Guest Editor: Matthew Nicholson
Love – Forever Changes Luke has kindly asked me to suggest an album for Album Club and my choice is “Forever Changes” by Love. It is one of my favourite albums and the album that I consider to be greatest arranged, produced and, often, written album I’ve heard. A mainstay on most Greatest Albums lists, I was introduced to “Forever Changes” by friends as a student. It was sold to me alongside the legend that its main creator Arthur Lee wrote the album believing he was going to die. It was to be his final artistic statement to the world. In fact, Lee went on to live a long life but “Forever Changes” remains what’s considered his greatest achievement. At Glastonbury 2003, the band played the album in full to a sun-soaked audience though I regrettably missed that. Musically, I find it breath-taking. The range of instruments used across the album – strings, brass, acoustic - and the way they appear in its duration is nothing short of perfection. Lyrically, “Forever Changes” is very of its time and its psychedelia is a product of L.A in 1967. There is a dark undertone beneath its hippy philosophy expressing a time of conflict and war. My favourites include when Lee sings “write the rules in the sky, but ask your leaders why” in ‘Live and Let Live’ and “you will have some time to put yourself on” in the closing refrain of ‘You Set The Scene’. I imagine I will always want to listen to “Forever Changes”, throughout my life. When I put it on it never fails to put a smile on my face.
Guest Editor: Matthew Nicholson
Love – Forever Changes Luke has kindly asked me to suggest an album for Album Club and my choice is “Forever Changes” by Love. It is one of my favourite albums and the album that I consider to be greatest arranged, produced and, often, written album I’ve heard. A mainstay on most Greatest Albums lists, I was introduced to “Forever Changes” by friends as a student. It was sold to me alongside the legend that its main creator Arthur Lee wrote the album believing he was going to die. It was to be his final artistic statement to the world. In fact, Lee went on to live a long life but “Forever Changes” remains what’s considered his greatest achievement. At Glastonbury 2003, the band played the album in full to a sun-soaked audience though I regrettably missed that. Musically, I find it breath-taking. The range of instruments used across the album – strings, brass, acoustic - and the way they appear in its duration is nothing short of perfection. Lyrically, “Forever Changes” is very of its time and its psychedelia is a product of L.A in 1967. There is a dark undertone beneath its hippy philosophy expressing a time of conflict and war. My favourites include when Lee sings “write the rules in the sky, but ask your leaders why” in ‘Live and Let Live’ and “you will have some time to put yourself on” in the closing refrain of ‘You Set The Scene’. I imagine I will always want to listen to “Forever Changes”, throughout my life. When I put it on it never fails to put a smile on my face.
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