LOVE "Forever Changes", one of my favorite albums of all time.

If you have any power over at the WB STeve you really need them to do a Hi-Rez DVDA or SACD. Truly one of the greatest LPs of all time!

 

What about the first two Love albums? Anybody hear any plans for those?

There's the recent best of, but I want the original albums.

 

I haven't picked the mono/stereo reissues of the first 2 LP's yet but I've heard nothing but GREAT things about them. These reissues are only available in the UK but I think Red Trumpet has them for a good price.

If you are a fan of the first 2 LP's look for the Last Wall of the Castle boot which has backing tracks from the 1st LP in stereo, the stereo backing track of No Fourteen, the 7 and 7 is session and a few alternate mixes of FC trakcs.

Chris

 

It's one of my favorite records... I love it and I can play the CD every day. Steve is right... Forever Changes was ahead at this time.

 

Borders stocks them, at domestic prices.

 

Get the imports. They sound way better and you get both the mono and new stereo versions plus bonus tracks.

 

A good question for jon....never officially released, even on Q8, would have been hard to miss that one....hell, Mickey Newbury and the New Seekers got Quad vinyl and 8-track, no Love that I can remember, and it would have been dynamite, of course....


ED

 

Foreve Changes is too one of my favorite albums. It's amazing how there's no electronics involved, everything is rooted in familiar, classical instruments, but it still sounds completley alien. Forget Darkside of the Moon, this is the album that belongs in every stoners collection. To a certian degree I kinda think that the new High-Res formats are ******** but I think I'd have to get a sacd or dvd-a player if Forever Changes came out in multi-channel.

 

Borders does stock the imports, at domestic prices.

 

What "degree" is that? Is it the catalogue?

Regards,
Geoff

 

Well I undertand the appeal of them but it's not something i'm interested in. I don't really see a reason to buy a digital disc that is trying to sound like analog, I'd rather just go with analog. Like I said I understand why people dig them and it's neat to hear an album in 5.1 but it's not something I want. Not to rag on you high-res guys.

 

Aquateen - Agree with you about the analog, as long as you still own analog equipment. I had to sell mine awhile ago. I love the warmth of analog-sounding digital releases, especially SACD and DVD-A. To be honest, I can't listen to most digital-sounding releases for more than a few songs due to listener fatigue. I can listen to analog sources and most hi-rez for the duration.

 

I'd love to see the record in 5.1 SACD.....

 

I'm just happy that it's around, 'cause there was a time when it was out of print in vinyl, and the annoying first press on CD. That sucked! Love Story was very cool, and this is cooler; even if the mastering is similar, the package and the pictures, and, let's face it - that amazing cover are worth purchasing this one!

Still everyone, go buy the first two and Four Sail from WSM as well. Those first four albums are essential, and I still think that Love at their less than best still craps from a great height on most everything else!

 

Oooh yeah !!

 

A couple of weeks back I sent the link to this thread to a good friend who's been a HUGE Love fan, since day one.

His response:

"I am sometimes very confused by the strange reverence that Love get these days. It is a seeming total re-evaluation of how they were treated in the 1970s and and just dismissed."

 

Tell yer friend that is was simply a case of being ahead of their time - eg. Big Star - the band that got it's consumer praise in 1992 instead of 1972; or poor Nick Drake - who had to have VW run an ad with "Pink Moon" in it in order for it to reach an audience 27 years after he passes!

 

Well, to be honest, "Love" could hardly be considered the bold, ground-breaking band they once were once the '70s rolled around, now could they? I dismissed them then and don't regret having felt that way.

 

Love, as of FOUR SAIL, was dismissible, even though the album does have its moments....by the time Lee & gang got to Blue Thumb, they began to totally lose focus, and the gems were scattered around, sparingly....and after that, Love didn't really exist....the RSO Lp from '74 is just crap, the '70s solo A&M Lp VINDICATOR vindicated nothing(easily forgotten), and a late '70s EP failed to impress....like many before him, Arthur Lee was a man out of his time very quickly. Good to see a comeback of sorts, and that so many appreciate him now, but Love, while well respected during its peak time(1966-68)and known to diehard rock fans and critics familiar with the era, remains a nonentity to the public at large-- unlike, say, the more notorious(and influential)Velvet Underground.


ED

 

I bought "Four Sail" for the first time a few months back, and I quit like it. It certainly isn't "Forever Changes" but it's listenable. JMHO!