LOVE Forever Changes 1970 UK ELEKTRA *STEREO* PRESS - EXCELLENT+
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87
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115
£ 87
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Nov 27, 2015
Sold Date
Nov 17, 2015
Start Date
£ 24
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5
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Great Britain
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LOVE Forever Changes 1970 UK ELEKTRA *STEREO* PRESS - SUPERB COPY - EXCELLENT+
LOVEForever Changes
1970 UK ELEKTRA (EKS 74013) PRESSING
RED/WHITE ELEKTRA LABELS ONLY USED IN 1970 BETWEEN THE ORANGE AND THE BUTTERFLY
LOVELY COPY - PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT
MATRIX: EKS 74013 A1 / EKS 74013 B1
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY LAMINATED SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND “FOREIGN PATENTS PENDING” PRINTED IN BLUE
Love's Forever Changes made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognised as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc's themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is.
Sharp electric guitars dominated most of Love's first two albums, and they make occasional appearances here on tunes like "A House Is Not a Motel" and "Live and Let Live," but most of Forever Changes is built around interwoven acoustic guitar textures and subtle orchestrations, with strings and horns both reinforcing and punctuating the melodies.
The punky edge of Love's early work gave way to a more gentle, contemplative, and organic sound on Forever Changes, but while Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean wrote some of their most enduring songs for the album, the lovely melodies and inspired arrangements can't disguise an air of malaise that permeates the sessions.
A certain amount of this reflects the angst of a group undergoing some severe internal strife, but Forever Changes is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969; images of violence and war haunt "A House Is Not a Motel," the street scenes of "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hillsdale" reflects a jaded mindset that flower power could not ease, the twin spectres of race and international strife rise to the surface of "The Red Telephone," romance becomes cynicism in "Bummer in the Summer," the promise of the psychedelic experience decays into hard drug abuse in "Live and Let Live," and even gentle numbers like "Andmoreagain" and "Old Man" sound elegiac, as if the ghosts of Chicago and Altamont were visible over the horizon as Love looked back to brief moments of warmth.
Forever Changes is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.
Side 1:
Alone Again Or (3:15)
A House Is Not A Motel (3:25)
Andmoreagain (3:15)
The Daily Planet (3:25)
Old Man (2:57)
The Red Telephone (4:45)
Side 2:
Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale (3:30)
Live And Let Live (5:24)
The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This (3:00)
Bummer In The Summer (2:20)
You Set The Scene (6:49)
LABELS: EXCELLENT+
Clean, unmarked labels - light/moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
Both surfaces retain their original deep sheen with just light hairlines/brush marks - nothing of any audible significance
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT+
My play-check at volume found little to fault - the (very) occasional one-off tick noted - nothing really - otherwise beautifully clean - superb sound and a very strong EX+
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
As clean, crisp, sharp and fresh as the day it was made - slight indentation to a small portion of the back (please see close-up photos) - again, nothing really
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC INNER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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