Showing posts with label Artist: Love. Show all posts
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04 January, 2012

87. Love | Forever Changes (1967)



  1. Alone Again Or
  2. A House Is Not a Motel
  3. Andmoreagain
  4. The Daily Planet
  5. Old Man
  6. The Red Telephone
  7. Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
  8. Live and Let Live
  9. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
  10. Bummer in the Summer
  11. You Set the Scene

Forever Changes is a relentless album. All the songs have a heavy, robust and driving rhythm section. It's a mix of loud rock and roll songs and heavy ballads. Other bands have made heavy albums, but they are more direct descendants of the blues. This album is more mature in that sense. There's much more innovation with this album.

The previous Love album was good, but the songs were a lot shorter and the last piece didn't fit well. This album is much different. It retains the nice melodies, but the songs have more structure. This album has a nice clear sound and the songs work well together.

It's certainly an album that grew on me. I liked it from the start, but I've gotten more impressed with it each time I listen to it. I highly recommend this album. There's not a weak song on it, but the real stand outs are Alone Again Or, A House Is Not a Motel, The Red Telephone, Live and Let Live, Bummer in the Summer and You Set the Scene.

★★★★★★★★★★

31 December, 2011

83. Love | Da Capo (1967)



  1. Stephanie Knows Who
  2. Orange Skies
  3. ¡Que Vida!
  4. 7 and 7 Is
  5. The Castle
  6. She Comes in Colors
  7. Revelation


Da Capo is a passive-aggressive album. There are a couple of aggressively loud and heavy songs. The remaining songs are very mellow and, with Alvin Lee's highly enunciated singing, almost sound pretentious.


It's certainly an uneven album. There's the loud and heavy, and soft and mellow aspect. the other aspect is that the first six songs don't surpass four minutes while the final song, Revelation, is over twenty minutes long, longer than the first six combined.


Fortunately, the six songs are quite good, but they're not really worth getting excited about. Revelation is OK. It's mainly a bass, guitar, drums and harmonica jam. There's also some screaming, too. It could have used a bit more structure.


The stand out songs are Stephanie Knows Who, 7 and 7 Is, She Comes in Colors.


★★★★★★★ ☆☆☆