Yep. Tied with "Walk Away Renee".

Wonderful song from a great album.

@@samsimmons8030 Love that song too

Agree

You may well be right. My girlfriend and I thought it had #1 written all over it.

Me too.

netherworldman its a very emotional, haunting song. I get the same feeling

Agreed!

same here I can't explain why but especially when that trumpet comes in and those guitars man

and now...50 years later...still going strong !!!

Absolutely..I was given this as suggested listening and though I liked the sound, I didnt understand what all the fuss was about until I listened to it repeatedly for a while..then I couldnt wait to hear it again and it gets better everytime I go back to it.. the best songs are like that I think..

Yes, magnificent is the word. There's something unique about this song....the way the chorus comes to an end and the trumpet lingers over the guitar....that feeling, I can't explain it but it is magical

Is it OK to cry over this? Asking for a friend.

BRIAN MCLEAN'S MOTHER WAS A SPANISH DANCER AND MCLEANPICKED UP THAT VIBE GROWING UP- NO BRIAN MCLEAN- NO LOVE THE WAY WE KNOW IT. MCCLEAN WAS HEROIN, GOT CLEAN, CHRISTIAN MUSIC, DIED OF A MASSIVE CORONARY- HE WAS A PRETTY BOY BLOND ca KID WITH LOADS OF TALENT. THEY PLAYED AT WHISKEY A GO-G0 WHICH WAS STARTED WITH ONE PARTNER BEING JOHNNY RIVERS WHO PACKED IT 6 MONTHS SOLID. cHECK OUT JR- LP 'REALIZATION' WAS HIS HIPPIE MASTERPIECE.

the trumpet is genuis

Probably the best band ever

1967. / 70. F M. Radio. Was the best. Groups like love made it so

Gere! Be in touch! I will send you a photo i took from Glastonbury Festival. Ps. Have something else you may have a interest in! From the Arthur Lee benifit at Beacon Theater!

Great songwriter, for sure, but not the writer of this song. That would be (the late) Bryan MacLean.

They did tour but weren’t able to tour the southern states (due to segregation) which is probably the bigger reason why they didn’t get more popular stateside

I hate you. You saw, love live.. Like winning the lottery.

Arthur didn't like to travel. . .period. When his record label, Elecktra, wanted to bring the band to NYC for promotion, Lee balked. Instead, he "recommended" that the label look at a competitive band down the street. That band was the DOORS. Elektra invited them to NY and they accepted. You know the rest. I really, really envy you on he ops you had to see this iconic band. The memories you must still harbor are priceless.

Lucky you 😊

Love this story!! 😅❤

Arthur played Glastonbury Festival in 2003. Really very special! You can find part of it on line. Yes! I was at the show. Have many special photos i took.

Agreed.

It's perfection.

@@dougpotosky4102 Watching it on my other laptop right now. Can't get enough of it. Masterpiece. That must have been incredible.

Fascinating. I could almost agree.

i have to agree with you

Totally agree.....makes Pepper sound like just a very nice pop album

I was working at a club called the troc when this happened to be going on. I was a new fan. Thank you for posting

You are kidding, right?

AMEN BROTHER! RIP Arthur

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The best of all time.

Over-rated at best.....a downer compared to "Da Capo" . What HAPPENED ?

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the RV ER'S I agree.

just cuz didn't want to

This is so true. I discovered them far later the release of their albums when they were extremely rare on vinyl in the late 70s-early 80. Same for the Seeds and 13th Floor Elevator. I remember guys desperately searching for their albums in the early 80s and you couldn't find any good copy of them unless spending a lot of money in some record shops specialized in old stuff.

So true. Every single time I hear it.

OH Yeah a funny shiver thing. I heard that about you.

"Forever Changes" The greatest album to come out of the sixties. Even better than that one by those four lads from Liverpool.

I grew up with Love and Forever Changes was a masterpiece!

I cry every time I hear it. :)

Until a mate at work said he was going to see him live in Birmingham and let me borrow his album, i thought this song was by The Moody Blues! So glad i went with him to the gig!

rebbe1000 he passed in 2006 :(

So do I..

love every part of him . before his time

+Tom Macan many thanks from this old hippie. brilliant stuff !

me too

+Brent Mireau just cannot get enough of his genius, so ,so sad that he's gone.

I dig drug lovers!! +Geoffrey Allen please visit your local karaoke bar and sing making up vulgar words to the patrons.

socialmeasles: You know your stuff. I thought though Brian wanted to sing his song and Art just said NO. Yeah I can hear Herb Alpert; was just listening to Alpert's The Loneliest Bull .. great underrated song.

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musikfanat Not true that Arthur Lee got the Doors their contract with Electra - Love was the most visible of the LA/Sunset Strip groups and had 2 albums out by the time the Doors were signed in 1966. Love may been responsible for attracting record company A&R folks to the clubs in the first place, but guys like Arthur Lee had zero influence on getting other artists signed to contracts - Electra's problem was no one knew what to do with them; their first 2 albums were very uneven and were failures commercially, exacerbated by Arthur Lee's rather massive personal problems and his refusal to tour. Electra chose to promote the Doors (a source of tremendous bitterness for Love who believed they were going to get the big promo treatment) because the Doors were obviously quite a bit more audience accessible to the world, but there really wasn't any comparison between the group's music and styles. Whatever the case, Forever Changes was truly a masterwork --- and light years ahead of the earlier albums - I can't think of any other album that almost 50 years later still sounds so revolutionary and I would wager that if you played it today for someone who had never heard this, but who had seriously followed music since the late 50s or early 60s, that person would find it difficult if not impossible to tell you when Forever Changes was recorded.

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Frank Converse Well, Frank - I don't think you got the context of my comment, which was written in response to musikfanat's very much revisionist last 2 sentences on Arthur Lee "getting the Doors their record contract" with Electra, followed by an ABSURD closing statement to the effect that if Arthur Lee hadn't been around there wouldn't have been the Doors, because that's simply not true. For the record, I'm very much a giant fan of Forever Changes (in spite of not particularly liking either of the earlier Love albums) and considered it at the time and ever since as one of the greatest albums I have ever heard. Elsewhere I've said that it might be the 1 album that I think is impossible to say when it was cut - anywhere from the 1960s right up to the present - it was so revolutionary (maybe part of it's problem) that no one could mimic it. Look, at the time in question (65/66) I was a 15 year old Long Island boy hanging out on weekends in Greenwich Village and getting to see (and occasionally hang out with) world-class musicians. My buddy would sit-in for the most famous musician in NY during after hours sessions. If you hung out, you got to meet people in the biz, and I met Jac Holzman several times. Electra was THE independent Rec Co around and Holzman wore a lot of hats in running it, combining A&R, Producer and the business side of things. So although I wasn't in LA, I can tell you that I heard about what was going on elsewhere, and when I said Electra/Jac Holzman didn't know what to do with Arthur Lee and Love, it was because people in the business were saying that. LA attracted its own supply of musicians and had its own scene. Business and talent people flocked to that scene - the same as in NY, where you would see a bunch of A&R people at the clubs whose job was to find new groups who were unsigned; anybody coming along who was not known was a "secret" for somewhere between 1 minute and 1 day - the trick was who could figure out the commercial potential for that artist and get them signed - that was true of LA as well. In Electra's case, they weren't positioned to compete with WB, Capitol, etc - didn't have the money for promo, etc.. Holzman's pitch included being able to work around that. Now this is a guy who had an impeccable track record at judging talent - so although Arthur Lee might have recommended that Jac Holzman sign the Doors, (without having been there, I would bet the farm that Jac Holzman knew of the Doors independent of Arthur Lee and he signed them independent of Arthur Lee's recommendation - because that's the way the music business is structured. What I think people constantly forget is that record companies are in business to sell records - if you, for whatever reason, don't sell records, you aren't going to get a lot of support for any length of time. The fact is that Love's first 2 records were rather mediocre and didn't sell - Forever Changes was their masterwork but it didn't sell a lot of records in spite of how great it was. That's not a criticism of Arthur Lee, but his unwillingness to tour and some other real problems were seen AT THE TIME (this isn't 20/20 hindsight) as making it that much more difficult to promote them. And BTW, there were plenty of other great artists who never were able to make a real go of it - some by choice, some for other reasons including not being in the right place at the right time.

+Gary Wolgang you could probably write a very interesting book.

So do I!

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Yes the original is the original of course but the Damned version is effin brilliant!

So did Calexico.

That’s incredible! What is he like in person? I heard he didn’t like performing very much

@@lyricsronen i met him briefly at the Garage (London Venue) - he was just walking around out front pre show! Seems like he lived it to me - Shades, boots and Hat... walked the walk. Amazing - grateful for the experience. ❤

@@lyricsronen Lee said, because “we had the West Coast sewn up,” and because “I didn’t trust nobody. I wasn’t going on the road and play for $20 when I could play at the Fillmore for thousands. I had it made in one place, and I was kind of leery of going to a place I’d never been. I think I definitely made a few wrong decisions.”

@@oppothumbs1 Wow that's wild man. What a great man, and a fantastic band! Love was so formative for me in terms of my overall taste in music

@@oppothumbs1 I remember hearing from one of the Elektra employees he didn't want to tour the world because he didn't want to lose contact with his drug dealer in California lol.

love foreverchanges, fantastic lp

They were not underrated but respected by the musicians in Los Angeles at the time!

It was a song against the free love movement that Arthur and Bryan collaborated on as Bryan didn't like his girlfriend going out all night with others. Hence "I heard a funny thing" because someone else is telling the singer they could be in love with almost everyone.