Forever Changes is a rarely equaled or bettered masterpiece. Arthur Lee was a genius 👍

Kudos to the Brits for "getting" this album right out of the gate. Great video.

This record has haunted me ever since I heard it as a kid in the 60s. It perfectly captures the spirit of 1967 without sounding dated -- it somehow remains strangely timeless.

There is nothing quite like this album. Never ages. Pure genius from start to finish.

Love's 'Forever Changes' is one of my favorite albums and I think one of the greatest rock albums every made.

This is my favourite so far from Yesterday's Papers. I was lucky enough to see Arthur Lee and Love twice, in Manchester. Both concerts were fantastic: during one of them the band played "Forever Changes" all the way through, accompanied by a young string and brass section, who looked as thrilled to be there as the audience was. When Arthur Lee died, I couldn't bear to listen to his music for 2 years. Now, I just enjoy it and am glad he was here. I had no idea the album had such positive reviews here; it's wonderful to know. Arthur Lee knew he was appreciated in Britain!

Nice how your background music "dances" all around "Alone Again Or" and "You Set The Scene." Nice touch!

"Forever Changes" was and remains nothing short of brilliant. Many thanks Yesterday's Papers!

One of the best rock albums ever recorded.

The song " Alone Again Or ".It should have been a huge hit. Thanks to Bryan Maclean for writing it . "You Set the Scene " is a Fantastic song . This Album " Forever Changes" is on the art rock level to me equal with " Sgt. Pepper ". I love the Beatles no putdown intended. Thank you Arthur and Love for a classic ." Alone Again Or "has been on my playlist for 35 years when playing out.

Elektra put out some lovely stuff in the late 60s,Zodiac Cosmic Sounds,The Doors,Tim Buckley,Nico's Marble Index album and of course Love.

God, I love this album! I'm a Beatlemaniac and I love it as much as any Beatles album. I didn't even know it existed and had never heard of Arthur Lee, or Love until I heard '"You Set the Scene" on the radio and asked my sister if she knew who did it. She gave me a copy of the 2009 CD and it was love at ffirst sound. My favourite song is "Maybe the People Would Be TheTimes or Between Clark and Hilldale." But there are so many great tracks. As for what the critics think, I never listen to them. They all hated my favourite Paul McCartney album, "Ram." But at least they got this right.

The genius of Arthur Lee & Bryan McLean 👏

The Zombies "OdesseyAnd Oracle" was treated the same way. You should do a video on that one too

Couldn't agree more. I was a huge fan of Love as soon as I heard Stephanie Knows Who. Through out most of the 70's, once a year, I listed my 10 favorite albums, 10 favorite guitarists, etc., etc. Not long ago I looked at these lists. The only album that was in my top 10 every year was Love Forever Changes. One additional note - Clark and Hilldale are the two streets on either side of the Whiskey a gogo.

I have loved this album since 1967. Play it often in my car, and at home. It is without doubt my FAVORITE album. I have hundreds of albums, tapes and CDs and Forever Changes is still my favorite.

I was fortunate enough to see Arthur Lee play twice in 1989. The first show was at the Ventura Theater with a few other bands on a "Summer Of Love" reunion tour. The second time was at a little bar in Malibu called Trancas. Love wasn't nearly as popular in '89 as they are now. There were only about 30 people at that Trancas show! I actually got to meet Arthur Lee and shake his hand at the bar that night. He was a pretty intimidating dude. I was 21 or 22 at the time. Thank you for the great video, YP!

Just found this channel. I could have sworn I bought this album in Exeter UK in 1967. It is still one of my top 5 albums of all time

Outstanding band

I wrote my degree thesis about Love's Forever changes! What a masterpiece. All these praises to the album are new to me. Good to know!

Forever Changes and the Notorious Byrd Brothers for me are the standout albums of this era.

Heard so much great American music for the first time on John's Sunday show. He got them from import shops like One Stop - I sat with reel-to-reel tape at the ready! How great that Arthur was able to tour the album late in life to tumultuous receptions.

I've never been more excited at a concert than I was to see Arthur Lee & (a reconstituted) Love play Forever Changes at the packed Corner Hotel, Richmond, Melbourne on April 20, 2003. Lee's voice sounded beautiful. The fulfilment of a dream I didn't know I had had since I first heard the album around 1990. I recall that he encored with Instant Karma - some compensation for never seeing Lennon.

I first got into Love as an 18 year old after reading an article in the NME in about 1982. A double page spread interview with Arthurly. They became my favourite band throughout the 80’s. I was stunned 20 years ago when my sons teacher told me she’d seen them live in 1970-ish not a mile from where I lived.

I am so glad to have stumbled across your channel…The production quality of these videos are excellent! Don’t let the fact that you aren’t at 1 million subscribers get you down. Most of the channels who have that many ppl watching are nothing less than garbage dumps, pumping visual sewage out to the numb-skulled masses. You have done something singular here, and I hope you continue to keep us informed and entertained with this vintage throw-back to a time when good music was just that- good music. Thanks so much, and I will continue watching your wonderful videos!

Haunting in the finest feel of that term . I was hooked the 1st listen

On the basis of the UK reviews I bought it in 1968 and have loved it ever since! It's somehow unique and timeless.

It was so unique for the times from which it came, and so effortlessly brilliant in total, that I always thought it wasn't created so much as it just "came out", words and music, on the spot. I've never heard anything since that quite equals the effect Forever Changes has had on me, or that mesmerizing vocal style that only Arthur possessed.

I first became aware of Love through John Peels Perfume garden radio show. He used to play the single The castle. My Irish group used to play versions of The snot song and Alone again or. I read in the. 90s that Arthur intended to tour the full Forever changes album I could not believe it. I saw the show in Dublin in 2003 and all the young cooll hipsters were singing with myself and Arthur every word, what an unforgettable experience.

I was just listening to Love´s albums from 66. They started a little between more garage rock and more folk rock moments but the good songwriting always comes out and they were already producing psychedelia then also. For Forever Changes they mostly decided to go the folk rock path within a larger baroque pop musical context. The near mariachi mexican influences in the guitars and the horns give it a very Los Angeles identity and sound which was also distinctive within that era of Baroque pop. Interesting that the british reviewers do identify those touches as "Tijuana Brass band" influences. The wider diversity of thematics and that more multicultural musical palette makes me be more interested on this album than on the more famous Pet Sounds

one of my fav albums they had no idea how to market it, that is why it went unnoticed

That album has been a big favorite of mine for decades now. Thank you for the excellent video about it.

I discovered this fabulous band a year ago, that is 54 years late! Came across the song ''ALONE AGAIN OR'', by chance, while going through a playlist, and it was love at first sight (''first heard'', I mean) I have to check this album again, will do it now. Think they have it, complete, here on KZfaq. Thanks for another great video. Cheers.

One of the best albums of the popular music history Period

Fantastic, I love this album. Cool to learn that it had such a great impact when it was first released. Loved this. Thank you

I'd never heard "Forever Changes" until just a few weeks ago, when I stumbled on a CD reissue in a used record store. What a remarlabke3 album! It was a lot more quiet, lyrical and reflective than I had thought it would be. Incidentally, the Jimi Hendrix Experience is often named as the first otherwise all-white rock band fronted by an African-American musician, but Love, another otherwise all-white band fronted by Black singer/guitarist Arthur Lee, debuted in L.A. over a year before the Hendrix Experience playsd their first gigs in London.

Forever Changes was big on L.A. radio in 1967, as Love was an. L.A. band. Arthur Lee, leader of the band and main songwriter, refused to tour to promote the album. The album, in other words, was a hit in Los Angeles. Arthur just didn't like traveling.

Took a few years but gold status for sales in the end in the u.k .

don't forget the late bryan maclean

With regard to the John Peel comment, his show was on BBC RADIO 1, BBC 1 was and still is a tv station. Radio 1, as the name suggests, is a radio station.

I remember reading a review of it in Beat Instrumental late 1967

I’ve been listening to this unique piece of music for more than 40 years. It never gets old. The song “Your Mind and we Belong Together” is from the same session and is as good as anything they ever did. Four Sail is amazing as well, more live sounding acid rock and a little uneven but essential.

The Spanish guitar and string and brass arrangements which were a large part of the appeal of Forever Changes were not Arthur Lee's.

I own a lot of old MOJO magazines and I've noticed the British have always had open ears to various kinds of music. We Americans seem to stick to formulas and when it comes to something experimental or Avant-garde, our sphincters are way too tight.

I remember buying this on a whim in the early 90's as I loved the artwork. Had no idea who there were or anything about them. But from that very first moment of hearing the opening "YEAH" I fell in love with love! It's such an evocative and wonderful record, a journey! Definitely in more top 20 all timers.

Such a lovely album! I still play it every year or so. I used to record John Peel on reel-to reel and listen to his programs over and over. he was playing the American underground before anyone . Forever Changes and Da Capo are essential buys.

Even though it was 'just' Arthur Lee on subsequent albums.. many of them are amazing as well.

Great vid Forever changes is one of my faves. Captain Beefheart and the magic band is in the paper at 1:45. I wonder how the press reacted to Safe as Milk!

Great video! Daily Planet is my favorite cut.

Excelente, concuerdo 100% con todos los elogios a este asombroso álbum.

Propers to the Wrecking Crew - did a smashing job of support to the band.

In the 1960s, "progression" was just a word used to distinguish the more creative music from the dross. They use it repeatedly in the reviews here. There is no hint that it would eventually become a discrete category, derided by most.

A classic album for sure

great album

Fabulous post. You've hit on a great formula here. Congrats and keep it up!

Thank you for this unexpected but welcome post. I don't remember these reviews but do remember Record Mirror describing FC's predecessor, Da Capo (first album I bought by the band) as "pretentious" & getting quite angry. What?!! Hmm, they just don't get it...

What a brilliant KZfaq channel this is!

Arthur spent most of the last few years of his life in prison for reasons. When he was released a band that knew every note of Forever Changes was waiting for him. The newly formed Love (2010?) played three blocks from here at a mall club and I couldn't get in. He died later that year or the next.

I saw one publication back its era call Forever Changes the greatest American album of all time. Can’t say I blame them. It’s one of the greatest records I’ve ever heard!! 🖤❤️💛🧡💜💙💚

Nice, I always wondered how they went over in Britain, also, wow, check out all of the Motown in the album charts!

Forever Changes is an album that's on an island by itself. It didn't really relate to any of Love's other albums, and it seemed like they were isolating themselves from the LA scene (other than the drugs) in the lead-up to the recording. Then everything fell apart. Neil Young was brought in at the beginning to co-produce the album, but backed out immediately (imagine that).

In 1967 I was in the 7th grade in Boston, USA. As far as I know, nothing from this album was ever played on the radio. That was the first year of WBCN, which was one of the first 'underground' radio stations in the country, playing album cuts beyond the single releases, and they might have played some Love, but I'm quite sure they never cut through to the Top 40 stations I listened to. I don't know if I would have appreciated it at the time.

@6:00 - awesome accurate review !

I saw that brief showcase about Beefheart and the Mothers. It would be awesome if you could do a video about the reception of their music!

Around this time I use to live in Oxford {England} and there was a fantastic Record Shop that alway's stocked a great selection of American Band's. "Imported or British release, I don't know" BUT I would guess a lot of import's as they had such a fantastic selection. You would wander into the shop and there was alway's some great music being played. I purchased many West Coast Band's album's, Neil Young & Steven Still's also being favourit's, from Buffalo Springfield day's, Jefferson Airplane following Grace from The Great Society. New Rider's of the Purple Sage {possibly my very favourite band} but Never took to the Dead. Bouche t the first Velvet Underground with Nico (didn't like that much!) Was far more into American band's than British during this period. I was wondering a little while back, HOW did I get to hear & know about these band's, etc.... This review's just 'jogged my memory'.... I didn't realise there was a forth LP. So no more writing and a search to listen to that.....

Most of my friends who were into Love always thought that Da Capo was their best effort, but ive always had a soft spot for Forever Changes and consider it to be the Definitive Love Album.

Marquee Moon, Trout Mask Replica and Forever Changes are three classic American LPs that were much better received here in Britain than in their own country. Interesting question why.

John Peel and the AFN radio station were strong on Love.

great album, i also like Da capo and Four sail a lot. I came across this album in 2011, then i bought the others

Brilliant channel.

I was wondering if you did a video about Love in UK .. showed up on the side when I was watching your ZOmbies video about Odyssey ORacle. Thanks.

It's important to realize Arthur Lee's true follow-up to Forever Changes was the double album Out Here which is impressive. It has many gems like "I Still Wonder" & "Willow Willow".

Tengo este album en vinilo

If I had to go to live on a desert island, this is the record that I would bring, without a doubt

I risked a fiver on this in 1980, not having any way of hearing it. Best money I ever spent, greatest album by anyone.

I've been listening to Forever Changes since my freshman year in college (1981-82. Yikes!). While I still seek out new music to listen to, but I'll never stop regularly playing the album. Forever Changes is definitely one of my desert island discs.

Awesome 🥇 🔥☺

One of the great 60s albums, the time when music was shifting so fast...just compare it with their first or second album (which were also great). Arthur Lee deserved so much more.

fantastic stuff keep it up ,theres a great documentary and podcasts with jonny eckles out there somewhere,

I discovered Love late in life but damn if they aren’t one of my favorites now.

A perfect lp

Good shit, Maynard!

The Brits always get it. Cheers!

A masterpiece. And most of the guitars on it are acoustic!

.In Los Angeles in the 60’s it was Love-The Doors-Buffalo Springfield

My Irish group were Reform.

2:00 Simon and Garfunkel guitar 😂 you would of thought she’d of had a wider array of words to describe the acoustic start pfft.

What a shock. Like VU, Zappa, Hendrix and Beefheart. The Europeans always appreciated so called underground music from America before Americans did! But I guess we're just as guilty about not seeing genius right under our noses. Just look at Nick Drake. His 3 albums sold 15,000 copies in total before his death!

Love were the band that the Doors wanted to be...

Terrific album no doubt about it! But that reviewer " Certainly the best of the West Coast groups."' Well, that certainty certainly is open to debate. And later another critic writes "....from the very best of the California groups" I guess everyone has their own taste, thank heaven.

It sold quite well in uk as ive seen a few copies originals that is. Most are played to hell as rightly

The group UFO covered alone again or, probably the most famous cover of a Love song ever

The tragedy of the original Love, was that they broke up instead of touring to promote the album back in 1968.

Forever Changes is tied with Revolver and Blonde and Blonde for the best albums of the 1960s

This album defined the "arty" west coast sound of 1967. Shame that they never repeated that masterpiece.

Bands and albums don't get any more idiosyncratic than Love's "Forever Changes"....such strange yet beautiful songs and off the wall orchestration for what is considered "rock" music. Easily on a par with "Pepper" and "Are You Experienced"...I am transported to the streets of L.A. in 1967 when listening to it

The snot has caked against my pants...

I wish someday i will see an article on this channel about very litlle known band, but one of the most progressive minded group of musicians at the time - United States of America. They were mote of a project than a real band, and they mixed avant-garde psychedelic music with electronic sounds and more traditional genres, like Dixieland jazz and ragtime. Also, they didn't have a guitar player and had concerts which were ahead of their time. They belong to a story similar to Silver apples, White Noise and Fifty foot hose. In the end, they were arrested for marijuana posession, although they were infamous for involvement in Communism.

a personal revered fave of Robert Plant's and Jim Morrison.

Recognized as a masterpiece in Britain. Sadly, Love was a never a big deal in the States: not in the 60s, not in the 80s in my youth as I was discovering all the great 60s music, and frankly, not now. I just don't understand it. The Doors used to say in their early days that they wanted to "be as big as Love". The biographer who cited the quote was indicating how supposedly modest the Doors' ambitions were. A GREAT group; get into them, if you don't know who they are.