| CUSTOMER REVIEWS: | 3/5 - More funky than melodic
This album was a follow-up to Out Here and was recorded mostly in Hollywood in 1970, though a couple of tracks, including one fantastic work-out with Jimi Hendrix, The Everlasting First, were recorded in London.
<br />The songs are simplistic when compared to the majesty of Forever Changes, but then what isn't? I suspect Arthur Lee was undergoing something of a writer's block while simultaneously exploring more closely the black music of the day, and the album as a whole is short and somewhat patchy by his standards.
<br />More funky than melodic, but still eminently worthwhile
5/5 - Love's most underrated (and 2nd best) album
This album is criminally misunderstood. It is the Anti-Forever Changes. Short songs, tight musicianship, the most controlled screaming in all of rock 'n roll, meaningful/meaningless lyrics, nasty attitude (when not buoyantly hopeful), & Love's best guitarist ever! Takes everything slick & punks it up, and then vice versa. It's brilliant and, 30 some years out, still way ahead of the curve. Defiantly alternative - refuses every mold,label, & classification. Lighten up & enjoy!
p.s. "Stand Out" would be equally at home in a youth mass or a mosh pit.
4/5 - what is LOVE?..."Hey,man that's the name of my band."
People always say this is the album with "The Everlasting First" on it-as if that's the only reason to own it.This album is a strange one.On first hearing it seems like the best songs on it are:The Everlasting 1st.Stand Out(live).Keep On Shining.& Ride That Vibration Down.And the rest are all mediocre throwaways best left in the can.But the more you listen to this record in it's entirety start to finish the better it gets.A loose,funky,psychedelic Arthur Lee solo album circa 1969 that finds our hero sounding like he's having alot of fun singing these songs to us.Very similar to Out Here&Four Sail. |
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Last visit: 28/12/2009
