Da Capo
(Sundazed) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
2001 reissue of Love’s sophomore effort where the band broadens its scope into psychedelia and Arthur Lee’s achingly melodic songwriting gifts reach full flower. Highlights include the atomic blast of pre-punk rock “Seven & Seven Is” (their only hit single), the manic jazz tempos of “Stephanie Knows Who,” and the enchanting “She Comes in Colors,” perhaps Lee’s best composition (and reportedly the inspiration for The Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow”).
Forever Changes
(Sundazed) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
2001 reissue of “one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love.… [M]ost of Forever Changes is built around interwoven acoustic guitar textures and subtle orchestrations, with strings and horns both reinforcing and punctuating the melodies. The … inspired arrangements can’t disguise an air of malaise that permeates … [what is inarguably Love’s masterpiece — an album of enduring beauty, but … 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.”
Love
(Sundazed) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
2001 reissue of Love’s hardest-rocking early album and their most Byrds-influenced. Highlights include their punky rendition of Bacharach / David’s “My Little Red Book” (a minor hit), and the superbly moody ballads “Signed D.C.” and “Mushroom Clouds.”