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Love – Forever Changes (1967/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:49 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Elektra
The third and final album by the original Love lineup, Forever Changes regularly draws epic praise. Rolling Stone described it as “elegant armageddon” when listing it as #40 in the “500 Greatest Albums Of All Time,” and, placing it in the context of the late ’60s in another rave review, called it, “one of the most distinctive masterpieces in that era of masterpieces.” A landmark work that’s the L.A.-based psychedelic folk-rock pioneers’ most fully realized studio effort, it was produced by band co-founder/frontman Arthur Lee and The Doors’ engineer/producer Bruce Botnick, and released by Elektra in early ’68. Highlights include “Alone Again Or,” “Andmoreagain,” “The Red Telephone,” and “Live And Let Live”.
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Love – Black Beauty (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:40 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © High Moon Records
Black Beauty, the never-before-released masterpiece by Arthur Lee’s legendary band Love. Chosen as one of Time Magazine’s most anticipated releases, critics are hailing the album as an instant classic. Black Beauty is that rarest of rock artifacts: an un-released, full-length studio album, from an undisputed musical genius. It represents the missing link in a catalog that also includes Forever Changes, the seminal 1967 Love album the New York Times called “one of the most affecting and beguiling albums of all time.” With Black Beauty, Arthur Lee manages to combine searing ’70’s rock with gorgeous melodies and stellar songwriting – topped off by his most distinctive, snarling, soulful vocals ever. With unparalleled sound, and a wonderfully eclectic collection of songs, the album offers Love fans a rare glimpse into a previously undocumented phase of Arthur Lee’s career, while shining a light for new fans to discover the unique genius that is the music of Arthur Lee and Love. David Fricke wrote about the album in Rolling Stone: “Black Beauty might have been received as a strong comeback for Lee, a turn to steamy R & B, with heavy-guitar punch — if it had come out.” High Moon Records is honored to finally grant Arthur Lee’s wish for Black Beauty to be available to music fans worldwide.
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Love – Forever Changes (1967) [MFSL 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 42:32 minutes | Scans included | 1,73 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 802 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # 2131
Love’s Forever Changes made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc’s themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is. Sharp electric guitars dominated most of Love’s first two albums, and they make occasional appearances here on tunes like “A House Is Not a Motel” and “Live and Let Live,” but most of Forever Changes is built around interwoven acoustic guitar textures and subtle orchestrations, with strings and horns both reinforcing and punctuating the melodies. The punky edge of Love’s early work gave way to a more gentle, contemplative, and organic sound on Forever Changes, but while Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean wrote some of their most enduring songs for the album, the lovely melodies and inspired arrangements can’t disguise an air of malaise that permeates the sessions. A certain amount of this reflects the angst of a group undergoing some severe internal strife, but Forever Changes is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969; images of violence and war haunt “A House Is Not a Motel,” the street scenes of “Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hillsdale” reflects a jaded mindset that flower power could not ease, the twin specters of race and international strife rise to the surface of “The Red Telephone,” romance becomes cynicism in “Bummer in the Summer,” the promise of the psychedelic experience decays into hard drug abuse in “Live and Let Live,” and even gentle numbers like “Andmoreagain” and “Old Man” sound elegiac, as if the ghosts of Chicago and Altamont were visible over the horizon as Love looked back to brief moments of warmth. Forever Changes is inarguably Love’s masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it’s 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.
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Love – Da Capo (1966) [MFSL 2013]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:23 minutes | Scans included | 1,12 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 727 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2130
Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer/songwriter Arthur Lee who wrote most of the songs, although some of their best known songs were written by Bryan MacLean. One of the first racially diverse American pop bands, their music reflected different influences, combining elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia. Da Capo is their second album.
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Love – Reel To Real (1974) [Deluxe Edition 2015]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:12:58 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ High Moon Records
Deluxe reissue of the final studio album from one of rock musics most gifted and enigmatic legends. Reel To Real captures Arthur Lee and Love at the peak of their rock/funk/soul powers. Originally released in 1974 on RSO Records, this deluxe reissue features vibrant, remastered audio from the original tapes, a 28-page booklet with an illuminating essay by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, and a trove of candid, unpublished photos. (more…)
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