Arthur Lee RIP

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I am sad. His set at Glastonbury 2003 was one of the best I've ever seen, and fitted the atmosphere perfectly. We don't usually do pop star deaths on Poptimists and that isn't really the intention of this post anyway - there's a perfectly good thread in the Other Place for that.

But it occurred to me that Love are one of the few canonical 60s acts it's hard to pinpoint any kind of Poptimist consensus on. I have no idea how people feel about them. So go on, talk here about whether you like them or not.

For the record, Forever Changes is one of the only widely-revered canonical 'classic' albums that I think is actually as good as it's cracked up to be.

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[mippy.livejournal.com]

What Love mean to me: a car trip from Manchester to Norfolk, August 2001. Ex's peculiar brother is driving, and insisted on stealing my copy of Horses for the journey. I hoped we'd bond. We didn't. Somewhere round Chesterfield he puts on Forever Changes, which I hadn't heard before. It's the remastered version with out-takes, and one of the songs starts off with an ace grinding riff, der-der-der-der-ner-ner-ner-ner plink plink plink...no, sorry, let's do that again...der-der-der-der-ner-ner-ner-ner. When the song proper starts I don't think I've been as disappointed since we stopped at Mansfield services and they'd run out of Frazzles. It sticks in my head for three weeks.

So it took me until last year to realise just how AMAZING Alone Again Or is. Feel sad now I never really got into them as much as I ought...people say it's the album that poked the needle at sixties idealism, but Alone Again Or doesn't really fit that. 'I could be in love with almost everyone/I think that people are, the greatest fun/but I will be alone again tonight my dear...' Could be the slogan sprayed on my wall. It's Roe Thugz, actually, but the spirit's there.

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

The thing with Alone Again Or is, it's meant to be two people in conversation. The "I think that people are the greatest fun" and the "And I will be alone again tonight, my dear" are spoken by two different people. I dunno why, but I always find songs like that interesting.

I was going to give you some other facts, but then I remembered that they all referred to a different song...bugger!

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Is that true? Why do people insist on being clever like that? Goddamnthem.