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.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The impression I get is that they were critically huge amongst the coterie of people who started Rolling Stone and got the rock criticism ball moving, but never a huge commercial hit. Then they were rediscovered in Britain when the psychedelic revival happened in the early 80s and never really went off the radar since.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no they were "cool" with punks also -- on the first ATV alb, mark perry was lyin on the floor w.a bunch of LPS round his head and FC was one of them

(ok so wz some godawful famous zappa LP but NEVERTHELESS THE POINT STANDS)