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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[whalefish.livejournal.com]

Argh, I'd almost written an essay on how I feel about Forever Changes and Love in general, but I slipped on my mouse and lost it.

I would agree that it's one of those albums that genuinely does live up to all it's meant to be, but it does need time. When I first listened to it I didn't quite connect with it, but over the years I came to love it to bits.

Although they weren't all about Forever Changes - their self-titled album in particular is always overlooked, when in fact it's got some brilliant 60s pop on it, although pretty bittersweet at times.

[(Anonymous)]

I always liked the self-titled LP more, too.

Yes yes, the early indie stuff, obv.

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